20 Birthday Cake Decoration Ideas
A birthday party just isn’t the same without a birthday cake. It’s kind of the crown jewel of the day. There are some really talented bakers and pastry chefs around these days who make fabulous confections, yet most of us can’t spend the month’s grocery budget on one single birthday treat. Don’t despair. There are a lot of cake decoration ideas that even a non-professional can pull off. Sometimes all you need is an idea to get you started on creating your own masterpiece. This post highlights some sweet possibilities!
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20 Birthday Cake Decoration Ideas
Here are 20 birthday cake decoration ideas you will love!
Cake is always better when candy is involved!
This pinata cake idea has tons of surprises inside!
If you love cereal this idea for cake is fantastic!
Flowers made entirely by Twizzler candy1
Use a cookie cutter to add some confetti sprinkles to your cake top.
Surprise Inside Cake - Hidden Polka Dots from Bake Pop Pan
I love happy polka dots any time and they’d be especially festive for a birthday cake.
Cake of all different colors and this one is super easy.
Make this for your next beach birthday party.
Birthday cake baked up super easy right in an ice cream cone.
The balloons on this cake are totally edible!
This cake is darling! You could make a version with cardstock letters if you didn’t want to use the dremel idea.
This lady takes a simple, round cake and transforms it into a sweet fox.
This technique doesn’t look difficult and kids of any age would think it’s pretty cool.
No need for special equipment for this one, but it looks fancy.
This would be perfect for a first birthday smash cake.
Decorate the top with Lego figurines and this tutorial will show you how!
Any color scheme can be used with this tutorial!
Crushed cookies on the top is a simple and super sweet cake topper idea!
How about this cake covered in all types of candies?! So cool!
This rose cake will have your guests drooling over the cake and the design!
You have so many great birthday cake ideas here. And you are very right. It’s not a party without an awesome birthday cake.
The pinata cake is my absolute favorite! What could be better than candy inside cake?
I love the purple one! That ice cream cone on top is so cute! These are all too pretty to eat!
These are all amazing birthday cake ideas! I can’t wait to try some of these soon!
I think the anti gravity would have to be my favorite. I could totally see my guest loving it.
Isn’t that one fun? Super cool!
Oh my gosh these are beautiful! I can’t even frost a cake with just frosting! I need these people to make these cakes for me.
These are such great ideas! I love making my kids’ cakes!
This is exactly what I was looking for my daughter’s birthday. Loads of creative ideas and themes! This will suffice my requirements. Thanks a lot for such beautiful and artistic ideas. Thanks a lot for sharing. 🙂
These are awesome ideas. I can make a yummy cake, but I’m not good at decorating. I will bookmark this.
Okay, I gotta admit, I was drooling looking at those yummy cakes. I think I’d love the polka dot and sand castle ones.
Thaks for the insiration especially the easier ones. Between busy life and weak hand (post break) I can;t manage to fancier cake decorating these days. Have a good weekend.
So many wonderful cakes it is hard to pick which one I like the best. If I did, I would have to go with Drippy Cake. It’s pretty amazing.
These are amazing cakes. I would love to try making the rainbow pedal cake. I do have a friends birthday coming up. It would be a great surprise for her.
arg, I wish I could bake! The thought of even attempting any of these makes me panic lol!! I do know many of better talent to share this with though!
Oh these are way too cool. It would be a ton of fun to have something like the Drippy Cake for a birthday party.
that anti gravity cake is AWESOME!!!!
i did a rainbow cake that used the banners which was pretty cool looking
You’ve got some great cakes showcased here. I’d love to try that m&m one.
These are so adorable! I love the petal cake! ITs my favorite!
This is quite a plethora of cake decoration ideas! 🙂
Those are some amazing cakes! I will have to see about some of these for my son’s birthday in january.
Perfect list, and I came across it just in time as I’ll be decorating a cake for my son’s third birthday this weekend!