A friend is planning her son's summer birthday party and asked me for good cake ideas. Not being a notable baker, I turned to you guys for the creativity. I'm sending her this gallery of creative kids' cakes from reader submitted My Party posts. The cakes range from difficult to totally do-able. She may not want to make one of these exact cakes but they're sure to provide ideas and inspiration.
A great cake is a sign of a great party - click through if you'd like to see these delightful parties.
First Row
1. Tula's Hello Kitty Rainbow Cake
2. Jackson's Carousel Cake
3. Wayland's Woodland Mushroom Cake
4. Abigail & Lilly Grace's Cowgirl Cake
5. Joshua & Justin's Monster Cake
Second Row
6. Emory's Butterfly Cake
7. Henry's Robot Cake
8. Declan's Igloo Cake
9. Alison's Mad Hatter Cake
10. Indiana's Circus Animal Cake
Third Row
11. Sean's Spotted Dinosaur Cake
12. Owen's Cowboy Boot Cake
13. Liliana's Peggie Topper Cake
14. Ava's Hula Doll Cake
15. Aidan's Star Wars Cake
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omg they are adorable! i love cake but looking this cute i might not dare to cut them :D
we always make birthday-cakes for my husbands sons in the form of their age-number. I am not yet very good at baking so i buy simple chocolate cake in different shapes an arange them to numbers :) covered with loads of white- or milk chocolate and decrated with m&ms and candles they look pretty good for this little work. the boys celebrate big with their mom and are ok with simple chocolate cake when they celebrate with us.
maybe I try one of this cute cakes as the decorating/frosting is really fun - the baking itself is my bigger problem :D
Please view my Dora cake on my blog - http://sweettreatsbychitra.blogspot.com/2011/02/dora-explorer-cake-first-time-with.html
Hope this helps! thanks.
I made a robot cake for my son's 1st birthday and I have to say it was even cuter and easier than the one pictured above. I followed directions here:
http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/robot-cake/0123a837-6a6f-4c14-be95-b1e8c2b5b2a8
Obviously you don't have to use a cake mix--all you need is a 9x13 cake of any kind. I used carrot cake with cream cheese frosting which spread beautifully. It was a seriously impressive cake, even with my extremely limited decorating skills.
I made this cake for my nephew a couple years ago. http://gusandotherthings.blogspot.com/2010/01/if-you-want-4-year-old-boy-to-love-you.html
My very very favourite kids' cakes were by flour girl/flourpatch bakery. Sadly, they are no more... :-( What was so special about their cakes were that they combined cookies and cakes.... they decorated cookies (often on lollipop sticks) and stuck them on the cake.
I never lived in the same city as the bakery, and so had to copy the idea as best I could. Jeri Gottlieb though, had amazing cakes: a beautiful 2-tiered blue buttercream cake with farm animals, or another one with wild animals.
Here is an example:
http://nymag.com/urban/guides/bestofny/family/04/birthdaycake.htm
I made my son a 3-D dinosaur cake one year, with white "meat" and dark "meat"; follow the links on this page and you'll find cake recipes too. Instead of the plain golden cake recipe, I made a lime-coconut cake (more dino-like I thought). Be careful though, because putting buttercream on a cut cake surface is difficult (you get crumbs in the buttercream).
http://www.easy-cake-ideas.com/dinosaur-cake.html
I made my kids and 2 step daughters a rainbow cake last night. It was amazing! We have 5 birthdays in June/July, and this cake was wonderful for everyone. They each got their favorite color in a layer of cake. It didn't take very long at all, since the layers are so thin, the baking time for each is only about 10 minutes.