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Every cake tells a story and we want to hear (and see) yours!
We know you've come up with some very crafty and creative birthday cake decorating ideas in your quest for an unforgettable birthday or family celebration.
You probably spent hours looking in different places for lots of cake ideas to inspire you. And while a picture says a lot it would have been nice to have a few words that actually explained how to make that 'perfect' cake you found.
That's why I started this website - to share what I know and love with you. And with your help we can grow the most amazing collection of birthday cake ideas, designs and inspiration anywhere!
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Beer Cake
First off I would like to explain that I was given a two day notice to make this Beer Cake .
The only requirement given was that they wanted the Bud ...
Fall Wedding Cake
The bride and groom were on a tight budget, so I went with a Fall Wedding Cake very simply iced in buttercream.
The cake arrived at the reception ...
40th Birthday Cake
For this 40th Birthday Cake , I made two square sponge cakes and two round sponge cakes.
I cut the square into strips to make the 4 shape. I cut the ...
Giraffe cake
I love this website, and I must say this Giraffe Cake was totally inspired by it!
I also love to make birthday cakes for my daughter. This year was ...
Spaghetti Cake
I made this Spaghetti Cake for my friend's birthday she had no idea I was making it. I asked her husband a few questions about what she liked then I ...
Rubber ducky bath tub cake
I made this cake for my daughter's rubber ducky first birthday party. It's very simple and worked great for me since I am absolutely not an experienced ...
Harley Davidson Cake
I made this Harley Davidson Cake for my son's birthday. He wanted a motorcycle cake and wanted it to be Harley Davidson. When I thought it over ...
Pink Stroller Baby Shower Cake
I made this cake for a friend's baby shower, it is chocolate with buttercream filling the stroller was made out of a 14 inch cake, i just cut almost a ...
Black Pearls Wedding Cake
The cake is a rich butter pound cake, frosted with vanilla buttercream and filled with raspberry buttercream.
The decoration is made up entirely of ...
Pink Veil
Pink veil was made for a wedding show. One my favorite things is to think of a cake as a canvas. I love painting on cakes. The veil is made of fondant ...
Hamburger Cakes
I made these mini Hamburger Cakes after being inspired by the fabulous hamburger cake on this site! I didn't need to feed so many people so I made ...
Dragon Cake
I made this Dragon Cake for my son's dragon themed 4th birthday. I wanted a nice looking dragon not a scary one and so I went with a Puff the Magic ...
Power Rangers Cake
My son wanted a Power Rangers Cake for his 5th birthday so this is what I came up with.
It's an 8" round chocolate cake, filled and iced with chocolate ...
Pirate Cake
I made this Pirate Cake for my friend Harry's 60th birthday. He is a pirate!
It's made with a 10" round and a 6" round cake. I used the chocolate ...
Front Porch Ministry cake
The entire Front Porch cake is Yellow butter cake.
The top two tiers are filled with vanilla buttercream and the bottom tiers with chocolate buttercream....
Motorcycle Cake
This Motorcycle Cake was for my husbands Grandad's 70th birthday.
He loved motorbikes when he was younger so I thought this was very fitting.
It ...
WWE Wrestling Cake
My brother requested a WWE Wrestling themed cake for his 13th birthday. After searching through internet images, I finally settled on this design.
Not ...
High School Musical Birthday Cake
To make my High School Musical Birthday Cake , I used a 12" and an 8" round cake pan. I made the cream cheese frosting using the recipe you sent me ...
Monkey Cake
I made this Monkey Cake for my daughter's teacher. She loves monkeys and is having her first baby in April.
I really wanted her baby shower cake ...
Ben 10 cake
This Ben 10 Cake cake was my first ever attempt at cake making.
My son is a big BEN 10 fan and looking at the prices of shop bought cakes I decided ...
Mickey Mouse Cake
I made this Mickey Mouse cake for my sons 3rd birthday. He loves Mickey Mouse and asked for a mickey party so I decided to make him the ultimate Mickey ...
Curious George Cake
I made this Curious George Cake for a little girl's first birthday.
Chloe is a HUGE Curious George fan so I decided to make her a very "girly" birthday ...
