15 Beautiful Moana Cake Ideas and Tutorials (FREE Cake Toppers)

Moana Meeting the Wave

This Moana sheet cake has a beach made of crushed vanilla wafers and a wave made of candy melts. It’s really cool!

Special Supplies Needed: seashell candy molds

Time to Make: 5 hours

Skill:  Beginner

Beach Cake with Chocolate Finger Border

Chocolate fingers and leis surround this beach scene cake.

Special Supplies Needed: chocolate fingers; a lei

Time to Make: 3.5 hours

Skill: Beginner

Doll Cake

Rosanna Pansino used a doll dress cake mold to create a grass-skirt Moana doll cake – and it’s actually pretty easy! I did something similar with Mirabel Madrigal for Lily’s Encanto birthday party. Here’s a video of how it was done:

Special Supplies Needed: doll dress cake pan

Time to Make: 3 hours

Skill: Intermediate

Ocean Wave Cake

Asma Qureshi on YouTube shows you how to create a beautiful, edible ocean wave using blue isomalt! It’ll work perfectly for a cake where baby Moana is walking out to the ocean and it moves for her.

Special Supplies Needed: blue isomalt nibs

Time to Make: 5 hours

Skill: Intermediate

Baby Moana Birthday Cake

This video from Zoe’s Fancy Cakes shows every little step of how she achieved this movie-realistic cake in the shape of baby Moana’s head! Color dusting is a big part of her method, and she uses bits of fondant under her main drape of fondant to achieve the lips and nose.

Special Supplies Needed: skin tone fondant

Time to Make: 2 hours

Skill: Intermediate-Advanced

Heart of Te’Fiti and Maui’s Hook Cupcakes

These super-simple cupcakes show off two of the most important items in the first Moana film: Maui’s hook and the heart of Te’Fiti.

Special Supplies Needed: coconut flakes

Time to Make: 2 hours

Skill: Beginner

Maui Cake

A Moana and Maui birthday cake can be simple, but tedious. This two-tier cake has a leaf skirt surrounding the bottom and a simple brown-skin fondant covering the top with Maui’s tattoos drawn all over it. Do yourself a favor and top it with a toy hook instead of trying to make your own out of chocolate!

Special Supplies Needed: Maui’s hook toy (up to 12”)

Time to Make:  6 hours

Skill: Intermediate

Tamatoa Cake

This is by far the most insanely difficult Moana birthday cake on this list… But if you’ve got the skill, it’s 100% worth it. Look at that beautiful crab cake (LOL)!

Special Supplies Needed: a lot… check her post for links!

Time to Make: at least a week

Skill: Expert

Made-to-Order Cake Options

Currently, Walmart has one cake available using licensed Moana images and toppers: a simple sheet cake. Wal-mart’s frosting is tasty and their cakes are reasonably priced if you don’t have time (or, well, skill) to make your own! Last time I checked, they were not showing this cake (or any Moana cakes) in their main catalogue, but it could still be ordered online.

Special Candle for the Cake

You can go for the regular stick candles in your required quantity, or you can get this adorable 2.5-inch candle that doubles as a cake topper featuring Moana and her pet pig Pua!

Walmart’s Toppers via Amazon

If you have the skill to copy Walmart’s cake and just need the toppers, you can get them separately! Walmart doesn’t generally carry Moana-specific toppers out on the shelves. But if you’re looking to purchase just the licensed toppers they use in their custom bakery cakes, you can buy it from Amazon!

Edible Cake Topper

You can purchase an edible image on Amazon that fit perfectly on top of a 9×13 frosted cake. If you’re looking for an easy DIY Moana cake that still looks nice, this is the way to go!

Cupcake Ring Toppers

For very young children, sometimes cupcakes are easier than trying to get them to sit down with a slice of cake. They’ll love these Moana rings on top of their cupcakes that they can wear home, and you’ll love how easy it is to make your cupcakes Moana-themed.

Cake Figures

There are a few different Moana figurine sets available, and which one you should get depends on what kind of scene you’re trying to set up on your Moana cake. Some of the playsets don’t come with a baby Moana figurine or Tamatoa, and to me, that’s a dealbreaker! I recommend this Moana figure playset because you’ll have lots of options for decorating, and your kiddo will have a blast playing with these high-quality figures after the party.

Baby Moana

This adorable baby Moana cake topper can be customized with your child’s name and age. You can print it on paper and cut it out, or upload the transparent PNG to software like Print Then Cut to use your Cricut to cut it out! It’s got baby Moana reaching toward the age number, which is made out of gold glitter (I think Tamatoa would approve).

Grown-Up Moana

Moana’s all grown up in this cake topper, standing strong with her power of the ocean illustrated in the water symbol shaped like the heart of Te’Fiti. It can also be customized with your child’s age and name!

Moana and Maui

Maui has been a huge success in terms of male Disney characters, and his friendship with Moana turned out to be awesome. This printable cake topper features both of them along with a wooden sign that says “Happy Birthday [NAME]” that can be customized for your child.

Free Printable Moana Cake Toppers

If you’re trying to spend as little money as possible on your Moana birthday cake, I’ve got a free printable PDF of Moana characters you can use as cake toppers! Just print them out on cardstock at Best/Fine quality, cut them out, and attach them to flat sandwich toothpicks. You’ll be able to create your own little movie scene on top of the cake.

If you’d like to get transparent PNGs of each character so you can upload it to Design Space or any other Print-Then-Cut-type software for quick and easy cutting, you can get them with the premium listing here!