Looking for Toy Story Cake Ideas? Whether you’re simply looking for inspiration, or whether you want to recreate one of these cake designs yourself, you’re in the right place. Here, you’ll find 13 Amazing Toy Story cake decorating ideas, including easy designs with instructions to recreate them.
How to find a Toy Story 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: Toy Story cake ideas that require both basic decorating skills and one or two more advanced techniques. 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. 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 Toy Story cake ideas?
What cake recipe should you use?
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 three 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 flavored homemade whipped cream, ganache, or buttercream.
- You could also add some texture: oreo bits, crumble crumbs, nuts, or fresh fruit for example.
- Finally, you could also 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 :
- 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 perfect for beginners. 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 and quick recipe.
- 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 ideas presented to you. I’ve also included quick video tutorials about the basic techniques such as how to smooth a cake.
For the designs in the intermediate category: I’ll provide some advice and quick video tutorials to explain the more complicated techniques to you
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 Toy Story 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 !
Toy Story Cake Ideas Perfect for Beginner Bakers
Here, you’ll find 3 easy Toy Story cake ideas perfect for beginner bakers.
Easy Toy Story Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
Cake toppers are the easiest way to decorate your cakes. As a beginner cake decorator, cake toppers are your best friend.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Toy Story cake toppers.
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 cake 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 in the fridge for 20 to 30 minutes (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 again for 30 minutes.
- Cut the top edges of the cake with a knife warmed underwater to get sharp edges.
- Finally, decorate the cake with your cake toppers.
What you’ve learned :
Once you’ve learned how to cover a cake with buttercream, you can easily take your cake to the next level using cake toppers.
Textured Toy Story Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
Adding texture to your cake is another easy way to elevate its look.
What you will need:
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- A cake comb
- Toy Story cake toppers.
How to recreate this cake?
- 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.
- In order to recreate the texture of this cake, you’ll need a cake comb. Simply pass it over your buttercream cover as you would with a cake scrapper.
- Repeat the process until satisfied, but remember to clean the cake comb between each passage.
- Chill your cake again for 30 minutes.
- Cut the top edges of the cake with a hot knife to get sharp edges.
- Finally, decorate your cake with your Toy Story cake toppers.
What you’ve learned :
There’s a variety of cake combs out there, which will offer you a wide range of options to personalize your cake.
Buzz Lightyear Cake
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
Buttercream layers are also an easy technique to give more personality to your cake designs.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover and decorate your cake.
- Buzz Lightyear cake toppers.
- Star sprinkles.
How to recreate this cake?
- The buttercream cover. Cover your cake with your white buttercream as explained in the two previous cake designs.
- Place your star sprinkles on the upper third of your cake.
- Chill your cake again for 30 minutes.
- Cut the top edges of the cake with a hot knife to get sharp edges.
- The buttercream layers. Color one-third of what’s left of your buttercream in green, and the other two-thirds in purple.
- Apply your purple buttercream on the bottom two-thirds of your cake and smooth it, just like you did for the buttercream cover. Let it set in the fridge.
- Then, repeat the process with your green buttercream on the bottom half of your second buttercream layer.
- Next, make several passages with a cake comb on your green buttercream to recreate the beautiful texture.
- Finally, decorate the cake with your cake toppers following the pictures or your heart’s desire.
What you’ve learned :
Even with beginner-friendly techniques, you can create a beautiful cake for your children’s birthday.
If you’re looking for more easy cake ideas to recreate, you can check out the other birthday cake ideas lists.
Toy Story Cake Ideas for Intermediate Bakers
Here, you’ll find 7 Toy Story cake ideas perfect for intermediate bakers.
Simple Toy Story Cake
Difficulty Level: 2/5 (Low-Intermediate)
If you aim to get more comfortable with fondant work, this cake design is the perfect opportunity.
A little guidance
If you want to recreate these fondant clouds, you might not have the perfect cloud cookie cutter on hand, but that’s absolutely fine. You can easily print or draw a paper pattern and cut your fondant following it.
Woody Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
If you’re kid’s favorite Toy Story character is Woody, this cake is the perfect one for you.
A little guidance
This cake requires very simple piping. All you’ll need are an open star (like the 4B by Wilton) and a leaf (Like the 366 by Wilton) piping tips.
Toy Story Alien Cake
Difficulty level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
If you’re looking for a cute cake for a small party, this one is a great option.
A little guidance
And, it doesn’t even require you to be an artist. All you have to do is a buttercream transfer. Simply draw your design on a sheet of parchment paper following a guide that you put underneath it. Then, once it has set in the fridge, simply stick it on your cake. Finally, overline the drawing and add the details.
Toy Story Doodle Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
This cake would be another great idea for small parties.
A little guidance
Here, you can apply the same technique as with the previous cake idea. You can easily personalize the design by changing the characters you want to represent on your cake.
To Infinity And Beyond Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you’re looking for a design a little more complex, without being too difficult, this cake might be what you’re looking for.
A little guidance
If you’re wondering how to recreate cow pattern buttercream, the answer is once again a buttercream transfer. You can easily follow this quick buttercream transfer tutorial. Make sure that you’re only applying your transfer on the bottom third of the cake.
This cake is also a great example of how children’s toys can easily be used as cake toppers.
Pink Toy Story Cake
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you’re looking for a girly Toy Story cake, this design is perfect for you. To be honest you could also easily turn any cake design into a girlier version using more pink and violet.
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.
Woody And Buzz Lightyear Cake.
Difficulty Level: 4,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
What’s more iconic to Toy Story than Woody and Buzz? This design will definitely be a hit. If you’re not hosting a big party, you can easily choose to recreate only one of the two tiers.
A little guidance
To recreate the fondant elements, you can easily follow patterns that you printed or drew. You should roll your fondant to a thickness between 1/8th inch and 1/4 inch. For the wing and the star, I would advise that you let them air dry for 36H (at least) at room temperature or in the oven with only the light on (which will be quicker), in order to avoid any damage.
Toy Story Cake Ideas for Advanced Bakers
Finally, you’ll find 3 complex Toy Story cake ideas for pro bakers.
Toy Story’s Room Cake.
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you’re not scared of fondant work, you can push your creativity even further and recreate the figurines with fondant, rather than using toys.
Tiered Toy Story Cake.
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you plan on hosting a big party and are looking for a memorable cake design, this cake is the one for you.
Cookie Toy Story Cake.
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you love cookies and cakes as much as I do, this cake will appear as the perfect match for you.
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