Take a look at these cool homemade Wizard of Oz 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 threw a Wizard of Oz birthday for my little girl’s first birthday. I knew I wanted the cake to be the Emerald City and after searching relentlessly for different ideas, I came up with the idea of pulled sugar. I read up on how to do this and bought a 25 lb. bag of … Read more
My niece LOVES the Wizard of Oz so it was time to get creative since finding Wizard of Oz items can be difficult at best and that is what she wanted her birthday party theme to be. Thanks to the fellow contributors to this site I got some great ideas for a Wizard of oz … Read more
My friend is obsessed with the musical Wicked. Her husband asked us to make her Wicked themed cake for her birthday. All the fondant is homemade marshmallow fondant except for the black. We can never get marshmallow fondant dark enough without being a sticky mess. We try to keep some black fondant on hand from … Read more
I made this Wizard of Oz Rainbow Cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. She chose a Wizard of Oz theme for her birthday party, so I made a white cake but colored the batter six different colors of the rainbow and layered them before baking it. (I used Wilton’s icing colors because they’re more concentrated … Read more
I made this Homemade Dorothy from Wizard of Oz Red Slipper Birthday Cake for my daughter Ruby’s 3rd birthday. She loves the Wizard of Oz movie and has a complete Dorothy outfit (which she wore to her party). I made it from a homemade pound cake so that it would be dense enough to sculpt … Read more
My daughter’s birthday party was all about following the yellow brick road, so I designed and created this Yellow Brick Road Cake myself. I found the emerald city light up on eBay for the topper. Used white cake with rainbow confetti, and lemon filling. Green buttercream frosting, and used fondant for the yellow brick road. … Read more
I made this Elphaba from Wicked Cake for my daughter’s fifth birthday. I used a sheet cake, placed a wicked printout directly on the cake, poked small holes in the outline with a toothpick to create the shape. Very simple. My biggest challenge was coming up with black frosting as the stores had already closed … Read more
My great-niece, Avery Isabella, was having her first birthday and the theme was a Wizard of Oz Party. There was a yellow brick road for all guests to walk down when they came to the party so the cake theme was a Wizard of Oz Cake Design made of fondant and dusted with gold dust. … Read more
I made 2 9×13 cakes and used green dyed buttercream icing. The yellow brick road is yellow fondant that I scored like bricks and let it dry the day before. Next time, I would make it longer. The pond is blue icing gel. The grass is coconut dyed green using a Ziploc bag to shake … Read more
Our daughter wanted a “Wizard of Oz” party for her 4th birthday. Dorothy is one of my all time favorite characters, so I was happy to oblige! Creating this Homemade Wizard of Oz/Yellow Brick Road Cake was a lot of fun. I was inspired by several others on this site, and combined my favorite features … Read more
For this scarecrow cake, I took two 8″ round cake pans, white cake mix and vanilla icing. Then I rolled out white fondant and hand cut the pieces of the scarecrow with an exacto knife and cookie cut the leaves. Fondant rolled into an oblong ball made the pumpkins which are held on by tooth … Read more
My daughter became an instant fan of The Wizard of Oz after watching the movie for the first time. So for her 5th birthday she wanted a Wizard of Oz Cake Design. I decided to create Dorothy and her friends walking along the Yellow Brick Road on their way to the Emerald City. I began … Read more