Get creative with basic baking pans to make unique birthday cakes for kids. Use a rectangular cake and chocolate donuts to make a truck, two round cakes for the number eight, a round cake for a clock, or cupcakes to spell out their name. You can also make cakes based on popular children’s stories and poems.
Store-bought birthday cakes or birthday cakes you make using fancy cake pans can be fun, but creative birthday cake ideas for kids can be even more fun. All you need are the basic types of baking pans you probably already have, plus your imagination and creativity. You can express your artistic side while making a unique cake to delight your birthday.
A rectangular layer cake and six chocolate donuts can be transformed into a commercial truck with plenty of room for candles and a birthday message. You can even place an icing number representing the child’s age on the truck door. All you have to do for creative birthday cake ideas for kids who love trucks is use a large square section of cake for the back of the truck, a smaller square for the front cab area of the truck, and donuts chocolate in pairs to create the wheels.
Two round cakes can be decorated to look like the number eight to celebrate an eighth birthday. The icing can be used around the edges and center to form a circle in the middle so that the rounds look more like the number eight than just circles. Four candles can be placed in the center of each central circle. You can add colorful candies in the “rings” of the circles to add more interest and accentuate the number eight shape.
A round cake can also be decorated as a clock and these are creative birthday cake ideas for children up to twelve years old. You can use two lollipops for clock hands by cutting the stem off one of the lollipops. It’s easy to “glue” the lollipops into the center of the frosted cake with a dab of frosting. It simply shows the clock hands pointing to the numbers of icing you piped around the edge of the clock cake. For example, a five year old would have a cake showing a time of five.
Really simple, yet creative birthday cake ideas for kids involve using a round cake for an animal face, a cupcake or other edible items for ears, and candy and/or piped icing for facial features. You can also create more detailed creative birthday cake ideas for kids by using a cake pan to make a train cake that you add details with frosting. You may want to use round chocolate wafers for the wheels, but many other ideas would work as well. The train cake could be placed on a frosted rectangular baking sheet that you decorate with chocolate-licorice cookie crumbs to look like a ground with railroad tracks.
You can also make children’s birthday cakes to resemble scenes from popular children’s stories and poems. For example, a loaf cake with a large chocolate Easter egg can be transformed into Humpty Dumpty sitting on a brick wall. If you’d rather stick to the simpler creative birthday cake ideas for kids, a really simple idea is to use cupcakes to spell out the child’s name and a “happy birthday” message. You can channel a letter on each cupcake with frosting and also decorate some cupcakes with candy rather than a letter of frosting.
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