Take a look at these cool homemade R2-D2 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!
My son wanted a Star Wars party for his 5th birthday, and was requesting that I make an R2D2 cake. I Googled “R2D2 cake”, and the search led me to this site. With some great examples of previous cakes made, I was able to put my son’s cake together. There’s only so much “originality” I … Read more
I made three batches of buttercream icing and used every drop (this I also did beforehand so I could spend one night assembling). I used a Pyrex bowl for the top of the cake, since I dont own a pan like that. It worked great. To smooth the white icing on R2’s body I just … Read more
For this 3D R2D2 Birthday Cake Design, you will need: 6 in round pan, 9×9 pan, buttercream icing, fondant icing and a frosting tip. I made a 6 in. round cake and a 9×9 cake. For his head, I cut the 6 in. round in half. The body is the 9×9 pan, slightly trimmed on … Read more
I made this R2D2 3D cake for my son’s 7th Birthday. I got the idea from other R2D2 cakes on your web site. I started with store bought cake mixes. I used 4 boxes of cake mix. I made 3 9×13 cakes 2 chocolate and one yellow. I made 2 8inch round cakes yellow. I … Read more
Thank goodness I found this site! I followed many of the other Homemade R2D2 Birthday Cakes and really took their suggestions seriously. My awesome boyfriend cut the dowel for me and created the base for the cake. Then, I baked all the cakes the night before and assembled them all the morning of the party. … Read more
For my son’s 5th birthday, he wanted a Star Wars themed party. After a little web searching I found several ideas for his cake. Together we decided on R2D2 birthday cake. Here’s how I did it. I used 2 store bought cake mixes (reducing the oil to 1 tablespoonful to make a firmer textured cake, … Read more
We used 9-inch round cake pans, baked 3 cakes, used a large round Pyrex bowl to create 1/2 of the dome and used a smaller metal pan to create the top of dome. We tried layering the Star Wars cakes up to 6 layers, but that collapsed. My solution was to take a large soup … Read more