Every child has their own idea of the perfect birthday cake: some like delicious onesCakes with fondant icing, the others are happy about muffin cakes, the third ones love simple chocolate cakes with Smarties. And since no birthday cake is complete without the right decoration, the cake is of course generously decorated with sugar sprinkles, fondant figures or flowers made from sprayed cream. We'll show you 20 ideas for unusual cakes for children's birthdays and explain how you can make them yourself and what's important when decorating the cake. The more colorful and eye-catching, the better! Be inspired by the suggestions and surprise the children with an effectively decorated cake for their birthday!
Unusual cakes for children's birthdays: motif cake “Melting Ice Cream”
Do your children love colorful and unusual cake decorations? The “Melting Ice Cream” birthday cake with fondant in two colors, sugar sprinkles and an ice cream cone as decoration is guaranteed to make you swoon. For this tasty cake you need two cake layers and cream. You can put together the ingredients for the bases and the cream according to the birthday child's preferences. However, don't forget thatthe motif cakethen covered with fondant, and fondant is known to be very sweet. That's why light cakes with sponge cake bases and fruity cream taste good. For the cake decoration you need the following ingredients:
- pink Rollfondant
- Liquid fondant
- blue food coloring
- Chocolate sprinkles, colorful
- Ice cream cone
How to make the cake decoration: Simply knead the pink fondant until soft, roll it out and cover the birthday cake with it. Fix the bottom edge of the cake with colorful chocolate sprinkles and let the cake stand at room temperature for an hour so that the fondant can harden. When the fondant is no longer moist and soft, the casting is considered stable.
Now you can color the liquid fondant blue with the food coloring. Place the ice cream cone with the fondant on the cake and add the remaining blue icing to the cake. Allow several fondant noses to run down the edge. Sprinkle the icing with the colorful chocolate sprinkles. When the icing sets, you can serve the cake.
Unusual cakes for children's birthdays: decoration with Smarties
Are you planning a children's birthday and would like to bake a birthday cake for the festive occasion, but are a beginner and don't have the confidence to make a complicated cake decoration yourself? In fact, sculpting fondant cake figures is not an easy task. But with thatChocolate cake doesn't seem boring, a simple trick helps. Smarties add a festive touch to the cake and make even the simplest cake look cheerful. Smarties don't stick well to fondant. That's why we recommend that you make a cream from mascarpone, sugar and cocoa and spread it on the birthday cake. Refrigerate the cake for 4 hours. Then take it out of the fridge and spread the Smarties on it.
Unusual cakes for children's birthdays: unicorn motif cake
All children enjoy motif cakes. Birthday cakes with a unicorn theme, for example, are particularly popular with girls. We will explain to you how you can make such a cake yourself. The first idea is for a no-bake cake. You can make the base from biscuits and butter and the filling from cream cheese, cream and powdered sugar. Divide the filling into three and color the first part with pink, the second with yellow and the third with turquoise food coloring. Then add gelatine to the turquoise filling and spread it over the sponge cake base. Refrigerate the cake for half an hour. Then take them out of the fridge, add gelatine to the yellow filling and spread this over the turquoise filling. Place the cake in the fridge for another 30 minutes. At the end, spread the pink filling (also mixed with gelatine) on top and refrigerate the cake for another half hour. In the meantime, you can make the cake decorations yourself.
Make several meringues as usual. Simply separate the egg whites from the yolks, mix with a little salt until smooth and then gradually add the powdered sugar. Beat everything until stiff and form a creamy mixture and divide into three. Color the second and third parts with lilac and pink food coloring. Leave the first part white. Now divide the white meringue mixture into two. The first part into oneFill piping bagand pipe the meringues onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Do the same with the remaining meringue mixture.
For the meringue lollies, pipe rosettes with a diameter of 5 cm onto the baking tray and place a round ice cream stick or a wooden skewer in the middle.
Bake cookies in the shape of stars, spread with golden icing and arrange on the cake along with the meringues. Place an edible unicorn cake figure in the middle of the cake.
Experienced hobby cake bakers can use the second variantUnicorn caketry with fondant. The cake is made on two tiers, the lower tier is covered with cream in ombre colors, the upper tier is covered with white fondant. Then a horn is made from golden fondant and blue flowers are made from gum paste. The birthday cake is then decorated with cream. The ears are formed from fondant and the eyes are made from icing. The pink cheeks are painted with a brush and pink food coloring.
