The birthday cake is one of the most exciting parts of a kid's birthday party. Just think of how everyone's eyes light up as the cake, covered in candles, makes its entrance.
Make it special with expert tips and advice on birthday cakes, birthday party food and other customized sweet treats. Check out our party recipes for everything from party food to complement a theme to ideas for baking simple birthday cakes.
C is for cookie, that's good enough for me! Create fun Cookie Monster cupcakes by turning the frosting into a fuzzy blue head, and adding two googley eyes on top. Finish off the look by popping half a chocolate chip cookie into the frosting where the mouth would be so that it looks like the Cookie Monster is devouring a cookie. Note: For these adorable cupcakes, you'll also need to have half as many chocolate chip cookies as you have cupcakes. Difficulty Rating: Easy-Medium
An ideal way to bring down the cost of your party is to bake the birthday cake rather than purchase one. With as little as $20 you can wow guests with a DIY rainbow birthday cake. Read on for our simple instructions.What You'll Need:
1 box of Classic White cake mix (plus additional cake ingredients listed on back of box)
food coloring (we recommend purchasing both the primary colors as well as neon)
Fluffy White icing
colored sugars (I used pink, yellow and blue on my cake)
"My Little Pony" figurines to be used as cake toppers
Round Cake Pan (I used a 9 x 2 3/4 in Excelle Elite Non-Stick Springform Pan. This made it super easy to remove the cake.)
The biggest fight scene and climax of the G.I. Joe movie takes place at the arctic lair the bad guys call home. Using the cold, white, layered landscape as inspiration, make an easy ice cream cake that will have party guests licking their lips and begging for more.
Recipe courtesy of Birthday-in-a-Box.
An easy, yet impressive birthday cake recipe, it can be flavored with almond, orange, raspberry, lemon, vanilla or other flavored extract!
See recipe for Buttercream Frosting.
Recipe courtesy of Birthday-in-a-Box.This delicious icing is perfect for children's birthday cakes, not only does it taste great but can be dyed any color and whipped into shape. See recipe for simple yellow birthday cake.
Famous New York based cake designer, Ron Ben-Israel, was called upon to create this one-of-a-kind 3-D whale cake. Ron's cakes have been dazzling clients and their guests for years. A true arbiter of edible masterpieces, Ron has appeared on Oprah, Martha Stewart and the Today Show -- to name a few.Over four feet long with edible spouting water, floating red tower and waves, Ron's 3-D cake creation was a blue ribbon winner!*See our recipe for buttercream frosting
Candy on cake always makes little eyes light up! We went with a barn
birthday cake, decorated with red licorice, Skittles, swirl lollipops,
and Andes chocolate mints on the roof. To give the cake some height, I
constructed it similar to a multi-tier wedding cake.
The best part about preparing this cake is that you can make it with any type of cake batter. Simply use your favorite homemade recipe or cake mix from the store, and pour the batter into a Fire Engine Cake Mold. Then, use red, yellow, white and black frosting in pastry bags to pipe on the decoration. Here's how:
Let the little ones dress up as Bob the Builder or any other type of construction worker. Then set out plenty of disposable tablecloths or newspaper and let the building fun begin!
Little ones will love the taste and the look of this ice cream cookie!
It's the perfect treat after watching Ratatouille, Mickey cartoons, Stuart Little or the Great Mouse Detective. Inspired by "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," be sure to have some fun with this.
If the cookie monster ordered pizza, this would most definitely be his favorite. Sesame Street fans will love creating a dessert pizza for the lovable blue guy!You can make the cookie pizza with sugar cookie dough, snicker doodle dough or chocolate chip dough, but it looks most authentic if you use the first two options.
Celebrate your baby's 1st birthday in style by using your color scheme to create cupcakes with the number 1 on them. Make the cupcakes interesting by writing the number 1 in different "fonts" and styles in various frosting colors. Arrange the cupcakes on a large tray directly on the table in the shape of a number 1 for fun presentation. Difficulty Rating: Easy
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