50th Birthday Cake
I made this 50th Birthday Cake cake for my boss's birthday at work. I used a cake mix, and used ganache as the filling and a white buttercream ...
Farm Cake
My son wanted a Farm Cake for his birthday.
I baked three 9x13 sheet cakes in different flavors.
One was for a silo, which I used large biscuit ...
Baby Cakes
I made these baby cakes for my friend's sons christening.
I made Chocolate flavor cupcakes with vanilla buttercream filling inside.
The baby ...
Enchanted Castle Cake
This Castle Cake was made for a little girl that had recently been adopted ,so this was to celebrate her special day. Of course you could make this cake ...
Hannah Montana Birthday Cake
A friend of mine at work asked me if I could make a Hannah Montana birthday cake for her daughter's birthday.
I love baking and especially working ...
Snowman Cake
This Snowman Cake is made with two bundt cakes for the bottom, and 2 half dome cakes for the head. Then one gigantic cupcake for the beanie (there is ...
Castle Cake For Alina
This Castle Cake was all 1sts for me:
*cake, ganache, and frosting from scratch
*decorating
*tiers
I used the following pan sizes:
10x3,8x3,6x2,...
Pizza Cake
I made this Pizza Cake cake for my son's 11th birthday party.
We decided to have a pizza party and this cake was the perfect icing on top!
The ...
Flip Flop Cake
What's the story behind this Flip Flop Cake?
It was my sister's 30th birthday and she had been complaining for awhile that she was looking for a pair ...
Jack O Lantern Cake 2
To make my Jack O Lantern Cake I used a Wilton Bundt pan. I baked two cakes using this pan.
After the cakes cooled, I placed each cake bottom ...
Jack O Lantern Cake 3
To make my Jack O Lantern Cake I used the Wilton Jack O Lantern pan.
I used fondant to decorate the face and a green ice cream cone for the stem....
Sports Cake Airsoft Field
This Sports Cake was my very first cake. It was inspired by son and husbands hobby, Airsoft.
My friend Abi and I made it for my sons 7th Birthday.
We ...
Hamburger Cake
I made this Hamburger Cake for my husbands birthday. I wanted a cake that looked nothing like a cake. It was very fun to make and not very hard.
The ...
Polka Dot Cake
This Polka Dot Cake is the first cake I've ever decorated.
I used the pound cake recipe from this site to bake the cake.
Then I filled the cake ...
Fondant Cake
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My friend asked me to make a fondant cake for her piano recital and this is how it turned out. She loved it.
It was a red velvet cake with a cream ...
1st Birthday Cakes
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These 1st Birthday Cakes are chocolate flavor cupcakes with butter cream icing and I made marshmallow fondant for the toppers.
From the editor:...
Video Game Cake
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I made this Pacman Video Game Cake cake from a ten in round and cut out a fairly good sized pie piece.
I used a #106 tip to decorate the whole cake....
bob the builder cake
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For this Bob the Builder Cake I made a large rectangle chocolate cake and froze it.
I got a template of bob and cut out the sections, then put them ...
Wonder Pets Cake
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This kids birthday cake is a homemade pound cake recipe.
The icing is homemade cake decorator icing. I purchased the characters on Ebay.
My ...
Guitar Cake
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The first thing I did to make this Guitar Cake was to bake a half sheet cake. I had previously made a template of a guitar body using my Guitar Hero ...
Birthday Cupcakes
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I made these Pineapple Birthday Cupcakes for my daughter's luau birthday party.
They were very easy to make:
Just bake your favorite cupcake recipe ...
Halloween Cake Ideas
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NOTE: I got my Halloween Cake Ideas from the Tombstone Cake on this site, and would like to thank the poster of this cake for the great idea- everyone ...
Simple Wedding Cake
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Pink Pearls and Lace. Classic white cakes with white chocolate buttercream icing. Bottom tier is filled with lemon curd and the top tier is filled with ...
Butterfly Cake
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I made this Butterfly Cake for a friend's birthday.
I used a box mix that I modified a little. The bottom tier is yellow and the top tier is chocolate....
Princess Castle
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I made this Princess Castle Cake for my daughter's 5th Birthday. I used the Wilton's Castle Cake set. This was my first cake - it took a while ;)
I ...
Little Mermaid Cake
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I made this Little Mermaid Cake for my daughter's 6th birthday.
