Take a look at these cool homemade Dolphin 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 is a cake which I copied from a dolphin picture. I made it for a friend who likes dolphins. I just used a box mix and put in a square pan. Then for the dolphin I used rice crispies. When cooled off but still moldable I just molded into an upper half of the … Read more
Since my daughter’s second birthday, I have been making her “character” cakes; sometimes two because she is a 4th of July baby and her friends can’t come for the “family” party. After Micky Mouse, a turtle, and a fish, she raised the bar this year. My daughter LOVES the movie “Dolphin Tale” about Winter, the dolphin with … Read more
I baked a 9×9 square cake for this dolphin cake. After letting it cool I stuck it in the freezer for about an hour. I used a dolphin stencil that I made and placed it on cake and cut around the shape (you have to do two because it is a double layered cake). I … Read more
I made this dolphin cake for my 8 year old daughter as she loves dolphins. This cake was probably the easiest out of all my other cake attempts. I started off by looking for a picture of a dolphin and surprisingly I found a small sticker which really captured my eyes as the images I … Read more
My daughter was having her 9th birthday party on the beach and wanted a dolphin cake to keep with the ocean theme. After looking at several cakes on various web sites including this one, and looking at a dolphin picture, we came up with the idea of making the cake out of rice crispies. I … Read more
I baked two 13 X 9 cakes and cut one into a dolphin shape from looking at a dolphin picture coloring page printout. I frosted the large one with a blue/green color and added the waves with blue food coloring mixed in a small amount of frosting. I then frosted the dolphin white and then … Read more
I found a dolphin picture as the inspiration for this dolphin cake that I made for my daughters birthday party. Before you start take a piece of half inch plywood (I cut mine to 3.5 feet by 2.5 feet) and then covered it in blue plastic coated paper. (If the paper is not plastic coated, … Read more
I decorated this cake with mock cream I made from icing sugar, and coloured it with food colouring, it took me a total of 5 hours to make. I got a friend to draw an outline of a dolphin by looking at a picture. I used grease paper and cut out the shape, placed it … Read more
My granddaughter, Abigail, requested a birthday cake with Winter the dolphin and her two dolphin friends in Florida. I have never decorated a birthday cake, but accepted the challenge knowing how much fun it would be. I had no idea what I was doing, but decided to look up dolphin figures on the internet, specifically … Read more
For this Dolphin Birthday Cake I made two tiers – one with a Wilton 6 inch pan and one with a Wilton 8 inch pan. It is covered with blue marshmallow fondant and the fish and dolphins on the cake are also made out of fondant. I sprayed the fondant with blue and yellow food … Read more
I made this dolphin birthday cake for a friend’s birthday. Used a gel transfer to make the dolphins and chocolate molded sea shells.
This Dolphin Cake was my (twin) son’s second birthday cake. My husband and I usually put in a lot of effort into these cakes! The dolphin was my husbands’ artwork, while I was attending to the butterfly. I usually use Nigella’s buttermilk cake recipe. It is moist and sturdy – perfect for cutting out. I … Read more