A school friend of mine, asked me to make a “Real Tinkerbell”’ cake for her daughter’s 3rd Birthday! REAL, meaning the girl did not want any fake fairies or dolls (who are not Tinkerbell) on her cake, she wanted a fairy that looked exactly like the Real Tinkerbell! I tried finding a plastic figurine, but this being … 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 Tinkerbell cake is a medium oval plus a small oval chocolate cake, split with strawberry jam on top, and the “tree” is half of a chocolate cake roll (cheated-store bought!). Iced with butter cream and royal, I’m not crazy about fondant. The path to the fairy door is candy rocks and fondany pebbles, grass etc. butter cream. I found … Read more
I made this Tinkerbell birthday cake using rice Krispies. I sculpted it to my liking and then made the icing coat. I then made marshmallow fondant and had fun making all the different colors. I then applied the fondant according to the most common colors needed for Tinkerbell. I cut out leaves for her dress and it turned out … Read more
This Tinkerbell cake was donated to an organization called Birthday Dreams. I bought a Tinkerbell doll to put on it. Then I saw that it was for a two year old. Not a good toy for a 2yr. old. So, I rolled out fondant and traced a picture of Tinkerbell, then colored her in with … Read more
This Tinkerbell and Friends Cake Design was for my daughter, Emily’s 6th Birthday. She wanted Tinkerbell, and I saw a cake once that had a waterfall on it. So, I thought, hmmm…I can do that. So started with set of 3 tiers, offset for more “waterfall room” on front, frosted with leaf green frosting. Then … Read more
The Tinkerbell cake was made using a Wilton Barbie cake pan. The Barbie had long flowing hair. Tinkerbell’s hair is piled on top of her head, so the extra hair area was used to make Tinkerbell’s wings. To start, I used a pale blue to frost the edges of the cake as well as the … Read more
Thank you to all the moms who submitted Tinkerbell cakes on this site! I used some of their pictures as inspiration and copied their ideas, especially Tinkerbell Cake 52 (by Sarah H. in New Haven, IN). I made my Tinkerbell Birthday Cake using a boxed white cake mix. It took about 3+ cake mixes for … Read more
This cake was for my friend’s daughter who had her 3rd birthday. It was my second time using fondant. I made a lighter fluffier frosting for the cupcakes and used neon food coloring and little daisy fondant cutouts. For the cake itself I used a basic white cake and buttercream frosting. For the shape of … Read more
I made this Tinkerbell Birthday Cake Idea for my granddaughter’s 3rd Birthday. We had a blast making it. First we took Wilton’s doll mold cake then we cut a hole in the center and wrapped a Tinkerbell doll in plastic and inserted it in the hole. Then we used green to create a skirt on … Read more
This Tinkerbell Flower Cake Idea was made for my best friend on her 17th Birthday. I have recently got into cake baking and have been trying increasingly more difficult cakes with each attempt, this being my best to date as it incorporated my first attempt at an icing model. The idea simply came to me … Read more
For the Tinkerbell Birthday Cake I used the large round Wilton cake pan. I ordered the Tink cake topper online. The icing colors were Wilton’s sun yellow and leaf green. The small flowers and the large sunflower leaves were made of modeling chocolate and colored accordingly and brushed with a silver glitter.