I had just bought the soccer ball cake pan and had to try it out so I made a lady bug cake for my nieces 8th Birthday. I made the lady bug body from 1/2 of the soccer ball cake pan and the head out of a cupcake. I used Wilton red and black icing … Read more
For the larger ladybug cake I baked a sheet cake and a second cake in the larger Pampered Chef mixing bowl. We dyed icing green and dragged the icing up to make grass and of course used the pink icing for the ladybug and the black M&Ms for the embellishments.s for the embellishments.
I got lots of ideas from the web for this ladybug birthday cake and then tweaked it to be sort of whimsical for my very playful daughters 1st birthday. I didn’t have much money for supplies and fancy baking pans so I used two Devil’s food cake mixes in two glass bowls— one large and … Read more
The cake is a marble cake, dark brown is created by cocoa, honey, colour by coffee and pink/red colour by red food coloring and flavored with vanilla (hint: add more red than you think you need, even a very red mix cooks paler). The icing is buttercream which is easy to work with. The other … Read more
A friend of mine asked me to make a ladybug cake for her daughter who was about to turn one. Her directions were simple, that the cake have a ladybug theme. They call their little girl “Bug” so it seemed appropriate. I started brainstorming and with many stops by this website for inspiration and ideas, … Read more
This Ladybug cake was covered in fondant, the flowers are gum paste. The grass was fondant that was painted with food coloring gel, to look like grass!
I loved the bright colors on this Ladybug Birthday Cake! It was a 30th birthday cake for a friend and she wanted a ladybug. I got my ideas from this site and came up with this version. I used a 10inch round cake for the body and filled the cake pan a little fuller than … Read more
This is the homemade ladybug 3rd birthday cake idea I made for my granddaughter. I got my ideas from this site and from CakeCentral.com. The bottom tier is three 10 inch layers of chocolate fudge cake (all cakes were Betty Crocker cake mixes). The next tier is three 8 inch layers of yellow cake. The … Read more
We used 2 different sized round pans and cut the bigger one to have a flat bottom. This Homemade Red Ladybug Birthday Cake was for our daughter’s 2nd birthday. She loved it!
We call our daughter Bug so for her first birthday a Ladybug Birthday Cake Idea seemed to make sense. I had a 9” and 8” round cake pan so I bought a box cake mix and used both size pans. I also bought 2 cans of frosting and a set of 4 food color dyes. … Read more
My homemade Ladybug Birthday cake was brought to life by equally homemade marshmallow fondant! Not only did the marshmallow fondant taste delicious, but it was easy and fun to work with. All of the party guests were amazed and wanted to know where we had bought the cake. The look on their faces, when they … Read more
This ladybug cake was really easy to make. I used Wilton’s soccer ball cake to make the bodies, black licorice for antennas and to split the body. It took a lot of red dye to get the right color. For the grass I dyed coconut with green food coloring and added Oreos to the body … Read more