33 of The Most Amazing Moana Cake Recipes For Any Occasion

Come and check out 33 of the best inspiration for ocean-themed Moana Cakes for your next celebration with your family and friends!

A Few Words About Moana Cake

If your daughter is a Disney princesses fan, come and look at everyone’s favorite Moana cake inspirations. This list features a beautiful Moana wreath cake that looks exactly like the one Moana wears, a three-dimensional Moana doll cake, and even a cake that includes a realistic ocean wave made from isomalt! Don’t worry if you’re just a beginner baker because all the cakes in our list will include step-by-step instructions that you can follow closely so that you can achieve the same effects.

Find the top Moana cake you can make right here, and don’t forget to share the results!

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Moana Doll Cake With Isomalt Waves

Are you ready to impress your friends and family with a wonderful ocean-themed Moana birthday cake?

This Moana cake idea features a three-dimensional Moana doll wearing her grass skirt and a beautiful wave made from isomalt to look exactly like crashing waves.

The base cake is made by baking a vanilla sponge cake inside a half dome to perfectly align with Moana’s skirt.

Then the skirt is created by strips of brown fondant that are covered with white fondant. That’s the easy part.

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Moana Cake Wreath

The base of this Moana-themed cake is made out of chocolate sponge cake, but you can definitely change this up and use other flavors.

After making the cake, you’ll need to decorate the cake with the wreath element. This cake will look very intimidating, but the cake is actually pretty easy to make.

And then, create some green chocolate leaves and flowers, and you’re done making this simple Moana birthday cake!

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Moana-Themed Birthday Cake

The base of this Moana-themed cake is made out of chocolate sponge cake, but you can definitely change this up and use other flavors.

After making the cake, you’ll need to decorate the cake with the wreath element. This cake will look very intimidating, but the cake is actually pretty easy to make.

And then, create some green chocolate leaves and flowers, and you’re done making this simple Moana birthday cake!

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Moana-Themed Doll Cake

This wonderful Moana cake design features elements we have on the previous cakes we’ve shown you and more. Truly a complete Moana-themed birthday cake.

What’s great about this cake is that they made the cake using a box cake recipe, so that is one thing you don’t need to worry about.

Then all you need to do is create the hibiscus flowers, leaves, and Moana’s pet pig using fondant. Truly an easy breezy Moana cake to make.

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Two-Tiered Moana Cake

If you’re looking for a taller and more elaborate cake, this two-tiered Moana theme cake is for you. This cake is also perfect if you have a bigger party where you invite your friends and family because the two tiers can serve all of them.

Then you will cover them with white fondant before finally moving on to start decorating them with lots of Moana-themed elements.

The result is a beautiful sunset scheme beach cake with wonderful palm trees, hibiscus flowers, and a print of Moana.

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Moana Cake For Birthdays

Here is another beautiful but simple Moana cake idea, a two-tier cake featuring an oceanic view on the bottom tier and the heart of Tefiti on top!

The entire cake is made by using fondant icing, so you will be doing a lot of shaping and cutting if you’re making this cake.

The maker uses several helping tools, such as molds, to create the decorations, but it is something you can emulate using a carving knife. 

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3-Tiered Moana Cake

If two tiers are not enough for you, this three tiers Moana theme birthday cake will impress you! The bottom tier will have an island vibe, with Moana, her sphere, pet pig, and corals standing on top of a sandy beach with grass skirt siding.

Then the second tier will be an amazing ocean cake cutout with fish, stones, seaweed, and wavy lines. Lastly, the most impressive part is the top tier, a moss-like heart of Tefiti adorned with hibiscus flowers.

The tutorial will show you how to do this step-by-step, and one of the most unique parts is how you’ll achieve the moss-like texture!

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Moana Cake With Awesome Isomalt Wave

If you’re looking for a multi-tiered cake but are not confident with your baking and decorating skills, then these simple Moana cake ideas can be for you.

