Looking for ideas of a simple dog birthday cake for kids? Here is one I made a while ago for my sister’s friend. She wanted me to make this cake to celebrate her daughter’s second birthday. This was one of the many cakes I have made for her and it is always a pleasure to bake and decorate for her as she truly appreciates my work.
Simple Dog Birthday Cake for Kids
I am guessing that the daughter must really like dogs that the mother requested for a dog-themed birthday cake. Anyhow, I for sure truly enjoyed decorating this cake. This was not the first dog-themed cake that I have decorated. I made a 2 tier cake with a dog topper and matching dog themed cupcakes for my niece’s first birthday and another one here, so this cake was the second dog themed birthday cake for me.
Simple Dog Birthday Cake for Kids - Decorating Guide
Main supplies for this birthday cake:
- Cake – this was a 9 inches round cake baked using my butter pound cake recipe.
- Buttercream – I used buttercream to fill the cake as well as to crumb coat it.
- Fondant - I used homemade fondant for this recipe and you can get the recipe here.
- Gum paste
- Wilton pink gel food color
- Flower plunger cutters – I used these to cut the tiny 5-petal flowers I placed on the border of the cake as well as the dog’s head.
- Round plunger cutter set – these were used to cut out the brown circles on the cake.
- Fondant shaping tools – These were used in shaping the dog topper.
- TAPPIT Funky Alphabet Cutters
- Round scalloped cutter set - I used this cutter to cut out the brown and pink scalloped round cutouts on which the dog topper was placed on the cake as well as where the number ‘2’ cut out was placed on the side of the cake.
- Sugar craft knife
- Fondant glue
And this is the decorating guide for this simple dog birthday cake for kids:
The edible dog cake topper
- I started by making the dog topper a few days in advance. The dog was made entirely of fondant. And I used my homemade fondant. The good thing about my homemade recipe is that it dries really nice and firm and does not require any CMC, even in a humid environment. And it sets pretty fast too so that makes it easier to assemble the dog.
- And so I set on making the dog, in a sitting position (sitting on all for legs). The dog itself was white and had one large brown spot on its back. Its face also had a large brown spot and the tail was in the same brown too.
- I don’t have any step by step images on how I made the dog as I didn’t think of taking any then and I so regret it now, but all I can say is that it was pretty easy to make this little cutie.
Estimating the topper size
- To make the dog, I started by estimating the size of the finished dog. From there, I formed the dog’s body first. To make the body, I rolled my fondant into a thick short sausage and then made one end of it pointed upwards. That end is to be the dog’s neck. The other end of the sausage was left rounded.
The dog's head
- And then I made the head. Again, in making the head, I made sure it was proportionate to the body. I started by rolling my fondant into a smooth round ball. And then I rolled the front portion to be slightly pointed. This was to form the nose and mouth portions of the dog.
- Next, I rolled some brown fondant thin and wrapped it around the dog’s head from the bottom, ending right after its ears on the head. Using the same colored fondant, I added a large brown spot on the dog’s body. And using the same brown I formed the dog’s ears.
The dog topper's face
- After that, I using my shaping tools cut a small slit for its mouth and inserted the dog's tongue. And then I added the nose and the eyes and attached the head to the body with glue. But before attaching the head to the body, I took some pink-tinted fondant, formed a small smooth ball which I then flattened slightly and added in between the body and the head. This pink was to form the dog's collar.
- To make the tongue, I pinched a small piece of pink fondant, pressed it thin in a longish rounded shape, used by sugarcraft knife to mark a line in the center, and carefully pushed in one end of it into the dog's mouth. And then I curled the portion that was jotting out to give it a more natural tongue look.
The legs
- Next were the dog's legs. To make these, I pinched 4 equal-sized white fondant pieces for the 4 legs. I then rolled them into medium-sized sausages, flatten the ends, folded them slightly, and attached them to the dog ( I know it's hard to follow with mere words description like this, but it's pretty much the steps I took to make the dog).
- Once all the four legs were on, I used my sugar craft knife to mark the paws on each of the dog’s legs and then formed and added the dog's tail, which I rolled by hand in brown fondant and attached to the back of the dog.
- And finally, I added a tiny pink flower on the dog’s head. I cut the flower using my flower plunger cutter. With that my dog cake topper was ready. I left the little fella to rest aside while I decorated the remainder of the cake.
Simple Dog Birthday Cake for Kids
The birthday cake
- For the cake, once it has baked and cooled down, I filled and crumb coated it with buttercream and then covered it with white fondant and placed it on a white fondant covered cake board.
- Next, using the same flower plunger cutter I used to cut the flower on the dog’s head, I cut out lots of tiny brown flowers and placed these all around the base of the cake as its border. In the center of each of these flowers, I added a smaller pink flower. All these were attached with fondant glue.
The brown mat on the birthday cake
- After that, I cut out a round piece in brown using my scalloped round cutter and attached it to the center of the cake. On it, I added a smaller cut out in pink. I then placed the dog on these cutouts and secured it to the cake with glue. I did another set of similar cutouts in brown and pink and placed them on the front side of the cake.
Simple Dog Birthday Cake for Kids
Wordings on the cake
- Next, I added the wordings on the cake. These were cut out using my TAPPIT letter cutters in Funky font in pink-tinted gum paste. The birthday girl’s name went on the cake while the birthday wishes went on the board. And the number ‘2’ which is the birthday girl’s age, went on the round cutouts on the side of the cake. All these were attached to the cake with fondant glue.
Simple Dog Birthday Cake for Kids
Polka dots on the birthday cake
- Finally, I added the brown and pink dots on the cake. The dots were cut using my round plunger cutters in various sizes and were placed randomly on the cake.
And with that, my dog birthday cake was complete.
Simple Dog Birthday Cake for Kids
Hope this simple dog birthday cake for kids has inspired you to make one of your own.
Happy decorating 🙂
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