I first rolled fondant over entire cake and then used blue color mist to spray on cake. I used white buttercream icing on half the cake and then spread smashed up vanilla wafers for sand. The water on the beach cake is just blue buttercream icing. I used the icing spatula to rough up the … Read more
This Beach Scene Birthday Cake was for my niece’s birthday. I used two boxes of yellow cake mix. I crushed graham cracker crumbs for the beach sand. I used vanilla frosting with blue dye for the water. The palm trees were pretzel rods dipped in chocolate. The palm branches were made from Air Heads, but … Read more
I made this 3 tier Homemade Beach Luau Birthday Cake for my niece Breanna. She was having a Luau/ Beach theme party for her 6th birthday. I have made a few cakes with Marshmallow Fondant. So I wanted to use bright colors and we had picked out some suckers to go with the theme. Some … Read more
I bought a frozen cake. I colored 1/2 the icing blue and left 1/2 white. I frosted 3/4 of the unique birthday cake with the blue. I made a curve with the blue icing (made it look like the shore). I frosted the other with the white icing. I then crushed vanilla wafers and sprinkled … Read more
I came up with this unique birthday cake idea on my own, it was for my mothers 44th Birthday. I baked a 1/2-sheet cake, and sliced the top part off of half of it to make the slope down from the beach to the water. I saved that cake and shaped it for the wall … Read more
This Lake Cake Design was for my 14th Birthday at my lake house. My mom and me made it together. Cake: make two 9 inch circle cakes with any quick make cake mix. Icing: icing the cake with blue icing. Then where the island is use green icing. For decorating you will need: Peach rings … Read more
My daughter wanted a cake that looked like a real sand castle. I used two round cake pans and one 1/2 sheet cake pan. I formed the second and third tiers from the sheet cake. The icing is buttercream and the sand effect was created by crushing graham crackers and vanilla wafers. For the towers, … Read more
I made this Beach Party cake for the End of the Year party at my daughter’s school. The kids were happy to think about the beach instead of school. It was a yellow cake with chocolate filling, decorated with Royal icing frosting. I bought the accessories at Wilson’s and used cocktail umbrellas. The sand was … Read more
I originally planned this Beach Birthday Cake with a week in mind but the friend I made it for suddenly told me his wife’s birthday was the following day. This was a chocolate chip sponge cake with a chocolate ganache filling and chocolate butter cream covering. The figure wasn’t easy to make as the spotlights … Read more
This Hawaiian Luau Birthday Cake was made for a ten year old’s luau. First she asked for a volcano cake, then she asked for a beach cake. So, I put the two together (with inspiration from all the beach and volcano cakes submitted here). First, 5 days before the party, I made royal icing flowers, … Read more
Kid Birthday Cake Recipe: Chocolate Cake mix 2 Cans White Frosting Blue food coloring 1 box Instant Jell-O in Blue Raspberry Runts candy brown sugar teddy grahams Swedish fish I prepared a 9×13 cake as directed. While the cake cooled I put together the Jell-O and put in the fridge to semi set. I cut … Read more
This unique birthday cake was created for my nieces birthday party. She had just returned home from Hawaii and wanted to carry on the fun. The cake decoration was inspired by her birthday invitation. I first made a chocolate cake (any sheet size will work). The cake was frosted and filled with buttercream icing. The … Read more