My granddaughter Faith is crazy about Dora the Explorer. The theme for her 2nd birthday was a Dora Luau swim party so we made her a Dora Luau Beach Birthday Cake. The 1/2 sheet cake consisted of 1 layer of chocolate cake (2 boxed cake mixes), raspberry filling (2 cans of cake/pie filling) and 1 … Read more
For this homemade vacation on the beach cake I used a yellow butter cake with a raspberry filling. Butter cream for the frosting. Piping gel for the water color, I also used Wilton blue color mist to accentuate the water color. The color for the flowers and the borders are Wilton regular colors. To get … Read more
This Beach Birthday Cake is a 12 x 18 double layer sheet cake. I used decorator icing for the inside, sides and water. I iced it all with the blue and then mixed some white in and gently tapped where I wanted to water to be. That gave it the white cap look. The sand … Read more
This unique birthday cake idea came from another website. I decided to do this for my sons first birthday as he loves playing in the ocean! The cake was not hard to do but it was time consuming. Believe it or not the most difficult thing was finding all of the appropriate candies for the … Read more
I made this beach ball cake for my son’s 2nd birthday party and wow, was it the talk of the party. I also made a mini one “just for him”. I used the Wilton 6″ sports ball pan and a 9×9 cake for the base. I used 2 boxes of cake mix total. Made the … Read more
We vacation in Carpinteria beach every year and my daughter wanted a beach themed birthday party. So I decided to make her a Sandcastle Birthday Cake. I used 2 boxed cake mixes and split them between 3 round pans. I had a 10 inch spring form, an 8 inch spring form and a 6 inch … Read more
I did my sons first birthday party all with a fish theme, and I decided creating a sandcastle cake on a beach. I got two 9×13 cake pans for the bottom. My grandmother used to make peanut butter balls for us during the holidays, so I took that recipe and instead of putting it into … Read more
I made this beachcake for a friend who loves the beach. I made a rectangular sponge cake then iced half with blue buttercream and the other half with plain buttercream. I covered the latter with crushed vanilla wafers then decorated it with milky way magic stars and white icing flowers. I decorated the ‘sea’ with … Read more
This Beach Cake is a cake I did for my niece who loves the beach and her little puppy. The cake is a butter cake from scratch covered in buttercreme. The water is piping gel colored blue, the sand is crushed Graham crackers. The blankets are fruit roll ups, the starfish, turtle and fish are … Read more
I incorporated several of the ideas from other cakes I saw on this website for a Beach Birthday Cake. Thanks so much to everyone for submitting their ideas! This is the best website. This cake was for my daughter’s 7th birthday party. I made a beach and ocean scene and used the some of her … Read more
I had so much fun making this unique birthday cake for my sons birthday. I initially got the idea from Woman’s Day magazine (online) and from viewing the different beach cakes on this site which are all wonderful. The ocean is made with Berry Blue Jell-O. Be sure to ice the entire inside of the … Read more
I used the Wilton’s ‘Ball Pan’ for this Beach Ball Cake Idea. You will need: 1 cake mix, 4-6 cups icing, 4 pipe bags, #3 tip, and 4 #17 tips, colors in green, blue & orange, cake board, angled spatula, finely crushed graham crackers. Mix one box of cake mix. Be sure to grease and … Read more