My daughter wanted a Dora cake for her 3rd birthday, and it has been a long-lasting tradition in my family to make our own cakes, so I went for it. First I searched the Internet, including this site for ideas of a Dora Birthday Cake. Then I sketched out my own ideas and thoughts and … Read more
This is a 9×13 cake. I found a picture of Dora & Boots and one of Uniqua on the internet under Dora birthday cakes and blew them up. I put them together and cut the shape out of the cake. The cake was frozen to do this. I divided the white icing out so I … Read more
I made this homemade 1st birthday Dora cake for my niece’s 1st birthday. I wanted it to look as cartoonish as possible. I did a topsy turvy cake and covered it in fondant and all of the decorations (Dora, Boots, Backpack, Swipper, the gifts, ladder and the alligators) are all made of fondant beforehand and … Read more
This Dora Cake Idea is a fourth birthday cake – only the top two layers are cake, the bottom is a Styrofoam form – we simply didn’t need that much cake! The cakes are covered in fondant with the details and figures made from fondant a couple of weeks in advance (I used cocktail sticks … Read more
This cake was made for my daughters 2nd birthday. The bridge connecting the two layered cakes is made from painted popsicle sticks and yarn that were hot glued together. The Dora birthday cakes sit on a cake board covered with poster board colored and painted to depict crocodile lake. A Dora “On the Go” set … Read more
This Dora and Boots Double Cake was for the birthday part of my 3 year old daughter. We had a lot of guests and I decided one cake won’t be enough – hence the double Dora and Boots showing. The cake was regular yellow cake covered with fondant. In between layers and below the fondant … Read more
My daughter’s 2nd birthday was coming up and I wanted to make a cake about something she was interested in at the time. Of course, Dora the Explorer came to mind. I wanted to make a cake that was epic, like something off of one of the cake TV shows. I decided to follow the … Read more
My three year old daughter wanted a cake that was “where Dora the Explorer lived” I was slightly stumped, how to create such a Dora birthday cake? I decided to use the Wilton house cake pan and tweak it slightly. It turned out to be very easy to do. I baked a 10inch round for … Read more
I made this Dora and Boots cake for my youngest daughter’s second birthday. She loves Dora the Explorer and was very excited to be having a “Dora Party”. I’m relatively new to cake decorating (have only decorated 4 cakes prior to this one). I turned to the internet for some ideas on how to get … Read more
Hope you all enjoy the pictures of the Homemade Dora the Explorer Birthday Cake that I made from scratch including the marshmallow fondant covering for a lovely 2 year old girl. The cake is a yellow cake with pineapple and is filled and covered with chocolate ganache. I also made the marshmallow fondant at home … Read more
For this Dora birthday cake, I started with a 13×9 pan. I made 1 chocolate for the bottom and a white cake for the top. I iced the cake with purple buttercream. I used green buttercream and made green leaves as the top and bottom border of the cake. I placed pink drop flowers along … Read more
I made this Dora and 3D Boots cake by baking an 11×15 half sheet cake, and then cutting out the Dora and grass shapes. The Dora shape was retrieved from the internet, cut out, and used as a guide when cutting the cake. The cake doesn’t have to be cut into the exact shape of … Read more