I saw a photo of this Ladybug cake and copied it from memory. I used a very large, fairly shallow, pyrex dish to bake the ladybird dome. I then cut 1/3 off for the face. I iced this black with plastic icing. I iced the ladybird’s body red and then stuck the two together with … Read more
I got the idea for this Ladybug 3rd Birthday Cake just by asking my daughter what cake she wanted for her birthday. She was about to turn 3 so you can imagine what her answer was. Uhhhhhmmmmm, a butterfly, no a princess, no a watermelon, etc. Finally, I decided to find pictures of cakes online … Read more
Last minute, I got a call from a friend that BOTH of her kids needed birthday cakes! Lily wanted a strawberry cake with strawberry frosting with lady bugs (the strawberry frosting was canned Pillsbury frosting). At my local cake supply store, I picked up some sugar lady bugs, royal icing roses and sugar letters. I … Read more
I made this bug cake for my daughter’s 1st birthday and everyone just loved it. I started out by using a round Pyrex bowl for the lady bug, and covered it in marshmallow fondant. I had never made it before, but it was super easy. You can get the recipe on-line and video directions on … Read more
This Ladybug Birthday Cake is a strawberry cake. I used half of the Wilton ball pan. I covered the cake in white fondant, and then sprayed red. I covered in black fondant dots, molded the head, eyes, and antenna. I also covered the base in green fondant.
I created the cute ladybug cake for my stepdaughter’s 7th birthday. I used nine-inch cake rounds for the two-layer cake. After making a basic chocolate cake I covered the entire cake in a thin layer of chocolate buttercream. After the entire cake was covered I added extra chocolate frosting to the face area and sides … Read more
I put the 8 in. cake on top of the 12 in. cake and formed it into the body of the ladybug. I then rolled out some red rolled fondant (you roll it out just like pie dough; you roll it to be bigger then the cake). Drape it over the cake and gently form … Read more
I made a 10” round cake and a single cupcake for this ladybug birthday cake. I used red food coloring gel with red edible glitter on top and black icing for the spots and head. I used a basic star tip all over.
I used this website to help me get ideas for making a great ladybug cake. I used the soccer ball cake pan for the body. For the head I used the mini doll (body) cake pan. This makes a bell shaped cake. One mini doll cake pan makes four cakes. This was helpful when cutting … Read more
This ladybug cake I made for my nieces second birthday. The base is a one-layer chocolate/buttercream cake with pullout (tip 233), green grass for the border, white royal icing flowers and buttercream leaves in the four corners. I also put little buttercream ladybugs around the sides of the square with little black dots to show … Read more
My daughter wanted a Butterflies and Ladybugs cake for her birthday theme. I made 2 chocolate devil cakes and layered them with a choc butter filling and jam in the middle. I iced the entire cake with butter icing tinted pink. I creamed the butter first to get it as light in colour as possible. … Read more
I made this Ladybug birthday cake and cupcakes for my daughter’s 7th birthday. It was my first ladybug cake! I used a large glass Pyrex bowl for the body and a smaller Pyrex bowl for the head. I used 2 boxed cake mixes for body, with raspberry jam filling, and 1 box mix for the … Read more