This is a fun cake, a non traditional 4th of July theme. The coolest part is the shark in the water! This cake was actually brought to a beach celebration. This is a fairly simple cake to make. However, most of the fondant decorations need to be made in advance. Such as, the hammock, which … Read more
I baked a simple layer cake, iced with butter cream and decorated with goldfish crackers, gummy sea life creatures, teddy graham crackers. Beach towels are made from Fruit Stripe gum and floats for bears are gummy life savers. The “sand” is made from crushed vanilla wafers. I cut a hole in the top layer of … Read more
It was son to be my dad’s birthday. I love making cakes and only need an excuse to get baking so I had a think what to make for him, they were going on holiday in a month’s time so I thought it would be a great idea to make a holiday cake. I started by … Read more
This is a double layer sheet cake. I crumb coated it then went back with a layer of white frosting. I cut the “cookies” in different lengths to represent a beach fence and glued them to the side of the cake with additional frosting where necessary. I did learn however, that this should be your last step … Read more
“Fairies and pirates, pixie dust and buried treasures… how do I capture that in a cake?” That was all I could think of in my jet lagged, exhausted head. My daughter’s 4th birthday party was 3 days away, and I had just landed after a 24h flight, and was devising a strategy on how to prepare … Read more
This was a beach party cake for my niece and nephew. It is a 2 layer cake. I carved out a spot for the swimming pool and filled it with partially set blue jello gelatin. The beach sand is crushed graham crackers mixed with a little white granulated sugar. I piped little outfits onto teddy … Read more
This beach cake is a 2 layer cake with Chocolate pudding in between the layers of white cake topped with Butter Cream icing. Used glitter on top of the yellow to make the beach. This was for a 12 year old who loves the beach and loves to surf. Big Hit! Easy to do as … Read more
I was inspired by the homemade beach cake ideas on this site. I made some beach blankets and a book from chewing gum. The stones are milk chocolate. No one is swimming … the sharks are ferocious :)
My boyfriend’s daughter is turning 11 and she begged me for a beached theme birthday party! I thought how cool would it be to make a birthday beach bash cake! So I looked around on the internet and found a few good web sites especially this website actually! I used a few simple ingredients because … Read more
This unique birthday cake was made for my daughters 18th birthday. She was getting ready to take a trip to Florida and loves the beach. I decided it was too much work to give the teddy graham bears suits, so it became a nude beach instead.I used a 9×13 cake but you could use any … Read more
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I made this beach cake for my son’s beach themed birthday party. I got the idea out of a magazine and just took it from there! I used a really smooth frosting that was easy to apply. I used two 9in rounds to give it the height. I made extra frosting so we could have … Read more