Take a look at these cool homemade Book 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!
For my daughter’s fairy tale themed birthday party, at first she wanted a castle cake. But then decided it should look like a big open storybook with a fairy tale castle on top! I could have gone 3D with this Fairytale Book Birthday Cake but ended up trying a new decorating method and it worked … Read more
My niece is a HUGE Harry Potter fan so for her 21st birthday I decided to make her favorite book. The Homemade Harry Potter Birthday Cake Design is made from a chocolate fudge 1/4 sheet. I rolled out fondant colored with yellow coloring and a little brown to give it an aged appearance, measured the … Read more
Next I did the flat side of the open book just by covering it in white fondant. I did the side of the open book on an angle (this part was a little difficult) laid it flat next to the complete book then covered it and embellished with colored fondant. I then made the book … Read more
This Book Cake Idea is made from chocolate and white 9 x 13 cake, halved, and stacked. I used a homemade butter cream covered in black fondant. The fondant is a little cracked which I thought added to the idea that this was a leather bound book. After I covered it in fondant, I brushed … Read more
I based this Homemade Harry Potter Birthday Cake Design off the movies and had a great time making it. The bottom is a chocolate cake with Oreo cream cheese filling and the “book” cakes are red velvet with cream cheese filling. All the objects are plain old fondant and then painted. The golden snitch has … Read more