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Butterfly Birthday Cake Ideas

Don't let a birthday flutter by without trying out a butterfly birthday cake idea. Big girls and little girls alike will enjoy a butterfly birthday cake for their special day. Making a butterfly cake is a breeze no matter which design you choose.

Butterfly Shape Cake

Create a cake in the shape of a butterfly using a round, single-layer cake. Use a regular round cake pan of any size to bake a single layer. Place the cooled cake on a stiff board that has been covered with aluminum foil, parchment paper or waxed paper. Cut a 1-inch strip from the center of the circle. This will become the body of the butterfly. Turn the two remaining half circles around to become the butterfly's wings. Frost and decorate the cake. Use string licorice to create antennae for the butterfly cake.

Butterfly Toys Cake

Buy small, plastic toy butterflies from the toy or party department of a discount store. Wash them in warm, soapy water and dry thoroughly. After frosting the cake, place the butterflies in various positions on the cake. For a bit of pizzazz, place clean silk or plastic flowers on the cake to create a butterfly garden for the plastic butterflies. Use a base of white frosting to make the colors of the toys or flowers show up well. Any shape--round, square or rectangle--will work for this butterfly cake.

Butterfly Drawings Cake

Use white frosting as a base to start with on the cake. After frosting the cake (any size or shape works) use a toothpick to draw butterfly designs in the frosting. Color in the designs with frosting pens that are available in the baking department of most grocery stores. Use butterfly outlines from coloring pages (either from a coloring book or an online source such as dltk-kids.com) as a design basis.

Candy Butterflies Cake

Frost a cake of any size or shape--a sheet cake or a round cake will work equally well. Use candy pieces--M&M's, Spree, Skittles, Sweet Tarts, Nerds, licorice--to create a butterfly-shaped design on the top of the cake. Use the candy to create an outline of a butterfly or take it a step further by filling in the wings with a variety of candies. Nerds candies could be shaped to create antennae. You could also use gummy worms to create the shape of a butterfly.

Butterfly Cupcake Cake

Bake cupcakes and ice them in colors suitable to be a butterfly's body and wings. Arrange the cupcakes on a covered board or a large platter. Create the shape of a butterfly with the various colored cupcakes. A twist with this idea would be to decorate cupcakes in a variety of colors then arrange them in creative patterns for the butterfly's wings. Try a variation on this idea by positioning undecorated cupcakes in a butterfly shape. Make sure the cupcakes are pushed close together, then cover the top of the butterfly shape with a layer of frosting in the same manner you would frost a regular cake, or make a frosting swirl on each individual cupcake. Use decorative frosting pens or gels to create decorative effects. Don't forget the antennae!

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Cake Decorating Ideas for Boys' Birthday Cakes (Children’s cake)

By Lindsay Nixon

Kids love birthday cake. It's almost as important as the birthday presents at a birthday party. From soccer fields to pirates, here are some creative cake decorating idea's for boys' birthday cakes.

Sports Cakes

A rectangular cake is a great starting point for boys who love sports. For soccer fans, use green icing and plastic figurines to create a soccer field. Place a goal at each end of the cake with children and a plastic soccer ball scattered in the middle. For football, use green icing, goal posts and plastic football figurines. A similar setup can be used for a hockey rink cake by using plastic hockey figures and white icing. For tennis fans use green icing, plastic tennis players and place a net in the middle.
Alternatively, if the child has a favorite sports team, consider using the team's colors and logo for the cake's theme.

Planes, Trains and Automobile Cakes

Trains, planes, race cars, motorcycles, dump trucks, UFOs, fire engines, trucks, school buses and rocket ships are also great themes for birthday cakes. Place a plastic plane or other item on the cake along with "Happy Birthday" and the boy's name or shape and decorate the cake to look like a space ship, fire truck, train or other vehicle.

Theme Cakes

Transformers, robots, Legos, pirates, treasure chests, "Sesame Street," Sponge Bob, Batman, Superman, Harry Potter, "Star Wars," soldiers and dinosaurs are also popular themes boys will love.

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Fondant Birthday Cake Ideas
By J Michael Bailey

Fondant is one of the most used essentials in the cake decorating industry. You can easily make fondant at home, and it is the best way to give that perfectly smooth complexion to the birthday cake you are making.

Spruce It Up and Build Your Cake

You can add color and flavoring to the fondant since you most likely do not want to make a pure white birthday cake decorating. Also, think about what decorations you will want to put on the cake. Get cookie cutters in shapes that you would need, or even buy cake decorating tools that allow you to precisely cut fondant into other shapes that can only be made by hand.

Once your cake is cooled, spread a light layer of buttercream around the top and sides to help the fondant stick. Gently lay the fondant over the cake and spread it softly from the inside out, and around the sides. This will allow you to get rid of any air bubbles in the fondant and between the fondant and the cake. If you have multiple layers, do this to each layer and put a dab of butter cream to ensure the layers stick on top of each other without falling off.

Children's Birthday Cake

If your son or daughter likes Disney movies, you can create a Disney-themed cake. By using your decorating tools, you can create flat characters that you can place on your cake. If you are a really good artist and steady with your hands, you can build them out of the fondant to make them more realistic and three-dimensional. Use different food coloring dyes to add effect to each character. To really thrill the birthday child, incorporate his name onto the cake somehow.