Unusual cakes for children's birthdays: “Paris” motif cake decorated with fresh flowers and berries
For children under 3 years of age, to be on the safe side, you should onlyedible cake decorationsuse. From the age of 4, flowers and non-edible cake figures can also decorate the birthday cake. Sugar pearls, berries and edible gold leaf or edible gold flakes make even the simplest cake a real eye-catcher. In the middle, tone-on-tone with the fresh flowers and berries, comes the birthday candle. You can also decorate the cake with a matching cake figure.
Unusual cake decoration with two-color meringue
Creative, colorful and unusual: this is how the next cake decoration can be described. And although it may look complicated and time-consuming, the idea is actually very easy to implement and suitable even for complete beginners. You need food coloring, base compound and possibly glitter. First, make the meringue mixture and divide it into two bowls. Add food coloring or glitter and stir with a popsicle stick. Fill the two parts of the meringue mixture into two piping bags without a nozzle. Slide the two bags into a third, larger piping bag and pipe circular rosettes onto a baking sheet.
Unusual cakes for children's birthdays: cake made from muffins
Do you have a birthday child and are you planning a birthday party? When many children are invited, it is sometimes difficult to estimate how many pieces of cake you actually need. In addition, a cake needs to be cut and served. A cupcake or muffin cake, on the other hand, offers decisive advantages: it can be put together quickly, looks great and every child can help themselves to the buffet. Simply prepare the muffins according to the child's favorite recipe and then decorate them with any icing or white chocolate.
If you have enough time, you can even make a combination of muffins and birthday cake. Simply assemble a small cake and arrange it on a cake stand along with frosted cupcakes. If you like, you can also decorate the cupcakes with fondant cake decorations. For example, cupcakes with cream frosting and fondant bows look super cute. Color the cream with food coloring.
Cakes with chocolate eggs are particularly popular in spring. If your child's birthday is in March, April or May, then the next idea is for you: Surprise the birthday child with a homemade chocolate cake with chocolate and marzipan eggs. To make the cake particularly attractive, you can combine cake decorations in different colors. As with the Smarties, the rule of thumb also applies in this case: It is best to spread the cake with chocolate cream and cream so that the decoration sticks well. For cakes with fondant icing, you can use edible food glue.
Motif cake with cake figures made of fondant
A motif cake with fondant cake figures is always well received by the little ones, especially because there are no limits to creativity and all children's wishes can come true. However, a few things should be taken into account when making the figures. First of all, it is important to knead the fondant mixture well. Then you need a set of decorating brushes and a tool set that can be used to precisely cut out even the smallest elements. Cookie cutters can also prove to be particularly helpful.
The next birthday cake can be made without much effort. Simply bake a round chocolate cake and cover it with chocolate. Then cut out a piece and use it to form the tail fin. Buy colored sugar in green, yellow, blue and pink and use them to decorate the “fish”. Arrange blue Smarties as bubbles on the cake plate. The creative birthday cake with an underwater theme is ready.
Make your own number cake and label it
If you can't think of a theme for your child's birthday party, you can opt for a number cake. You don't need a special mold for this, because you can create such a cake with a simple trick: Bake your favorite sponge cake, then create a number template out of paper. Let the cake cool at room temperature and then place the template on top. Use a sharp knife to cut out the number and then pour chocolate over the cake or spread it with ganache. Decorate the birthday cake as desired with sugar sprinkles and label it with sugar writing.
A rainbow cake is particularly popular with small children and babies. You can prepare the dough for the bases according to your favorite recipe and then divide it into 4 bowls. Add pink food coloring to the first bowl, yellow food coloring to the second, turquoise food coloring to the third and purple food coloring to the fourth. Mix the colors well and then bake each of the four different bases in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes. In the meantime, you can stir a cream until stiff and divide it into five bowls again. Then color the cream pink, yellow and turquoise too. Then place the pink cake base on the cake stand and spread it with the pink cream. Then place the yellow cake base on top and spread the yellow cream over it. Do the same with the other two cake layers, leaving the top of the cake untouched.
In the photo gallery below you will find more unusual cakes for children's birthdays. Get inspired!
Decorate the cake with cream in ombre colors
Make your own rainbow from fondant and decorate the children's birthday cakes with it
Birthday cake for boys: “Pirate Island” with golden chocolate coins
Superheroes traditionally decorate boys' birthday cakes
Simple birthday cake with homemade fondant flowers
Butterflies and flowers made of fondant decorate the birthday cake together with sugar pearls
Birthday cake with real flowers and cream in three colors
Birthday cake with berries, meringue, fresh flowers and fondant crown
Decorate birthday cake for girls with cream
Fondant birthday cake with sugar sprinkles and cupcakes
Birthday cake with fondant figure for baby's birthday
Rainbow cake with fondant icing and whipped cream
