Take a look at these cool homemade Shark 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!
This Homemade Shark Birthday Cake Idea is a composite of every shark cake on this site. Thank you all for such wonderful advice and tips and pictures. The coolest thing I discovered from this venture was that I can make virtually any shape, given enough cake. The early picture of the raw carving could be … Read more
My Shark Picture Birthday Cake has been made by “the cake shop”, at Grenoble, in France. This is a shop in which you can find everything possible for amazing cakes you want to do or you want them to do for you ! Indeed, I asked them to make me a birthday cake with the … Read more
I made this Homemade Jaws Shark Cake for my 20yr old nephew’s birthday. He loves movies and asked for the Jaws movie Poster as a cake. The cake is a chocolate cake which I made in a large roasting tin. I wanted the actual shark to be the cake so I used fondant icing on … Read more
This shark is copied from shark pictures. It was for my sons 5th birthday. This cake was drawn completely free hand. The teeth were made out of nuts. I can’t remember what kind but I looked at all the packages and picked out the kind that most resembled teeth. I picked through the nuts for … Read more
My friends and I love throwing theme parties for B movies and this is a cake of my favorite scene from “Mega Shark VS Giant Octopus”. It’s a 2 layer 9″ round vanilla cake coloured blue. I cut out the middle of the top layer of the cake to allow for the “water” to be … Read more
This Shark Birthday Cake was for my husband’s 25th birthday. We had a big party, at least a hundred people, and this fed them all. I baked a total of 6 13×9 cake, half vanilla and half chocolate. I stacked them on a prepared board, 3 end to end, then topped the first two with … Read more
I had a request for a ‘3D’ shark cake for a cousin’s 4th birthday. This was made with the Wilton football and a regular 13×9 pan. The shark is 2 football cakes with strawberry filling. All the frosting is Wilton recipe buttercream (about 2 1/2 batches). The shark was decorated per the instructions on the … Read more
A baker I am not. My son wanted a shark cake and I could not find a shark picture to make this cake. This is a cake out of a box. I used a sheet pan and a round pan. I cut the shark shape out of the sheet cake and the fins out of … Read more
I made this shark cake for my son’s 5th birthday. I used a regular boxed mix and made two 9in circles. After placing them on top of one another, I cut out the opening for the sharks mouth. Use these pieces for the fins. I used white icing for the teeth and just tinted white … Read more
My nephew is into sharks right now and loves Jaws so I decided to make him a Sharks World Birthday Cake. My niece is taking classes right now so I asked for her help. We had 4 13 X 9 cakes and filled it with Bavarian crème filling. For the shark head we used a … Read more
I made this Shark Eating Person Birthday Cake for my 5 year old grandson using ideas from this site. I had problems with sharks teeth as fondant icing was too soft so I hunted around and found Dolly Mixtures. I cut off the colored part and shaped the tooth and wedged them in with butter … Read more
To make the cake I used the Wilton football-shaped pan and sandwiched two cakes together to give the shark a 3-D effect. I used 1 vanilla cake and 1 strawberry cake and it was really interesting when we cut into it! As you can see in the shark picture, the shark was covered in fondant … Read more