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54 Top Birthday Cake Ideas

We are now in the era where creativity has a role to play in each and everything. This holds same in the case of birthday cakes too. Each one of us is different and thus there should be uniqueness in what we do.  Especially in occasions like birthday and other events, it will help us to portray our creative ideas. Yet there are lots of people out there who are in need of a cute and delicious birthday cake idea to make the occasion memorable and special.

This article will help you with some birthday cake ideas for your special occasions and celebrations. In fact, cake decoration is much easier than you expect it to be. A cake, a bit of buttercream or fondant and creativity is all that is required to bring down your theme based cake idea into a delicious piece of bite. Even without fondant, it is possible to create sculpted designed and artistic cakes. Here are some of the cake ideas for birthdays that can be tried by anyone who likes baking or icing.

Birthday Cake Ideas for Boys:

  • Basket Ball Cake: A big bag of Reese’s Pieces, white frosting and round nice cake are the only things needed for this yummy bite. Candles can be placed in basketball style all over the cake. The same idea can be used for football cake or baseball cake.
  • Circus Cat Cake: Vanilla wafers to ears, Nougat to the nose and an ice-cream cream to the hat on a cute round cat cake will make it special with some creative and clever icing put together.
  • Train Cake: Though this is not a new idea, boys always have a love towards long train cakes, some rectangle cakes, a bit frosting and cookie wheels will be a delight for any train lover out there.
  • Dog Cake: All this needs is two heart shaped cakes of which one is cut to make the ears of the dog and some buttercreams to give a finishing to it.
  • Fire Truck Cake: The bonding between truck toys and boys will last forever, thus any truck formed cake will make the event extraordinary with the birthday boy’s share of happiness. Some rectangle cakes with bright red buttercream and some white here and there will complete the decoration of a fire truck cake.
  • Tractor Cake: To get the bulldozers crawlers use some Kit Kats, get the shoveling blade with solid piece of chocolate, then smoothen some white frosting all over the cake to make it a tractor.

 

Birthday Cake Ideas for Girls:

  • Rapunzel Cake: Take some cupcakes to top the base cake and an upside down ice-cream cone to cover everything with a baby-pink frosting cream. Bring a Rapunzel doll on this piece to give the cake a finishing.
  • Rubber Ducky Cake: Use some chocolate chips to give the border, fill the cake with colored frosting and bring down some bath toys to make it a perfect piece of cake.
  • Castle Cake: Castles are always loved by kids especially when it is creative with some ice-cream cones, paper hearts, fluffy marshmallows and some fresh pink frosting. This caking cannot go wrong as it is very simple and marvelous.
  • Sprinkles Cakes: Whether or not it is a layered cake with nice shades of a single color, simply using some sprinkles all over the cream covered cake will make it beautiful and edible.
  • Rabbit Cake: Two round cakes, one for the face and the other bow and ears will make it a happy hare. Frosting and adding candies can be of your choice to make it colorful.

 

Birthday Cake Ideas for Boyfriend:

  • Fat food Birthday Cake: Offer a cake that looks like a burger with some fresh fried yellow creamy French-fries and a bit of red sauce.
  • Vodka Snowfall Cake: A square creamy base cake with some blue to reflect snow and snowflake and the center with a bottle of vodka.
  • Crown Royal Cake: Make an oval cake that has gap in the middle to fit a Royal hot bottle. And finish the sides with some fries and snacks.
  • Chicago Cap Cake: Get a round cake and another cap head piece of cake to cover it with some nice color fondant and carve Chicago or C on the cap cake.
  • Guitar Cake: Make this the ideal cake for him who loves music, craft a piece of guitar right on top of a rectangle cake and make it more unique with some lyrics.

