Take a look at these cool homemade Polka Dots 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 Polka Dot cake is a traditional fondant cake with buttercream icing underneath the fondant. I used a 10 inch cake on the bottom and an 8 inch pan on the top. I wrapped ribbon around the bottom edges of the cake and attached it with icing and added a black bow on the top … Read more
My daughter wanted a fun cake for her 6th birthday. I found the inspiration for this particular Dot Birthday Cake on this website. I stacked 2 10″ round cakes as the base (with frosting inbetween the layers). Then I stacked 2 3″ round cakes as the topper (with frosting in between these layers, as well). … Read more
This is an awesome cake. I am so proud of this one. Looks like fondant doesn’t it? It’s not… I frosted the entire cake in plain white buttercream. I work really hard to smooth the butter cream completely.. it’s best to smooth as much as possible and let the frosting crust a bit before smoothing … Read more
I had a friend’s niece call me to ask if I could do a birthday cake for her 8 year old daughter. When I asked what she thought she’d like all she said was a square, possibly tiered or stacked cake, one white one chocolate, decorated in GIRLY GIRL colors! Looked for ideas and came … Read more
This was a birthday cake for a family member who is a florist so I wanted to include some kind of flower. It was also for a guy so I wanted to make it more “male” colors. I used one of my homemade cake recipes and made two 10″ square cakes and two 8″ square … Read more