My two year old LOVES Dora so we had a Dora the Explorer cake for her party. I used the cake pan for this cake but I didnt like the way her eyes were supposed to be. I did it their way on the first cake I made and she looked cross-eyed. So this is … Read more
I made this Dora the Explorer cake for my daughters 2nd birthday. She loved Dora at the time…still does now that’s she’s almost three. I found pictures of Dora and Boots separately and enlarged them appropriately to fit the cake. I used a 10 x 13 x 2 cake pan and two boxes of cake. … Read more
I used a deep dark chocolate cake recipe from allrecipes.com and I also used Tamis buttercream icing. The cake I copied from Dora cakes on this site. For the colored icing I used Wilton color paste. I blew up the Dora picture to the size I wanted on the photocopier. I put wax paper on … Read more
My daughter Havana is a keen Dora fan and thus a Dora cake for her 2nd birthday was requested. I purchased a plain sponge and cut out the Dora shape from an image I found on the web. I used butter icing for the entire cake and licorice for the lines. It was a fairly … Read more
I made this Dora the Explorer birthday cake for the biggest Dora the Explorer fan, my daughter, for her second birthday. I traced the characters onto rice paper from several different pictures in a coloring book. After the cake was frosted, I put the rice paper transfer onto the cake and added all the colors.
My sister-in-law made this cake for my daughter’s third birthday. My daughter is a huge Dora fan and this was her third year using the Dora theme. The first two years we just had store bought cakes but, this year she wanted to make a special Dora the Explorer birthday cake for Samantha. She used … Read more
My daughter’s 2nd birthday was coming up and I wanted to make a cake about something she was interested in at the time. Of course, Dora the Explorer came to mind. I wanted to make a cake that was epic, like something off of one of the cake TV shows. I decided to follow the … Read more
I made this Dora 2nd Birthday Cake for my granddaughter’s 2nd birthday. Dora the Explorer is her favorite show so of course that is what I had to do for her birthday. The top tier is a 8″ butter cake with raspberry filling and butter cream icing and the bottom tier is a 10″ chocolate … Read more
I made this Dora the Explorer cake for a client. I made 12 cupcakes and a 6″ cake. The cupcakes and cake were a chocolate cake mix. The icing was a C&H Sugar buttercream recipe. I tinted the icing in pink and yellow. I made stars with faces out of MM fondant for the cupcake … Read more
For my daughter’s birthday I made this Dora cake. I used a mold from a Barbie cake but used a Dora doll instead. I used frosting and added red food coloring until I got the pink I wanted. I frosted over the bodice using a piping bag. For her skirt I spread the frosting very … Read more
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
