Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Cake Decorating Ideas

No need to be an expert cake decorator to make fantastic looking birthday cake. Here are some cake decorating ideas to help you make your cakes extra special that do not require exceptional cake decorating skills.

First, determine a theme for your cake. If the cake is for an adult, what you want, hobbies or interests birthday person? For example, if the person likes to fish make a fishing vessel themed cake. If the person likes to golf, make a golf theme cake. If they want to play guitar, make a guitar cake.

You can also make the cake theme match their profession as well. For example, do a postman a mail theme cake or for a carpenter, a carpenter theme cake making.

If you make a cake for a child, it matches the theme of the party or child's favorite character, interest or even sport.

You get the idea, just try to make the cake extra special for the birthday person by making it match their hobbies or interests.

A really easy cake decorating ideas for making cakes theme is to purchase cake toppers that match your theme to be placed on top of your cake. These come in many different flavors. But if you happen to want to do a certain theme cake that you will not find a cake topper to match, try the small part of any hobby or craft stores.

For the above example, you can buy things like a miniature fishing rod and net fisheries cake, a miniature golf bag and golf clubs for golf theme cake and a miniature guitar for the guitar cake. Then you can put them on top of your cake. For a mail theme cake, purchase a small mail boxes and make little letters out of cardboard that you laminate and place them on top and sides of your cake. For the carpenter theme cake, put miniature saws and other tools on the top or sides of the cake.

These are just a few examples. The idea is really endless, but hopefully have helped to get you thinking in different and unique cake decorating ideas to make the next cake that you make extra special.

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