This is a Baby blocks cake that I made for my Daughter, and the theme was rubber duckies. So I made baby blocks and frosted each one in pastel colors,(with buttercream icing)and wrote B A B Y on each one. Next I added the rubber duckies and lots of icing bubbles all over the blocks … Read more

I made this Homemade ABC Block Birthday Cake for my daughter Aibhilin’s 3rd birthday. I had seen a few block cakes, but most had been made for baby showers or baptisms. My daughter loves blocks! So I decided to make one for her, with her nick name on it “Aibhi” (pronounced ayv-ee). I used one … Read more

I used a basic Madeira recipe for this sponge cake to make the building blocks cake. I used a LARGE tin (approx 12inch/30cm square. I do not know the exact amount of ingredients I used as I just kept adding more until it looked like enough but it was the biggest cake I have ever … Read more

I have always made birthday cakes for my kids and one baby shower cake for a friend, so making this Homemade Blocks Animals Baby Shower Cake for the entire faculty at the middle school I teach at was a big step for me. I made this cake for another teacher. I choose the colors for … Read more

I made this Baby Block Cake using one 11×15 pan and one 9″ square pan. I used funfetti for the cake mix. Total of 2 1/2 cake mixes. I first iced the entire sheet cake using the star tip making rows of purple, blue and pink. I made the blocks from the 9″ pan cut … Read more

I made this “Me to You” Building Block (Boy) Christening Cake for my son’s christening. It is an 8” round fruit cake and 7 2” square fruit cakes. Each cake was covered with marzipan and then iced with fondant. I used letter cutters for the letters and made the bear from modeling paste. The bear … Read more

This is the baby block cake I do whenever asked to do a baby shower cake. It’s an idea from the Wilton website years ago. There are four, 4 inch, two layer cakes. I usually do each of the 4 cakes a different flavor. It feeds about 50 people. I use a 18X20 in cake … Read more

I used 4 layers of 8×8 cakes to make each block (1 box mix of cake filled two 8×8 pans). I just trimmed off all four sides to make a nice flat edge and used buttercream icing. I used candy melts to make the letters and characters. Just melted them in a ziploc bag in … Read more

I decided to make a Baby Blocks Birthday Cake for my daughter’s first birthday after looking at some great examples on this website – thanks! I baked 2 cakes in loaf tins and once cooled cut these into ~6cm cubes (each loaf cake made 3 cubes). Having not done this before they turned out a … Read more

I made a baby block as a Baby Shower Cake. I used an 8×8 pan and stacked four cakes on top of each other with buttercream in between after leveling off the tops. I then iced it in buttercream and smoothed out all of the corners. I then covered the entire cake in fondant tinted … Read more

Freeze the cake a day before cutting out the center of the block trolley cake, then the cake will not crumble away. I suggest using a harder cake for the blocks (I didn’t and there were tears!) Pack the icing around the block, then freeze for 10 minutes. Bring the block out and immediately slice … Read more

My step-sister asked me to make a cake for her youngest son who’s turning one. I had the idea of the building blocks so I spent days looking at pictures of how I wanted to do it. Then I came across pictures of fondant animals and thought that would look cute on it too, especially … Read more