This Dora cake was made by using a 9×13 pan. Purple frosting covered the entire thing. The “map” was made by using a cut and frosted graham cracker. The eyes of the map were Necco wafers and M&Ms. The mouths were fruit roll-ups. Backpack’s eyes were frosted Vienna fingers and junior mints. I was inspired … Read more
I was inspired by another cake on this website. I used buttercream icing to cover the Dora birthday cake and for the borders and writing. I used Color Flow icing for Dora. To make Dora and the stars I used a picture from a coloring book. I covered it with wax paper and used full … Read more
I bought a Dora the Explorer cake mold that comes with a picture and step by step instructions on how to decorate (I bought it at party city but it is readily available at party stores and online). Make sure to heavily coat the pan with a cooking spray that also contains flour and then … Read more
I found a picture of Dora the explorer that I liked from a coloring book. I traced it on to wax paper and then used frosting gel to go over the lines on the wax paper and put it on my already frosted cake. Slightly rub then slowly peal off. Now you have an outline … Read more
I enlarged a picture of Dora on photocopier to fit inside the size of 2 lamington trays together, then I traced it onto baking paper, making a few changes as I went (I wanted the arms and head to be in a different position). I also drew some balloons onto baking paper to put on … Read more
The Dora cake that I had made was the first birthday cake I had ever made. My daughter who was having her third birthday, had asked me to please make her cake. I did buy the box cake mix and also the already made icing. I started by baking the cake and cup cakes the … Read more
My son was really into Dora, so I wanted to make a Dora-themed cake that wasn’t too “girly” for his 3rd birthday. Since he loves the whole Dora Map concept, I decided to try and make a homemade Dora map cake showing Dora and her friends how to get to Logan’s birthday party. I started … Read more
My 2 year old granddaughter saw a cake similar to this Dora Birthday Cake Idea at Walmart and fell in love. I searched the internet to find the toppers and it came up 16-$18.00 everywhere online so I went back to Walmart and asked if they could sell me the toppers. Not thinking that they … Read more
This Dora and Diego cake was for a brother/sister joint party. We used white marshmallow fondant to cover each round tier (9inches and 8 inches). I think we did chocolate for the bottom tier and white cake for the top. We then dyed extra white fondant into different colors for the stripes and stars. The … Read more
I made a Dora Ice Cream Birthday Cake with two layers of chocolate cake and one layer of chocolate chip ice cream. I frosted the first layer with cool whip. Then I used butter cream icing to decorate Dora’s face! I made two 9 X 13 cakes using Duncan Hines Devils Food Cake. I used … Read more
Dora was stuffed into a Barbie pan cake! I dirty iced in butter creme and them covered in fondant. I made the bows using a fondant bow mold and used edible dusting powder for shimmer.
The cake base was baked in a deep 1/2 sheet pan used to make coffee cakes and available at restaurant supply stores. 2 layers of 1/2-sheet pans would also work to give you a large cake for the Dora birthday cake scene. The figures were from a Dora set. The candy path Dora and Boots … Read more