Take a look at these cool homemade Building Blocks 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!
A friend came to me and asked if I could make her son’s 1st birthday cake. It took awhile but I came up with a unique Play Block Birthday Cake just for him. I took 6 13*9 cakes and added different icing in between each layer. then added fondant over the top and created the … Read more
This Girl Baby Block Shower Cake is 11X14 vanilla cake with 4 – 2X2 chocolate baby blocks. The top of the blocks spell “baby” and front spell “girl.” Each block has different pictures such as bib, onesie, baby face and diaper pin. The blocks and cake are frosted with butter cream frosting. I used light … Read more
For this baby cake I used a square 12 inch cake, 2 layers. I basically divided the cake into 4 even section and cut the corner block away. I then used the extra square to make the block on top!! I got the idea from another cake decorator on a cake site I belong too!! … Read more
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