Adult Birthday Cake

Make a birthday-present-shaped cake in the shape of a shoe box for a girl's birthday, or a guitar case for a guy. You can easily cut and shape the cake to reflect any of these shapes, and then you just cover it in fondant and get to work. Decorate the shoe box cake with designer shoe names on the boxes, or label the guitar cake with the boy's name and the guitar brand in fine writing. To finish off the birthday-present cake, cut strips of colored fondant and lay them across the top of the cake in each direction creating a bow.

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Groom's Cake Decorating Ideas

By April Sanders

Bake him a cake decorating in the shape of something he loves, like beer.

According to tradition, single women who attend a wedding should put a slice of the groom's cake under their bed that night and they will dream of their future husband. Today, the groom's cake is most often served at either the wedding or the wedding rehearsal dinner. The cake itself is supposed to be decorated to represent either the personality or interests of the groom.

The great outdoors

If your husband-to-be enjoys an outdoor activity, decorate the cake to reflect his love of nature. For example, if he enjoys duck hunting, bake a sheet cake, then use frosting to create a "lake" on the cake. Set up tiny plastic trees around the lake and add some small ducks. Including the figures of a hunter and his dog adds the perfect final touches to a cake he is sure to love.

Sports

Most men have a favorite sport. Whether it's golf (create a golf green or a giant golf tee) or football (many kitchen stores sell football-shaped cake pans), he is sure to enjoy a cake that reflects this love. If he has a favorite sports team, consider making a groom's cake in the shape of a baseball hat, complete with the team's logo on the front.

Job

If your husband-to-be is lucky enough to have a job that he loves, why not create a cake that reflects this? A doctor may appreciate a cake decorating shaped like a heart--a real, human heart (although the guests might not enjoy it so much). A lawyer might love a cake decorating shaped like the scales of justice. A foreman of a construction crew would probably laugh out loud at a cake decorating that looks more like piles of dirt than a beautiful work of art. Simply bake a cake, then gently mess it up and place a toy bulldozer in front of it for a funny and original groom's cake.

Special Things

Think about what is special to your husband-to-be. He might have a special pet (commission a cake in the form of a beagle) or he might have something he can't ever bear to part with, such as a motorcycle. While creating a cake decorating in the shape of a motorcycle is not easy, you can take a picture of the motorcycle and then take it to a local bakery. Many bakeries will transfer photos (in edible form) onto sheet cakes.

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Most Unique Wedding Cakes
By Amy Nutt

Most couples just have a nice, normal wedding, with a nice dress, classic wedding cake, and everything is very beautiful, but nice and normal. There are some people, however, that are a little different and unique, and they choose to show their uniqueness through their weddings. There are only so many ways however, to be distinctive in your wedding. You've really only have the option of a different dress or a different cake, and a lot of people choose to show their diversity through having a very unique wedding cake.

If you truly want your wedding cake to say something different, and you really want to have something at your wedding that your guests will talk about for years to come, you should consider some of these unique wedding cakes for inspiration.

One couple had a square wedding cake that had two swans swimming on a pond on top of it, all made out of icing. It was a very elaborate cake decorating, with ribbons and flowers adorning it as well. However, it was only one layer, so some people may not want a cake decorating like this.

I have also seen some very unique "box" wedding cakes. I don't mean that these cake were just shaped like a box; one of these wedding cakes was a three layered cake, and each of the layers was decorated like a different present, complete with bows. Another couple had a cake that was shaped and elaborately decorated as an open hat box, with flowers spilling out of it.

One of the most unique wedding cakes that I have seen so far has to be a Chinese wedding cake. It was a three layered red cake, decorated with the most intricate detail and flowers. Another strange wedding cake one couple had was a Phantom of the Opera wedding cake. This one was just one layer, and it was white, black and red, with the white mask sitting on top of black icing, and a red icing "cloth" draped over it.

Another unique and not often used wedding cake idea is a cupcake wedding cake. All you have to do is buy a cupcake tree and bake and decorate cupcakes to place on it.

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Creating a Theme Birthday Cake
By Mary Redfoot

If you have started your party planning you probably have a theme in mind. Making a theme birthday cake doesn't have to be complicated.

If you have a theme birthday cake idea for a 40th birthday, why not make a black cake. You can create a perfect touch that no one will forget. You will have to use the paste coloring as you will have a hard time getting black without it. I once made black tire cookies and though no one would eat them. Well I was floored when they disappeared quickly.

You can also make them birthday cakes for children. They love the idea of having their favorite character on a cake. Why not try your hand a something new. You could print out the character and make outlines of each color practice on paper and then do the cake. It doesn't have to be perfect. Kids are very forgiving.

If you have a shape pan you can use it for many things. If you use your creativity you can use different pans for other cake decorating. A heart pan can easily become a spade shape for a real card player. Make it a Red Cake and Put an A on it and you have an Ace of Spades.

With imagination and some basic cake decorating you will be amazed at how fun this soon becomes. You will be the one that children want to make their cake!

Once you get rid of the idea that it is hard, you will be creating a theme birthday cake decorating for any birthday party.

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