Your Kids Novelty Birthday Cakes

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Girls Dirt Cake with Pretty Flowers 
I started with chocolate cake mix, chocolate pudding, cool whip and Oreo cookies. Prepare cake as directed when cake is cool get ready to layer. I used ...

Princess Castle Cake 
To make this Princess Castle Cake, I made three round Victoria Sponges each a different size. Cut each in half and Spread buttercream and jam in the middle ...

Carnival Tent Cake 
This made out of 2 - 4", 8", 10" round cakes stacked on top of each other. These are all covered with fondant.

I made the top out of a paper cone....

Spiderman Cake 
This Spderman Cake is made with 4 9" round cakes.

Stack 3 of the cakes together. Cut the last round cake in quarters. Put 2 of the quarters together ...

Cow jumped over a Star 
The cake was made in two sections. I had a friend make an allergy free cake, while I made a chocolate mud cake.

Store bought fondant was used and I ...

1st Birthday Cake 


I love teddy bears.

Elmo Face Cake 
1) Bake (or purchase) a round cake. Cream & jam in centre if desired.

2) Trim slightly to make oval.

3) Cover in red icing and red sprinkles....

Wiggles cake 
1) I cheated & bought two pre-made sponges from the shops. I put jam & cream inside them.

2) Putting the cakes together with some jam, I mixed up ...

Dorothy The Dinosaur Cake 
1) I baked a simple cake in an oblong cake tin.

2) I trimmed a little at the top of the "head".

3) I printed off a Dorothy mask from the Wiggles ...

Dorothy the Dinosaur Cake 
Hi there, My little girl just adores Dorothy the Dinosaur, so for her 2nd birthday, I made her a Dorothy cake.

I did cheat and brought a slab from a ...

Princess Cake 
to make this Princess Cake, I used my ring cake pan for the dress and a small pyrex mixing bowl to bake the top part of the dress in.

Royal icing ...

Dorothy The Dinosaur Cake 
To make this DOrothy The Dinosaur Cake...First, find a picture of Dorothy the Dinosaur then photocopy it to the size of the cake you want. Cut out the ...

Boots Cake 


My daughter is in LOVE with Boots from Dora the Explorer and she loved it when I made her this Boots Cake.

I spent 5 hours one night baking 5 ...

ELMO CAKE 


I had to bake an Elmo Cake for my son's second birthday because he was so crazy, I mean crazy about Elmo. He knows how to sing the songs, and always ...

Noddy Cake 
I made this Noddy Cake for my daughter's 2nd birthday.

I baked a chocolate round cake and covered it with chocolate buttercream icing. I decorated ...

Horse Cake 
I baked this Horse Cake for my daughter's birthday - as she loves horses!

I baked two 9"x13" plain vanilla cakes for this horse. One was used for the ...

Clown Cake 
I made this Clown cake for my daughter's recent birthday.

I baked a round cake and covered with chocolate icing. I also put a few 100 & 1000s sprinkles ...

Christening Cake 
I made this Christening Cake for my nephew's baptism.

I covered a baked square cake with white fondant icing and piped buttercream icing around the ...

Double Heart Cake 
I made this double Heart Cake for my twins' 1st Birthday.

It was quite easy, really. I used heart-shaped baking tins and baked two cakes. I cut a ...

Ballerina Cake 
For this ballerina cake, use a heart-shaped baking tin - or if you're game, cut the heart shape from a round cake (best to use a tin, me thinks).

Cover ...

Pool Cake 
This pool cake was made using two cakes - one round and one square. The 'fencing' was made using chocolate fingers. Blue jelly worked nicely as 'water'...

Bob the Builder and Truck Cake 
My Bob the Builder Cake. This was my first one!!!! So proud. Should have seen the looks on everyones faces it was worth it.

There are mars bars hidden ...

Puppy Cake 
A Puppy Cake using a couple of circles cakes then iced with yellow coloured icing and chocolate icing

The Puppy's face was decorated with licorice strips ...

Olivia's Caterpillar Cake 
My daughter wanted a Caterpillar cake for her 3rd birthday and I couldn't find a design anywhere, so I made up my own!
The "eaten leaf" cake board is ...

