Take a look at these cool homemade Space Shuttle 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 is all cake except the stand that my husband welded. This was made from 10 13×9 cakes and sugar cones for the shuttle exhaust cones or whatever they’re called. My husband sculpted and frosted this with a filet knife and star tip; the lettering, Nasa symbol and flag are made from edible rice paper. … Read more
My son recently turned five, and is totally in awe of all things outer space: planets, comets, stars, rocket ships, astronauts, etc. For Christmas I made him an astronaut costume- which he loved, and wore the day of his birthday party- and as far as his 5th birthday party was concerned, I knew I would … Read more
I made this for a client who was throwing an outer space birthday party for her son. I make her children’s cakes every year, and each year she pushes the bounds of my creativity. This year she was doing an outer space theme. The invitations invited the kids to “Blast off”! I borrowed some of … Read more
For our son’s 7th Birthday, we were doing a Patriotic Space Shuttle Adventure party. I’d searched online and had seen all those beautiful and fancy cakes and was searching for an easier option. I found a cake on the Betty Crocker site that was a 3D cake and then had come across a NASA model … Read more
For my son’s 9th birthday,I made him a Space Shuttle cake since he likes NASA and space exploration so much. I made the tip out of card stock paper that I coiled into a cone and covered it in black icing. I baked part of cake in a bar pan and carved out for wings. … Read more
My son Cole has always challenged us with his unique birthday theme ideas and celebration cakes he wants. My challenge is always making the cakes myself for my childrens birthdays. Cole became fascinated with rockets and space so for his fifth birthday he wanted a space themed party. We first found an excellent website for … Read more
My son wants to be an astronaut and asked me to make a space shuttle cake for his 5th birthday. I had no idea where to start until I found this website and so many wonderful ideas here. I made this out of a 9 x 13 size cake and printed a template off the … Read more
I baked a 9×13 sheet cake and iced it with white buttercream icing. I traced a picture of the space shuttle onto wax paper. (Here is a web page with coloring book pages/pictures…) Cut out the picture and place it on the sheet cake. I went around the edge of the wax paper with a … Read more
My son wanted a space shuttle cake for his 4th birthday party, so I did some research on-line and combined a few ideas to make this cake. I took a ½ sheet cake and made a template on paper of a space shuttle to fit. I poked toothpicks through the paper and into the cake … Read more
The first step involved baking two rectangular chocolate cakes. The first one remained as is, serving as the base on which the shuttle resides. On the other hand, we butchered up the second cake in order to get the shuttle-like shape on top (basically, we cut a tube-shaped piece for the middle of the shuttle, … Read more
I started off this space shuttle cake with a 9 X 13 rectangle cake. I down loaded the diagram from a web image and enlarged it 300%. I cut out the basic shape by placing the diagram at an angle and used the left over pieces for another level on the body. I used form stickers for … Read more
I was extremely excited about how realistic this cake decorating idea turned out! It wasnt as complicated as it looked! First I made a sheet cake and traced & cut out the shape of the space shuttle on the sheet (You can use the coloring book pattern from the NASA Kids website). I transferred the … Read more