Take a look at these cool homemade Flip Flops and Sandals 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!
We had a pool party / end of the school year party this year and the invites and cake were flip flops. Like always I make everything from scratch and the cake was a midnight cake. The frosting was butter cream. I used a star frosting tip to give it some interest. I hope this inspires … Read more
Hi, My name is Cindy. I love baking cakes for family, friends and even the occasional stranger that hears about me. I had a call from the secretary of my son’s school and she said her daughter was turning 9 and having a swimming pool party. And she wanted me to come up with something girly. … Read more
The summer of 2011 we were upstate at my friend’s house. We we having a birthday party for my son who was turning 11. We talked to another friend whose little girl was turning 6 and decided to do a double party for the kids. The little girl’s birthday is July 29 and my son’s … Read more
This homemade flip-flop birthday cake was made for my best friend for her 27th birthday. She has so many flip flops that I have lost count. She wears them all year round so I thought this would be perfect for her! I started by baking a 13/9 chocolate cake and filling it with Bavarian cream … Read more
I made these cakes for my twin girls’ thirteenth birthday. They are cute and easy to make. I baked each cake in a 9×13 pan and froze them after they cooled. I traced a flip-flop onto cardstock to make a template. The template made cutting the cake easier. Then I placed the template on each … Read more
I made this Monkey Flip Flop Cake from an 11 X 13 pan. I bought a pair of new cheap flip flops to make my pattern from. I cut the cake length wise and each piece was one flip flop. I made the butter cream frosting and “crumb” coated it, then put it in the … Read more
As my daughter, Jolie has a summer birthday, most of her parties are summer themed. For her 6th birthday, she insisted that I make her birthday cake. This was my first attempt at making a cool birthday cake. We were doing a flip-flop themed party at a local arts & crafts store, so she wanted … Read more
This is a 1/2 choc, 1/2 white cake. It’s the first time I have ever cut a cake into the shape of something but it was so easy. I just drew the shape onto a piece of cardboard, cut it out and placed it onto the cake and cut around it. For the straps I … Read more
This Flip Flops Cake Design was my first attempt at cake decorating in about 12 years. I wanted to surprise my daughter for her 13th birthday so I started looking for ideas on line. I didn’t even have a theme, but I ran across a pattern for this flip flops cake on the Wilton website … Read more
For this giant flip flop cake, I started with two boxes of regular yellow cake mix. I then baked two different cakes, each with their own rectangle pan. I then stacked the two cakes on top of each other, making sure that I added whipped white icing between the two cakes. After stacking, I started … Read more
I made this Flip Flops Birthday Cake for our babysitter who turned 14. She asked for a flip flop cake after seeing my daughter’s t-shirt. I had freedom to do as I wished so I did my own rendering. I was really short on time so I kind of threw it together. First I used … Read more
My daughter wanted to have a flip flop 9th birthday party. It was summer and everyone wears flip flops, so I made 2 pairs of flip flops cakes out of loaf pans, one pair is vanilla and the other pair is chocolate, both decorated with buttercream frosting. The straps were made of 2 colored twisted … Read more