Birthday cakes don’t get better than this for Rapunzel fans! Decorated by The Green Bakery, this cake uses buttercream, fondant and edible jewels to transform a basic Dolly Varden cake into one of Disney’s most-loved heroines. The only thing missing is Pascal! All dressed up and ready for the ball, these adorable Dolly Varden princess creations by Burnt Butter Cakes make beautiful use of buttercream icing. With no fondant in sight, all you need to make something similar is a pasty bag and the right piping tips for the rosettes. Just don’t forget the sprinkles! But even if the top isn’t perfectly flat once it comes out of the oven, don’t worry. The top actually forms the base of the cake and you’ll likely need to level it to sit perfectly flat on your cake board anyway. How to decorate a Dolly Varden cake Made with lace, layers and obviously a lot of love, this masterpiece has a strawberry swirl and ganache centre – so it’s pink from the inside all the way out. It’s such a beautiful idea for princess-themed birthdays and lovers of all things pink. Surprisingly there doesn't seem to be a shark shaped cake pan available but Wilton gives this fantastic tutorial on how to use a football shaped pan to create a super cute shark! What a clever use of a football pan that takes the carving out of it if you're just not feeling up to the challenge. Little Timmy or Sally will be just as impressed!

The imagination is the limit when it comes to decorating Dolly Varden cakes. Take inspiration from the famous Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book and try your hand at a marshmallow dress. Or, use rolled fondant icing to create a billowing gown fit for a princess. This work of art by Taylor Made Gourmet highlights the importance of layers when it comes to creating fullness in Dolly Varden dresses. Complete with lace, a white pettiskirt and beautiful waist-tie, it’s that little bit of magic every birthday deserves. From a multi-award-winning cake maker and artist comes a cake that Beauty and The Beast fans will never forget. Of course, the masterful Verusca Walker has added details that involve a great deal of skill, but the design goes to show what’s possible with plenty of yellow fondant and a Belle doll. Every month during the warmer weather, we host a movie night. I go all out with the menu, creating foods and desserts to fit the theme. I also like to include an interactive activity as well. Lastly, it would’t be a themed dinner without some matching decor. The Movie We of course have to start off by showing our very own shark cake that's a tutorial available to Premium and Elite Sugar Geek Show Members! It features a gravity defying design, sculpting, painting, a unique gelatin layer on top of the cake for the "water" look and so much more!

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The design of this cake is fantastic and it certainly has a lot of sharks! A great mix of scary and cute. I love the 2D scene throughout the tiers and I think rounded cake edges really lend well to water themed cakes. www.sandramongercakes.co.uk Fun Fact, I recently read an article that one of the child actors from the movie is now the real police chief of the town the movie took place in. You can read more about that here. The Food

We’ve carefully curated a spectacular list of birthday cakes for you to pore over and take some inspiration from. But first, let’s take a closer look at what makes the Dolly Varden cake just so special. Dolly Varden Cake – Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book I love the 2D shark on this cake! So well done and super artistic. It looks like a mixture of modeling, painting and piping to create the look which is brilliant! The life saver adds a cute touch and you can never have too much cookie crumb sand on beach themed cakes. www.cakecentral.com It's Shark Week and there is no shortage of awesome shark cakes on the webs to celebrate. I've compiled s0me shark cakes from cute to creepy to honor this epic week. Whether you're fascinated by sharks or frightened, I think everyone can agree these cakes are killer! (The good kind). Shark Cake Tutorial Using the main Jaws image for inspiration, I made this double barrel vanilla cake. Of course it is vegan. I printed out the jaws logo for the top with my silhouette machine as well. It is probably my favorite dessert for the night. Shark Cupcakes A Dolly Varden cake is distinctively cone-shaped and incredibly versatile. With a little imagination and plenty of icing, home cooks can transform the basic cake into anything from heroines in flowing gowns to the busiest beehives! Basically, if you can dream it, you can do it with a Dolly Varden tin. And as mums ourselves, we’d go so far as to say that a Dolly Varden cake tin is a must-have for the preschool years.

From perfect princesses to extraordinary volcanos, a Dolly Varden cake is the answer to spectacular birthdays inspired by their favourite things. Creating this shark watermelon can be a bit of a challenge. However, it is totally worth it. Cutting out the shark teeth is probably the hardest part! You can fill it with whatever kinds of fruit you like. The Activities My shark cakepops are a little rough, but still so cute You would think that I was hosting a child’s birthday party, but nope. This is all for us crazy adults. The cakepops are made of a vegan white chocolate and filled with a yummy vanilla cake mixture. Shark Watermelon There are cakes, and then there are Cake Lady Cakes! The handpainted detail that has gone into this stunning Bollywood dress is really something else. Right down to the lace shawl and jewellery, it’s picture perfect. If you’d rather leave something this intricate to the professionals and happen to be based in Sydney, do yourself a favour and get in touch with the ever-talented Liz. This showstopper takes party tables to all new levels! Designed by Annie’s Cupcakes in Canberra, it involves a buttercream-topped dolly varden cake smothered with macarons, iced biscuits and waffle cones. Obviously, a huge amount of work has gone into the decorations of this one, but if you want to try something similar, you could always look for ready-made candies and lollies in whatever colour scheme you like.

You can’t have a party without dessert, and dessert is my specialty. So, I always tend to go overboard with the sweets. However, it’s literally what I do for a living. I will start with my favorite treat first! Jaws Cake How cute is this cake? It's a super fun design and I especially love all the extra shark fins in the waves. The life savers also seem particularly well done, don't they? www.pinkcakebox.com A shark cakethatis sure to impress and might even motivate you to take a stab at making one of your own!Next you will bake your football cakes and allow them to cool. Then you will mark out the mouth and pipe in all the details with Wilton piping tips. Number 17 for the body, number 352 for the teeth, a 1A for the eyeballs if you didn't make them out of fondant or gum paste and a number 3 for the mouth and pupils.