Perfect Birthday Cake Ideas!
These birthday cake ideas will take your perfect birthday cake to the next level!!! This is where the choices for birthday cake flavor and birthday theme come together....
Ideas for Cake Shapes for Themes!Cake themes need to incorporate the "color theme" and the overall "celebration theme", such as baseball or ladybugs.These ideas are to help with the overall "celebration theme". The following birthday cake ideas for shape of the birthday cake may be made with traditional cake pans or with specialty pans. Animal Shape(Dog, Cat, Dinosaur…): Usually two round cakes decorated together to form body and head of animals. Using round cake pans of various diameters may give added form. For example, 8 inch cake for head and 10 or 12 inch cake for body. Cup cakes may be used for ears and legs. Cake flavors are great fun to match colors and themes. Try orange flavored cake and decorations for a Tabby cat theme or marbled chocolate and vanilla cake for a Calico cat. Dinosaurs are great fun using the Red Velvet Cake and green-colored frosting. Use knife to make swirls and peaks in the frosting to give texture to the dinosaur skin. Candy corn may be used for teeth and claws. Gum drops may be used for eyes.
Sports(Football, Basketball, Golf …): Usually round cakes or sheet cakes decorated with a sports scene on the top are the best birthday cake ideas for field sports. The flat surface of the sheet cake is decorated as the sports field. Sports cakes are one of those lucky themes that have miniture toy figures available in most toy stores. For example, football or soccer figures from a board game make excellent decorations and may be used later with the game. Also a playing field is easy to layout on the surface of a sheet cake using gel icing tubes from the grocery store. The perfect birthday cake ideas for golf are use gel icing to outline a green and sliced colored marshmellows to form features on the green. Use toothpicks and make tiny flags with numbers to layout a golf course. Match cake decorations to this free, printable golf birthday party invitation.
Transportation(Train, Race Car, Spaceship…): Usually rectangular shape. A jelly roll cake or a loaf Pound Cake are cool birthday cake ideas for a train or spaceship birthday cakes.For a truck or train, make a rectangular sheet cake. Use our recipe for Devil's Food Chocolate Cake or recipe for a Yellow Cake. After the cake has cooled on a wire rack, place the cake on a platter of board prepared for serving the sheet cake. Make sure the board's or platter's surface is covered with wax paper to make the adjustments to position easier. Locate a picture of the truck or train to help you make a wax paper pattern for the surface of the sheet cake. Trim the excess wax paper to the edge of the outline of the vehicle. To make the cake into the shape desired, lay your pattern on top of the cake and place toothpicks into the paper to hold it it position. Trim the edges of the cake to the wax paper outline. Now you will have the perfect birthday cake for a truck with wheels, and cab or for a train including smoke stack. The same steps may be used to make a spaceship or race car shape. Next prepare frosting in color of vehicle and use gel icing to add details.
Beach(Hawaiian, Mermaid, Fish…): Round for beach ball or sheet cake with scene. Sheet cake may be decorated as beach towel and small cocktail umbrellas for beach umbrellas.For an Hawaiian theme, party supply stores have wonderful luau decorations which may be used for cake and party decorations. Think of an Hawaiian shirt pattern with tropical flowers as the pattern for the cake top and colors. Pineapple Upside-Down cakes or carrot cakes with added pineaple would make a perfect base for Hawaiian theme. More birthday cake ideas for the cake top are palm trees, flip-flops, and sunglasses. Tropical drinks also may beautiful motifs for beach cake decorations. There are cake pans made specifically for mermaid and fish characters. These pans are made by Wilton and are available at most stores selling cake and candy supplies.
Mountains(Alpine Skier, Hiker, Volcano…): Make a bundt cake with mountainous terrain, or sheet cake with scene. There are bundt pans for mountainous terrain. Gummy bears and other gummy shapes are great for bundt terrain.Make a cake in the shape of a hiking boot or backpack and bedroll. The hiking boot may be decorated with LifeSaver candies for the eyelets of the shoe and string liquorices for the laces. Use cocoa to shade white frosting to the desired boot color. Critters - Large and Small(Spider, Tiger, Ladybug, Panda…): Combination of round cakes with cupcakes for body parts frosted and decorated together as one cake.The icky spider makes an excellent birthday cake for those born near Halloween. Remember it has only two body parts and eight legg gg gg gg s! A cake baked in round or bundt pans may be decorated with a large sugar cookie for the spider's head and black gum drops for eyes. Cocoa may be used to color white frosting. Black liquorice strings make great legs. To add a scary touch use red gel icing to make the red mark of a Black Widow spider. Ladybugs are great fun using the Red Velvet Cake and red colored frosting. The round circles on the Ladybug may be made with Oreo cookies and the eyes with liquorice flavored gum drops. Cut black string liquorice for the legs and antenna. The Panda Bear cake is made with two round Devil's Food Chocolate Cakes decorated together for head and body. Using a picture of a Panda, frost the cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting and dust with confectioner's sugar for the white banded markings of the Panda. Cookies and gum drops may be used for ears, nose and eyes. Here are more perfect birthday cake ideas!!! All cakes have the potential for multiple flavored frosting, but the exotic are great for combinging chocolate with orange for tiger or strawberry with chocolate for ladybug.
