Creative Adult Birthday Cake Decorating Ideas

Alice in Wonderland 
My daughter asked for a classy Alice in Wonderland cake for her 16th birthday.
This is a three tier red velvet cake with cooked vanilla buttercream ...

Carnival Cake 
This cake is pretty simple, you need (1) 12" round cake pan, buttercream icing, rolled fondant, BASIC chocolate cake receipe, rice crispie treats, green,...

Sea Turtles under the sea  
It's a red velvet cake with buttercream frosting, carved to the desired shape, covered in handmade marbled fondant and decorated with things mad from ...

Mary Engelbreit Cake 
This cake was for my aunt's 60th birthday and she's a Mary Engelbreit fan. The cake was a chocolate cake from McCall's cookbook.The top layer of ...

This Bud's For You 


I used a 1/2 sheet cut in half and stacked, so this cake measured 12"x9". It was filled and frosted with buttercream icing. I used fondant for the ...

Damask Cake 
This cake is covered with homemade fondant and has gumpaste bows/ribbon.Chocolate decorators icing was dyed black to make the damask design.

Pumpkin Palooza Cake 



My first attempt to make a 3-D Cake for a local contest and cake walk fundraiser. I used two (ovenproof glass bowls) for the two halves. The ...

Tiffany Box for an Engagement Party 
I covered this white cake with rolled fondant tinted "tiffany blue" and added the ribbons in white fondant. I topped the cake with a fondant bow that ...

Family Guy Cake 


3 layer chocolate cake with fresh strawberry buttercream filling. Decorated with chocolate frosting, white piping and a piped chocolate Family ...

Matt's Butt Cake 


My daughter asked me to make this for her husband. It was a lot of fun and had a lot of fun elements. The purple present is marble cake and so is ...

Jasmine's 18th Birthday Cake 



I made a 9 inch and 6 inch 2 layer cake, chocolate, iced in chocolate, then covered with white fondant. Orchids made from gumpaste.

Red Corset Cake 



This is a full sheet cake. Yellow with a vanilla BC. Covered in flesh colored fondant and a red fondant corset. The lace is piped in a black ...

Flush It 

For a 60th Birthday Party...and she's still my friend!!! Her daughter wanted this cake so I agreed reluctantly to make it. I had no instructions ...

Civil War cake 

This cake was made by my fiancé for a reenactor friend turning 60. Altogether, she used 7 yellow cake mixes. Three for the base and four for the ...

Flip-flops on the Beach 

This is a 1/4 sheet cake frosted in buttercream. The flip-flops, shells, and sand dollar are from shaped fondant. I pressed a (clean!) rubber shelf ...

"Bear" Bryant Hat Cake 
I had an unusual request for a Bear Bryant hat cake made with it sitting on top of a cake with 3-d elephant heads. I never turn down a challenge. (Which ...

Quincera Cake 

This particular cake took quite a while. Every rose is hand made. This cake fed 363 people. This is the biggest cake I've ever made. Lot's of fun!...

BETTY BOOP BIRTHDAY CAKE 

10 INCH 4 LAYER TRIPLE CHOCOLATE GATEAUX DECORATED IN BUTTERCREAM & FONDANT BETTY BOOP BORDERED WITH RED CHOCOLATE HEARTS.

Happy Birthday Text 
I made this happy birthday text cake for a friends birthday. She is Always on her phone and Always texting. We thought it would be funny to make her ...

GROOMS TUXEDO CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE NEW YORK CHEESECAKE 
Used a 12 inch heart pan for a recipe of New York Cheesecake. Decorated in chocolate truffle buttercream & bow tie is fondant.

"Coffee and a Good Book!" 
This was a Birthday cake I made for a gentleman who loves to read and loves Starbucks Coffee!! All cakes are totally edible and made from Vanilla Butter ...

A Purse for Dee 
I made this purse cake from pound cake filled with almond buttercream and strawberries. I carved (first time I have carved a cake) into a purse shape ...

Cowboy Hat 21st cake 
I made this cowboy hat cake for my niece for her 21st birthday!!!

We are huge country music fans and love Garth Brooks (which is what the G stands ...

3-D Purse Cake 
I did this 3D purse cake for a friend's 50th birthday party. She was so into fashion and pretty things, so she wanted a purse cake in 3-D. So that's ...

Floral Cake 
This two tiered floral cake was done for a big birthday celebration. I used spring colors to make buttercream roses, and used some royal icing apple ...

Grateful Dead Bear 
This is a Greatful dead Bear cake made for a teenager's birthday. Seems that the Greatful Dead stays cool throughout all ages.

I carved the cake ...

Pink Birthday Cake 
This pink birthday cake was made using a boxed cake mix(I know, sad but true) and homemade fondant for the covering. The fondant is made of equal parts ...

TEE TIME 
The tee time golf cake is made with two round tiers iced in buttercream and stacked. The blue is painted with green buttercream hills. The Flags are ...

Bra and Harley 
The bra and harley cake is composed of two ball cakes on top of a sheet cake.

The bra is made from a ball cake pan. It is a yellow cake torted with ...

Cigar Box 
To make the cigar box cake , I made 3 sheet cakes and stacked them. I then cut a square out of the top part to make the rectangle for the cigars to sit ...

