Greetings from Australia. I came across this website last week which gave me some fantastic ideas for my daughter’s 7th birthday pool party cake. I took a few ideas from different cakes and came up with this Pool Party Jelly Cake: I baked a 22cm x 30cm slab cake using 2 packet mixes. I drew … Read more
I used two boxed cakes and baked them in 9×13 pans. I put them one on top of the other then I hollowed out the top one to make room for the “pool”. I iced them lightly and then put them on the fridge for a few hours. I then lined the pool with foil … Read more
My 10 yr old daughter, Javan, designed and decorated this Fountain Cake on her own. I thought it turned out fabulous. The bottom is a square red velvet cake with tinted buttercream icing. The top layer is a 6 inch cake set in one corner, not centered. On the top she made a circle with … Read more
This Swimming Pool Birthday Cake was for my twin sons’ 6th birthday party, which was at our community pool. The cake is designed to look like that pool. I made it with 6-9×13 cakes (3 chocolate, 3 white) stacked side by side. The top layer was carved in the shape of the pool. I used … Read more
I created this cake for a co-workers daughter’s 4th birthday. I’ve made cakes in the past, but when she asked for a pool party… it seemed rather challenging. I made a full sheet cake and dug out a 2″ deep well for the pool. Icing the grass was tedious, but the effect looks great (#16 … Read more
I used this pool cake idea for my sons 2nd grade end of the year pool party. I searched for pool cakes and the best unique birthday cake idea I found was a pool cake made with Jello in the center. I was not sure how my son’s 2nd grade classmates would like Jello mixed … Read more
Our friends and I decided we were having a luau birthday party for our sons who were both turning one and I wanted something less girly than flowers or a sunset and that would be fairly simple to prepare (this Life Preserver Cake was my first homemade birthday cake). If you are using this for … Read more