Looking for Cocomelon Cake Ideas? Here, you’ll find 17 beautiful Cocomelon cake ideas, including easy designs with instructions to recreate them. Whether you’re looking for inspiration or whether you want to recreate one of these cakes yourself, you’re in the perfect place.
How to find a Cocomelon cake idea suited to your cake-decorating level?
I’ve come up with a system. The cake ideas are presented to you according to their level of difficulty. There are three categories :
What Are Beginner Cake Ideas?
These are easy cake ideas. If you’ve never decorated a cake before (or only did it once or twice), these are the cakes that you should pay attention to.
- What you’ll find: Beautiful cake ideas that only require basic cake decorating techniques. This is a great place to start your journey.
What Are Intermediate Cake Ideas?
Low Intermediate Baker: If you are confident that you’ve mastered the cake decorating basics, such as how to smooth a cake, but feel like you still have a lot of techniques to learn apart from this foundation, this category is perfect for you.
- What you’ll find: Cake ideas that require both basic decorating skills and one or two techniques that are a little bit more advanced. This is a great place to grow your cake-decorating skills.
High Intermediate Baker: If you’ve mastered both basic techniques and several more advanced cake decorating techniques, these cake ideas are made for you.
- What you’ll find: Stunning cake ideas that can be fairly challenging, but are a great place to get even better than you already are.
What Are Advanced Cake Ideas?
If you consider yourself an experienced cake decorator and have mastered most of the decorating techniques, including the use of fondant, then this is the perfect place for you.
- What you’ll find: Showstopping and challenging cake ideas, perfect to sharpen and maintain your skills.
The Grading System
Finally, I’ve also assigned a grade of difficulty to each cake inspiration: 1/5 being the easiest design and 5/5 being the hardest. The goal is to make the ranking the most accurate possible. You will find this to be particularly helpful if you happen to fall in the Beginner or the Intermediate Cake Ideas categories.
Growth Tip : This list is great a place to set goals about your cake decorating skills. Pin this post and come back later to tell us how far you’ve come in your cake decorating journey !
How to recreate these Cocomelon cake ideas?
What cake recipe should you use to make your perfect cake come true?
To recreate these cake ideas, you will need a trustworthy cake recipe. You have several options.
Adapt your favorite cake recipe.
There are a lot of ways to adapt a cake recipe. You mainly have four options to tweak your favorite recipe :
- You could change the flavor of your cake recipe: with citrus zest, the essence of your choice, or turn it into a chocolate or carrot cake for example.
- You could add a filling: a caramel sauce, a homemade flavored whipped cream, ganache, or buttercream.
- You could also add some texture: oreo bits, crumble crumbs, nuts, or fresh fruit for example.
- Finally, you could personalize your frosting.
Be careful, if you’re a beginner baker, having to figure out both your cake design and creating a new cake recipe could be overwhelming. Therefore, I always recommend taking your learning journey one step at a time.
Look for a cake recipe.
Where? You can ask friends, or family or simply look on the internet. You have to keep two things in mind though :
- The recipe has to be suitable for cake decorating, especially for cakes that require stacking or carving (intermediate and advanced cake ideas).
- Once again, if you’re a beginner baker, be careful not to put too much on your plate and choose a recipe suited to your current level.
Use my cake recipe recommendation.
Finally, you could try the delicious recipe I recommend. I firmly believe everyone should have a trustworthy chocolate cake recipe, and my chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting is both beginner-friendly and perfect for cake decorating. I’m sure you’ll love it.
What you will love about this recipe :
- It has a perfect chocolate flavor.
- It’s a really easy recipe, perfect for beginners.
- It has a great texture.
How to follow the instructions of the designs.
For the cake designs in the beginner category: I’ll provide written instructions on how to recreate the cake idea presented to you. Don’t hesitate to watch video tutorials about the basic techniques such as how to smooth a cake.
For the designs in the intermediate category: I’ll provide some guidance on how to perform the more complicated techniques.