Daniel's Football Cake 
My son Daniel recently turned 6 years old and asked for a Football Cake. He loves playing football (Aussie Rules) and barracks for the Fremantle Dockers....

Harry's Pirate Ship Cake 
I made this Pirate Ship Cake for my son Harry's 4th birthday recently. We had a Pirate Party theme and it was a huge hit.

The cake was easy and ...

High School Musical Cake 
To make our High School Musical Cake, we decided to used the edible image and just decorate the rest.

Sewing Cake 
I made this Sewing Cake by baking a square vanilla cake.

I covered the cake using white fondant icing and decorated around the bottom edges with piped ...

Box of Chocs Cake  Not rated yet
This Box of Chocs Cake made using a Victoria Sponge cake.

Cut out a thin, round piece of rolled out icing for the top, then roll a longer, thicker rectangular ...

Heart Cake  Not rated yet
This Heart Cake was made with two sponge cakes cut into heart shapes and filled with cream and jam then decorated with dyed roll-out icing.

Age 3 Heart Cake  Not rated yet
This Age 3 Heart Cake was made with two chocolate cakes, cut into a heart shape using a card template and sandwiched together with homemade choc-fudge ...

Spongebob Cake  Not rated yet
To make this Spongebob Squarepants Cake I used a basic sponge cake recipe, filled with cream and jam.

To decorate, I coloured white roll-out icing to ...

Princess Cake  Not rated yet
This Princess Cake was made with three chocolate sponges, 1 10" tin, 1 8" tin and a pudding bason that will go into the oven.

Cut all three cakes in ...

Number 8 Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
For my daughter's 8th birthday.

I made two round cakes and cut a hole out the middle of each cake and decorated it with flowers.

Bratz Cake  Not rated yet
I made this Bratz Cake for my niece's 7th birthday and everyone loved it.

First I found a picture/colouring in picture I wanted to use and I printed ...

Batman Cake for my son's 7th birthday  Not rated yet
This Batman Cake was alot of fun to make and very simple - it did take me about 3 hours.

I used round cake pans and let them cool down before I frosted ...

Number 8 Cake   Not rated yet


I made this Number 8 Cake by making two victoria sandwhiches in round tins. I then cut out the holes on the middle by cutting around a glass. I then ...

Thomas the Train Engine Cake  Not rated yet
This Thomas the Train Engine Cake is one of my most popular cakes. I made this for my nephew's 2nd birthday.

I baked a 1/2 sheet cake and a 9 inch ...

Butterfly Cake  Not rated yet
For this Butterfly Cake I made 2 half slab butter cakes and cut out 2 wing shapes from them and a long skinny oval piece for the body.

I used butter ...

Disney Cars Cake  Not rated yet
This is how I made this Cars Cake: I first bought the pan from ebay and then made a sponge cake recipe that has been in my family for years.

After ...

Pirate Ship Cake  Not rated yet
Start baking Victoria Sponde Cake squares x 4. Sandwich together with heated jam or confectioners cream.

Cut the shape of the front by cutting the ...

Princess Castle Cake  Not rated yet
I started this Princess Castle Cake by baking loads of victoria sponge cakes of various sizes , filling with vanilla butter frosting and heated jam.

I ...

Planet Earth and Space Rocket Cake  Not rated yet
I made a victoria sponge cake mix and baked two halves in a pudding bowl. Then stuck two halves together with vanilla butter frosting. With blue food ...

Zac's Train cake  Not rated yet
Our oven was on the blink! So we made this train cake out of lamingtons - scooped out the top of each carriage & put in lollies, and joined each carriage ...

Steve Irwin Cake  Not rated yet
To make this Steve Irwin Cake, I made a round chocolate cake mix, then covered the cake in yellow butter cream. The outside are chocolate stick biscuits ...

Lightning McQueen Cake  Not rated yet
To make this Lightning McQueen cake I used a basic buttercake mix and two long cakes.

I think cut it to make a No.4 shape, covered it in bright red ...

