My friend William was turning 50 and goes to the beach at least twice a week- all summer. A Homemade California Beach Cake was an obvious choice for his birthday. The cake itself is a modified mix. 2 boxes of yellow cake made with 3 whole eggs, 3 egg whites, 1 1/2 c milk, 1 … Read more
I made this Dolphins at the Beach Cake for my sister who loves Dolphins. This is the first cake I made with MMF. I don’t really ever bake and my family would just laugh at me when I did. This cake was very fun to make and now I just want to bake cakes all … Read more
My friend Sarah and I make cakes for our co-workers all the time. Sarahs birthday cake had to be a very special and unique birthday cake. Sarah has worked on cruise ships and loves all things tropical. I found the teddy bear pool party and beach party cakes online. I baked a white cake in … Read more
After looking through your site for ideas for a beach cake I decided on a beach theme for my daughter Alexas 8th Birthday. We had recently watched “Jaws” on TV and she had really liked the movie. So I dug through her enormous “Polly Pocket” collection and found two girls and a boy plus a … Read more
This is one of the coolest Island-shaped ocean cakes I’ve made. I created it for my niece. The “water” base is a 14″ round cake frosted with blue tinted buttercream frosting. The stones are made from tinted royal icing that was allowed to dry for several days. The girl, her inner tube and the crab … Read more
I pulled my ideas for this Sandcastle Cake from other cakes from this site. I baked a 9X13 chocolate cake. Thought if there were crumbs, would be dirt! I also baked a loaf pan with about half of a second chocolate cake mix (made cupcakes to freeze with other half). Let the cakes cool. I … Read more
I got the idea for this Beach Birthday Cake from a magazine, but modified it to make a rectangular cake, the original was round and two tiers. I liked the flatter surface which allowed for more stuff on top. Another change: I lined the water feature with fruit roll-ups to give it a nice base … Read more
For my daughter’s 12th birthday, we were having a beach themed birthday party, and we wanted to make a cake that stood out! So I looked online, and took a few ideas and put them together to create our very own beach themed birthday cake. We used brown sugar to make the sand, and added … Read more
My son wanted a pool party with a ocean themed cake for his 6th birthday. I took some ideas from other cakes and combined it to make my own. I used blue spray for the water part do avoid coloring frosting and it made cool shading. I also textured the frosting with a decorating tool … Read more
For my eldest daughters 8th birthday, we hosted a party at one of the local city pools. Being huge fans of the ocean, we decided a beach kid birthday cake was in order! I had always wanted to try using piping gel, and this provided the perfect opportunity. I used a large sheet cake pan … Read more
This was a beach cake idea that I got from the cover of a magazine. We had a pool party for my daughter when she turned two so this was perfect! The cake itself is an eight-inch two layer cake. I then “dug” out the pool on the top and filled it with blue jello … Read more
The Mommy-to-be loves the beach and she loves chocolate so I made a milk chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and added mini-chocolate chips. I used one box of cake mix divided by a round pan, an oval pan and two mini-round pans to create levels of the sand castle (I used dowels between layers to … Read more