 

Birthday Cake Ideas for Girlfriend:

  • M&M Cake: It need not always be a heart shaped red cake to impress a girl. Get her M&M cake if she loves chocolates. Cream the cake all over and stick some color filled M&Ms on the cream.
  • Doodle Cake: You need not be a baker to create layered cakes. It’s simple about adding different colors to the normal cake and placing it one after the other. Use edible markers to design on it.
  • Princess and the Pea Cake: How does it seem to call her your princess through a cake? A rich three step white cake with some green peas frosting and a golden crown on top can help you to get the message across.
  • Rosette Cake: With just a bit of dedication and a lot of dye buttercream you can fill the cake with colored frosting pretty stars. Use a piping tip to get the right sized colored stars on the cake.

 

Birthday Cake Ideas for Husband:

  • Lamborghini Cake Wishes: Get a red and black class Lamborghini onto the cake base to give a classy cakey finish.
  • Baseball Cake: With just icing you can get this cake detailed in a style way you prefer. The rich chocolate flavor can steal the look of the cake, thus get it balanced.
  • Candy Cake: Getting a rich collection of candies on top of the cake that is fenced with Choco sticks can make you wonder if you are into a cake or a lush of chocolates.
  • Wedding Suit Cake: Get your husband a cake that resembles his wedding suit to remind him the bond you both share in the rush of life.
  • Face Birthday Cake: On a plain white frosted cake get his face portrayed with some chocolate sauce and brown sugar.

 

Birthday Cake Ideas for Wife:

  • Mermaid and Sea Horse Cake: Not so simple yet very elegant cake that can be finished with a lot of dedication and effort to prove how special she is in your life.
  • Anchor with Flowers Cake: Find out if this is a type of cake that your wife would like to have. Adventurous wives find this more connected to them – that’s through the styling on an anchor.
  • Flowers and Music Cake: The love for both of this is seen in all most all women. Give the best collections of flowers for your wife to make the music in her to sing. Get some nice red colored fondant roses on the birthday cake and a few white and colored Lilly.
  • Ice-cream topped melting cake: This fondant made ice-cream cone can give a nice look to the sweet and perfectly shaped cake. The soft and melting cake will just vanish the minute to take it to your mouth.
  • French Macaroons with Marshmallows: Most wives like macaroons and marshmallows but just be mindful about your glucose level when you have this sweet cake. Yes, you can balance the sweetness but the combination of macaroons and marshmallows will make it difficult for you to not highlight the sweetness.

 

 Birthday Cake Ideas for Mom:

  • HandBag Cake: Is you mom a bag lover, get her the beige nice butterscotch filled bag finished cake with her favorite branded chocolate logo. Mouth-watering right? It will surely be one of the classic and exceptional looking yummy cakes that you can ever gift your mom.
  • Gucci Shoe Cake: Aww! That favorite and stylish shoe design that made her fall in love again and again can be simply brought into a form of cake for her to bite it with all love. Your Mom would definitely smile the minute she takes a look at this cake as this lets her know how much her kids know about her!
  • Surfer Cake: It is possible with some brown sugar instead of sand, blue frosted waves and some beach toys. It might look too complicated but it’s actually one of the simple and easiest decorations.
  • Passion Cake: What’s her passion? Showcase it in the form of a cake to motivate her to get there with your support. Is she passionate about travelling the world, get a globe on her cake and let her know it’s not that tough to get to what she wants!
  • Family Cake: Without any doubt you can say, the best thing your mom loves is her family. Get your family image into a designer cake and let she take a bite of it. On this make sure you are choosing one of her best picture. There should not be any reason for her to miss the joy.

 

Birthday Cake Ideas for Dad:

  • 007 Cake: Is your dad a James Bond Fan? Then choose a 007 cake to make him feel you know his favorites. Let he get the joy of sharing his birthday with his favorite fan (cake) and the memories will be cherished for a lifetime.
  • SuperDad Cake: Get the superman logo into a “SuperDad” one and let him know he is your super hero forever. Yes, it is quite a simple idea but can make your dad smile for sure.
     
