Take a look at these cool homemade Sandcastle 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!
This sandcaslte birthday cake decoration was another experiment! We had a beach theme for my son’s birthday and he loves the sand. So, instead of a girly castle I just changed it up and made a sand castle. I used two sheet cakes and cut them to what I wanted. I iced it in sand … Read more
I made this sandcastle birthday cake for my sweet little girl, Hannah, who was turning 4 at the end of July and wanted to have a beach party for her birthday. The dollar tree in our area had a lot of summer decorations. I used some new sand buckets to serve chips and gold fish … Read more
I made this Sand Castle Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 4th birthday. She said she wanted a castle cake and I knew she loved the beach… Wallah!! Sand Castle Cake! LOL I honestly do not remember the cake pan sizes I used. I started with a large square cake for the base. Added a smaller … Read more
Here is a sand castle cake I baked for my daughter’s 7th Birthday on a houseboat trip. Not an easy feat being that we were in the middle of the lake. I used a regular store bought white cake mix and a whipped white Frosting. For the “sand” effect I crushed cinnamon graham crackers. I … Read more
I made this Sand Castle Cake for my mom. Her office was doing a beach themed party so I made a sand castle beach cake. The towers of the sand castle were made out of rice crispy’s and the top of the castle. The beach ball is rice crispy’s covered in fondant and sand pail … Read more
My soon to be 5 year old daughter came to me one night saying she wanted a castle cake for her pending birthday. After checking this wonderful site I had some great ideas. The next morning the request became a Mermaid Castle cake. A what??? After a bit of thought a sandcastle birthday cake came … Read more
This Sand Castle Wedding Cake you would think would be for a birthday party or some kind of beach themed party. But no, this was a Wedding cake. You may have guessed, it was a beach themed wedding. This cake took me about a day and a half. I am used to making very formal … Read more
My daughter wanted a cake that looked like a real sand castle. I used two round cake pans and one 1/2 sheet cake pan. I formed the second and third tiers from the sheet cake. The icing is buttercream and the sand effect was created by crushing graham crackers and vanilla wafers. For the towers, … Read more
I have twins and we always try to pick a theme they can both be happy with. This year was a Tye-Dye beach theme since we had our first beach vacation earlier in the summer. Because they are twins I like to give them each their own cake, hence two castles connected together. Also gave … Read more
this Sand Castle Birthday Cake serves 40. This fun in the sun choice tasted like s’mores because of the chocolate cake, marshmallow cream and graham cracker sand. You will need: Various sized circular pans (I used ones I already had to create a design) Box of graham crackers Sugar cones Three chocolate cake mixes One … Read more
I pulled my ideas for this Sandcastle Cake from other cakes from this site. I baked a 9X13 chocolate cake. Thought if there were crumbs, would be dirt! I also baked a loaf pan with about half of a second chocolate cake mix (made cupcakes to freeze with other half). Let the cakes cool. I … Read more
The Mommy-to-be loves the beach and she loves chocolate so I made a milk chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and added mini-chocolate chips. I used one box of cake mix divided by a round pan, an oval pan and two mini-round pans to create levels of the sand castle (I used dowels between layers to … Read more