Children's Birthday Cake Ideas

Sometimes the biggest challenge of your child’s birthday party is what and how to do the cake. You will have so many options that you can do pretty much do anything. You can have the cake made for you or do it yourself. You want to consider the age of the children, the theme of the party and the number of people that are going to eat the cake when you order or bake the cake. You can create a cake to go with the party theme, or your child’s favorite character or place even. You also need to think about what type of cake you want, chocolate or any of the many other options.

Let’s look at a list of cake themes you could use at your child’s birthday party. Let’s start with small children first:
Block Cake pieces (using an ABC’s or Lego or animal patterns)

Cupcakes (you can do so many things with cupcakes and they are the perfect size for little tummies)

A cake in the shape of the number of their age (this will be fun and help them learn there numbers at the same time, you can find cake tins in the shape of numbers)

A cake with your child’s favorite character or animal (Mickey Mouse, Superman, Cinderella, Baby Einstein, horse, or a dog) this can be decorations on the cake or plastic toys that the child can keep and play with.

Ok if you have an older child you have so many options let’s take a look at some of the many ideas you can use:

A cake themed on your child’s favorite place to go (the zoo, the park, a museum, a trip you recently took or even somewhere they are excited to go)

A cake that is an object (a castle, a sport, cars, animals, shapes, moon and stars, sun and rays, a flower box, a season, or even foods like a hamburger for example)
A flat cake with decorations (you have many options here; you can decorate with frosting and gels, you can use pre-made decorations such as roses, letters and shapes, and you can create characters or objects with frosting as well)

You can us cupcakes (this will help control portions and ease clean up)

For the advanced cake maker you can cut your cake into shapes and make more elaborate cakes (make a dragon, a basket ball, a wrapped gift, a cat, a crayon and anything else you can think of)

Let’s take a look at what you can specifically do with cupcakes. These can help you control portions and if you are having a larger party this will be easier during the hand out process.

Sprinkles on your cupcakes

Your child’s favorite candy

A Sunday cupcake (icing then chocolate then wiped cream and top it with a cherry)

Place small plastic figures on each cupcake so each child will get a toy

Use icing to apply a design (a smilie face, letters, balloons, shapes and so much more)

A sports theme with small sports ball on each or use icing to create them

Bugs and critters (these are fun to make!)

Ice cream look-a-likes (strawberry, rocket road, cookies-n-cream, mint chocolate chip or any of your child’s favorite)

Create the cupcakes so when you arrange them the create something (a caterpillar, a flower, a dragon or anything you can think of)

Another idea you may want to consider is making the cupcakes in something the children can take come (a cup, a miniature sports cap, anything you can think of, just be sure that it will be ok to place in the oven before you bake them)

You also want to consider what the cake itself will be, you can chose from many. Here is a list of some popular choices:

• White
• Lemon
• Chocolate
• Brownie
• Carrot
• Strawberry
• Marble
• Cheesecake
• Yellow
• Swirl
• Spice
• Chocolate Chip
• Raspberry
• Confetti