27 Coolest Winnie the Pooh Cake Ideas

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Freya became interested in party planning and decorating after she had her daughter in 2007. As a mom, she loves planning parties for her own children and her nieces and nephews. Along with her love for DIY, her parties and the decor are always a hit! She loves to bring that knowledge to you and make sure that your next party is decorated perfectly.

My Bottom Line Up Front

Winnie the Pooh and his friends are very simple-looking characters. But there are so many ways one could make a Winnie the Pooh-inspired cake. Personally, I would prefer a cake that features the classic illustrations by Ernest Shepard instead of the Disney version. That should also mean I’d prefer the illustrations for the characters to be handpainted using edible ink instead of modeled from gumpaste.

However, I’d probably add a fondant honeycomb and a wooden honey dipper as additional accents.

Here’s an example of what I’m talking about:

Selecting Winnie the Pooh Cake Ideas

When looking for Winnie the Pooh cake inspirations, one doesn’t really need a long checklist. Of course, the cake needs to fit into the Winnie the Pooh theme, and it has to be aesthetically pleasing and creative. I did toss in a couple or so of additional criteria, though.

I had to make sure the cake ideas in my list are easy to execute. If you are baking and decorating the cake yourself, you should be able to easily replicate it or make something similar. And if you are asking somebody else to make the cake, they should be able to do it just as easily. In other words, I try to avoid anything too complicated in design and anything extravagant.

I also like cakes that apply new trends in cake decorating, so you will see and learn about these trends here.

Certain Cake Considerations

Even with a specific theme in mind, you can get an overwhelming number of cake ideas. And when that happens, it becomes even harder to pick a cake. That is why it is important to set certain limitations and considerations first, so it’s easier to narrow down your list. These considerations will also help you make the cake planning and ordering process much quicker.

Set a Budget for Your Cake

Trust me, it’s not a great feeling to have your mind set on a particular cake design only to find out that it costs way more than what you’re willing to spend. So, it is important to have an idea of how much cakes cost in your area. You can call bakeries and cake makers and inquire how much they charge for custom cakes. You can then set a cake budget based on this price range. I advise that you give this budget a little wiggle room to allow for certain specifications.

Pick a Cake Flavor

Once you have picked a design for your cake, you’d also need to decide on the kind of cake, the flavor, and the frosting. Of course, you’d have to know what flavors the birthday celebrant would prefer or if they are adventurous enough to try new ones. Most of the time, your choices would also depend on what your baker or cakemaker offers. They usually have a list of flavors and frostings for you to choose from, and this list is based on recipes they have already mastered.

Sometimes, it’s the other way around, and you would need to base your cake’s design on the kind of cake and frosting you like. For example, if you’re not a fan of fondant or gum paste, then you’d need to pick a design that works best with buttercream.

Know that Size Matters

When it comes to celebration cakes, size matters, and it usually depends on how small or big a party it is going to be, or how many people are going to be there. If it’s an intimate family-only affair, then a small and simple cake would suffice. If we’re talking about a kiddie party with several guests, then a two-tier cake wouldn’t be too much.

Winnie the Pooh Cake Ideas

1. Disney Tsum Tsum Pooh Cake

Disney Tsum Tsum is a range of uber-cute Japanese collectible toys that are based on Disney-owned characters, including Winnie the Pooh and friends. Tsum Tsum comes from the Japanese word “tsumu,” which means “to stack” because these toys allow you to stack them on top of each other.

This cute Tsum Tsum-inspired buttercream cake features Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore lined up next to each other.

2. Vintage Pooh Cake

A lot of us also grew up with Pooh, so a Winnie the Pooh theme for a party is not exclusively for kids. To give your cake that grownup or mature look, you can go for a classic or vintage vibe. Your Pooh cake doesn’t have to be colorful. A color palette of white, gold, and beige never fails to give your cake that classic and elegant look. And when you add your Pooh accents, make sure to always use the classic E. Shepard illustrations.

This vintage baby shower cake, for instance, is like an ode to the mother-to-be’s childhood. The colors are soft and subdued, with touches of gold to make it look elegant. It uses dried flowers and bunny tails, a wooden honey drip, a yellow macaron, sugar honeycombs, and a wooden beehive as toppers. A cookie with a classic Pooh illustration is what really gives the theme away.

Here’s another take on the vintage Pooh cake. It uses almost the same decorating trends, including the dried flowers, the macarons, and the sugar honeycombs. Add a printed Pooh topper on top and some bees as accents, and you’re good to go.