Farm(Cow, Horse, Sheep…): May be sheet cake with scenes, two round cakes frosted and decorated together, or rectangle cake and only depict the head of the animal. When using retangular cake pans for heads of animals, prepare a stencil of the animal head and trim the cake to the shape of the head.More Birthday Cake Ideas!Flowers(Daisies, Roses, Violets…): Bundt pans for flower petals, round cakes, or cupcakes as a spray of different flowers. This is a great cake to use grocery store tube frosting to add details to the flower cakes. The frosing comes in many colors.Music(Drum, Guitar, Violin…): Round cake for drums, one round cake and one jelly roll frosted and decorated together to form guitar or violin. Musical instrument features may be made from cutting gum drops in small pieces to make the feature. For example, the lattice-style strings on the sides of drums may be outlined on the side of the cake with liquorice strings and round gumdrops for each end.Piano keyboards may be made with white icing as the background and liquorice strings cut for the keyboard's black keys. Musical notes may be made with round gumdrops. Profession(Banker, Chef, Carpenter…): Usually sheet cakes decorated with figures and scenes are the best birthday cake ideas for the professions.Birthday Cake Ideas for the carpenter is to make an outline of carpentar's tools on the cake top after icing the cake. For example, chocolate sugar wafers may be used for boards to make edging or a building frame on top of a sheet cake. Sheets of fruit rolls may be cut for window panes. Cut tool shapes out of grape or strawberry fruit roll candy. Perfect birthday cake ideas for the chef's birthday cake are to form a small set of measuring spoons and measuring cups with jell icing. Also a sheet cake may be made in the shape of a chef's hat - chocolate cake with white icing. Using parchment paper cut out the shape of a chef's hat to the outside deminisions of the sheet pan. Bake two layers of a sheet cake in the chef's favorite flavor. Lay the parchment paper outline on top of each cake and trim the sides to the edge of the paper. Make enough icing for two layers. Place the first layer on a cake platter. After icing the top only of the first layer and before placing the second layer on top, add fresh sliced fruit for a middle layer surprise. Bananas and strawberries work well for fresh fruit. Place the second layer on top and spread the remaining frosting on top and sides. The pleats in the cap may be made by spreading the icing in one direction with a wide offset spatula. The banker's birthday cake should be decorated with chocolate candy coins wrapped in gold foil. The cake may have green icing with currency signs written with jell icing. Clubs(Red Hat, DAR, Junior League…): Round or sheet cakes with decorations. Clubs usually have a logo that may be replicated on the top of the cake.For a Red Hat cake, use a bundt pan for the hat shape and add red food coloring to white icing for the red hat. Decorate the hat with ribbons made of grape fruit roll strips. Games(Checkerboard, Monopoly, Dominos…): Usually sheet cakes with candy for game pieces.Cakes made to represent games have the advantage of using plastic game pieces for the decorations. It may be best to use the game piece to prepare an outline on top of the cake. For example, lay chess pieces on the cake horizontally and use jell icing to make the outline. Remove the chess piece and fill in the details of the outline. Entertainment(TV, Video Game, Books…): Usually square cakes. Use fruit roll candies from the grocery store to create game or book features.For a video game, the best way is to use tracing paper to trace the scene on the video game box. Next, cut the game scene into key pieces (figures, weapons or tools, background elements). Then lay the tracing paper piece on fruit roll candy and cut out the outline of the figure, etc. Use different flavors to match the video game color scheme. Place the pieces on top of the cake after icing it with colored icing.
Birthday Cake Ideas for Decorations!Birthday candles are a necessity. Here are some birthday cake ideas for decorating the cake.o Candles (Color, Numbers…) - The tradition of using candles is attributed to the early Greeks who wanted the little moon-shaped cakes to glow for the Moon Goddess. o Theme Figures (Super Heroes, Dolls…) - These may be purchased at cooking supply or cake supply shops. o Multi-color Frosting - Most cakes take from 3 to 4 cups of frosting. Coloring the frosting is a great solution for the background for the theme figures. o Scenes (Golf Course, Football Field…) - With a little imagination, draw and cut out figures using parchment paper. Place the paper on top of the frosted cake and use a tube of colored icing from the grocery story to outline the items. Next color in the shape with colored icing, sugar or candies. o Candies - great addition to any cake or theme. Specialty stores and some health food stores sell loose candies (gummy worms, etc.) that make decorating fun and easy. o Nuts - can be used like candies to create the theme scene on the cake.
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