Airplane Cake  Not rated yet
Ok so this is the first time I've had to make an airplane cake but I make my kids birthday cakes every year and since I have four kids I have a lot of ...

Fire Engine Cake  Not rated yet
I used my son's toy fire engine as a 'model' to get some ideas for decorating this Fire Engine Cake.

The white ladder and bumper was made out of white ...

Pirate Treasure Chest Cake 2  Not rated yet
To make this Pirate Treasure Chest Cake, I baked the cake in the oven roasting pan, cut it in half and decorated it with all sorts of candy jewellery and ...

Mouse Cake  Not rated yet
To make this Mouse Cake, I first baked a heart shaped sponge cake and another small one.

After cooling the small cake I put it overnight in the freezer ...

Fairy Toadstool Cake 2  Not rated yet
This Fairy Toadstool Cake was my first real attempt at making a birthday cake, and being my fourth and final child's 1st birthday I thought it was about ...

Thomas the Tank Engine Cake  Not rated yet
I made this Thomas the Tank Engine Cake for my son's 2nd birthday.

I baked a chocolate cake using a round cake tin.

I decorated the cake using chocolate ...

Number 10 Cake  Not rated yet
I baked this Number 10 Cake in the shape of a 'Hopscotch' for my daughter's Tenth Birthday.

I baked a vanilla 9"x13" oblong cake and cut small squares ...

Thunderbirds Spaceship Cake  Not rated yet
I made this Thunderbirds Spaceship Cake for my son's 4th birthday.

I baked a chocolate cake using a cylindrical shaped cake tin.

I covered the cake ...

Number 7 Cake  Not rated yet
I made this Number 7 cake for my daughter's seventh birthday.

I baked a vanilla cake using a 9"x13" oblong cake tin.

I cut the cake into two shapes ...

Racecourse Cake  Not rated yet
I baked this Racecourse Cake for my daughter's third birthday.

I baked a chocolate cake in a round tin with a hole in the middle. I also baked another ...

Madeline Cake  Not rated yet
I made this Madeline Cake for my daughter's 5th birthday.

I baked a round chocolate cake and covered with chocolate buttercream icing. I stuck chocolate ...

Golf Cake  Not rated yet
I made this Golf Cake by baking a fruit cake in a square pan.

Before I iced the cake, I cut a small hole in the corner of the cake - for the golf ball ...

Football Cake 2  Not rated yet
I baked this Football Cake for my son's 5th birthday.

I used two Dolly Varden cake tins to bake two chocolate cakes.

I stuck the two cakes together ...

Noah's Ark Cake  Not rated yet
I baked this Noah's Ark Cake for my son's 4th Birthday.

I baked a square chocolate cake and covered it with white fondant icing.

Still using fondant ...

Number 8 Cake  Not rated yet
I baked this Number 8 cake for my daughter's eighth birthday.

I baked two round chocolate cakes using round tins with holes in the middle.

I stuck ...

Easter Cake  Not rated yet
I made this Easter Cake by baking a round chocolate cake and covered it with chocolate buttercream icing.

I used extra icing to fluff it up on the top ...

Dinosaur Cake 2  Not rated yet
I made this Dinosaur Cake for my son Oscar's third birthday.

I baked a round chocolate cake for the base and covered with chocolate buttercream icing....

Train Cake 2  Not rated yet
I made this Train Cake for my twins' 5th birthday.

I used jam rolls for the trains and covered them with buttercream icing and decorated with various ...

1st Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
This First Birthday Cake was pretty easy. Just bake a 9"x13" cake and cut into the shape of a "1".

Use your imagination with decorating. This one ...

Number Four Cake  Not rated yet
This Number Four Cake was made by baking a 9"x13" rectangle cake and cutting into the shape of a "4".

You can decorate as you wish - this one was ...

Kitty Cake  Not rated yet
Use two round cakes for this Kitty Cake. Leave one round cake as it is for the kitty's head. Cut the ears from the second round cake.

After covering ...

Bunny Cake  Not rated yet
This Bunny Cake was made using two round cakes for the head and body. Bake a third round cake and cut the ear, paw and foot shapes from this cake. Ice ...

