DIY No-Sew Pretend Play Food Sponge Cake Tutorial

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These DIY sponge cakes are so much fun to make and the kids can use them in their pretend play kitchens, bakery, or tea parties.

No sewing involved, just some cutting and glueing! Follow my easy step-by-step tutorial to make your own. Change the colors to make your favorite flavors!

Two handmade pink and yellow pretend play sponge cakes on flowery plate. Text on image: DIY How to make sponge cakes. That craft site dot com.

How to Make DIY Sponge Cake Slices

Supplies you’ll need:

Sponges
Felt
Mini pompoms
Hot glue
Scissors
Marker
Ruler

Step 1: Prepare the Sponges

If your sponges come with a green scrubby layer, peel it off. Some come with pink or yellow scrub layers, if you like, you can leave those on.

Close up of two hands peeling off the green scrubby layer from a pink kitchen sponge.

Step 2: Cut the Sponges

Using your ruler and marker, measure and mark the sponges to create the slices of cake. Start from a corner, marking towards the center of the opposite edge.

Close up of hands cutting a triangle shape from a pink kitchen sponge.

Use your scissors to carefully cut along the marked lines. You will have three triangles: one larger and two smaller ones. Glue the two smaller pieces together to form a triangle of the same dimensions as the first.

Hands holding up two triangle shaped pieces of pink kitchen sponge to form a larger triangle.

Step 3: Make Felt Frosting Layer

Cut a piece of yellow felt to create a middle layer of frosting. Cut a triangle a little bit larger than the sponge triangles.

Close up of yellow felt being cut to the shape of a triangle shaped piece of pink kitchen sponge.

Cut and glue on top of the combined triangle. Glue the overlap to the sides.

Close up of hands holding the yellow felt over a pink piece of kitchen sponge.

Glue the second sponge triangle on top of the felt frosting layer.

Hands holding up two pieces of pink kitchen sponge with yellow felt in between them.

Step 4: Felt Frosting Outer Layer

To add frosting to the outside of the cake slice, place your sponge cake on your felt and trace around the base. Flip the cake up and trace the back side. You will have a piece of felt that fits around the back and top. Glue it on.

Hand marking shape around the pink sponge triangle on yellow felt.

Yellow felt glued around pink triangle pieces of kitchen sponge.

Step 5: Make Felt Frosting Roll

Cut a small strip of felt, about one inch wide and as long as the back of your cake. Fold in half lengthwise and glue together. Glue this frosting roll at the top back of your cake.

Yellow rolled up piece of felt glued on the back of a handmade piece of pretend play sponge cake, with other sponges in the background.

Step 6: Add Pom Pom Decorations

Finish your sponge cake by glueing on a few mini pom poms on top.

Once the glue is dry, your DIY pretend play food sponge cake is ready for playtime!

Mini pompoms glued as decorations on top of handmade pretend play sponge cakes.

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