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!
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