Birthday Cake Decorating Ideas

The most prominent memory of anyone's birthday is the yummy birthday cake. Kids love to have different flavored and shaped cakes every year. The decoration and frosting is an integral aspect of cakes. Not only kids but adults too love cakes that are decorated attractively. Cake decorations can vary with age and interests. Girls would love to have flower or butterfly cakes and boys would be more than happy to cut a football filled with chocolate cream and nuts. Like these, we have some more interesting birthday cake decorating ideas for you in the following article.

If you're making a cake for your child, husband, siblings or your parents, it has to have decorations on it. Who would like to cut a plain cake without a "Happy Birthday" written on it? Frosting makes it beautiful and presentable, hence take a look at some ideas on decorating cakes.

Animal Cakes
Every kid loves animals. They love to watch them run and are fascinated with their movements. What could make your child more happy than having an animal on the cake! Given below are some cake designs which your kids are sure to love.

Butterfly Cake Decoration
Ingredients

• 1 baked 9 inch round cake
• 2 cups chocolate frosting
• 1 cup butter cream frosting
• 1 Twinkie
• Jelly fruit slices
• Candies
• 2 red string licorice

Directions
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

Directions
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

Directions
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

Directions
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.