Take a look at these cool homemade Poker and Cards cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
This Las Vegas Cake was one of several I launched my first foray into cake making with. One day my fiancé lost his job after 7 years with same company. Times were hard and we had several birthdays in the family looming around the corner, including my best friend and my finance (who share a birthday), … Read more
This cake was done for a friend’s mom. It was a regular slab cake, with large, cubed rice krispie treats, covered in fondant. The poker chips and playing cards were done in fondant (denominations were hand-piped) left to dry overnight. Polka-dot ribbon trimmed it and the finishing touches were a paper (non-edible) sign I printed, and … Read more
I wanted to make a cake for my friend who has a birthday on Halloween. I have made her a Halloween cake before but this time I wanted to do something that was not going to be so predictable that tied in with the holiday. So I thought about her other interests and thought Vegas … Read more
This cake was made for a friend of mine for her sister who was to become the big 50. I asked what are her likes and she said poker and she loves red wine and my friend Mazza decided to go for the two ace playing cards on the top of the cake. I had Googled … Read more
This is the hexagon cake pan, covered in MMF. All cards and chips on this cards cake are MMF. I used the candy mold for the card shape and used royal icing to write the suits. This cake was very time consuming.
I made this Poker Playing Card Cake for my grandfather’s 75th birthday. He loves let it ride poker so I thought it would be a great cake to make him. I got a lot of my ideas from looking at all the great cakes on this website. I used 4 boxes of yellow cake mix … Read more
This cake was adapted from a Jane Asher book on how to bake a cake for a lady called Wyn for her 90th Birthday. She is a fervent Bridge Player and therefore it was appropriate.(thus the Wyn-ing Hand). The cake was a rich chocolate sponge and I did the table top on a separate board … Read more
This was my first attempt to make a Poker themed cake. It was for a groom’s cake for a couple who was not having a wedding, but was celebrating with a wedding party. They were going to fly to Vegas for their honeymoon. The poker table cake is made with two hexagon-shaped pans, in chocolate … Read more
This Poker Birthday Cake was my first time using fondant, but it was pretty fun. I used gum paste to make the cards, then added the details by dipping a toothpick into food coloring and hand drawing them. We put a 4″ round double layer cake on an 8″square cake.
I made this cake for my husbands 30th birthday. I had a poker theme, so searched Las Vegas cakes, as my husband loves poker and wanted to make a cake to go along with it. I made a three layer cake alternating chocolate, vanilla, chocolate and frosted the layers with chocolate butter cream icing. For … Read more
I used an 11×15 cake pan and used two boxed cake mixes. All of the decorations on the poker cake are edible. I made the playing cards and dice out of white chocolate and colored with edible marker. The poker chips are rolled fondant and colored with edible marker. The red and black suit lay-ons … Read more
I made this Holdem Poker Table Cake with 2 11 x 18 sheet cakes, 2 10″ round, and 1 13 x 9 sheet cake. They were yellow cake with a buttercreme frosting. The cards and money tops where made from edible paper. The chips, face down cards and rail was made of MM fondant. The … Read more