My family spend a lot of time at the beach, it’s no surprise that my baby boy’s favourite pastime is building and destroying Sandcastles…with his trusty digger in tow! When we tried to think of a suitable cake to celebrate his second birthday we thought of exactly that…a Sandcastle Cake…with a digger too!
Here’s the easy instructions on making this cake…shortcuts and all!! It truly was the cheapest and easiest cake I’ve ever made (decorated).
What I used –
Cake base –
- we used a double rectangle slab of sponge, a 10″ round slab and a 4″ Sponge Roll (I cheated and used store bought sponge and a store bought jam roll).
- Mini Icecream Cups
Decorating –
- Buttercream Icing for the cake
- Royal Icing for the cones (I use a packet mix)
- 2 x 250g packets of Scotch Finger biscuits
- 2 x 250g packets of Gingernut biscuits
- Shell Chocolate moulds and white melting chocolate
- Plastic (clean) digger
- Paper Straw and Flag
Instructions –
Melt some white chocolate and fill your chocolate moulds – set aside until set hard.
Blitz all the biscuits in a food processor until fine (we used a combination of light and dark biscuits to get the crumb resembling the same colour of sand).
Grab your Iceream cones and spread with Royal Icing, roll in the ‘sand’ mixture and set aside to dry.
Whip up some easy buttercream icing.
Stack the cake to determine a suitable castle shape – remember this doesn’t need to be perfect (no sandcastle is perfect). Once you have a design you are happy with you can start to layer the cakes with buttercream frosting in-between each layer, then spread more buttercream to cover the entire cake.
Using your hands, gently press the ‘sand’ mixture all around your cake – starting at the top and working down until all areas are evenly covered. Then place the pre-covered cones on top of the cake (I inserted a straw into the top cone to make a flag).
Decorate the cake using the chocolate shells and get the digger into position (you may need to add some more ‘sand’ mixture to the place you have removed with the digger bucket).
My son just LOVED his Sandcastle Cake and was happy to devour it with a clean spade lol! You can see some video of him enjoying his cake via our Instagram account here & here.
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This is the coolest cake ever and you make it look so easy!
Thank you Kate! It was so easy!! xx
I watched with interest on IG. I’ve pinned this for Cammy’s mermaid party. Think it will tie in perfectly.
Jackie, I think it would be perfect! Make sure you share a link with us to your party! Lou xx
So very cool! I LOVE it. It looks fantastic. Just like real sand.
Thank you Kate – my kids asked if it was okay to eat 😉 lol! Lou x
Amazing. Looks so real!
Get-out! I didn’t realise it was a cake until I started reading it. That looks awesome.
So cool! Pinned!
Oh my goodness you are a legend. That is such a good idea and I think I could actually try it with your fab tutorial!
Thank you! You won’t be disappointed! Lou x
I adore this cake! We live by the beach as well so I’m about to attempt this for my little boys birthday party. Just wondering how far in advance did you put the crumbs on? I assume if I put them on the night before they’ll go soft/soggy. Just trying to be organised and not end up in a flap!
what kind of cake did you make?