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!
My daughters graduation invites had a picture of her laying on a beach blanket with sunglasses, the inside of the card reading: “Life’s a beach… and then you graduate.” And so a theme was born. She very much did not want a Luau-type party so we went with a sandier sunny sea-shell thing without the … Read more
We vacation in Carpinteria beach every year and my daughter wanted a beach themed birthday party. So I decided to make her a Sandcastle Birthday Cake. I used 2 boxed cake mixes and split them between 3 round pans. I had a 10 inch spring form, an 8 inch spring form and a 6 inch … Read more
I did my sons first birthday party all with a fish theme, and I decided creating a sandcastle cake on a beach. I got two 9×13 cake pans for the bottom. My grandmother used to make peanut butter balls for us during the holidays, so I took that recipe and instead of putting it into … Read more
This sandcastle birthday cake and birthday theme was fun to do, the idea came from a family magazine that I was looking at in a doctor’s office, family fun or something like that, and just took the idea and went crazy with it. For invitations, I sent out small beach balls with the time, date, … Read more
I made this sandcastle cake for my husbands birthday party. We had a tropical/beach theme. I had drawn several cakes, but this one just popped! I made two regular yellow cakes (one nine-inch and one eight-inch; both three inches deep). The cake was iced in a butter cream icing. I used rolled fondant which I … Read more
I made this sand castle cake for a little girl’s 10th birthday pool party. I thought this was a great twist on the regular castle cake and it was really fun to do. I baked 3 boxes of cake mixes into: two 8-inch square cakes, two 6-inch rounds, three large cupcakes, and 9 regular cupcakes. … 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