After looking through the dozens of ladybug pictures on this site, I finally set out to make my own Homemade Ladybug Birthday Cake Design for my daughter’s 4th birthday! I’m really not a big fan of fondant (eating it or letting my kids eat it) so I wanted to do something with all homemade buttercream … Read more
I designed this Pink LadyBug Cake for a little girl’s birthday party. It was baked using a 10×15 rectangle pan, and a 9″ round pan. The sheet was butter sponge, with Italian buttercream icing. The round was torted, filled with Cookies & Cream Buttercream, and iced with chocolate ganache and then covered in fondant. I … Read more
This is a Ladybug Birthday Cake I made for my daughter’s 5th birthday. I used two 9 inch rounds and filled them with raspberry jam and did a crumb coating of butter cream. I them covered it with homemade marshmallow fondant (I think the store bought versions taste terrible!). The petals are yellow fondant that … Read more
For my daughter’s first birthday we went with a ladybug theme. I used a Wilton Ladybug cake pan. I used Wilton Buttercream homemade icing. I found the recipe in the Beginners Wilton Cake Decoration booklet. The cake was prepared by following the box directions two days before her party and frozen wrapped in foil. Confetti … Read more
I made these ladybeetle cupcakes for a friends welcome home. I made 15 chocolate cupcakes and 15 mini chocolate cupcakes. I iced the large ones with red icing and iced the little ones with a chocolate icing. I stuck the heads to the body with a bit of icing, put on brown m&ms, mini m&m’s … Read more
To make the ladybug cake we used two round cake pans approx 9in for the body and 5in for the head. We cut an oval section out of the head to fit to the body. For the frosting we used a basic buttercream recipe we found on the internet. To dye the red we used … Read more
I used bits and pieces of many ideas I found on the internet to come up with the caterpillar and lady bug portions of the cake. The ladybug cake shape was baked in a stoneware mixing bowl. Each section of the caterpillars body was baked in a small oven safe pinch bowl. The eyes are … Read more
This Ladybug Birthday Cake is a 1st birthday cake. This one gave me a lot of trouble. The face melted(hence the flower lei), grass fell off, the bottom cake came out of the pan in two pieces. Took 3 days to make. Let’s just say that I am happy to be finished with this one!
I started with a Dome Pan Carrot cake (shaped like half a ball with a removable cake inside) and one cupcake. With Cream Cheese frosting I frosted in between the layers. I took the same icing and added regular red food coloring. (It didn’t thin it out too much like some people warn). I frosted … Read more
Ladybug was the theme of my daughter’s first birthday. I decided to make the ladybug look as if she was sitting in the grass. I am not a professional cake decorator so it isn’t perfect but fit the occasion perfectly. I baked a basic 13 x 9 cake, covered it in homemade buttercream icing tinted … Read more
I made this Ladybug Birthday Cake for my daughter’s birthday. It was fun, easy and huge hit with the guests. The bottom is a quarter sheet cake pan, the large lady bug is a small glass Pyrex box, the head is a 6 oz ramekin. The eyes are made with mini Oreo cookies carefully twisted … Read more
This Ladybug cake was made entirely from scratch with the exception of the black fondant. The cake base is a fluffy “bakery style” white cake recipe – found after years of experimenting with more traditional pound cake recipes. This recipe calls for buttermilk and vegetable oil, which seems to make the difference. I used a … Read more