Take a look at these cool homemade Surfing 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 daughter’s 10 birthday was in August 2011 and Soul Surfer the movie had just come out and she LOVED the movie so she wanted her birthday cake to be a “Soul Surfer Cake”. I am not an artist by any means so trying to picture how to do a surf board birthday cake was … Read more
My son wanted a surfer themed birthday cake this year, and I decided to try my hand at it myself. The cake is a Pillsbury box mix prepared as directed except I added a box of chocolate instant pudding mix to the batter. I made the cake a few days in advance, wrapped it in … Read more
For this surfing cake, the huge wave was made out of gum tex that is let dry over a bottle. You can pick it up at your local craft store in the cake decorating section. The birthday cake decorations: surfer, towels, feet, and shark are fondant. The tree is a pretzel rod.
This Wave Birthday Cake was very fun to make but fiddley to ice. I baked one round cake and one rectangle sheet cake. To be a little more creative I made the batter half chocolate and half vanilla and swirled it through. I used a vanilla frosting and iced half the rectangle cake and put … Read more
I made this surfboard cake for a graduation party. Five kids from our church were all graduating from high school and going away to college at Point Loma. We had a great beach party for them to celebrate. One of the kids was my nephew. I had Brenton find a picture of a surfboard on … Read more
This Surfing birthday party cake was my first real cake for my son’s 5th birthday. The party was a surf theme so we made some life-size painting of surf boards for our humble abode, had 40+ people over, and I made this out of 3 Betty Crocker ‘super-moist’ boxes of cake mix, chocolate, yellow and … Read more
This cake was for a birthday party with a Hawaiian surfer theme. It is two 11×15 layers of chocolate cake and a thin layer of buttercream frosting covered in crushed vanilla wafers (sand). I simply ran thru my food processor and pressed into the frosting. The wave is a block of Styrofoam; I carved it … Read more
This was a cake I did for my son Max’s 7th birthday. The large wave is actually styrofoam covered in frosting, as there was no way I could get cake to stay up so high without it falling over! All other elements are made of gumpaste or rolled fondant and are edible. The little boy … Read more
This surfing cake was a neighbour’s grandson who loves the beach and surfing. Just a 9″ round double layer cake with pudding in the center of the cake and homemade buttercream icing.
I wanted to make something different for my son and his girlfriend whose birthdays are the day after each other. They both enjoy surfing so I looked through many pictures online and came up with my own version of a surfers cake, including my son’s girlfriend being upside down in the waves ( which she … Read more
This surfboard cake was made for a water themed birthday party for my son’s 6th birthday. If you look hard you can see the “6” in the surfboard symbol. I made 2 9×13 cakes- 1 chocolate and 1 vanilla. I placed them end to end and carved them into a surfboard shape. I added detailing … Read more