3. Quotation Cake

One of the best things about Winnie the Pooh is his words of wisdom and his lessons about life and friendship. This is what makes him such a wholesome and endearing character, one that has endured through many generations. So why not highlight your favorite Winnie the Pooh quote on your cake?

This two-tier buttercream cake has a Pooh and Piglet art on the bottom tier and one of Winnie the Pooh’s most well-loved quotes written on the top tier. The white roses give the cake a beautiful finishing touch.

Find a perfect quote for the occasion at hand, and have it written on the cake. This sweet quote, for instance, is just perfect for someone celebrating their first birthday. This fondant cake uses gum paste, edible printed decors, and handpainted details.

4. Small & Simple Pooh and Bee Cake

This Winnie the Pooh fondant cake is the perfect size for a small, intimate affair. It uses gum paste for the decor, and the text and other little details are handpainted. The Winnie the Pooh artwork is done via edible imaging, and it’s something you can get from various online sellers or businesses.

This is another example of a simple Pooh and bees cake. This one-layer square cake has buttercream frosting, is decorated with sugar bees and flowers, and is topped with an edible image of Pooh and his Hunny pot.

5. Pooh Honey Drip Cake

Drip cakes are a modern cake decorating trend, and it usually involves a thin layer of chocolate, cream, or ganache being poured on top of the cake and allowed to drip from the edges to the side. So I think it’s a smart idea to take this drip style and use it to represent honey dripping from Pooh’s Hunny pot.

This two-layer fondant cake shows this honey-dripping-from-the-pot concept perfectly. The gold-yellow “honey” cascades perfectly from the light yellow top layer to the light blue bottom layer of the cake. There’s the fondant Hunny pot, the edible Pooh and Piglet sitting on top of the first layer, the edible bees flying about, and the twisted branch and leaves encircling the base of the cake all coming beautifully together.

This buttercream cake is simply lovely, even with the honey dripping sparingly.

This vanilla cake covered in Swiss meringue buttercream has caramel dripping down its side, which actually looks quite the real honey. Add a handpainted fondant appliqué of Pooh, and this cake is ready.

6. Fondant Pooh Cake

If you want your cake to look uniformly smooth, you can decorate it in fondant all the way. You have to make sure, though, that you got a really good fondant or gum paste artist or sculptor because you wouldn’t want your Pooh bear looking funny. (One thing I’ve noticed in a lot of fondant Pooh is that their faces and bodies are elongated.)

Fondant Pooh and Eeyore figures are the main attraction of this birthday cake. Both characters were done in their correct colors, and their features were done in perfect proportion.

Here’s a cute Hunny cake with the entire gang — Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and Tigger — sculpted wonderfully in fondant.

This small three-tier fondant birthday cake features Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, and Lumpy in their cute baby versions. All the other decors on the cake are made of fondant, too.

7. Pooh Number Cake

Number cakes are another trend for birthdays and anniversaries. These are cakes that are shaped in the celebrator’s age and covered with all sorts of goodies, from flowers, fruits, chocolates, meringues, macarons, and charms.

I always imagine a Pooh-inspired number cake to look like this. It has piped buttercream frosting, chocolate-covered strawberries, sugar bees, and Pooh paper toppers.

8. Pastel-Colored Fondant Drip Cake

This pastel-colored fondant Winnie the Pooh cake is just pretty. Pooh and his friends Eeyore and Tigger were sculpted well, and the baker did a different take on the drip style. Instead of using chocolate or cream, they modeled the drip using fondant.

9. Pooh Acrylic Charms Cake

This vintage white, beige, and gold Winnie the Pooh cake has all the trendy cake decor, from the dried bunny tails and pampas grass, the customized gold name topper, the gold flakes, the chocolate balls, and the gold foil palm leaf. For the Pooh-related decor, the cakemaker added chocolate honeycomb and acrylic Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger charms.

10. Hundred Acre Wood Map Cake

Die-hard Winnie the Pooh fans know the Hundred Acre Wood all too well. It is a part of the fictional land where Winnie the Pooh and his friends live, and it is visited regularly by Christopher Robin. So if you want a unique or different take on a Winnie the Pooh cake, a map of the Hundred Acre Wood is a good idea.

