Take a look at these cool homemade Polka Dots 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 cake pales in sweetness compared to the person I made it for. An acquaintance turned friend due to an amazing heart, kindness and understanding. Asked to do a cake for her precious little girl who was turning 2, I was honored to oblige. G picked out a cake and with a few tweaks decided … Read more
This was a fun but trying cake. My friend’s daughter wanted something different but sassy. This is a simple three layer cake, all done in homemade fondant. The zebra was black piping gel, done by hand. The bows on top went with her party. The inside cake was done to match as well. I made … Read more
I made this polka dots gift cake for my good friend Nikki for her birthday. I was in creative gear and we were all going out for dinner. Though I’ve really never heard of the cake flavor before- I made it a Neapolitan cake. It was strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate all swirled together. It tasted amazing! I made … Read more
This Dots And Stripes Birthday Cake was for a little girl’s 7th Birthday party. She wanted something girlie, but not too little girlish. I used two six inch cake pans for the top layer and two ten inch cake pans for the bottom layer. I covered both layers in white fondant and then cut out … Read more
This Polka Dot Birthday Cake was a secondary cake I made in addition to making a teapot cake for my daughter’s second birthday. We had a lot of visitors so we needed lots of cake. I used white buttercream icing and the dots and bow are all fondant. I had a lot of fun decorating … Read more
This Polka Dot cake is a traditional fondant cake with buttercream icing underneath the fondant. I used a 10 inch cake on the bottom and an 8 inch pan on the top. I wrapped ribbon around the bottom edges of the cake and attached it with icing and added a black bow on the top … Read more
My daughter wanted a fun cake for her 6th birthday. I found the inspiration for this particular Dot Birthday Cake on this website. I stacked 2 10″ round cakes as the base (with frosting inbetween the layers). Then I stacked 2 3″ round cakes as the topper (with frosting in between these layers, as well). … Read more
This is an awesome cake. I am so proud of this one. Looks like fondant doesn’t it? It’s not… I frosted the entire cake in plain white buttercream. I work really hard to smooth the butter cream completely.. it’s best to smooth as much as possible and let the frosting crust a bit before smoothing … Read more
I had a friend’s niece call me to ask if I could do a birthday cake for her 8 year old daughter. When I asked what she thought she’d like all she said was a square, possibly tiered or stacked cake, one white one chocolate, decorated in GIRLY GIRL colors! Looked for ideas and came … Read more
This was a birthday cake for a family member who is a florist so I wanted to include some kind of flower. It was also for a guy so I wanted to make it more “male” colors. I used one of my homemade cake recipes and made two 10″ square cakes and two 8″ square … Read more
I made this baby shower cake or “sprinkle” cake for the daughter of a friend who was having her second baby. The nursery was done in pink/white/brown with touches of hot pink, and brown zebra stripes. That was part of the reason for this design. I got lots of inspiration and information for making this … Read more
This Spots And Stripes Birthday Cake was made for a friend. She found a photo of a single round cake that she liked and this was my attempt to make a cake similar to it. They had quite a few guests so we did a two tier to feed extra people. I didn’t have neon … Read more