Take a look at these cool homemade Shark 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!
My friends and I love throwing theme parties for B movies and this is a cake of my favorite scene from “Mega Shark VS Giant Octopus”. It’s a 2 layer 9″ round vanilla cake coloured blue. I cut out the middle of the top layer of the cake to allow for the “water” to be … Read more
This Shark Birthday Cake was for my husband’s 25th birthday. We had a big party, at least a hundred people, and this fed them all. I baked a total of 6 13×9 cake, half vanilla and half chocolate. I stacked them on a prepared board, 3 end to end, then topped the first two with … Read more
I had a request for a ‘3D’ shark cake for a cousin’s 4th birthday. This was made with the Wilton football and a regular 13×9 pan. The shark is 2 football cakes with strawberry filling. All the frosting is Wilton recipe buttercream (about 2 1/2 batches). The shark was decorated per the instructions on the … Read more
A baker I am not. My son wanted a shark cake and I could not find a shark picture to make this cake. This is a cake out of a box. I used a sheet pan and a round pan. I cut the shark shape out of the sheet cake and the fins out of … Read more
I made this shark cake for my son’s 5th birthday. I used a regular boxed mix and made two 9in circles. After placing them on top of one another, I cut out the opening for the sharks mouth. Use these pieces for the fins. I used white icing for the teeth and just tinted white … Read more
My nephew is into sharks right now and loves Jaws so I decided to make him a Sharks World Birthday Cake. My niece is taking classes right now so I asked for her help. We had 4 13 X 9 cakes and filled it with Bavarian crème filling. For the shark head we used a … Read more
I made this Shark Eating Person Birthday Cake for my 5 year old grandson using ideas from this site. I had problems with sharks teeth as fondant icing was too soft so I hunted around and found Dolly Mixtures. I cut off the colored part and shaped the tooth and wedged them in with butter … Read more
To make the cake I used the Wilton football-shaped pan and sandwiched two cakes together to give the shark a 3-D effect. I used 1 vanilla cake and 1 strawberry cake and it was really interesting when we cut into it! As you can see in the shark picture, the shark was covered in fondant … Read more
I used a Wilton football mold for the Jaws Birthday Cake. Fondant for the teeth and logo, buttercream for the the rest. My nephew loved his cake and said it was the best he’d ever had.
My son was wanting a different looking cake. We looked on line and found a cake that I was going to order…then we discovered that the cake store was in London! So we decided we could come up with our own shark cake from what we had seen. I began with 2 bundt cakes,both strawberry.Then … Read more
I made this shark birthday cake for my 26 year old sister in law, Jane who loves the Jaws movies. I used the Jaws movie poster as my inspiration, but put “JANE” instead of “JAWS.” I did a 9×13 double layer strawberry cake to give it a feeling of bloodiness (my 4 year old son … Read more
It’s best to look at a shark picture while creating your cake. I used the wonder mold pan and cut out the mouth. I used 1/2 sheet for the bottom, iced blue with blue gel for the waves. The teeth were gum squares cut in half! I hope my shark picture of my cake helps … Read more