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!
My son is really keen on sea life – particularly sharks and he wanted a shark cake for his birthday. I couldnt find one in any of my recipe books so I thought I’d make my own from a shark picture! I made two large rectangular Madeira cakes, sandwiched them together with buttercream and jam … Read more
My son loves sharks, so I browsed the shark cakes on this site and got my inspiration. I also looked at the pirate ship cakes and combined two ideas I liked. The boy on the raft is meant to be my son. My son insisted on seeing all of the shark’s body. I made the … Read more
I was determined to find a way to create the best shark cake ever for my son’s 5th birthday. Since I see this is not something that can be purchased, I plotted and planned, and checked out the cakes on this site to ‘borrow’ ideas. I found a Williams-Sonoma football trophy pan that would create … Read more
At school last year I made a sponge cake and decided to use the recipe to make a cake because I was bored. Sharks and Killer whales are my fave animals so I decided to make a Shark Cake. I looked at some other sharks on this site but didn’t really like any of them, … Read more
I used Stephanie Es shark picture on how to prepare the cake! This is a red velvet 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 the round pan. I drew the shark design on … Read more
I made this homemade shark birthday cake for my nephew’s 8th birthday! The cake is two 9-inch round cakes. I used Duncan Hines chocolate fudge mix and the frosting is homemade buttercream. The shark is made of marshmallow fondant, this was my first time working with fondant. I’m not sure how well I like using … Read more
This Shark birthday cake was a simple 9×13 cake using a box mix. One can of blue frosting, then piped on homemade cream cheese frosting for the shark. I used mini marshmallows cut diagonally for the teeth and a chocolate chip for the eye. Added some green licorice for seaweed, Swedish fish, gummy turtles, and … Read more
This Homemade Shark Jumping Out of the Water Cake was made with 3 boxes of white cake mix. One box was used for the water (base) in a square cake pan. The other two cake mixes were baked in a large glass measuring/mixing pitcher to make the shark. The pitcher was too large for the … Read more
My son Simon is obsessed with Bruce the shark from Finding Nemo so I thought Id try to do a shark cake for his 3rd birthday. I saw another shark cake on this site and overall my cake is quite similar however I used a different shark picture. It was a rough drawing of a … Read more
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