Take a look at these cool homemade Surfing 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 made this cake for my four year old’s “Surfer party” at our local pool. I started with 30 cupcakes (15 chocolate 15 white) and arranged them in off-set rows. The birthday cake decorations are as follows. The “sand” side is tan frosting smoothed over the cupcakes topped with graham cracker crumbs. The “water” is … Read more
I was asked to create a cake for a surfing fanatic that included a surfing figure, Minions figures and waves. After a bit of head scratching, and a little help from Youtube, I came up with my theory in my head. I realised that a little bit of engineering was required to create the waves. … Read more
As a self taught cake decorator I find every cake to be a challenge. This surf cake was made for a 40th and I had no idea where to start but as I was baking it started to come to me. I made the wave with coco pops and marshmallow and the cake was a choc mud … Read more
This surfing cake was made to welcome a new baby to my friends who love the beach, Hawaii, and surfing. I usually just do two cakes a year, one birthday for each of my kids, but I make occasional exceptions, like this one. The best part is that mammoth wave. Hang Ten dudes! It was … Read more
I loved making this cake, my son Jack has just started surfing and he is loving it. We booked a handful of his friends into the local surf school and then came the challenge, he wanted a “wave cake with him riding it!” . I love the way that our kids think we can do … 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
This Surfing birthday party cake was my first real cake for my son’s 5th birthday. The party was a surf theme so we made some life-size painting of surf boards for our humble abode, had 40+ people over, and I made this out of 3 Betty Crocker ‘super-moist’ boxes of cake mix, chocolate, yellow and … Read more
This cake was for a birthday party with a Hawaiian surfer theme. It is two 11×15 layers of chocolate cake and a thin layer of buttercream frosting covered in crushed vanilla wafers (sand). I simply ran thru my food processor and pressed into the frosting. The wave is a block of Styrofoam; I carved it … Read more
This was a cake I did for my son Max’s 7th birthday. The large wave is actually styrofoam covered in frosting, as there was no way I could get cake to stay up so high without it falling over! All other elements are made of gumpaste or rolled fondant and are edible. The little boy … Read more
This surfing cake was a neighbour’s grandson who loves the beach and surfing. Just a 9″ round double layer cake with pudding in the center of the cake and homemade buttercream icing.
I wanted to make something different for my son and his girlfriend whose birthdays are the day after each other. They both enjoy surfing so I looked through many pictures online and came up with my own version of a surfers cake, including my son’s girlfriend being upside down in the waves ( which she … Read more
This surfboard cake was made for a water themed birthday party for my son’s 6th birthday. If you look hard you can see the “6” in the surfboard symbol. I made 2 9×13 cakes- 1 chocolate and 1 vanilla. I placed them end to end and carved them into a surfboard shape. I added detailing … Read more