Take a look at these cool homemade Fiesta 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!
This Chili Red Hot Pepper cake was fun to do. I used a 12 x 18 sheet cake pan, made 2 of them stacked and iced it. The cake was strawberry Margarita cake. I froze the cakes, after leaving in freezer for a night, took it and carved it out in the shape of a chili … Read more
This Sombrero Cake was made for a friend who was serving it at a Mexican dinner for family on Memorial Day weekend. She requested a sombrero hat. I struggled with how to make it and ended up making a 14″ round cake for the bottom level. The other part was made from the Wilton Wonder … Read more
I made this Mexican sombrero cake for my mother’s 70th birthday. She loves mariachis so we decided to have a Fiesta theme party for her. This is the first time I make a cake like this. I used a 12 in cake pan for the bottom and a big cupcake top for the sombrero top. … Read more
I made this Fiesta Cake for my best friend’s 60th birthday. Her daughter and I gave her a surprise party at a local Mexican restaurant so I decided to go with a Fiesta theme. I didn’t have much time to work on a tiered cake so I decided to go with a small cake with … Read more
This Fiesta Sombrero Birthday Cake was for my son’s birthday party. I don’t know where he got the idea- he was only 6- but for some reason he had heard the word “fiesta” and decided that would be great! The base is a chocolate cake mix for the using a standard sheet cake pan. A … Read more
I used a 12 inch round Wilton cake pan for the base and a small stainless steel mixing bowl for the top of the Sombrero Birthday Cake. After baking and removing from pans, I inverted the cake baked in the mixing bowl on top of the large round cake (using a layer of icing to … Read more
This is a theme cake from a fiesta that I made for my niece’s birthday. I first baked two 9 x 13 cakes and put them in the freezer for one hour. I found a coloring page with the fiesta man on it and enlarged it on my computer so that it would cover most … Read more
I made two chocolate cake mixes according to directions and added cinnamon (as Mexican sweets sometimes have cinnamon). I used the Wilton large round cake pan for the base and a medium Pyrex mixing bowl for the top. Once the cakes cooled I placed the dome shaped cake on top. I used a small paring … Read more
Once I put them together I covered both with tip 16 stars in a sombrero design. I made the cactus with a large shell tip and added tip 2 pull out needles. Instead of making the chili peppers from fondant, I found those which were actually candles and tied them together with “vine and leaves” … Read more
I made this Sombrero cake for a friend’s 29th birthday party. I was asked to make a cake to suit a Mexican themed surprise party that would feed 60 people. Well, that was a challenge, since I’ve never made a custom cake before. Here’s how I did it. I baked 2 giant chocolate chip cookies … Read more
I made this Fiesta Sombrero Cake for my son’s 7th birthday after he requested a fiesta, because he was taking Spanish language classes at school. The bottom is a giant chocolate chip cookie. The dome part is a cake baked in a glass bowl. The wide red stripes are rolled fruit. I intended to buy … Read more