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
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
Yup! Another cake request from my family! My youngest niece was turning 21 and LOVES dolphins. I made a dolphin cake, similar to one that is already posted here, for my oldest niece for her 31rst birthday. I wanted to something a little different for Katy. I wanted to attempt a 3-D effect with dolphins … Read more
I made this cake for my niece’s 10th birthday. She is crazy about dolphins and asked her mom for a homemade dolphin birthday cake for her party. I started with four 9×13 cakes (two yellow, two chocolate). I iced it with blue buttercream and chocolate frosting. I made sand with vanilla wafer crumbs and granulated … Read more
My sister-in-law loves dolphins and we have this tradition now that whose birthday it is will get a special cake. So I wanted to make her a Dolphin Birthday Cake Design. I got some ideas from this website and then drew a template on paper and cut it out making sure it would work with … Read more
My co-worker wanted a Dolphin Birthday Cake for her daughter’s 6th birthday. After searching this site, I thought I would give it a try. My cakes are made by using a modified box mix. Use 1 cup milk, 1 cup oil, 4 large eggs, 1 box vanilla pudding and 1 yellow cake mix. I started … Read more
One of my daughter’s fellow dance classmates was having a 7th birthday and her mother wanted a special Dolphin Cake Design, as her daughter LOVES dolphins. Her family are bilingual, hence the “Happy Birthday” on one side and “Feliz Cumpleanos” on the other. We came up with this design. I formed the dolphin out of … Read more
This Dolphin cake is based on pictures on this site – they gave me the basic plan (dolphin 5 and dolphin 11 mainly). This was my daughter’s birthday cake last year, her request. The cake was a yellow cake, but of course a sturdy chocolate cake would be fine too. It’s 3 recipes divided between … 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