Teddy Bear Cake  Not rated yet
This Teddy Bear cake was made using a 9in x 13in rectangle cake, shaping with a knife around the edges to get the bear shape.

Smarties were used for ...

Dinosaur Cake  Not rated yet
This Dinosaur Cake was made from a round cake, cut to the shape of a dinosaur's head. The eye and nose were made with smarties.

Cut a triangular ...

Elephant Cake  Not rated yet
This Elephant Cake was made using one normal round cake (for the body) and one smaller round cake (for the head).

Using a ring cake, cut into sections ...

Shark Cake  Not rated yet
This shark cake was a big hit! Use 1 x 13" oblong cake for the body and one square cake for the extras (fins and tail).

Piece together the fins ...

Pirate Treasure Chest Cake  Not rated yet
This Pirate Treasure Chest Cake was made using an oblong cake (9x13in) cut in half. The 'hinged' end was kept in place using wooden skewers. It was then ...

Rocket Cake  Not rated yet
This Rocket Cake looks like it could truly take off! For a friend of my grandson.

Spiderman Cake  Not rated yet
The only shot, and a very bad one at that of the spiderman cake I made for my eldest Grandson.

Two squares.

Dora Cake  Not rated yet
Dora the Explorer Cake for my youngest granddaughter's 2nd birthday.

Round tin.

Fairy Toadstool Cake  Not rated yet
A Fairy Toadstool Cake for my youngest granddaughter's 1st birthday!

Pudding basins....

Bugs Bunny Cake  Not rated yet
It's a Bugs Bunny Cake.... using Round cakes, worked as I'd hoped..."What's up Doc?"

Racing Track Cake  Not rated yet
Not a bad Racing Track Cake at all! Two round ring cakes, white liquorice bullets and lots of jellie babies.

Train Cake  Not rated yet
Now here's a Train Cake worth writing about. Square cakes cut to size. The train is going over a bridge which I made out of cardboard covered with alfoil....

Bob the Builder Patty Cakes  Not rated yet
Little Bob the Builder patty cakes. My youngest grandson was turning two so we didnt need a lot of cake. This was one of my earlier efforts, you can ...

Batman Cake 1  Not rated yet
Batman Cake - using two Round cakes, Toblerone.

For my youngest Grandson.

Castle Cake  Not rated yet
A Castle Cake made with Lamingtons....had to have a practice run, much to my husband's pleasure.

For my eldest Grandson.

Australian Wildlife Cake  Not rated yet
For my Granddaughter

Australian Wildlife Cake using 1 Round cake. The fondant animals were new to me and challenging.

Pirate Face Cake  Not rated yet
A Pirate Face Cake - For my youngest grandson again.

Round cakes.

Buzz Lightyear Cake  Not rated yet
Buzz Lightyear Cake - Square and round cakes cut to size/fit.

For my youngest Grandson.

Butterfly Cake  Not rated yet
This is not a great picture of my Butterfly Cake unfortunately...Its a butterfly in profile. It's done using round cake tins.

For my Granddaughter....

Snakes and Ladders Cake  Not rated yet
Snakes and Ladders Cake anyone? Two squares, lots of lollies...

Jungle Cake  Not rated yet
A Jungle cake made with round cakes, flakes, those nuggety things are violet crumble or crunchies or something. They were meant to be rocks but there ...

Volcano Cake  Not rated yet
A Volcano Cake using a Pudding tin or Dolly Varden tin, Icing and LOTS of Crunchies....

I personally didn't quite like how it turned out, but my Granddaughter ...

Ninja Turtle Cake  Not rated yet
Ninja Turtle Cake - For my Grandson again. Circle Cake. I also use a separate small cake shape to place the candles on - I dont like to get wax on the ...

Snake Cake  Not rated yet
A Snake Cake for my Grandson.

Made out of ring cakes, iced and covered with lollies. Was easy to cut.

Hayley's Snake Cake  Not rated yet
My daughter Hayley turned 6 years old recently and as she was born in the year of the snake, she decided she wanted a Snake Cake!

The cake was pretty ...

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