An 8″ cake, just store-bought chocolate covered in store-bought white frosting. I used a plastic Dora plate for the design. I traced the outline of Dora on waxed paper, and then piped buttercream (#2 tip) on the outline on the waxed paper. Then, I transferred the outline onto the cake. When you do this, not … Read more
I made this Dora the explorer cake for a friends little girl’s party. I found a picture on the internet and then printed it out. I blew it up to the size that I wanted and then cut the shape out on the cake. I iced the whole cake in a light colored frosting and … Read more
I browsed the other Dora cakes on this site and decided to try and make one for my daughters second birthday. She adored it and I thought I would share it with you. I used a template made from a black and white line drawing coloring page which I enlarged on the photocopier to the … Read more
My mom made this cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I was the assistant. She used the Wilton Dora cake pan which used a box cake mix – easy. She used a homemade butter cream frosting. She followed the instructions for decorating/frosting. The most difficult part of the entire process was following the outlines on … Read more
I made this Dora the Explorer birthday cake for the biggest Dora the Explorer fan, my daughter, for her second birthday. I traced the characters onto rice paper from several different pictures in a coloring book. After the cake was frosted, I put the rice paper transfer onto the cake and added all the colors.
All that my daughter wanted for her 3rd birthday was a homemade Dora the Explorer birthday cake. I purchased a sponge slab from a local shop and decided to decorate it for her. I copied a picture of Dora from a colouring book, and traced it onto baking paper. I purchased plastic icing to cover … Read more
I made this Dora the Explorer cake for a friend’s daughter who is a huge Dora fan. It was for her 4th birthday party. Never having made a cake like this before, I used a black line picture from a colouring in book to copy. I resized it to fit a large slab cake (which … Read more
This Dora the Explorer Cake is an ice cream cake made in a rectangular 35cm x 25cm tin. I made the cake itself 2 days before I needed it. For the cake I melted 2 tubs of vanilla ice cream until they were at a consistency that I could stir in my daughters favorite sweet, … Read more
This is a Dora the Explorer cake I made for a little girl. The Dora the Explorer cake is made with the cake mold from Wilton and the bottom cake is also a Wilton cake pan 16in round. I decorated the Dora the Explorer cake with decorating tips #3, #16, #21. Make 6 cups of … Read more
I made this Dora the explorer cake for a little girl at Duke university hospital who was very sick with leukemia. It is chocolate cake covered in fondant. All the coloring was done with airbrush and food color markers.
This is my daughters second birthday cake – simple large square chocolate cake made from Cadbury cake mix. I copied the Dora picture from a sticker, not from the usual Dora cakes and changed it a little to make Dora hold the star instead of the book as in the sticker. I used butter icing … Read more