Summer Birthday Cake Ideas

50th Birthday Surf Theme Cake 
The 50th birthday surf theme cake was made for my partner who is a keen surfer. The man is a wooden doll and I covered him with fondant that had been coloured ...

Summer's Beauty 
The gazebo was designed by me after looking at many plans online for real gazebos. The roof is entirely made of gumpaste and "glued" together with royal ...

sunset beach 
make a plain or chocolate cake or even buy one cover it in white royal icing
dye some of the icing different colours make hawaiian flowers to go round ...

Sailboat Cake 
This was my first fondant cake. The toughest part was making the sail to show movement and not lie flat. I used different objects to prop it up in places ...

Beach/Ocean Cake 
1 tier (3 layers) of white cake with strawberry filling and 2 tiers of chocolate cake with chocolate filling. Decorated with blue buttercream, white piping,...

Ferris Wheel Cake 
The middle is a 10-inch round cake.

The baskets were made using Wilton's mini-loaf pan, and trimmed so they looked like they were attached to the wheel....

Grill Cake 
This is an 11"-18"-5" marble cake covered in gray iceing.There is a 2" rice krispies frame above the cake to give depth to the grill base. I then made ...

Mermaid Lagoon 
This was my First attempt at an all Foundant Cake.
My best friends daughter was having a Mermaid party.

This three layer cake, I used two white cake ...

Emmie' s Luau Cake 

Make a sheet cake.

Decorate with white icing.

Crush graham crackers for beach. Larger ones around the edge for boulders.

Spray icing spray ...

Seaside Birthday Cake 

Baked and frosted 2 layer 8 inch cake with blue tinted buttercream icing. Shells made out of white chocolate, sand made from crushed graham crackers,...

BuzzyBumbleBee 

I used an 8" round cake pan with one box of cake mix. I cooled it, leveled it, and then cut it in half. I iced one half on the side that was leveled ...

Water Park Cakes 
Water Park Cake Ideas: cool ideas for summer birthday cakes.

Surf's Up 

I made this cake for a friend’s husband, who was missing a bit of his youth.

I purchased the surfboards and candy rocks at my local cake supply ...

Mermaid Cupcake 
I made these mermaid cupcakes for my 3 year old grandaughter's birthday. About a week ahead of time I made mermaid cookies. I used a mermaid cookie cutter ...

The 1893 World's Fair Cake 
For this 1983 worlds fair cake , 2 weeks ahead of time I made the gumpaste figures and pieces. The fence, the lamp posts, ticket booth, plants and pots....

Summer Colors Cake 
This orange flower cake is my third cake since I began taking cake decorating classes. The cake on the inside is lemon and the top is fondant.

Under the Sea 
Sand is made from Crushed vanilla wafers, rocks are jelly beans, crab and lobster are made from jelly beans and M&Ms, seaweed is made from fruit roll ups,...

Summer Lovin' Cake 
This Summer Lovin' Cake was made of two layers of cake yellow and strawberry angel food and rice crispie treats on the bottom. Cone holes were cut then ...

My Beach House 
My beach house cake was put together by my six year old daughter Aundrea. It was made with no bake cake and that was put into sand castle molds from ...

Sand Castle Cake 

This cake took many different ingredients. It has three layers. I used buttercream icing. I coated the icing with vanilla wafers. I crushed them ...

Day at the Beach 



This was a chocolate cake (made with coffee, which adds super moisture and enhanced the chocolate flavor) with homemade chocolate pudding filling....

Lazy River Cake 
To make this lazy river cake , I used chocolate cake covered in buttercream. I made the kids, tubes, raft, ball and duck out of fondant. The rest is ...

swimming pool cake 
Swimming Pool Cake Decorating for Summertime Fun

Tranquil waters  Not rated yet
We made this cake as a surprise for a friends mother, she loves waterfalls, so we made her a real one for her birthday. We made our own fountain to recirculate ...

Flower Pot Cake   Not rated yet
I made this cake for my mother in law birthday. Its a vanilla sponge cake with vanilla buttercream. The flowers, insects and butterflies are all gumpaste....

fast swimmer head cake  Not rated yet
this was a fun one to make. my daughter swims competitively. all i can see is her swim cap when she competes. I am always yelling and cheering for ...

Berry Bonanza  Not rated yet


The cake was made with the theme of decorating it with fresh raspberries. The cake is covered with white butter cream icing and raspberries are ...

Happy Fishing  Not rated yet

I made this for my brothers 50th. He is a keen fisherman. I used standard buttercake mixes in a 13x9 cake tin and 2in deep. And for the boat I used ...

Chocolate Strawberry Fudge Cake  Not rated yet

I did this 3 tiered cake for a school fundraiser where they were going to auction off desserts. Each round tier was dark chocolate cake iced in chocolate ...

Fishing Father Cake  Not rated yet
The bottom cake of the fishing father cake is a sheet cake frosted in buttercream frosting. The shark is made with rice crispy treats & covered with ...

Flip-Flops & Bikini Cake  Not rated yet
I made this flip-flops & bikini cake for a co-worker's daughter, for her 14th birthday party. I was disappointed to find out that my grocery store didn'...

Watermelon Cake Ideas  Not rated yet
Watermelon cake ideas for fun, summer birthday parties and barbeques.