Take a look at these cool homemade Mushroom and Toadstool 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!
I made this cake for my daughters first birthday. It was a homemade cake recipe. I used two bowls to bake the cake and supported the top half with a piece of cardboard cut to size. I used fondant icing for the decorations and sugar and food coloring for the grass.
This mushroom cake I made for my 2 daughters birthday at preschool. The idea was from a birthday cake cook book.It was very easy to make. I used two different Pyrex bowls and for the icing I used buttercream. The cakes are chocolate cakes. I then colored coconut green so that the grass would like … Read more
I made the cake itself with Pyrex bowls from a homemade cake recipe. When baking them make sure you bake at a low temp for longer so you dont burn the outside of the cake while the middle is still under cooked. I “drew” on some tinfoil with melted baker’s chocolate for the door and … Read more
This party was a fairy themed party for my 8 year old daughter. I was inspired by cakes I found online. I had never worked with fondant before, but in enlisted the help of my 13 year old daughter, and we had so much fun together creating this Toadstool Birthday Cake, much like playing with … Read more
This cake was made for my son (turning 3) and my daughter (turning 4) whos birthday’s fall near each other. I wanted a homemade cake recipe to do with fairies for my daughter and my son liked bugs. So I combined the two ideas and formed a critter/toadstool birthday cake for the two.My mother baked … Read more
This Fairy Toadstool Birthday Cake is from Debbie Brown’s “50 Easy Party Cakes” book. It starts from 2 x 1 liter bowl cakes. Basically you put one bowl upside down on top of the other bowl, trimming to the desired shape. Buttercream, then rolled icing is used to decorate. Little fairies are made out of … Read more
This homemade cake recipe was quite easy, just time consuming (arent they all!?). I hired 2 Dolly Varden cake tins. The larger one, I used for the top of the toadstool, but just cut the pointy end off the cake to get the shape I needed. And I just leveled the cake with a sharp … Read more
I made this Tinkerbell And Toadstool Cake from homemade sponge (made from fresh ingredients not packet mix). I started with a bowl shaped sponge then cut it in half for the toadstool top. The other half of the sponge I used for the toadstool stump. I then coloured some fondant to a light brown and … Read more
I made this toadstool cake for my seven year old niece. The base and roof were cooked in bowls of the same shape (no need for cutting). Roof was on a board, which was held in place by royal icing with skewers in base to carry the weight. All icing was fondant, coloured and cut … Read more
I used one 9″ round cake for this Mushroom Birthday Cake and frosted the sides white (I frosted over the top edge just a little bit too). Then I frosted the top green. Frost two standard cupcakes and one jumbo cupcake, stems white and tops red. Place onto back end of cake with the jumbo … Read more
For my daughter Kaeli’s 3rd birthday she saw the cover of the Woman’s Weekly Cake book in the newsagent and said THIS ONE MUM. So we did it and made her a Toadstool Birthday Cake. I used 3 Green’s buttercake packets and cooked two sizes in pudding steamers. I turned one upside down and used … Read more
I made this Dora Mushroom Cake for my niece. She is a big Dora fan but I wanted to do something different from the usual character cake. The stalk of the toadstool is choc biscuit cake made in pudding bowl and the cap is choc sponge made in large Pyrex bowl. I then covered stalk … Read more