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3D Cake Boxes

These 3D cake boxes are so fun and so cute. Stuff each layer with different treats or gifts and really get creative. You can use these 3D cake boxes for birthdays, graduations, baby showers or any other kind of event.

3D Cake Boxes
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What You Will Need

Bottom Layer Instructions

  1. Pull the 3D cake SVG file into your program (Cricut Design Space, Silhouette Studio Designer Edition) and ungroup the 2 layers (pink layer is the base, purple layer is the lid). 
  2. Resize the circles.  DO NOT ungroup anything else before you resize the circles.  Resize the base (pink) to 5” high and 9.037” wide.  Resize the lid (purple) to 5.2” high and 9.332” wide.  You can make these smaller or larger depending on your liking but make sure you keep all parts of the base together and all parts of the lid together when you resize. The lid will always need to be 0.2” larger than the base.
  3. Once the layers are sized you can ungroup each layer.  Start with the lid (purple).  Move the circles off to the side and ungroup the banding.  Separate the banding (there will be 2 bands) and ungroup each band so you can move the decorative stripes (blue) off to the side.
  4. Change the red cut lines to score lines and attach them to the band they are on top of.  This is very important! If you do not change these to score lines your design will be cut completely and ruined.  It is also very important to attach each score line to its coordinating band.  (This video has a demo of how to do this in Cricut Design Space.)
  5. Do the same thing for the base (pink) layer.  Once all of the red cut lines are changed to score lines and attached to their band you are ready to cut.
  6. Cut the 3D Cake SVG using cardstock of your choice.  You WILL need a scoring tool for this project.
  7. Attach the decorative stripes using glue or tape to both the lid bands and the base bands. (The stripes line up with the triangle cutouts at the bottom of the bands. See the first photo in the instructions for placement.)
  8. Attach the 2 base bands (pink) together by gluing or taping the tab of one to the surface area of the other making a circle. Do the same for the lid (purple) bands.
  9. Fold in all triangle cuts.
  10. Put glue or tape round the edge (only around the edge, not all over) of base circle 1 and press it into the attached bands so that the triangle cutouts attach to the glue or tape on circle 1. This will create your 3D cake bottom.  Flip the cake bottom upside down so the circle and triangle cutouts are at the top.
  11. Put glue or tape all over base circle 2 and attach it to the other side of the triangle cutouts on the assembled cake bottom.  This will cover the triangle cutouts giving your cake bottom a clean finished look.

Middle Layer Instructions

  1. Pull the 3D Cake SVG file into your program (Cricut Design Space, Silhouette Studio Designer Edition) and ungroup the 2 layers (yellow layer is the base, orange layer is the lid). 
  2. Resize the circles.  DO NOT ungroup anything else before you resize the circles.  Resize the base (yellow) to 4” high and 6.878” wide.  Resize the lid (orange) to 4.2” high and 7.3” wide.  You can make these smaller or larger depending on your liking but make sure you keep all parts of the base together and all parts of the lid together when you resize. The lid will always need to be 0.2” larger than the base.
  3. Once the layers are sized you can ungroup each layer.  Start with the lid (orange).  Move the circles off to the side and ungroup the banding.  Separate the banding (there will be 2 bands).
  4. Follow steps 4-11 the same as you did for the base layer of your 3D Cake Boxes.

Top Layer Instructions

  1. Pull the 3D Cake SVG file into your program (Cricut Design Space, Silhouette Studio Designer Edition) and ungroup the 2 layers (blue layer is the base, green layer is the lid). 
  2. Resize the circles.  DO NOT ungroup anything else before you resize the circles.  Resize the base (blue) to 3” high and 5.127” wide.  Resize the lid (green) to 3.2” high and 5.261” wide.  You can make these smaller or larger depending on your liking but make sure you keep all parts of the base together and all parts of the lid together when you resize. The lid will always need to be 0.2” larger than the base.
  3. Follow steps 3-11 the same as you did for the base layer of your 3D Cake Boxes.