I was inspired by a Dora and Boots Birthday Cake I saw on this site. I’ve never done anything like this before but decided to give it a shot. I started by printing coloring book pages that I found on the internet. Dora, Boots and some balloons. I taped the images to a cutting board, … Read more
For this Dora the birthday cake, I made a 1/2 sheet cake, covered it in green buttercream icing, made roll out sugar cookie dough and freehand cut out the mountains and palm tree tops. Baked them and frosted them with royal icing. I then painted three dowel rods (for each palm tree trunk) with a … Read more
My sister-in-law made this cake for my daughter’s third birthday. My daughter is a huge Dora fan and this was her third year using the Dora theme. The first two years we just had store bought cakes but, this year she wanted to make a special Dora the Explorer birthday cake for Samantha. She used … Read more
This idea suddenly came when my friend asked me to make a cake for her daughter’s 4th birthday party. She asked me to make it the simple one. So, I choose to use her invitation card as the idea. The cake’s story is about Dora and Boots wanted to go to Erin b’day party, without … Read more
This is a Dora birthday cake with Boots. My neighbors little girl Grace was turning 3, and she just LOVES Dora! She wanted something 3-dimensional. I could not figure out how to make a 3-D Dora out of cake without her head flopping off, but I got an idea from looking at the party napkins … Read more
My son was really into Dora, so I wanted to make a Dora-themed cake that wasn’t too “girly” for his 3rd birthday. Since he loves the whole Dora Map concept, I decided to try and make a homemade Dora map cake showing Dora and her friends how to get to Logan’s birthday party. I started … Read more
For anyone who’s ever made any cake, this Dora’s World Cake is simple and rewarding. This ‘Dora Cake’ we made for our daughter features a tootsie roll bridge, gel icing stream, nerds for wildflowers, gumdrop bushes and everyone’s favorite, fudge mountain! Complete with trickling chocolate syrup and topped with powdered sugar. First use any cake … Read more
This cake was made for my neighbors daughter’s birthday. His only request was that she wanted Dora and Boots and that they had to be going on an adventure so I went to my local toy store (Wal-Mart etc) and looked at the Dora toys that they had that could be suitable for Dora birthday … Read more
I made this Dora the Explorer Jungle Cake for my god daughter’s birthday as she loves Dora. It is made using items you can easily buy from the supermarket or lolly shop and my main aim was that it would all be edible by children at the party, as sometimes they don’t like to eat … Read more
I made this Dora The Explorer Cake for my husband’s granddaughter. It’s all edible except for Dora and Boots. The lake and river is made of blueberry jello, Dora’s house is made of graham cookies, the tree is an upside down cupcake with a pretzel and the bridge is made of pretzel also, the road … Read more
I just finished taking Course I and II of the Wilton Cake Decorating class. With my new found skills I wanted to make a special cake for my daughters 4th birthday. But first I wanted to make a “practice” cake, which meant that I would have two Dora birthday cakes. I didn’t want to use … Read more
I made this Dora Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday/baptism celebration. The volcano actually shoot out sprinkles! My husband engineered the volcano with a metal tube, a plastic tube inside that then a bike pump. This was the hit and the crowd asked for explosions!