This cake uses a cake wrap, which is another cake decorating trend using wafer-thin sheets of rice paper. Images are printed on this sheet with edible ink, and it is then used to cover the side of the cake. For this particular cake, the map of Hundred Acre Wood is printed on the rice paper and is wrapped around the buttercream frosting.

11. A Winnie the Pooh Cake Without Pooh

Who says your cake has to always have Pooh or any of his friends to fit into your Winnie the Pooh theme? Check this buttercream cake, which doesn’t give any clue except for the “Hunny” pot on top. To make it less bare, a portion of the sides were wrapped with chocolate or gumpaste honeycomb.

12. Homebaked Cake with Edible Pooh Prints

You can make your own Winnie the Pooh cake even without mad fondant sculpting skills. Simply use edible Pooh prints, which you can get from sellers online. In fact, most of the cakes on this list use these edible Pooh decorations for their cakes. Just like this vanilla sponge and strawberry jam cake with light blue vanilla buttercream frosting and yellow chocolate drip. Finish it off with a customized topper.

13. Watercolor Painting Pooh Cake

Another decorating technique you could employ is hand-painting Winnie the Pooh on fondant. You can use edible color and paint your chosen design as if it were watercolor on paper. Add some synthetic flowers on top of the cake to make it look less monotonous.

14. Healthy Hunny Pot Cake

This one is yet another example of a Winnie the Pooh-inspired cake without Winnie the Pooh. This “Hunny” pot cake is actually an organic, gluten-free strawberry cake with zero refined sugar. You can go with a similar Hunny pot cake for a first birthday, and your little guy can come in a Winnie the Pooh costume.

15. Piped Pooh and Friends Cake

We’ve shown you Winnie the Pooh cakes using fondant figures, edible images, printed rice paper wraps, and acrylic decors. But if you or your cakemaker has good piping and pallet knife decorating skills, then you can “draw” Pooh and his friends directly onto the cake in icing.

On this cake, for instance, the cake artist “painted” Pooh and his friends in buttercream using a pallet knife and then piped black icing for the outline.

Here’s another example of piped illustration on a cake.

16. Pooh, Friends, and Fresh Flowers

Add some fresh flowers into the mix. The blooms give the cake more texture and more dimension. The Winnie the Pooh decors are done via edible imaging.

17. Honey-Glazed and Dripping Honey Cake

Make your Pooh cake look authentic. Cover it with real honey and let it drip down the side.

18. Fruit-Topped Cake

You can get a cream cake topped with fresh fruits and still make it a Winnie the Pooh-themed cake. How? Simply plant a Pooh topper. Or even wrap the side with a Pooh-printed paper strip.

19. Dainty, Flowery Cake

Go for a sweet, pretty, and delicate Winnie the Pooh cake by opting for soft-colored frosting and adding fresh flowers.

This semi-naked buttercream funfetti cake has a Winnie the Pooh paper topper and is surrounded by little white and baby pink flowers.

This dainty baby shower buttercream cake has pink hydrangeas on top, as well as a Winnie the Pooh and customized gold name decors on the side.

Check out this fondant cake with blue hydrangeas and a customized acrylic topper with a gold bee charm on it. A Winnie the Pooh and Piglet illustration is placed in front of the cake.

20. Pooh + Piped Decorations Cake

Instead of using real or fake flowers as a decorative element in your Winnie the Pooh cake, show off your cream or sugar piping skills and pipe the flowers and foliage.

This lovely pink Winnie the Pooh cake has piped roses and leaves. The Pooh elements are edible images, and the rest of the decors are modeled from fondant.

Aside from the Pooh edible illustrations and the watercolor-style background on the buttercream frosting, this cake uses piped icing for the tree’s leaves and the grass.

21. Printed Paper Toppers

If you are going for a Winnie the Pooh-themed cake but, for some reason, couldn’t get edible or acrylic toppers, you can always use paper toppers and still end up with a beautiful cake. The best thing about paper toppers is that they are readily available in party supply stores. You can also pick the pictures and print them yourself.

These paper toppers and decors are most likely made with the help of a Cricut machine. So if you have one, put it to good use.

Here’s another take on paper decorations. The ones used here are printed using classic illustrations from the original book.

This one is a no-fuss Pooh decor. Print a single photo with all characters, cut it out and slap it on the front. Top your cake with meringues, and you’re good to go.

This Pooh topper made of cutout paper and a paper art wreath makes this otherwise plain cake look interesting. This kind of paper art proves that paper toppers can be just as creative and lovely as the other more trendy toppers.

