Coolest Little Mermaid Cake

Homemade Little Mermaid Cake

I made this Little Mermaid Cake for my niece last year for her 8th birthday. The Barbie is the 1/2 doll from the cake supply store. The fish tail I made out of fondant. It took about 2 weeks for it to fully dry. I simply shaped the fondant until I got what looked to … Read more

Cool Homemade Princess Tiana Birthday Cake

Homemade Princess Tiana Birthday Cake

I made this for my friend’s daughters’ birthday party. They love Princess and the Frog so we thought this would be a great theme for them. I used a Pillsbury yellow cake mix for the cake and baked 2 nine-inch rounds and a dome shaped cake in a medium Pyrex bowl. I did a crumb … Read more

Coolest Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Homemade Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

This Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs cake is a two tier cake, bottom cake is a 10 inch 3 layer chocolate and chocolate butter icing. The top layer is a 8 inch 4 layer vanilla sponge and vanilla butter icing. All covered in royal icing. Small green strands of icing placed together to make … Read more

Coolest Mermaid Birthday Cake

Homemade Mermaid Birthday Cake

I made this Mermaid birthday cake for my friend’s daughter’s 7th birthday. She had a mermaid themed party and requested a mermaid cake. I used the Coolest Birthday Cakes site to get ideas. I ended up using the Wilton Wonder Mold pan for the sand dune and a large oval cake for the base. The … Read more

Coolest The Little Mermaid Cake Photos and How-To Tips 1

I used a large bowl to create the “sandbar” Ariel is sitting on. It was bigger than the Doll Cake mold and looked less like a skirt to me. Ariels legs are wrapped tightly in plastic wrap and she is placed in the cake on an angle. When baking the cake in the bowl I … Read more

Coolest Little Mermaid Birthday Cake Ideas 6

My niece wanted a Little Mermaid birthday cake for her second birthday.When she turned one she had a mermaid on a rock so I had to reinvent my mermaid cake. So here is Ariel sitting on a friendly whale made up of three 20cm round cakes trimmed into shape. The whale tail is a heart … Read more

Coolest Barbie Cake Photos and How-To Tips 5

The cake was made using 3 vanilla cake mixes (two tube cakes and one mix in a stainless steel mixing bowl). I put the two tube cakes on the bottom and the bowl mix to make the “dome” of the dress. I used buttercream frosting in between the layers and on the outside. This was … Read more

Coolest Homemade Barbie Cakes 10

Barbie cakes are fun to make! I used the Wilton Wonder Mold for this cake. I used two pink cake mixes and filled the mold about 2/3 full. Cool the cake completely before frosting! After the cake was baked and cooled completely, I rolled out one 24 oz package of fondant. (I colored it pink … Read more

Coolest Barbie Birthday Cake Photos and How-To Tips 4

The circumference of the large jelly mould was the length of the skirt edge and the height is a bit longer than the height of both cakes stacked together. I made the scalloped edge with a modeling tool and embossed the skirt with rose bud and leaf embosser. Sorry that the embossing is not seen … Read more

Coolest Barbie Doll Cake Photos and How-To Tips 9

Last time I used fondant, but it is not as tasty as real icing so this time I made my own butter cream icing and added just a drop of red food coloring to it. I made the top of Barbies dress out of pink and fuchsia ribbon and bought curly ribbon for the back … Read more

Coolest Barbie Skirt Cake Photos and How-To Tips 3

I made this Barbie skirt cake for my nieces first birthday. I ordered the tin off eBay and used a rich moist chocolate cake and underneath I baked two 8” cakes. I made the wand and wings out of plastic icing and stuck silver cachous on the wand and piped a pattern on the wings … Read more

Coolest Barbie Doll Birthday Cake Photos 8

My little girl loves Barbie dolls and anything pink so I decided to create a Barbie doll birthday cake for her third birthday. The cake was made using two chocolate cake mixes each bake in two 8″ round cake pans. When cooled each cake was sliced crosswise into two layers (thats a total of eight … Read more