This easy Moana cake features a bottom tier with isomalt waves, and the top tier will be Moana’s companion pet pig. The cake is simply made of vanilla sponge cake covered in colorful rainbow buttercream.

Follow the tutorial to see how you can achieve this smooth look. Then you’ll create a sandy beach as a base for the cake and place Moana’s doll. Simple, easy, but beautiful.

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Disney’s Moana Cake

Are you more comfortable with painting instead of shaping and cutting? We’ve got just the right tutorial for your birthday party Moana cake.

This birthday cake Moana is perfect for those who like to paint using edible colors. For this cake, you will paint the island scheme and the heart of Tefiti on the first and second layers.

Although, we’d like to warn you that you will need to make several palm trees, coconut leaves, and other decorations as well by shaping some fondants and then painting them. But overall, this cake is pretty manageable with an intermediate level of baking skill.

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Moana-Themed Cake Tutorial

If you’re after a simpler version of a Moana-themed Moana cake, this can be your choice. This is also a good alternative for those who prefer buttercream to fondant.

The cake is a single tier with beautiful rosettes of blue buttercream that will emulate the waves. It is then simply decorated with some cookie crumbs to create a sandy beach.

Lastly, you can decorate it with some sugar flowers or fondant flowers. All you need is just a Moana toy standing in the middle of the cake.

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Perfect Moana Cake

Here is another simple DIY Moana cake you can easily make at home. It’s a different take on making the decorations, as you’ll use candy melts instead of fondant or chocolate.

This cake also features a wonderful wave and ocean. Follow the tutorial closely on making these elements using buttercream and isomalt.

What’s great about this cake is that most of the complicated-looking elements are only Moana toys that you’ll use to finish the cake. The only ones made with candy melts are several ocean shells, so it’s a beginner-friendly cake.

Calories per Serving: 445 kcal
Total Preparation Time: 5 hours

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Cutest Moana Cake

This is an easy cute Moana cake that you can make even if you’re a beginner baker and decorator. The cake features an ombre wavy siding made with buttercream that is gradually colored.

Then it is decorated with some cookie crumbs to create a sandy beach. Then all you need to do is pipe on some white and orange buttercream on top of the cake. Lastly, use edible pearls to have extra sparkles on the cake.

This is a simple cake you can easily customize according to your taste. Try sticking on some seashell chocolates or plastic palm trees to make it more festive.

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Moana Luau Cake

This is another easy birthday cake Moana that still presents as an impressive cake. The cake itself has two tiers.

The top of the cake is made to recreate a sandy beach with the heart of Tefiti markings on the sides. The bottom layer is made to look like a green grass skirt, which is why it’s called a Hawaiian Luau cake.

The process is simple: coat the cake with a crumb coat, decorate the bottom layer with green fondants, and then the top is covered in crumbles so it looks like a sandy beach.  Then, stick Moana on top of the cake with a fresh hibiscus flower.

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2 Tiered Buttercream Moana Cake

If you’re a beginner baker, this is another cake you can experiment with. The cake has two tiers, the bottom tier features a simple ombre blue buttercream, and the top is colored green with Tefiti’s printout.

You also will crumble some cookies to create a sandy beach below and on top of the cake. All it is left is to decorate it with plastic flowers and seashells.

Try making it more edible by using chocolate shells and edible flowers instead. The effects will also make it look more impressive. This cake is truly one of the ones that will require less effort from beginner bakers.

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Moana Cake Decorating

If you’re looking for a simpler cake to make, this double-tier cake will be the perfect match for you. The cake is also made entirely using buttercream and without fondant.

So this is a good cake for you who don’t like fondant on your cake. The cake features a blue ocean buttercream covering the sides, which are then covered with wafer sticks that emulates wood on the sides.

Then pipe on some green buttercream to create some decorative leaves and bushes. Lastly, stick several sugar flowers and sandy crumbs on top for Moana to stand on. A double-tier cake that is still very manageable for beginner bakers.

