This Dora Birthday Cake Design was for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. I used the Frozen Butter Cream Transfer Technique. I taped the picture to a piece of clear Plexiglas and then placed a piece of wax paper over that. Plexiglas makes it easy to see places that you have missed. I traced out the picture … Read more
My daughter LOVES Dora the Explorer but I didn’t want to pay an arm and a leg for one from a grocery store bakery and I’m pretty inventive so this Homemade Dora’s Backpack Birthday Cake Design is what I came up with. I made 2 rectangle layers then cut them to shape after freezing them. … Read more
The Dora Doll Birthday Cake Design was made from pure love for my 3 year old daughter (who by the way is crazy about Dora the Explorer!) I started my research here at Coolest Cakes and found an amazing Dora Doll submission and I just knew I had to try and make one as well. … Read more
I made this Dora the Explorer cake for my cousin’s daughter.Inspiration for this cake came from the Tinkerbell cakes, which I found on this site. I used the Wilton wonder mold for Dora’s dress. Cake was vanilla flavor. The bottom half of Dora was wrapped in saran wrap. I tinted pink and purple buttercream icing … Read more
This Dora birthday cake is made from 4 cake mixes. I used two 13×9 pans for the base and three different size square pans for the mountains. I used blue gel for the two ponds and swirled it with white frosting for the waterfall. I bought three “palm trees” from a craft store and cut … Read more
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