I used a box mix that I modified a little. Both tiers are yellow cake with buttercream ...
Blue Wedding Cake
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Blue Wedding Cake for 75 guests features Moon and Stars fondant design.
All the fondant is handmade by Seattle Cakery. This cake features use of ...
Elephant Cake
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I am just a beginner cake decorator. This Elephant Cake was also the first cake I had made for someone other than my own children, so I was a bit nervous ...
21st birthday cake
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This 21st Birthday Cake is a two tiered, filled yellow cake.
The bottom tier is filled with whipped chocolate gananche .
The top tier (strawberry ...
Square Wedding Cake
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This Square Wedding Cake is a simple buttercream cake for 100. The sizes are 6, 10 & 14. Each square is twisted slightly off center. The flavors were ...
Happy Feet Happy Birthday
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This cake was for a birthday party of 100 guests for a one-year-old.
It consisted of a 14" carrot cake, 2 10" chocolate cakes stacked, a 6" butter ...
Little Shop of Horrors
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I made this cake for a theatre fundraiser. It was inspired by the musical "Little Shop of Horrors" and is my representation of the blood-thirsty man-eating ...
Caterpillar Cake
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Look - it's my caterpillar cake !
Hi Michelle,
I wanted to thank you for your amazing cake ideas. I had a joint birthday party for my son and daughter....
Fire Truck Cake
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I made this Fire Truck Cake for a friend's husband, who is a volunteer fire fighter and has just passed his test to be certified. It was not supposed ...
Popcorn Cake
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This Popcorn Cake cake was my third cake to make and by far my favorite. It was soooo yummy too! For my flavors I decided to go with my sons two favorite ...
Cape Cod Birthday Cake
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This was a very simple and fun cake to make for my friend who is from the Cape Cod area. I used an 8 inch cake (although it would have been better with ...
Mickey Mouse Birthday Cake
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I made this Mickey Mouse Birthday Cake for my sons 2nd birthday.
It is my first attempt at making a homemade cake, EVER.
It is 3 stacked 9" devils ...
Drama Queen
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This cake is for show. It's covered in fondant and hand painted to achieve the marbleized effect. The circles are applied and painted with gold luster ...
Truck Cake
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I made this Truck Cake when my husband was living in a super 8 for 1 whole year where the army had housed his unit, due to not having the available housing ...
SUPER 8 Cake!
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My husband was living in a super 8 for a year due to being in the military, and the military not having enough housing on base to house them... I went ...
Birthday Cupcakes
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I made these 24 mini Birthday Cupcakes for my sons 1st birthday, to go along with the other two cakes I made. I had some batter left over - that's why ...
Fish Birthday Cake
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This Fish Birthday Cake is one of several I made for my sons 1st birthday.
It is a Chocolate cake, made with two 8" round cake pans. I used one full ...
Beach Cake
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This Beach Cake was so much fun to make!. It was for my son's 1st birthday party.
To make the sand cake, I took a pail - I bought it brand new but ...
Easter Basket Cake
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I used a chocolate cake for this Easter Basket Cake .
I followed the Basic Cake Making Directions, and used a bundt pan.
After the cake was cooled,...
Barbie Cake
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I made this Barbie Cake for my friend's daughter.
I used the Wonder Mold Kit and a real Barbie Doll so she could keep it and play with it. The ...
valentines day wedding cake
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This cake I made for my sister-in-law for her wedding. Each layer is different flavor. The bottom layer is chocolate , the second is strawberry, and the ...
Latte Land
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Latte Land was created for the grand opening of a twin-tower condo in Bellevue, WA. There were about 150 in attendance.
It's wrapped in chocolate plastic ...
Pretty in Pink
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Ultra moist butter cake with lemon buttercream icing and lemon curd filling. The final is covered in rolled pink fondant, which I make from a proprietary ...
Easter Bunny Cake
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I made this Easter Bunny Cake for Easter brunch. It's a carrot cake made from scratch (what else do bunnies eat?) and is filled and frosted with Cream ...
Star Wars Cake
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My son has been obsessed with Star Wars (specifically Lego Star Wars) for months so a Star Wars Cake for his birthday theme was a no brainer. I have ...
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