I wanted to make a homemade cake for my daughter’s ladybug-themed second birthday party, however I didn’t want to do one big ladybug because I knew it would require so much red frosting (and red frosting and two-year-old’s are not a good match). So I decided to make a large daisy cake with a ladybug … Read more
I made this Ladybug Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 4th birthday. I used all round pans in varying sizes, some for the base, body, and head. I rounded the body cakes to give it the real life effect. I used one half of the ball pan for the head and used toothpicks to hold it … Read more
For this homemade ladybug cake I used a two layer devils food cake with a vanilla filling. I froze the cakes overnight. The icing is buttercream that I tinted with food coloring. I simply drew the ladybug on top using red icing for the body and black for the head. The spots are Oreo cakesters … Read more
I made a Ladybug Birthday Cake using a rectangular pan and circular pan. I iced the rectangular cake as baked using leaf green colored icing and a flower tip/icing bag because it looks cleaner than just spreading the icing on. I cut the circle cake into the shape of a heart and scaled it to … Read more
I made this Ladybug Ice Cream Cake for a friend’s eight year old daughter’s birthday party. Ahead of time, I used fondant to make the legs and antenna, as well as the eyes. I also used red and yellow candy melts and the daisy flower lollipop molds to make the candy flowers. I prepared two … Read more
I decided that Ladybugs would be the theme of my daughter’s first birthday party. I found some really cute ladybug-themed plates, napkins and other accessories and thought I would make the cake to match the ladybug on the plates. I used a boxed yellow cake with fudge swirl and buttercream icing. I first made a … Read more
I had just bought the soccer ball cake pan and had to try it out so I made a lady bug cake for my nieces 8th Birthday. I made the lady bug body from 1/2 of the soccer ball cake pan and the head out of a cupcake. I used Wilton red and black icing … Read more
For the larger ladybug cake I baked a sheet cake and a second cake in the larger Pampered Chef mixing bowl. We dyed icing green and dragged the icing up to make grass and of course used the pink icing for the ladybug and the black M&Ms for the embellishments.s for the embellishments.
I got lots of ideas from the web for this ladybug birthday cake and then tweaked it to be sort of whimsical for my very playful daughters 1st birthday. I didn’t have much money for supplies and fancy baking pans so I used two Devil’s food cake mixes in two glass bowls— one large and … Read more
The cake is a marble cake, dark brown is created by cocoa, honey, colour by coffee and pink/red colour by red food coloring and flavored with vanilla (hint: add more red than you think you need, even a very red mix cooks paler). The icing is buttercream which is easy to work with. The other … Read more
A friend of mine asked me to make a ladybug cake for her daughter who was about to turn one. Her directions were simple, that the cake have a ladybug theme. They call their little girl “Bug” so it seemed appropriate. I started brainstorming and with many stops by this website for inspiration and ideas, … Read more
This Ladybug cake was covered in fondant, the flowers are gum paste. The grass was fondant that was painted with food coloring gel, to look like grass!