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1000+ Birthday Cake Decorating Ideas and How-To Tips

The birthday cake decorating ideas you’ll find here prove what we already know – that every creative idea can be turned into an awesome cake!

For nature lovers, we have a variety of flowers, trees, cacti, farms, tree barks and stumps, vegetable gardens, rainforests, volcanos, rainbows and more. In case you would like a higher destination, you can check out our solar system cakes. You can also come back down to earth and relax looking at our beach and sandcastle cakes. Watch out for pirates and pirate ship cakes while you’re there.

Go home and rest on your bed cake while you look at some more birthday cake pictures. Study from a Chemistry cake and drink from some tea pot cakes. Put some make-up from a make-up case cake and drum on your drum set cake. Time for a drive? Head on out to your favorite casino and slot machine cakes.

Continue your party on with a Luau, cowboy or Hollywood themed cake. The cake decorating inspiration here is truly endless!


And don’t forget… if you end up with a cool cake, have great tips to share or pictures of awesome birthday cakes you’ve made in the past, share them here and be a part of our coolest birthday cake community.


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I was asked to make a 21st birthday cake for a young man. I was told he loves his bed and computers. First, I covered the cake board in a black and white marble effect and set aside. Then, I baked the cake. I baked three oblong sponge cakes and left to cool before crumb coating and icing in white fondant. Read more »