My best friend asked me to make a “simple” birthday cake for her little girl’s birthday. So I decided to get my sister involved and whip up a Red Velvet Octopus cake with the works. My favorite part about making the cake would have to be the detail. Like the tentacles with their little suction cups or … Read more
I made this purple Octopus birthday cake fir my husband’s baby sister’s first birthday. It was a rainbow cake. Unfortunately the pic isn’t the best but you can kinda see. It was such fun to make the cake batter. First I made my cake by separating the batter into 6 bowls and made colored batter, pink, purple, yellow, blue and a darker purple. Then I … Read more
I make this Octopus and Pirate birthday cake for my son’s 1st birthday. The original idea I got from the internet. I forgot the artist’s name, and I make the 3D base on the picture with some little changes so it can work with gum paste and fondant, and its my first octopus cake. I was try to … Read more
This octopus cake is basically a slab cake (chocolate cake mix), topped with regular icing, then with marshmallow fondant tinted blue-green. I put a half-ball of chocolate cake (from a mold, it needed to be trimmed a bit to keep the proportion) on top of the slab cake, put a large skewer through it to … Read more
This Under The Sea Cake is a cake topper for my cupcake stand. The theme of the baby shower was “under the sea”. The cupcakes had various sea creatures including lobsters, fish, octopi, coral and sea grass. The topper is a six inch round cake covered in fondant. The head is a round of rice … Read more
This super-easy octopus cake was a huge hit at my son’s 1st Birthday party. My son loves watching the fish in the fish tank so I chose an under-the-sea theme. I purchased the cake pan from Williams Sonoma but decided to simplify the design on the package a bit. I used regular cake mix baked … Read more
I made this Giant Octopus Birthday Cake Idea for my three year old son’s 3rd Birthday. It was an “Under the Sea” party. It was my second attempt at making a cool cake, he’s second birthday being the first. It’s super easy to make. You need a large round cake for the head, any size … Read more
This Octopus cake was for a friend’s birthday. We call him “The Octopus” thus the cake design. The body was made with a domed cake pan. Chocolate with whipped cream inside. The “legs” were cut from 9in. cake pans using a stencil I drew freehand. You can get 4 legs per cake. Remember to freeze … Read more
This Pink Octopus Birthday Cake is Anastasia’s first birthday cake! This was my second attempt at fondant, marshmallow fondant to be exact. I used the recipe from the Wilton website and made two different batches. The one batch I dyed all pink since I knew I would need so much, as the legs are all … Read more
The octopus on the Octopus Island Birthday Cake is created using gum paste and was hard to make just by going on pictures from others that I had seen. This was the third or fourth one made at that. The island the octopus is on was a half of the Wilton Sports Ball pan covered … Read more
We made this Homemade Octopus Cake for a school cake raffle. We got this awesome idea on our own. We used a pan that is for a basketball for the body and then Twinkies for the tentacles. It turned out really well! The body was made with a pan that is used for sports (basketball, … Read more
For my son’s 1st birthday we decided to go with an ocean theme. I wanted to start a tradition of making fun and original homemade cakes for my kids. We have a rather large family so we needed a cake that would feed at least 25 people. I thought cupcakes would also be an easy … Read more
For my son’s 1st birthday I went with an under the sea theme. I first found the plates and party decorations that I wanted to use and from there I came up with the Homemade Giant Octopus Birthday Cake. I used a Wilton 12×2 pan for the bottom layer, a Wilton 10×2 pan for the … Read more
I made this cake because my daughter wanted a octopus cake for her Tiki birthday party. It was actually very easy. I made: 1 large round cake 1 medium round cake 2 jumbo muffin size cakes I cover the bottom layer with icing and then fondant. I lightly buttered the fondant and sprinkled brown sugar … Read more
Thanks for all the tips from this site! I used them heavily. Since, I’m not a baker more and creator, I ordered the bottom cake (square ocean form) from Whole Foods, white sheet cake covered with buttercream! I know cheating, right? But so I could totally focus on the design; I made the fondant recipe … Read more
I made this Octopus Garden Birthday Cake after seeing all of the ideas on this site. I’ve not made many cakes and this was the first time I’d tried fondant so I was very surprised that it turned out so well. The fondant recipe is 1 cup of mini marshmallows melted for 20 sec in … Read more
Two months ago I made a birthday cake for my brother. I was confused on what I’m gonna give to him as a present. Since he never got any birthday cakes from me before, I thought why don’t I give it a shot! So, I did this octopus cake. It’s a two tiers cake, the … Read more
I made this Homemade Ocean Birthday Cake Design for my son’s 1st birthday. His name is Kai, which means Ocean, so I thought this was an appropriate theme. It was fun to make and I learned a lot along the way. This is only the 4th cake that I’ve done using fondant. I started about … Read more
I couldnt find a round sports pan to use for the head so I bought a 5″ half-sphere pan and baked one half of the head then did that another time for the other half and glued them together with frosting. It didn’t come our perfectly round but worked out alright. I just used an … Read more
For the octopus cake I used a large rectangular sheet pan. I made 2 cakes and filled them with a chocolate mousse. I also made a 3rd batch of cake mix and poured it in a glass mixing bowl to get a dome shape for the octopus to sit on, as well as some cupcake … Read more
I used a traditional birthday cake recipe for this layer cake and a batch of cupcakes. I also baked a full custard cup to create the head of the Octopus (it sort of overflowed into a nice rounded top). “Ocean” – I frosted the cake as usual with white frosting (the best part is that … Read more
I made this Octopus Baby Shower Cake for my niece’s 1st baby shower. The theme for the shower was “Under the Sea with Baby and Me!” A cute rolled fondant octopus cake was the inspiration to this cute little fellow. Never having worked with fondant before, I used buttercream icing. I baked 3 cakes with … Read more
I used this birthday cake recipe for my friends son’s first birthday. He carries a stuffed orange octopus and she asked me to come up with an idea for an octopus cake. Here it is, and it really was simple to make! For this Octopus birthday cake recipe, I used the Wilton round 3D sports … Read more
I made this Octopus Birthday Cake for my son’s 1st birthday. It was an under the sea theme. The base was 2 9 inch rounds stacked, doweled and covered in fondant. Then I added the circled cut out of fondant. For the octopus I baked it in the Wilton ball pan. Then frosted, doweled and … Read more