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Easy Moana Cake

Here’s an impressive waterfall Moana-inspired cake for those of you who want to get your guests talking.

There’s a tricky part to this cake, you’ll have so many cake bases, you can easily use a store-bought cake that will be shaped into a rectangular base and round three tiers.

Stack the round cakes together on top of the rectangle base, and then you can start decorating. The waterfall is made by melting ganaches that are colored with blue food coloring.

Then the cake is also decorated with wafer sticks on the sides. Prepare your Moana figures and stick them on top of the cake as toppers.

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Baby Moana Cake

Are you looking for baby Moana cake ideas? Then this cake is perfect for your Moana-themed birthday party.

We warn you this cake will need a bit of patience and artistic skills since you’ll be making baby Moana’s face using cake base and fondant.

You’ll also be working with edible paint to create the detailing on this cake. The resulting cake is very cool and cute, something you’ll feel sorry about cutting into.

Aside from the shaping and painting of the cake, the base is made very simple. So all you need to focus on is the expression and face of baby Moana.

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DIY Moana-Themed Birthday Cake

Similar to other cakes on this list, this one also features a two-tier cake with a flowing waterfall. It also has wooden safer sticks on the sides of the cake to make the waterfall more obvious.

The difference with this cake is that it’s very simple to make. The base cake can be made from your favorite flavor of sponge cake. Then the covering is made using buttercream.

We suggest you start with the wafer sticks first to create a clear spot for the waterfall. Then pipe on several green buttercreams to emulate bushes, and you’re done!

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Moana Customizable Birthday Cake

Here is another waterfall Moana cake that you can make at home! This cake is also a two-tier cake that features a blue falling buttercream waterfall.

It also has wooden wafer sticks on the siding to determine the waterfall’s flow. The difference is that this cake adds a few elements, such as the sandy tier and several sugar hibiscus flowers on the sides of the waterfall.

Really make this cake your own by adding more elements, such as more sugar flowers or even chocolate shells and plastic palm trees. It’s a cake that can easily be customizable.

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Wave Cake Moana Cake

Are you looking for a different color theme for this Moana cake trend? It’s a single-tier cake, and the decorations are made using buttercream, fondant, and printout.

The color scheme is cleaner here because it only uses blue and white buttercream instead of the usual orange and brown.

The Moana topper is made using a printout that you can modify on your computer. Truly an easy-to-do cake de Moana.

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Unique Moana Cake

Here’s a unique Moana cake with two different sides on it. This cake has a blue oceanic side on the left, then a brown sandy beach on the right.

Although it looks impressive, making this cake is super simple if you follow along with the tutorial. The blue part of the cake is made using buttercream icing and minimal fondant decorations.

The other side of the cake, the sandy beach, is made by using cookie crumbs that are stuck onto the cake. Most decorations are created using a set of Moana dolls and toys. This is a unique and easy cake to make for beginner bakers.

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Moana Doll Cake

Are you looking for a simpler doll cake you can make? This Moana doll cake is very simple, even though it will make a perfect centerpiece for your little one’s birthday.

The cake is made by stacking several round sponge cakes that are then shaped into a flowing skirt.

All that’s left for you is to stick a Moana doll into the middle of the cake, and you’re done with your easy Moana doll cake.

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Moana Cake with Minimalistic Design

Are you looking for a more minimalistic Moana cake design? The cake is just a simple single-tier cake decorated with an ombre of buttercream icing that goes from white to dark blue on the bottom.

Make sure you use a bigger cake pan as a base because you’ll want to create a saying on the bottom, such as the birthday girl’s name. It’s a very simple cake that can be easily customizable according to your taste.

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Detailed Moana Cake Tutorial

If you’re looking for a very thorough explanation of how to make a beautiful Moana cake, this tutorial will be perfect for you.

It will show you exactly how you can create a coating that’s even, incorporate colors into the cake, and make decorative elements using fondant. The cake is another minimalist cake design, with only a single-tier cake with blue ocean buttercream.

