This is a fun cake, a non traditional 4th of July theme. The coolest part is the shark in the water! This cake was actually brought to a beach celebration. This is a fairly simple cake to make. However, most of the fondant decorations need to be made in advance. Such as, the hammock, which … Read more
I baked a simple layer cake, iced with butter cream and decorated with goldfish crackers, gummy sea life creatures, teddy graham crackers. Beach towels are made from Fruit Stripe gum and floats for bears are gummy life savers. The “sand” is made from crushed vanilla wafers. I cut a hole in the top layer of … Read more
It was son to be my dad’s birthday. I love making cakes and only need an excuse to get baking so I had a think what to make for him, they were going on holiday in a month’s time so I thought it would be a great idea to make a holiday cake. I started by … Read more
This is a double layer sheet cake. I crumb coated it then went back with a layer of white frosting. I cut the “cookies” in different lengths to represent a beach fence and glued them to the side of the cake with additional frosting where necessary. I did learn however, that this should be your last step … Read more
“Fairies and pirates, pixie dust and buried treasures… how do I capture that in a cake?” That was all I could think of in my jet lagged, exhausted head. My daughter’s 4th birthday party was 3 days away, and I had just landed after a 24h flight, and was devising a strategy on how to prepare … Read more
This was a beach party cake for my niece and nephew. It is a 2 layer cake. I carved out a spot for the swimming pool and filled it with partially set blue jello gelatin. The beach sand is crushed graham crackers mixed with a little white granulated sugar. I piped little outfits onto teddy … Read more
The other beach cakes on this site inspired me to a Beach Birthday Cake for my husband’s 30th birthday. When he saw it he absolutely LOVED it! His family and friends liked it so much I got an order to do another birthday cake. For this cake I made 2 13×9 sheet cakes with a … Read more
My younger daughter loves Ariel but I have made an Ariel cake for her birthday last year so I decided to make a Homemade Beach Birthday Cake this time because she loves swimming too. I baked a rectangular cake and used buttermilk cream to decorate. I covered two third of the cake with blue cream … Read more
This Teddy beach cake was made for a 7-year old who wanted a beach-themed cake. I had gotten the idea from a cake-decorating book I already had, but had just shown a flat 9×13″ cake. Since the two-layer 8″ round cake wasn’t very big, the cupcakes around the edge were added as an after-thought. It … Read more
To make this kid birthday cake I used two 9×13 layer cakes and stacked them on top of each other. It was frosted with a store bought chocolate frosting. I crushed up nilla wafers to make the sand and used spray blue cake color to “airbrush” the waves and spray white for the whitecaps on … Read more
I took a very unique birthday cake recipe and made a large round cake as the bottom. I then made a smaller cake in a metal bowl and sliced off the top for the island. I first frosted the water with blue frosting, then I frosted the island and added crunched up vanilla wafers for … Read more
My mom celebrated her birthday this year at the beach with her grandkids and I decided to make a beach-themed birthday cake for her. I looked at this site for ideas and this was the end result. The pink beach towels were sticks of chewing gum and the sand was crumbled-up Nilla Wafers. It’s difficult … Read more