where can I go to find good ideas for birthday cakes ?

Question

Its my nieces birthday, I want to make her a really cool cake that she will love! Where can I go for some good ideas! Thank in advance!!

Answer 1

Wow, hard to believe I've been working on your question for two hours! I've been to a lot of sites and, so far, this is the "coolest" with the best ideas. I went to Pillsbury & a few others, but it's very hard to find the right term to use in a search -- to get kids' cakes.

Anyhow, take a look at this one -- for ideas:

http://www.coolest-birthday-cakes.com/index.html

(Yes, that's really the name of the site! Sounds perfect, huh?)

I will be back & :edit" if I find any more.

I have a "Brownie Banana Split" recipe if you're interested...(if so, e-mail me). Looks great, but I don't think you can write "Happy Birthday" on it. :D

[EDIT] I forgot to mention -- I also have recipes & assembly instructions for cakes in the shapes of a Guitar, Panda Bear, Cat, Car, Fish, Clown, Sailboat, Apple Tree, Butterfly and Heart. (Just e-mail me & I can e-mail you the instructions. Will be happy to do so.)

At stores that sell cake & baking supplies, you can also find pans for "checkerboard cakes" (the cake is checkered inside, after you cut it). That's a cool surprise.

[EDIT] At this site, click on "catalog of cakes", then "kids". Check out other links, like "novelty", too.

http://www.publix.com/custom/decoratedcakes/DecoratedCakes.do

At this site, click on "Children's Birthday":

http://www.cheriscakesandcookies.com/decoratedcakes.html

This page has some ideas:

http://www.davannis.com/index.asp?pageID=71


I think that wraps it up for me. Have fun!! "Happy Birthday" to your niece!! --- Clar

Answer 2

Princess Cake
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50185
Princess Castle Cake
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50200
Cinderella Castle Cake
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50113
Horse Cake
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50134
Fish Cake
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50135
Rainbow Fish Cake
http://www.birthdayexpress.com/bexpress/planning/rainbowcake.asp
Mermaid Cake
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50165
Groovy T-Shirt Cake
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50150
Butterfly Cake
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50107
Butterfly Cake
http://www.birthdayexpress.com/bexpress/planning/butterflycake.asp
Madeline's Hat
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50164
Raggedy Ann Cake
http://www.birthdayexpress.com/bexpress/planning/raggedyanncake.asp
Teddy Bear Cake
http://www.birthdayexpress.com/bexpress/planning/muffycake.asp
Unicorn Cake
http://www.birthdayexpress.com/bexpress/planning/unicorncake.asp
Treasure Chest Cake
http://www.birthdayexpress.com/bexpress/planning/treasurecake.asp

Answer 3

Go to a craft store and pick up some decorating bags and cool pans to shape the cake with. My best advice: Keep it simple, there is less chance it will become the family joke.

Answer 4

Go to a local supermarket like Wal mart that has a bakery and ask to look at their book of cakes or go to michael's and look through the books in the Wilton's setion of the store

Answer 5

http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeId=40764
http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeId=33203
http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeId=34313
I don't know how old your niece is but I saw these ideas at bettycrocker.com and thought they were fun. May wanna try pillsbury's website as well

Answer 6

Fish Bowl Cake

1 box (16 oz) poundcake mix (no substitutes)
2 cans (16 oz each) vanilla frosting
Blue paste (icing) or gel food color*
2 rolls sour apple Fruit by the Foot
1/4 cup thin chow mein noodles
Nerds (small colorful candies)
1/2 cup blue rock candy
Goldfish Colors crackers and baby Goldfish crackers
1 tube black decorating frosting
White and blue candy confetti sprinkles
2 Tbsp blue coarse (crystal) sugar
1 orange spice drop (starfish)
You also need: 2 qt-size ziptop bags

1. Heat oven to 350°F. Line bottom of two 8-in. round cake pans with wax paper. Grease and flour pans. Prepare cake mix as package directs. Bake in pans 20 to 25 minutes until golden and a wooden pick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool in pans on a wire rack. 2. Remove, cover and reserve 1 1/2 cups frosting. Tint rest light blue. 3. Invert cakes on wire rack. Remove paper. Spread flat side of one layer with 3/4 cup blue frosting. Top with other cake, flat side down. Wrap in plastic wrap; refrigerate at least 2 hours, or overnight. 4. Trim 3/4 in. off opposite sides of cakes (for flat base and top of fish bowl). 5. Set cake, a flat side down, on platter. Spoon 1/2 cup untinted frosting into a ziptop bag. Frost top and 2 in. down sides of cake with rest of untinted frosting. 6. With a ruler, mark a line around the cake 1 1/2 in. from top. Spoon 1 cup blue frosting into a ziptop bag. Snip tip off a corner and pipe a line along marks for a clean edge. Cover cake beneath line with blue frosting spread smooth. 7. With scissors, cut Fruit by the Foot in 1- to 3-in.-long seaweed shapes. Press gently on cake. Add chow mein noodles, "seaweed" and rock candy. Arrange Nerds "gravel" around base of cake. Press on fish crackers. Pipe eyes with black tube frosting. Using tweezers, add confetti "bubbles" above fish. 8. Snip a 1/2-in. corner from bag with untinted frosting. Pipe a ring around top of cake for lip of fish bowl. Fill with blue coarse sugar. Insert a toothpick into 1 fish cracker; insert in top. 9. Flatten spice drop; cut out a small starfish. Pipe black dot in center. Place, with more rock candy, next to cake.