  • Beer Jar Cake: Get that creativity out now to show him it’s possible for you bring beer jar that is sweet and yummy to bite. If your dad loves beer or hot drinks, may use of this as an ideas to gift him a perfect cake for his birthday.
  • Helmet Cake: Does he have passion for driving; get him home to gift him a helmet cake. One that he can wear to his tastes. Safety comes first especially on the birthday, so bite helmet as your birthday cake and take a joyful ride.
  • A Million Dollar Man: Make him feel he is worth more than a million dollar through a cake. Get an image printed of a dollar right on top of the cake and if possible add his photo too. A single dollar note on a rectangle cake will serve the purpose and helps you to have a rich birthday.

 

Birthday Cake Ideas for Brother:

  • Cricket Cake: Let your brother know you like him playing cricket and he is one of the best players you have personally met. Get this message through a cake for his birthday. Fondant would be ideal for creating a cricket cake. Either fondant or choco-sticks can be used for wickets, cricket bat and a perfect round fondant ball. Use some cake decoration toys if you think it’s too time consuming to create edible cricket players.
  • Ninja Cake: A black cake with Ninja all over it is pretty simple to create with some best fondants and nice crafting. Out of all the crazy cartoon characters and game characters only few will pick Ninja as it’s mostly black themed. But just as the saying -black has its own beauty, the taste also is unique and yummy.
  • Batman Cake: This can be one of the simplest yet very attractive cakes that your brother has ever tasted. Surprise him with a black and yellow theme of Batman Cake. This is one of the easiest and simple cake design and not very commonly seen on birthdays.
  • Bike Cake: Go for a ride along with your brother on his birthday with a cake bike. Get your brother’s name on the bike to give personalized finish. That crazy bike cake with perfect finishing will surely bring joy on your brother’s face.
  • Camera Cake: To add to the photography passion of your brother, gift him a camera cake. A style of camera model that he loves to own. It need not necessarily be in black color unless the shape and design is perfect. It’s all about getting the right message across.
  • iPhone Cake: May be buying an iPhone is not an economical choice but gifting an iPhone cake to your beloved brother is very much possible. White base cake with some black border and tilted choco-chips can make the button of the iPhone.

 

Birthday Cake Ideas for Sister:

  • Mickey Mouse Cake: Getting a cake with your sister’s favorite Mickey Mouse will definitely bring happiness and will complete her birthday.
  • Disney Cartoon: Disney has always been one of the favorites of every girl out there. If you can surprise her with a beautiful and elegant crafted cake, there is nothing more to call it a birthday! 
  • Minnie Mouse Cake: Getting a Minnie mouse birthday cake with some pinks and whites here and there along with a Minnie mouse toy will make the birthday a memorable one. 
  • Teddy Bear Cake: Oh the love for teddy bears will never go down for any sisters. Get her a nicely baked cake with teddy bear toys or a lush of flavored and creamy cake. 
  • Watermelon Flavored Fondant Buttercream Cake: With some perfect fondant and buttercream getting a fruity flavored cake in a watermelon shape is not a matter at all. Creativity can be depicted into this cake in a very simple way.
  • Dream Catcher Cake: Is you sister passionate about collecting dream catchers and believes it can bring changes in her life, then there is no other reason required to make a dream catcher cake for her.
  • Polka Dotted Cake: Check for her tastes before you decide something of this sort. Polka dotted design is not everyone’s favorite, thus it is important to check clearly before finalizing any polka designed cake.

Making creative cakes is now possible and getting ideas for the same is now at your fingertips. No matter how big or small the birthday is bringing a piece of customized cake will give a different feel to the occasion. The generation of cute picture cakes has gone and now it’s more about crazy fondants and buttercream. Moreover it’s not about the size of the cake, creativity and style is what matters. It’s also seen these days’ birthday parties have 2 or more cakes, one which is fully creative and just cut during the wishing ceremony and another one to be distributed to the guest. Some parties will have more cakes which are used for caking and birthday smashing.

Getting cake ideas for any occasion is now very simple. If you have the patience and dedication to gift your beloved something special and unique then we are here with ideas to make you feel accomplished!

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