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5 Simple Birthday Cakes

Are you looking for a fun and fresh idea for a birthday cake? Well, look no further because here are five easy birthday cake ideas!

• Doll cake. One fantastic way to make a fun birthday cake for a girl who loves dolls or Barbies, is to create a doll cake. One of the best ways to do this is to bake a thick round cake, or even a bundt cake. Get the birthday girls favorite Barbie doll and wrap her legs in cellophane before placing it in the center of the cake. You may need to cut out a hole to insert it in. The point is to make the cake seem like the skirt of the doll, so ice it in a color that matches the top on the doll. You may need to shape the skirt some by shaving off some of the cake. You can add sprinkles, and other things make it sparkly and more girly.

• Present cake. A super fun cake that really fits the birthday theme is a cake shaped like a present. For this you will need a rectangular shaped cake. You would ice the entire cake. Roll out some fondant, which can be purchased at a craft store or made from scratch, and cut a “ribbon” and “bow” to make the “present”. You can use icing, candies, or fondant to create shapes on the cake to make it look as if the wrapping paper were patterned.

• Sports ball cake. For the sports themed celebration, nothing goes over quite so well as a sports ball shaped cake, and lucky for you these are some of the easiest cakes to make. Bake up a round cake, ice it in the color of the ball you wish to represent, and use a piping bag to give distinction. For example, if you are making a tennis ball cake ice the cake with yellow frosting and then use white icing to pipe the detail of the tennis ball.

• Castle cake. To make a beautiful castle cake, you will need to bake a couple of round cakes. You’ll need one to be larger and one to be smaller. Place the smaller cake on top of the larger cake and frost with white or gray icing. Take some ice cream cake cones and fill them with icing to weigh them down. Turnsugar conesupside down and place them on top of the cake cones. Arrange them on the tops of the cakes to look like castle spires. Then use candies such as Smarties, Necco wafers, and Dots to make the cake look more exciting.

• Animal lovers cake. This is a fun, yet simple cake to make. First, determine what pet your child loves best. Then, find crackers or cookies already shaped in these animal shapes. The first thing you want to do is bake a cake. Make this cake in any shape you want. The next step is to ice it. To make the cake look like grass, ice it with green frosting. If you ice the cake a little messily it will look more like grass. Use pretzel sticks to create a fence around the edge of the cake and place the animal shaped crackers inside the fence area.

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