Our collection of kids birthday cake ideas makes cake decorating fun and fearless. You don’t have to be a pastry chef to create a professional-quality cake for your child’s birthday or other special event. Learn unique and easy cake decorating ideas to make spectacular homemade cakes.
PARTY CAKE CONCEPT AND DESIGN
The most important kids birthday cake idea is choosing a cake concept that suits your party theme. You can start with a simple sheet cake topped with small toys or figures, or crumble the cake to form a unique design.
For example, a Party cake construction It could be topped off with little toy garbage trucks and bulldozers pushing a mountain of chocolate chips. Or, the cake itself can be cut, assembled, and frosted to look like a dump truck.
To Train party, place a miniature choo-choo train on licorice tracks on top of your cake, or line up several brightly colored iced loaf cakes to form train cars.
To Luau party, A simple round or sheet cake can be topped with a silk flower lei, or a chain of cupcakes can be formed in a circle and each decorated with silk flowers or icing. Connect with a string of licorice to make a “lei” cupcake.
Baking cakes in an oven safe glass bowl or special 3D sports ball tray is ideal for making any type of perfectly round ball cake, or the dress part of a Barbie doll cake. A wonderful cake pan makes little single-serve doll cakes and other cute creations!
Think about the design you would like to make and the shapes you need to make it: round, flat, loaf, cupcakes, or a combination.
Browse cake decorating books for a kids birthday cake idea that suits their needs. Many books provide templates for cutting and joining cakes to create any number of popular designs. You decide how simple or challenging your cake will be.
For a no-fuss kids birthday cake idea, apply a edible cake art picture up to the top of a frosted cake. Many popular themes and copyrighted images such as Disney are available to provide a professional looking cake design.
Themed cake pans They are another popular cake decorating option. They provide the shape and visual design to follow for a stunning finished cake. Popular TV and cartoon characters are well represented on cake pans, as well as teddy bears, butterflies, pirates, Tigger, Mickey Mouse and much more.
ICE CREAM OPTIONS
Homemade frosting – Discover that famous family recipe or visit one of the many recipe sites online and make your cake frosting from scratch. Be sure to plan ahead for the amount of each color that will be needed for both the basic base and decorative trim.
Canned and Tube Icing – The easiest and fastest made canned frostings are available at grocery stores in the baking aisle with cake mixes. They usually come in white, chocolate, and a few other popular flavors. Keep some ready-made tube frostings on hand in several basic colors to add the finishing touches.
Fondant Icing – Gaining popularity in this country in recent years, fondant icing adds a beautiful smooth finish to your cake decorating creation. The fondant can be spread and placed on a cake, poured as a frosting, or sculpted into shapes. It is easily dyed and can also be flavored. Ready-to-use fondant is available through party supply outlets. There are also many recipes online for homemade fondant.
CAKE DECORATION WITH CANDIES AND TOYS
Cookies, candies and other materials can be used for special and impressive effects. The frosted sugar cones can serve as flaps on a spaceship cake or as turrets on a castle cake. Make a surprise cake filling with jelly.
A wide variety of plastic holders or cake toppers are available in craft stores. Or just use a toy that fits the theme of the party as a cake topper and give it to the party boy when the party is over. Action figures, small dolls, animals, and cartoon characters make good choices.
Add cool sweet accents with M & M’s, licorice chunks, licorice whips, animal cookies, oreo cookies, paper umbrellas, pretzel sticks, muffins, jimmies, gummies like worms, bears etc, gummies, mini marshmallows , colored coconut, jelly beans.
THE LATEST CAKE DECORATING FADS!
There are plenty of novelty options to put the finishing touches on your party cake. Dress it up in style with one or more of these unique special effects:
Color Mist Spray – It is a fun addition to your baking repertoire. Frost the cake in white and then spray the edible color from a spray can. Available in many colors, it can be used with stencils to make unique designs, as a highlight for whipped topping, even in your child’s mashed potatoes!
Glitter powders – They are a food-safe edible “powder” that can be used in any frosting recipe that dries hard and firm to the touch. Apply with white frosting for a shiny metallic-like shine or layer for interesting color effects.
Cake Stamps – Can be used in conjunction with fondant icing brush color. Simply stamp shapes and designs onto the finished fondant and brush in color.
Cake templates – Place stencil on top of frosted cake and sprinkle edible glitter, confetti sprinkles, or use a spray color mist.
Edible Color Markers – These unique markers are used as an ink marker. Draw fun designs on cakes, cookies, fondant icing, even cheese, fruit slices, and bread. Children’s decoration marker kits are available.
Edible decorations in the form of sugar,
decorative candles, themed toothpicks and rings for cakes and edible glitter They are fun tools in your cake baking arsenal.
You are now armed with many great ideas for cake decorating success – no fear!
Go ahead and create … and above all, have fun!
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