My son had a Transformers theme for his 9th birthday, so I made him this Optimus Prime Birthday Cake. I started out with 3- 9 x 12 inch cakes, 2 for the bottom to make a large sheet, and one to form the semi. First I iced the sheet, half red, half blue (with buttercream … Read more
I printed a picture from the Transformers cartoon. I then traced it onto a transparency page with a sharpie pen, flipped it over and used piping gel to trace out the image (on the side I didnt mark on). Then I used it as a stencil on the sheet cake to make the Transformers cake. … Read more
I made this Transformer Birthday Cake for the son of a friend of mine. He is a HUGE Bumble Bee fan from the Transformers Movie. I wished this a fondant frosted cake, simply because I was looking forward to painting the image on myself. However, most 8 year olds aren’t fans of the stuff. I … Read more
My cake is real basic and super easy to do! It is supposed to look like Optimus Prime. Took about 3 hours-probably supposed to take way less but I did this while super burnt out at like 10 pm. I have four kids, 6 and under, so I waited until late to bake and decorate … Read more
I made this Homemade Optimus Prime Truck Birthday Cake for my son’s 4th birthday. He loves Transformers. I thought about just ordering a cake topper, but where’s the fun in that!? So I ended up making this cake. First I baked a 1/2 sheet cake and a 1/4 sheet cake, just trying to have enough … Read more
My son wanted a Transformers cake for his birthday, specifically Optimus Prime. I printed a picture of a transformer and enlarged the photo to the size of the cake. After I baked my cake I laid my picture on top of the cake and cut it out. I frosted the cake with fondant. Then I … Read more
I saw the emblems on this site and thought I’d give it a try to make a Transformers cake. The emblems and letters are made of fondant and then painted with food coloring. I sprinkled shimmer flakes over the emblems and then trimmed each with glitter tube frosting. The figures came from a game set … Read more
I made two different cakes for my sons 4th birthday. One cake in each mode of Transformers Optimus Prime cake. The first is just a large sheet cake. My son picked a picture of his favorite character and I drew the figure on the cake with a tooth pick and then filled the colors in … Read more
Here is the homemade Optimus Prime tuck cake I made for my son’s 5th birthday. I used store bought pound cake mix (9 boxes worth!). The bottom is a 12×18 sheet cake, then a 9×13, and on top of that, two 8×8’s. The rest was done with the spare parts I had cut off. For … Read more
If your son is as crazy about Transformers as mine he will love this Transfromers cake too! I think homemade cakes are so much more special than store-bought character cakes if you have the time and patience! So after thinking about how to make the coolest Transormers cake I could, this is what I came … Read more
I made this Transformers Bumblebee Birthday Cake for my nephew William’s 4th birthday – after a successful attempt at a Dalek for my son’s birthday earlier in the year I was then asked to do this one, and being me decided not to do the car but to go for the challenge of trying to … Read more
I made this Transformers Optimus Prime cake awhile ago. I couldn’t really find any good ideas to copy from the internet (although there was one amazing freestanding Optimus Prime that did inspire me but was going to be way to hard to replicate) so I just made one up myself. Anyway this was not necessarily … Read more