Are you looking for ideas for an extra special birthday cake this year? Then check out the following ideas for five birthday cakes that are easy to make!
- Doll cake. One fantastic way to make a fun birthday cake for a girl who loves dolls or Barbies, is to create a doll cake. One of the best ways to do this is to bake a thick round cake, or even a bundt cake. Get the birthday girls favorite Barbie doll and wrap her legs in cellophane before placing it in the center of the cake. Cut a hole to insert her if you need to. Make the cake seem like the skirt of the doll by icing it in a matching color to the top the doll will be wearing. If you like, shave off some of the cake to make the skirt look more realistic. You can add sprinkles, and other things make it sparkly and more girly.
- Present cake. A super fun cake that really fits the birthday theme is a cake shaped like a present. For this present, you will need a rectangular or square cake. You would ice the entire cake. Then use fondant (which you can buy at a craft store and roll out and cut into the shapes you want) to create a “ribbon” and “bow” out of icing as if it were an actual wrapped gift. You can make the wrapping paper seem pattered by using fondant or icing to create shapes on the cake.
- Sports ball cake. For the sports themed birthday, nothing goes over quite so well as a sports ball shaped cake, and lucky for you these are some of the easiest cakes to make. Bake up a round cake, ice it in the color of the ball you wish to represent, and use a piping bag to give distinction. For example, if you are making a tennis ball cake ice the cake with yellow frosting and then use white icing to pipe the detail of the tennis ball.
- Castle cake. To make a beautiful castle cake, you will need to bake a couple of round cakes. One must be larger than the other. Place the smaller cake on top of the larger cake and frost with white or gray icing. Take some ice cream cake cones and fill them with icing to weigh them down. Turn sugar cones upside down and place them on top of the cake cones. Next, put these spires on top of your castle. Then use candies such as Smarties, Necco wafers, and Dots to make the cake look more exciting.
- Animal lovers cake. This is a fun, yet simple cake to make. First, determine what animal your child loves best. Then, find crackers or cookies already shaped in these animal shapes. The first thing you want to do is bake a cake. This cake can be any shape you like. The next step is to ice it. To make the cake look like grass, ice it with green frosting. To make the cake look more like grass, make the icing a little messy. Use pretzel sticks to create a fence around the edge of the cake and place the animal shaped crackers inside the “fence” area.
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