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 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
This Baby Shower Block Cake started with about three yellow cake rounds, one yellow 8″x13″, and one devil’s food 8″x13″. This was for a friend of mine, her son’s name is Layne so I spelled his name in the blocks. I made a batch of Italian buttercream with less butter than it should have, so … Read more
These cakes were for my daughters naming ceremony. Her name is Macy. The cakes were 6″ cubes with 2″ letters on each side made from a childrens birthday cake recipe. I made a large sheet cake that was 2″ deep and then cut it 6″ by 6″. Then I piled three of them on top … Read more
I made this homemade name alphabet cake for my son Zachary’s 1st birthday. I wanted something different from the giant #1 cake I’d done for his sister’s 1st birthday but that was still a “little” kid cake. Plus we wanted to keep the decorations relatively simple and weren’t really going with any particular character theme. … Read more
These seemed easy enough but I used whipped cream (which made them delicious but not very pretty.) They were tall and heavy so every time I tried to straighten one side they slide off the other. I used a chocolate childrens birthday cake recipe with whipped cream, raspberry and chocolate ganache. The cakes get a … Read more