Take a look at these cool homemade Book cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
This Harry Potter Book of Monsters Cake is perfect for anyone who loves chocolate and Harry Potter. I made this for a college friend who was obsessed with Harry Potter, in the kitchen in my dorm building freshman year that I shared with about 100 other people. It had an unpredictable oven and about two square … Read more
I was asked to make a Hunger Games cake for a friend. I did tons of research and decided on just replicating the book. But in much larger scale. I was really worried about making the Mockingjay pin that goes on the front because that is a lot of sculpting, which I don’t really do. … Read more
The cake was red velvet. I made 3 boxes of cake mix. I split one box into the other two cakes so when the 2 cakes where finished I started to put the cake together with my home made butter cream. I went over the whole cake with the butter cream. I noticed that the … Read more
This Homemade Birthday Book Cake is my first attempt at covering a cake with fondant over a marzipan layer. My first cake was covered with a marzipan. The kids love the marzipan taste but the molding was not so smooth and it did not color quite nicely. Fondant, on the other hand looked smooth and … Read more
This Fifty Shades of Grey book cake was for a friend’s birthday. It was very easy to make and is the front cover of the book. It’s a basic oblong Victoria sandwich cut to size and filled and crumb coated with lemon butter cream. The outer layer is colored fondant and the tie is also … Read more
This Scrapbook Cake Idea is a combination Birthday and Father’s Day cake. The cake was made out of a mix and baked in a Wilton Book Pan. It was frosted in buttercream and the top of the cake was a sheet of white fondant cut to fit for the top page. The sides were scored … Read more
My son wanted a Harry Potter cake for his birthday, So I decided that the monster book of monsters would be fairly easy. It was, I just made a sheet cake, then I cut it in half and stacked it to make a double layer cake. First I did a buttercream/crumb coat. The frosting was … Read more
My son wanted a Harry Potter Literary Theme for his 7th birthday this year. I have always enjoyed making his cakes for his parties. We decided to make the cake look like one of the HP books. I used a Wilton book pan and a 9X14 pan. This is essentially two cakes, one topping the … Read more
I made an oblong cake, and cut a notch in the centre for this Book Cake. I put thin layer of buttercream icing on it and then covered it with fondant icing. I used the edge of a ruler to mark the pages and put a separate oblong of fondant icing on the top to … Read more
Here is my version of the Monster Book of Monsters Cake (Harry Potter) in edible form. It was created for a little girl turning 8 who loves Harry Potter. She is having an awesome Harry Potter themed party with wizard wands, potions, chocolate frogs and all. The cake it a red velvet quarter sheet cake … Read more
I made this cake for my best friends two little boys and their Harry Potter themed joint birthday party. I searched for Harry Potter cakes but in the end made this monster book. I used two cakes, one 15 x 11 1/2 sheet cake for the monster book and formed open book pan the same … Read more
This Book Cake is a 13 x 9 inc cake that I carved and covered with fondant. The top page is fondant rolled really thin and I pinched the edges to make them look old. I painted the pink book mark with pink luster dust and brushed dry luster dust on the ribbon roses.