For the advanced category: you are an experienced baker, at this point, and you will find great opportunities to put this experience to use. To be completely honest, I cannot make myself several cake ideas from the advanced category, so trust your abilities and go for it.
Find the perfect Cocomelon cake idea for your baking skills.
Growth Tip : If you aim to get better at cake decorating, you should choose a cake idea that feels sligthly above your current cake decorating level. Get out of your comfort zone !
Cocomelon Cake Ideas Perfect for Beginner Bakers
Here, you’ll find 3 easy Cocomelon cake ideas perfect for beginner bakers.
Simple Cocomelon Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Cocomelon cake toppers.
- Ball Cake toppers.
- Rainbow cake topper (store-bought or DIY).
How to recreate this cake?
- First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
- Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect as it only is the first coat. Chill the cake 20 to 30 minutes in the fridge (until your frosting sets).
- Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the covering process, if needed.
- Chill your cake in the fridge for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
- Finally, use a knife warmed with water to get sharp edges on your cake and place your beautiful cake toppers.
What you’ve learned :
Covering a cake with buttercream is the most basic technique a cake decorator has to master. Once they do, they can create beautiful cake ideas thanks to cake toppers.
JJ And Friends Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
Don’t hesitate to change the vibe of each cake design by switching up the buttercream’s color. Give free rein to your creativity.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Edible pearls.
- Cocomelon cake toppers.
- Ball cake toppers.
- Rainbow cake topper.
How to recreate this cake?
- First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
- Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect as it only is the first coat. Chill the cake 20 to 30 minutes in the fridge (until your frosting sets).
- Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the covering process, if needed.
- Apply your edible pearls and chill your cake in the fridge for 30 minutes (or until your buttercream cover has had time to set).
- Finally, use a knife warmed with water to get sharp edges on your cake and place your beautiful cake toppers.
What you’ve learned :
With a few cake toppers and edible pearls, even beginner cake decorators can create stunning cake designs.
Easy Cocomelon Cake.
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
What you will need:
- Enough frosting to cover and decorate your cake
- Cocomelon cake toppers.
- An open star piping tip (like the 1M by Wilton) with a piping bag.
How to recreate this cake?
- For the buttercream cover. First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
- Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect as it only is the first coat. Chill the cake 20 to 30 minutes in the fridge (until your frosting sets).
- Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the covering process, if needed.
- Chill your cake in the fridge for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
- Use a knife warmed with water to get sharp edges on your cake.
- For the buttercream swirls. You should practice on parchment paper first. Draw the swirls by keeping the piping bag at a 90° angle. Draw circular motions, slowly going upwards. Once you’re satisfied with the height, stop piping. You can watch this buttercream swirl tutorial to get a better understanding.
- When you are confident enough move on to the actual cake. Pipe the first swirl on the edge of your cake. For the next one, draw it straight across from the first. The third swirl has to be placed between the first ones. So on and so forth. This allows for your swirls to be equally spaced.
- Finally, place your beautiful cake toppers.
What you’ve learned :
Buttercream swirls are a staple in cake decorating, once you master them, they allow you to be even more creative.
If you’re looking for more easy cake ideas, you can check out these birthday cake ideas, where you’ll find cake ideas for children (boys and girls) but also adults.
Cocomelon Cake Ideas for Intermediate Bakers
Here, you’ll find 10 Cocomelon cake ideas perfect for intermediate bakers.
Pink And Blue Cocomelon Cake
Difficulty Level: 2/5 (Low-Intermediate)
This kind of cake is the perfect transition between the beginner level and the intermediate one. So if you’re fairly new to cake decorating and want to challenge yourself, this is the perfect opportunity.
A little guidance
If you don’t know how to recreate the letters, fondant and a silicon mold are your best bet. You can follow this fondant letter tutorial if you’ve never used this kind of mold before. You can also refer to the next design to learn how to recreate this buttercream fault line, considering buttercream layers and fault lines are essentially the same technique.
