For my twin boy’s 6th birthday, they wanted a space theme, so I decided on a rocket cake. We had a big crowd coming, so I knew we could do something large and impressive. The cake requires a little bit of carpentry to get started. The cake is elevated on an 8-inch wood circle from … Read more
My solar system birthday cake started out small and grew really fast. It was fun to figure out the effects and special characters. I used poured sugar, cake, cake balls, candy and a ton of time to create a cake a young boy would love. All the planets are made of different sized cake balls. … Read more
This homemade Little Einstein Rocket cake was made using a chocolate mud cake. A 10″ round pan was used to make the base of the rocket, which I then just shaped using a serrated knife. A round Pyrex dish was used for the top. I then covered the entire cake with red fondant. Blue and … Read more
I made this Little Einstein Rocket Birthday Cake for my son on his second birthday. He LOVES the Little Einsteins and it was impossible to find a Little Einsteins cake from a store anywhere. I got the idea from a website that had some similar rocket cakes and I took a little from some and … Read more
My 4 year old son decided he must have a rocket birthday cake for his birthday party, after looking in vain for a shop one I turned to the net for inspiration. I picked ideas from here and there resulting in this rocket cake which my little boy absolutely loved. Second time lucky as his … Read more
The theme for the party was the Little Einsteins cartoon. For the Little Einsteins cake I used a Betty Crocker dome pans to make the top of the rocket ship and the bottom pan to make a small circular pie shape for the bottom of the ship. Iced the top and bottom red and iced … Read more
My son wanted to have a science/space themed birthday party at our local science museum for his 8th birthday. He wanted a planet cake that was not from our solar system. Schedule: Day one: baked the cakes, filled and crumb coated them. (put in refrigerator) Day two: covered cakes in fondant and painted the planet. … Read more
I had a lot of help with this Homemade Spaceship to the Moon Cake from my mum, who provided all the equipment and helped with some ideas of how to put the cake together. I wanted to make a cake to celebrate my partner’s 60th birthday. Nick has always been a spaceflight enthusiast, and was … Read more
My daughter’s birthday is the day before Earth Day, so she decided to have an Earth Day Birthday party (complete with garbage walk!). Her idea for her cake was to have a turtle with the earth as its shell. This cake was designed to include her sister’s fairy theme for a combined party so I … Read more
I used a large glass mixing bowl and a 8″ cake pan for this Little Einsteins Cake. Placed the dome cake on top of the 8″ cake and iced it red. The wings of the space ship are iced Twinkies. I then used dots to make the ship’s lights. The picture of the kids is … Read more
My three year-old wanted a Little Einstein’s Red Rocket birthday cake. Like many others on this site, I searched for a Red Rocket cake pan and a store that could create one. When all routes failed, my husband and I ended up creating our own cake. We used 1 9×13 pan for the sky. We … Read more
I used one package of cake mix to make one loaf cake and one cupcake. After baking and cooling, I froze them both for easy handling and cutting. I sliced off the top two corners of the loaf cake, and rotated them to make the rocket fins. The cupcake became the rocket booster. I used … Read more