I made this Dora the Explorer Birthday Cake for my granddaughter using a preformed baking tin with a Madeira sponge recipe quantity for an 8″ round cake. To ensure the cake came out of the tin cleanly I used an easy release. Although the instructions are to use piped buttercream icing I chose to use … Read more
I made this Boots Birthday Cake for my granddaughter’s 3rd birthday party. She is a big Dora the Explorer fan. I used three boxed cake mixes and 5 containers of whipped vanilla frosting which I tinted using the Wilton paste colorings which produce a nice deep color. I made a 13 x 9 inch cake … Read more
I made this Dora Birthday Cake Idea for my grand daughters 3rd birthday. I used Wilton’s shaped pan, Wilton’ decorator icing, tinted the icing with Wilton’s colored gels and just followed the directions. Wilton’s cake release is a MUST. This cake has about 12 different colors, some you only need literally 3 or 4 stars … Read more
My little girl just started preschool, they were having a Halloween party and she wanted a Dora the birthday cake for the party. I printed the Dora the Explorer picture and used a needle to poke holes around the outline for the picture, placed the paper on the cake and used coca to transfer the … Read more
I made this Dora the Explorer cake for my daughters 4th birthday. She is a great Dora the Explorer fan so we had a Dora the Explorer party for her.I made a chocolate cake and cut it out in Dora’s face shape. For icing I used chocolate butter cream for hair, fresh cocoa cream for … Read more
I made this Dora birthday cake for my best friend’s little girl turning 3. I used buttercream icing and Wilton colors for the icing. I used two box mixes for the cake. I used coloring pages for the design, cut them out and blew them up on the photocopier. Then I took the cut outs … Read more
I made this cake for my daughters second birthday party. Dora is the only character she’s ever shown interest in. The cake is a normal 9×11 cake pan. I iced the cake yellow and then piped around the bottom for some extra detail. To make Dora I cut one of the pictures of her out … Read more
My daughter is crazy about Dora the Explorer, so I had to make her a Dora Cake for her 3rd Birthday. First I downloaded a printable of Dora from Nick Jnr Website. Then I made a plain chocolate sponge cake. I used a large rectangular roasting tin as she had lots of friends to share … Read more
I used my daughter’s Dora place mat to trace Dora’s face onto wax paper with a marker. It was a little bigger than I had intended for the Dora cake but I just ended up using the whole cake surface. Then I flipped over the wax paper and followed the outline of the marker with … Read more
I used the Wilton pan to bake the Dora The Explorer Cake and decorated with butter cream icing along with the star tip. The peach coloring for the skin tone was very tricky just remember that the icing gets darker as it dries out. Outline first, then star in the icing, then go back and … Read more
This homemade Dora birthday cake is a three layer strawberry cake frosted with buttercream frosting. I used Wilton basic colors and kept mixing until I got close to the right colors. No special tips or pastry bag. Just cut the ends of Ziploc bags and drew. I had an image from Nick Jr. up on … Read more
Here’s the Dora & Boots Birthday Cake I made for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I can throw a bash for 40 -50 people, no problem, but I’m not a very experienced baker and this was only the 2nd decorated birthday cake I’ve ever made! I was so stressed about finding a good cake recipe that … Read more