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This sandcaslte birthday cake decoration was another experiment! We had a beach theme for my son’s birthday and he loves the sand. So, instead of a girly castle I just changed it up and made a sand castle. I used two sheet cakes and cut them to what I wanted. I iced it in sand … Read more
I made this sandcastle birthday cake for my sweet little girl, Hannah, who was turning 4 at the end of July and wanted to have a beach party for her birthday. The dollar tree in our area had a lot of summer decorations. I used some new sand buckets to serve chips and gold fish … Read more
this Sand Castle Birthday Cake serves 40. This fun in the sun choice tasted like s’mores because of the chocolate cake, marshmallow cream and graham cracker sand. You will need: Various sized circular pans (I used ones I already had to create a design) Box of graham crackers Sugar cones Three chocolate cake mixes One … 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
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
I made this cake for an ocean themed baby shower. The woman did not know what she was having and decided that an ocean theme would be fun and neutral. This cake was so much fun to make! I started the birthday cake decoration ideas a few days before. I made seashells with Candy Melts … Read more
I made this Sand Castle cake for a wedding reception. It is a three layer cake and I just cut out the steps and doors. The icing is buttercream with brown sugar on top of it.
My daughters graduation invites had a picture of her laying on a beach blanket with sunglasses, the inside of the card reading: “Life’s a beach… and then you graduate.” And so a theme was born. She very much did not want a Luau-type party so we went with a sandier sunny sea-shell thing without 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
This sandcastle birthday cake and birthday theme was fun to do, the idea came from a family magazine that I was looking at in a doctor’s office, family fun or something like that, and just took the idea and went crazy with it. For invitations, I sent out small beach balls with the time, date, … Read more
I made this sandcastle cake for my husbands birthday party. We had a tropical/beach theme. I had drawn several cakes, but this one just popped! I made two regular yellow cakes (one nine-inch and one eight-inch; both three inches deep). The cake was iced in a butter cream icing. I used rolled fondant which I … Read more