This super-easy octopus cake was a huge hit at my son’s 1st Birthday party. My son loves watching the fish in the fish tank so I chose an under-the-sea theme. I purchased the cake pan from Williams Sonoma but decided to simplify the design on the package a bit. I used regular cake mix baked … Read more

I made this Giant Octopus Birthday Cake Idea for my three year old son’s 3rd Birthday. It was an “Under the Sea” party. It was my second attempt at making a cool cake, he’s second birthday being the first. It’s super easy to make. You need a large round cake for the head, any size … Read more

This Octopus cake was for a friend’s birthday. We call him “The Octopus” thus the cake design. The body was made with a domed cake pan. Chocolate with whipped cream inside. The “legs” were cut from 9in. cake pans using a stencil I drew freehand. You can get 4 legs per cake. Remember to freeze … Read more

This Pink Octopus Birthday Cake is Anastasia’s first birthday cake! This was my second attempt at fondant, marshmallow fondant to be exact. I used the recipe from the Wilton website and made two different batches. The one batch I dyed all pink since I knew I would need so much, as the legs are all … Read more

The octopus on the Octopus Island Birthday Cake is created using gum paste and was hard to make just by going on pictures from others that I had seen. This was the third or fourth one made at that. The island the octopus is on was a half of the Wilton Sports Ball pan covered … Read more

We made this Homemade Octopus Cake for a school cake raffle. We got this awesome idea on our own. We used a pan that is for a basketball for the body and then Twinkies for the tentacles. It turned out really well! The body was made with a pan that is used for sports (basketball, … Read more

For my son’s 1st birthday we decided to go with an ocean theme. I wanted to start a tradition of making fun and original homemade cakes for my kids. We have a rather large family so we needed a cake that would feed at least 25 people. I thought cupcakes would also be an easy … Read more

For my son’s 1st birthday I went with an under the sea theme. I first found the plates and party decorations that I wanted to use and from there I came up with the Homemade Giant Octopus Birthday Cake. I used a Wilton 12×2 pan for the bottom layer, a Wilton 10×2 pan for the … Read more

I made this cake because my daughter wanted a octopus cake for her Tiki birthday party. It was actually very easy. I made: 1 large round cake 1 medium round cake 2 jumbo muffin size cakes I cover the bottom layer with icing and then fondant. I lightly buttered the fondant and sprinkled brown sugar … Read more

Thanks for all the tips from this site! I used them heavily. Since, I’m not a baker more and creator, I ordered the bottom cake (square ocean form) from Whole Foods, white sheet cake covered with buttercream! I know cheating, right? But so I could totally focus on the design; I made the fondant recipe … Read more

I made this Octopus Garden Birthday Cake after seeing all of the ideas on this site. I’ve not made many cakes and this was the first time I’d tried fondant so I was very surprised that it turned out so well. The fondant recipe is 1 cup of mini marshmallows melted for 20 sec in … Read more

Two months ago I made a birthday cake for my brother. I was confused on what I’m gonna give to him as a present. Since he never got any birthday cakes from me before, I thought why don’t I give it a shot! So, I did this octopus cake. It’s a two tiers cake, the … Read more