Birthday Cake Decorating Ideas

Cut the round cake in half and arrange the 2 semicircles back-to-back. Frost it with chocolate frosting first and then fill the inner part of the wings with butter cream frosting. Frost the Twinkie with chocolate frosting and place it in the center as the body. Place the string licorice as the antennae and decorate the wings with the candies.

Fish Cake Decoration Ingredients 1 baked 13X9X2 inch sheet cake 6 cups blue frosting 2 cups orange-yellow vanilla frosting Necco wafers 1 mint patty Keep the sheet cake on a flat surface and with a sharp knife, cut a rough circular body of the fish. With two of the cut corners of the cake, make the tail fins by placing them at the oblonged end of the body. Place the remaining two edges as the dorsal fin at the top of the body. Now frost the cake blue and the tail and fins yellow. Place the Necco wafers as the scales over the body and a chocolate cookie as the eye. Place one gummy fish as the mouth for the cake fish.

Theme Cakes Theme cakes can be a great choice for themed birthday parties. If you want to be creative, you can have a cake decorated with the party theme and then themed cupcakes for the guests.

Balloon Cake Decoration Ingredients 1 baked 9 inches round cake Blue and green vanilla frosting 3 to 4 black string licorice Cut the round cake into an oval shaped balloon and place the edges as the tied end of the balloon. Frost it with the blue and green frosting in any way you like. Place the licorice strings near the edges to signify the stings tied to the balloon.

Balloon Cupcakes Ingredients Baked cupcakes Frosting (blue, green, yellow, red)

Curling ribbons of the same colors Frost each cupcake with the four different colors and keep them on the serving tray with ribbons to make them look like a big bunch of colorful balloons. Tie the opposite eds of the ribbon to show they are all tied up.

There is no dearth of ideas when it comes to decorating cakes. If you've liked these ideas, use your imagination to make some more innovative ones.

By Aparna Jadhav Published: 3/3/2010 Tweet