My three year old daughter wanted a cake that was “where Dora the Explorer lived” I was slightly stumped, how to create such a Dora birthday cake? I decided to use the Wilton house cake pan and tweak it slightly. It turned out to be very easy to do. I baked a 10inch round for … Read more
I made Dora and Boots for my twins 3rd birthday. I just used a large coloring book picture and cut out Dora. I made the Dora birthday cake out of a box cake and used butter cream icing to frost. It was fun and they loved them.
I used a heart shaped pan and I did an image transfer from a picture I found on the internet of Dora. I made butter cream icing to decorate and Wilton coloring. I did not use the Dora color pack because I already had 3 of the 4 colors supplied. I am not sure which … Read more
I made this cake for a friends little girl. She couldn’t decide between Dora and a rainbow so I combined the two. I cooked a large square cake, enlarged a picture of Dora from other Dora cakes to cut around and used a rectangular cake for the rainbow. I colored all the sugar paste and … Read more
This Dora the Explorer cake is made entirely from cake and buttercream with a little structural support from wooden picks. I sculpted a refrigerated butter cake and then piped on the buttercream to make the features. The sandcastle is made from cake crumbs.
My daughter wanted a Dora Birthday Cake, so I used a Dolly Varden cake pan and made a buttercake into this. I used a plastic Dora doll about 12cm big instead of the usual barbie style doll. I cut the top of the cake off, then scooped out some cake to fit the Dora doll … Read more
I simply used my middle sized Pyrex glass dish for this Dora Birthday Cake, 1 round cake pan, 2 boxes of Funfetti cake mix, strawberries, and instead of really sweet frosting I used Dream Whip with about a box of vanilla pudding for flavoring (and of course food coloring). Can’t forget the Dora doll, this … Read more
I made this cake for my 3 year old daughter’s Dora themed party. I used a Wilton shaped cake pan (the tin came with full instructions for decorating), a banana cake recipe, and then totally winged it with the colouring of the buttercream icing as I didn’t have the “Dora” colour set. I knew I … Read more
I made this Pretty Dora Cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. She loves Dora so I thought I would give this a shot! I used a 1.5 qt Pyrex bowl for the dress and a 8in square for the ‘platform.’ I had to bake the bowl for almost an hour and I set the temperature … Read more
I made this Dora the Explorer cake for a friend’s daughter who is a huge Dora fan. It was for her 4th birthday party. Never having made a cake like this before, I used a black line picture from a colouring in book to copy. I resized it to fit a large slab cake (which … Read more
My daughter is a huge Dora the Explorer fan. For her 2nd birthday I knew we would have a Dora theme and a Dora Cake. I went to several grocery stores to see about getting a Dora cake. I didn’t like any of the ones I had found so I decided to turn to the … Read more