It’s then accompanied by some wooden fondant, hibiscus, and a plastic figure of Moana and her companions. It’s a clean-looking and simple cake that is very beginner friendly.

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Huge Moana Cake

Do you have a large crowd coming into your home for your Moana-themed party? Then this Huge Moana cake is for you!

A word of warning, this Moana cake is a gravity-defying cake that will require you to get a proper cake stand.

The cake is a three-dimensional Moana standing with her grass skirt. So you’ll need a large number of sponge cakes, fondant, and edible paints.

You’ll probably even need an assistant to help you out. If you’re up for the challenge, we suggest you try this one. But if you’re in a pinch and need something quick to do, you might want to skip it.

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Baby Moana Inspired Cake At Home

This is another Baby Moana-inspired cake that you can make at home. The base cake is made with berry flavors, but if that’s not your favorite, you’re welcome to create your flavors.

Instead of the usual blue and brown cake, this one focuses more on yellow and orange, reminding us of a sunset on an island.

The cake is made into three tiers, then decorated with buttercream and fondant elements – the baby Moana figurine, the leaves, the waves on the third tier, the seashells, and the hibiscus flowers.

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Moana Waterfall Cake

This is another rendition of the Moana waterfall cake. But it’s super easy because the maker suggested you buy a ready-made cake from the store.

Then all you need is to have crumbled on the bottom to create the sandy beach and pipe on some blue waterfall using buttercream in the middle of the cake, and your easy Moana waterfall cake is made!  It’s truly a time-saver hack.

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Moana Birthday Cake

If you’re interested in making more of a sheet cake, this square Moana cake is perfect for you.

Taking elements from the previous cakes on our list, this cake features an oceanic blue part with a sandy beach where Moana and her companions are standing.

The cake itself is simply made using blue buttercream for the ocean and also crumbs for the sandy beach.

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Baby Moana-Themed Cake

If your party is not that large, this cute baby Moana cake can be the perfect match for you. The cake is also very simple, so it’s a good choice for those who are only still beginner bakers and decorators.

The cake is a small single-tier cake covered in cream-colored fondant to emulate the sand.

The only complicated part of this cake might be when you create the huge wave behind Moana and baby Moana herself.

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Moana Cake Design

Another simple cake you can make when you don’t want to put in too much effort or spend too much time in the kitchen. We know we might have said that previous cakes are easy to make, but this one is definitely the easiest on this list.

The cake is only a single tier, and it’s only covered with blue buttercream to emulate the ocean. As long as you know how to pipe on the buttercream, then you’ll be able to make this cake.

We say it’s the easiest because this cake only features printouts of the characters and decorations. So you won’t even need to create fondant or chocolate decorations.

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Moana Rosette Cake

This is also similar to our previous cake, a very simple cake that’s super easy to create.

Because it only features a single-tier cake that’s decorated with buttercream frosting and printouts of Moana characters.

It might be a bit more difficult than the previous cake since it features only one colored buttercream but three – pink, yellow, and blue. But as long as you have three different piping bags, this cake is as easy as the last.

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Simple Moana Cake

Another super simple cake that can be made in just a short time. This is another single-tier cake featuring blue buttercream on the sides but the green heart of Tefiti symbol on top.

You might need a little more technical ability when creating the Tefiti symbol and also when you’re making the multi-colored hibiscus flowers on the sides of the cake.

But aside from that, this cake is definitely just as easy to make as the previous two cakes we’ve mentioned.

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Moana Birthday Theme Cake

Here’s a two-tiered cooler cake with a green color theme instead of the usual blue and brown.

The bottom and top tiers of the cake are made out of light green-blue color buttercream. You will make some green seaweed, multi-colored hibiscus flowers, and seashell all over the cake.

Get creative and maybe use some edible flowers instead of the fondant ones so that the cake has more texture.

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