Take a look at these cool homemade Space Shuttle 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 all cake except the stand that my husband welded. This was made from 10 13×9 cakes and sugar cones for the shuttle exhaust cones or whatever they’re called. My husband sculpted and frosted this with a filet knife and star tip; the lettering, Nasa symbol and flag are made from edible rice paper. … Read more
My son recently turned five, and is totally in awe of all things outer space: planets, comets, stars, rocket ships, astronauts, etc. For Christmas I made him an astronaut costume- which he loved, and wore the day of his birthday party- and as far as his 5th birthday party was concerned, I knew I would … Read more
I made this for a client who was throwing an outer space birthday party for her son. I make her children’s cakes every year, and each year she pushes the bounds of my creativity. This year she was doing an outer space theme. The invitations invited the kids to “Blast off”! I borrowed some of … Read more
This Space Shuttle Birthday Cake was for my son’s 4th Birthday. He was having a space party. The shuttle came out a bit fatter looking than I planned but I was happy with the end result and most importantly my son loved it. I got some inspiration from some of the other great shuttle cakes … Read more
This Space Shuttle Cake is approx 55cm in length, consisting of 4 premix mud cakes. I used two for the lower half of the shuttle, one and a half for the upper. I fashioned the tail out of a piece of cardboard covered with royal icing. This is the only non edible part of the … Read more
This Space Shuttle Birthday Cake Design was made for my son’s 13th birthday. I made this cake out of 4, 13 X 9 cakes. The bottom that looks like “space” is 2 of the 4 cakes. I put them together, leveled and ‘dirty iced’ them. Then I put a top layer of black on for … Read more
My son for his 5th birthday decided he wanted a space shuttle cake. I looked on this site and decided to go with a Homemade Space Shuttle Birthday Cake Design similar to one found here that included a planet. I also did some additional cupcakes, which have little alien heads on them made from the … Read more
I had a lot of help with this Homemade Spaceship to the Moon Cake from my mum, who provided all the equipment and helped with some ideas of how to put the cake together. I wanted to make a cake to celebrate my partner’s 60th birthday. Nick has always been a spaceflight enthusiast, and was … Read more
I made this Space Shuttle Cake for my son who turned 6 years old. The big cake, which is the space, is made out of a brownie cake (homemade of course), filled with Dulce de Leche (is like Caramel, but taste way better, it’s an original dessert from Argentina), strawberries and whip cream. The top … Read more
My friend had an idea to make the Voyager Ship Cake from the TV series ‘Voyager’ as a cake, as he loves the program. We used a recipe for a basic sponge cake but doubled the ingredients so that we could bake 2 cakes. We baked one in a round tin and one in a … Read more
I made this Space Shuttle Birthday Cake for my grandson’s 4th birthday. I made a chocolate cake in a 9″ by 13″ cake pan and followed directions I found on the Betty Crocker web site to cut and assemble the pieces. I used a simple light blue buttercream to frost it. From there, I came … Read more
For our son’s 7th Birthday, we were doing a Patriotic Space Shuttle Adventure party. I’d searched online and had seen all those beautiful and fancy cakes and was searching for an easier option. I found a cake on the Betty Crocker site that was a 3D cake and then had come across a NASA model … Read more