This Dora the Explorer cake was baked in a Wilton stand-up bear pan. I trimmed the ears, nose, and arms down to make it more like Dora the explorer, iced it in butter cream, and secured it to the bottom cake with long dowel rods thru the head of Dora the Explorer. The bottom layer … Read more
My daughter decided she wanted a Dora party and I didnt want to just buy a decorated cake. I used a picture of Dora and drew the outline on the frosted 9×13 cake using a toothpick. Then I used chocolate frosting for the hair. For Dora’s face I added white frosting to the chocolate until … Read more
This was for my friends daughter. She wanted a 3d Dora cake. This was my first try at Dora cakes. I molded rice cereal treats around a heavy duty wire in the shape of a stick person then after it dried I covered it in all white gum paste. Then I let that dry and … Read more
I made this Boots the Monkey cake for Jack who was turning 3. I made a 14″ madera slab cake. I photocopied a colouring picture of Boots and enlarged his head 250%. I measured him up on the slab cake to make sure he fitted than traced the face onto baking paper, each different part … Read more
My daughter is Dora mad. I saw all the pictures of the Dora the Explorer cakes here and decided I would do something a bit different. I started by making two 8″ round cakes, cut them and stuck them to look a bit like a mountain. I covered the cake and cake board with green … Read more
This Dora The Explorer Birthday Cake is a half sheet cake for my cousin’s youngest child’s 2nd birthday. Dora, the stars and her name are done with color flow (I used a image that I found online for a pattern). Buttercream icing with blue color mist and pink & lavender borders. My local cake store … Read more
This is my homemade Dora Backpack and Map cake I made for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. It was quite easy to make. I looked online for ideas and found images. I used two one layer cake pans and laid them together. Cut out the shape and frosted with frosting that I died with food coloring. … Read more
This Dora the Explorer Birthday Cake I made for my daughter’s second birthday. As many little girls, she is taken with Dora and since we bought her a Dora toddler bed for her big birthday, I made this cake as well. Since our older son has his birthday 7 days prior, I also made him … Read more
I baked a regular 9″ x 13″ cake and trimmed along the top, sides and bottom corners to get the curved Backpack shape. I used two of those extra cake pieces, iced together into a rectangle, to form Map. I propped the Map piece up a little to give him a 3D effect, and held … Read more
For my daughter’s 3rd birthday, we did this Dora birthday cake since it was her favorite character at the time. I found the 18 doll at Kmart and we baked the cake in a bowl and then cut out a section of the side of the cake, bent the doll in half, placed her inside … Read more
This Dora backpack cake was my first attempt at a fondant cake. In fact I’m pretty ambitious and decided to make the fondant from scratch (something I had to try but wouldn’t recommend nor would I attempt it again!). I started with a standard yellow cake recipe (from scratch of course!) in two 9″ round … Read more
I started this Dora the birthday cake by buying Betty Crocker cake mixes. I used chocolate for my medium size cake and vanilla for the 4 small bottom ones and the top one. I baked 5 small vanilla cakes, sliced them down the middle, and filled with vanilla pudding and fresh strawberries. I used the … Read more