22. Cake with Pooh Cookies

Do you know how else you can incorporate Winnie the Pooh into your cake aside from edible imaging, fondant sculpture, and acrylic or paper toppers? You can make Pooh-inspired cookies and put them on your cake. There are cookie artists who can pipe decorations on cookies using royal icing.

This cake, for instance, has a buttercream frosting used as background. The tree, leaves, balloons, and the celebrant’s name are all done in gum paste. The Winnie the Pooh characters are done on sugar cookies before they are added to the cake.

23. Two-Layer Pooh Cake

Go for a two-layer Winnie the Pooh cake to give it some dimension. You can definitely do more with two layers because you can play with the depth that a single, flat layer cake doesn’t have.

This two-layer fondant cake has printed paper cutouts of Pooh and his friends. The tree and bees are made of fondant.

24. Three-Layered Pooh Cake

If two layers give your cake more depth and dimension, then three layers give you more to play with and be creative.

This three-layer buttercream cake not only plays with three layers, but it plays with different tones, too. As a result, it gives the illusion that it has more than three layers. Add edible Pooh images, some fondant bees, and a glittery topper, and this cake is ready to take center stage.

This three-layer buttercream cake has dried blooms, a folded palm leaf, gold accents, gold leaf on the edges, and paper Pooh decorations. For a one-layer cake, all these elements could look like a lot. But the three layers afford you more space for more decorative features.

25. Sugar Flowers and Edible Printed Pooh Toppers

Other than fresh, dried, and synthetic flowers, you can also use sugar flowers to decorate your cake.

Check out this two-layer fondant cake decorated with edible Pooh images and edible sugar blooms and leaves.

26. Pooh with Chocolate Balls or Balloons

Bunched balls or balloons made from colored chocolate are yet another cake decorating trend. The frosting will be able to hold these balls up because they are hollow inside and are pretty lightweight.

Look at Pooh holding pastel and gold balloons in this baby shower cake.

This very simple cake has nothing but Pooh holding Piglet in one hand and a bunch of pink, yellow, and gold balloons in the other hand. The rest of the cake is blank, so the balloons have this dramatic effect.

27. Handpainted Classic Illustration

Handpainting on a fondant cake is yet another decorating style that has become quite popular recently. And Winnie the Pooh characters and scenarios from the classic E. Shepard illustrations are the best things to paint.

This cake has a handpainted background, but the rest are edible images, as well as fondant bees and trees.

This simple cake has Pooh in different poses handpainted on the side.

Frequently Asked Questions

Question: Is Winnie the Pooh a good theme for a cake and party?

Answer: Winnie the Pooh is a great theme for a cake or for a party in general because it’s applicable for both genders. Boys and girls both love Pooh and his friends. Moreover, the theme is suitable for people of all ages, not just toddlers and kids. Pooh and his friends have been around imparting lessons and embarking on adventures for years. And even if the TV show has stopped airing and it’s been a while since the last animated film, children still know Pooh and his friends because there’s a whole bunch of Pooh merchandise, including toys, that they wouldn’t miss.

Question: How much does a Winnie the Pooh cake cost?

Answer: There is no definite answer to this because a lot of factors affect how cakes are priced. The size of the cake, for one. Different types of cake and different flavors are priced differently, too. And so are the different types of frosting. Fondant, for instance, is more expensive than buttercream. Decorations and toppers would also be factored in. Of course, overall pricing also depends on the baker or cakemaker, as well as on their level of expertise. One thing is for sure, though: you could save if you baked the cake yourself.

Question: Why does Pooh have different looks or versions? Which is the official one?

Answer: The original illustrations of Winnie the Pooh and his friends were done by English artist E. H. Shepard. These illustrations can be seen in the book Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne, published in 1926, and are, therefore, considered the classic illustrated versions of Pooh and the gang. When the Walt Disney Company adopted Pooh and the other characters in 1961, they gave them a modernized look. Disney also came up with a Tsum Tsum line of toys for their beloved cartoon characters, including Winnie the Pooh.

Conclusion

A Winnie the Pooh theme is great for birthdays, baby showers, and other celebrations. I’d say Pooh and his friends are ageless, timeless, and genderless, so they’d always be suitable regardless of whom the cake is for. It’s just a matter of picking which illustrated version to go for. The Disney version, for instance, is more suitable for kiddie celebrations. And for the older set, the classic E. Shepard illustrations would be more fitting.

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