Girly Cocomelon Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
If you’re looking for a girly cake design, you might love this one.
A little guidance
To recreate these beautiful buttercream layers, once your buttercream cover has set, simply apply your first buttercream layer around the bottom two-thirds of your cake and let it set in the fridge. Next, repeat the process on the bottom half of your first buttercream layer.
Gradient Cocomelon Cake
Difficulty level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
If you love bold colors and interesting textures, you’re going to be a fan of this cake design. Adding texture to a cake is an easy way to elevate its look.
A little guidance
In order to recreate this beautiful gradient effect, apply each of your colored buttercream to a third of your cake. Then, use a spatula to blend the demarcation as much as you can. Next, smooth your cake as usual. Finally, you can use your spatula to recreate the same texture.
Cute Cocomelon Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
In my opinion, this cake is probably the cutest on the list, so if this is the look you’re going for, this is the perfect cake idea for you.
A little guidance
As you’re getting more experienced, I think it’s important that you challenge yourself and use your creativity. For example, a good idea would be to turn your Cocomelon cake topper into a giant cake pop. You could then cover with fondant as in this Cocomelon cake tutorial.
Striped Cocomelon Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
Stripes are another great way to make your cake design stand out. Don’t hesitate to play with their width and make your colors more vibrant to suit your personal preferences.
A little guidance
To get a neat result, always make sure your white buttercream is perfectly set, before adding the other colors. Here, you’ll find a quick tutorial to get the neatest striped cake possible.
Rainbow Cocomelon Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you want several cakes but don’t want a tiered cake, this type of cake happens to be a great alternative. They’re a great way to take your cake-decorating journey a step at a time.
A little guidance
There’s nothing simpler when you work with fondant than to DIY rainbow cake toppers. This quick fondant rainbow tutorial teaches you how to recreate them in no time.
Green Cocomelon Cakes
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
As you get more and more experience, I believe it’s important that you learn how to cover a cake in fondant. This kind of design would make a great practice.
A little guidance
My three tips when covering a cake in fondant are the following:
- You should pay extra attention when preparing your cake. Make sure it’s leveled, and your buttercream (or ganache) should be very neat to get a cleaner finish.
- You should roll your fondant to a thickness between 1/8th inch and 1/4 inch.
- You should keep in mind that your first attempt probably isn’t going to be flawless, but it’s perfectly fine because practice will make your technique perfect.
Finally, here’s a detailed video tutorial, that’ll teach everything you need to know about this process.
Cocomelon Tiered Cake
Difficulty Level: 4,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you like this cake design but are planning a boy’s birthday party, you can easily switch the colors up to suit your needs.
A little guidance
When making tiered cakes, you have to pay extra attention to the structure of the cake. Therefore, you should always use a sturdy cake board for each tier. You should also support the bottom tier with dowel rods or bubble tea straws cut to the height of the cake. Finally, you should ensure each tier is leveled before stacking them.
Cocomelon Tiered Drip Cake
Difficulty Level: 4,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
Inversely, if you’re planning for a girl’s birthday, you can also switch the colors of any of the cake designs presented to you.
A little guidance
Drip cakes are really popular these days. You can follow this drip cake tutorial if you’re not familiar with the process. You can also inspire yourself with all the tips provided in the previous designs.
Cocomelon Cake Ideas for Advanced Bakers
These 4 cake designs will be perfectly suited to experienced cake decorators.
Colorful Cocomelon Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you’re a fan of electric colors and cake designs full of energy, you’re going to love this colorful Cocomelon cake.
Pastel Cocomelon Cake
Difficulty level: 5/5
Pastel colors seem to always make everything cuter for some reason. So, if this is the kind of cake design you like, you’re going to love this pastel Cocomelon cake.
3D Cocomelon Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you’re looking for a small but impressive cake idea, this cake design is the one for you.
Iconic Cocomelon Birthday Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you’re a fondant figurine expert or aim to be one, this cake could be the perfect challenge for you.
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