Take a look at these cool homemade Rocket 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!
My 2 year old really loves The Little Einsteins! And his favorite toy is the rocket so that is where I got inspired to make this Rocket Cake Design for his birthday. It was much easier than I anticipated. I used two boxes of Betty Crocker Butter Cake Mix. Baked two 9 inch rounds and … Read more
I made a cake mix in a large rectangle cake pan and after cooling it I cut the cake in half and turned the cake pieces long ways. Cut two triangles off the top corners to use for bottom. I have a candy store near to me that had gummy letters I could use for … Read more
My son is really into The Little Einsteins, so for his birthday my wife decided to have that as the theme. She bought all the party favors then looked for a cake pan. Well, she didn’t find one. So I studied the picture of Rocket and came up with an idea. We had two oval … Read more
I took two oval shaped pans, one larger than the other, made a Madeira cake (or pound cake). As soon as they were out of the oven I wrapped them in foil and cooled them, then placed them in the freezer overnight. I had pre-bought: 1kg of red regal icing (I’ve tried to make red … Read more
Well my son kept saying he wanted a rocket ship cake for his birthday. I found a couple of pictures for some and either the cake was just a drawing on a sheet cake or it was a cutout. I wanted something more 3 dimensional. The cake starts with 2-8 inch layers, then 2-6 inch … Read more
The coolest Rocked cake, should have been Barbie. I assumed that a Barbie cake would have been a suitable choice for my daughter, Tehillah’s 4th birthday. So, with Barbie in my mind I baked 4 layers of sponge cake. With the first recipe mix, I baked the first two layers in round pans. With the … Read more
I made this cake for a Boys 4th birthday. We had a model 5 cm high so I draw a picture of it then started with my cake from there. I made a slab of vanilla cake, put my drawing on it and cut it out. Then I made 2 quantities of frosting and started … Read more
My inspiration and planning for this Little Einstein’s rocket cake came entirely from the cakes I found on this website. For my son’s 2nd birthday, we did a Little Einstein’s theme. I loved the idea of the rocket cake but I have never made/decorated a cake in my life. I used the cakes from this … Read more
For my son’s 3rd birthday cake, he wanted Rocket from the Little Einsteins. I used 2 cake mixes to make 3 different cake shapes: one 9×13, one 8″ round cake, and the rest of the batter went into a glass batter-bowl for the dome-shape of rocket. I frosted the 9×13 cake in green to resemble … Read more
This rocket cake was made for my step-sons 6th birthday. Used chocolate, banana cake. Cut into shape and freeze to prevent crumbling during icing. Connect the pieces together using jam (jelly). Ice the nose, wings and base of the rocket green. Ice the main body of the rocket red. Cut out a circular photo of … Read more
It seems that four year olds love rockets and my twin grandsons are no exception. Thank you to everyone who contributed their rocket ship cakes to this site. Your ideas and suggestions were incredibly helpful. The Rocket Birthday Cake was created using a 9 X 13” pan and a 9” round pan. Two full batches … Read more
This was one of the most unique cakes I have ever made. It was my sons 1st birthday. The rocket cake was his while the rest of us shared the sheet cake. The rocket was made of stacked layers, w/icing in b/w as the glue. This was so tall I had to put a dowel … Read more