Take a look at these cool homemade Rocket 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!
I love making unique cakes. This rocket cake was such fun to make and my son loved it! It is a Wonder Mold cake with sugar cones around and on top. Buzz is an action figure he had and is housed in a plastic drink cup that one side was cut out of. I iced … Read more
My son was obsessed with all things space. Rockets, planets, moons….space aliens. When his birthday rolled around I knew just what to create… a rocket cake. It couldn’t be just any rocket cake. It had to be amazing! He has seen so many cute kid’s cakes and had developed a bit of an attitude about … Read more
This little guy was having his 3rd birthday party at Mid-Air Adventures where kids could go flying through the air on ziplines and ropes. His fascination with flying extends beyond the outer rim, so his mom asked for a rocket ship cake. The cake base is covered with butter cream and then fondant, which I … Read more
I made this rocket cake for my friend’s 5 year old genius boy who became one of the top 10 in a Lego competition. He made a rocket there. So his mom wanted a rocket cake for him. I made an Orange Chiffon cake and covered it with white chocolate butter cream frosting. I used … Read more
For my twin boy’s 6th birthday, they wanted a space theme, so I decided on a rocket cake. We had a big crowd coming, so I knew we could do something large and impressive. The cake requires a little bit of carpentry to get started. The cake is elevated on an 8-inch wood circle from … Read more
This homemade Little Einstein Rocket cake was made using a chocolate mud cake. A 10″ round pan was used to make the base of the rocket, which I then just shaped using a serrated knife. A round Pyrex dish was used for the top. I then covered the entire cake with red fondant. Blue and … Read more
I made this Little Einstein Rocket Birthday Cake for my son on his second birthday. He LOVES the Little Einsteins and it was impossible to find a Little Einsteins cake from a store anywhere. I got the idea from a website that had some similar rocket cakes and I took a little from some and … Read more
My 4 year old son decided he must have a rocket birthday cake for his birthday party, after looking in vain for a shop one I turned to the net for inspiration. I picked ideas from here and there resulting in this rocket cake which my little boy absolutely loved. Second time lucky as his … Read more
The theme for the party was the Little Einsteins cartoon. For the Little Einsteins cake I used a Betty Crocker dome pans to make the top of the rocket ship and the bottom pan to make a small circular pie shape for the bottom of the ship. Iced the top and bottom red and iced … Read more
I used a large glass mixing bowl and a 8″ cake pan for this Little Einsteins Cake. Placed the dome cake on top of the 8″ cake and iced it red. The wings of the space ship are iced Twinkies. I then used dots to make the ship’s lights. The picture of the kids is … Read more
My three year-old wanted a Little Einstein’s Red Rocket birthday cake. Like many others on this site, I searched for a Red Rocket cake pan and a store that could create one. When all routes failed, my husband and I ended up creating our own cake. We used 1 9×13 pan for the sky. We … Read more
I used one package of cake mix to make one loaf cake and one cupcake. After baking and cooling, I froze them both for easy handling and cutting. I sliced off the top two corners of the loaf cake, and rotated them to make the rocket fins. The cupcake became the rocket booster. I used … Read more