Toilet Cake 
This is a hand carved toilet cake . Everything is edible,even though you may not want to eat it. LOL. The bowl and back are cake, the pee is piping gel,...

Washed Up 
The washed up plumber cake was made for a friend who was a plumber. The bottom layer is a sheet cake, then a small square cake on top, hand cut for sink,...

Iris Birthday Cake 
This iris birhtday cake was made for Kristin's birthday and is a buttermilk cake, (REALLY yummy!), covered in buttercream icing with lemon extract flavor....

Chocolate Decadance Cake 
I made my much loved chocolate decadance cake , covered with chocolate icing, drizzled dark and white chocolate and added 2-3 strawberries for more color....

ROUND TIFFANY CAKE 
This round tiffany cake is made with two tiers of white cake with strawberries in the center.

You will create 2 tiers, one a 10" tier, the other a ...

THE LOVE CAKE 
The love cake is an easy cake to do for Valentine's day or just to give to your honey!

To make this cake, bake 2 cakes in a heart shaped pan. Fill ...

slot machine cake 
To make this slot machine cake you will need to create 3 different layers. The choice of sizes is yours, but you will want a large bottom layer, around ...

Cameo Nostalgia 
This cameo cake was made for our grandma who always wears her cameo on Sunday...

The following is what is needed to make cake;

1 box of cake mix ...

Poker Night Cake 
This poker night cake was was my second or third fondant cake, and I had so much fun making this one. This was a birthday cake I made for a friend of ...

Hobbit Hole Cake 
How I made the Hobbit Hole Cake :

"In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit..."

My family members are huge Lord of the Rings fans so I made ...

Mom's Yellow Roses Hat Cake 
Here's how I made the Yellow Roses Hat Cake :

1. First, I baked two cakes. Bottom was 10" and top was 6". Bottom was pretty thin and baked top to rise....

Moon and Stars Cake 
The moon and stars cake was made with a german chocolate cake with pecan/coconut filling. Decorated with chocolate-coconut frosting, pecans, sprinkles ...

Simpsons Cake 
Simpsons Valentines Day cake. 3 layers of carrot cake with sweet cream cheese filling and frosting. Decorated with a rose molded out of chocolate and ...

1920s Cake 
Codi's HUGE 20th birthday cake. 2 layers of 14 inch chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling. Decorated with chocolate frosting and a piped chocolate ...

guitar hero cake 
My brother is very into guitar hero, so i decided to make him a cake for his birthday. I started out by using a 12x18 inch cake pan. I then took pieces ...

Light-up Daffodil Mini Cakes 
I used old greeting card boxes wrapped in foil to attach the battery pack under the cake, so that it was not exposed. I ran the ten mini lights through ...

Bachelorettes Party Cake 
I poured part of the batter into a 6" round pan for the hot tub. I poured the rest in a 9" x 13" cake pan for the base. After the sheet cake cooled, I ...

Poker Cake 
I took two 10 inch cake pans, used chocolate cake and buttercream frosting. After fully covering the cake, I made green fondant (to represent the card ...

sweet birthday package cake for mom 
I made this cake for my mother-in-law's birthday.

It is a 3 layer vanilla cake, filled with buttercream frosting and crumb coated with buttercream, then ...

Elegant Birthday 
I baked a strawberry cake in a double layer square shape and the top was a double layer round cake, fillled with strawberry cheesecake filling and cream ...

Kathy's retirement cake 


I was asked to make a cake for a lady who was retiring from a local office supply store. I was given a napkin to fallow for the colors of the cake....

Purse Cake 



I used 1 white sheet cake and cut it into 3 equal pieces. I stacked them and used buttercream between the layers.

The rest was pretty simple....

High Heel Shoe 



This was a fun cake! I made a vanilla cake and iced it with cream cheese frosting. Covered the entire cake with fondant and crafted the shoe ...

T-Bone 


This is a Red Velvet cake baked in an 9 x 12 pan then cut to the steak image. MMF was applied and then painted with food coloring gel and lemon ...

60th Birthday Cake 
I made a two layer buttermilk sheet cake with chocolate frosting. I used a picture that I found online to create the decoration on the top of the cake....

My Dad's Birthday! 
I started out with a chocolate cake and a scupted it to fit my back yard.Then I painted the whole thing green exept the pool. I air brushed blue on ...

Pink Elegance 


I made this cake for my friend's 60th birthday party.It's a fruit cake (raisins,currants and prunes were soaked in dark rum and cherry brandy) covered ...

POKER CARD CAKE 

Made a chocolate devils food cake size 9 X 13. Cut cake in half & then cut halves in two for total of 8 cakes. Made two 4 layer cakes & then frosted ...

Baby Grand Piano 
This cake was for my BFF's birthday. She loves to play the piano and has a black baby grand in her apartment! So I decided to build this cake for her ...

Chocolate Quasimoto Cake 
Chocolate Quaismoto cake created for Cesar's 18th birthday cake. The cake is composed of 3 layers of chocolate cake with strawberry filling. Decorated ...

STARFISH  Not rated yet
I baked a 9x9 inch cake, cut out pieces for the shape stuck them to the center with jam. Left a middle parallelogram as the middle. Stuck the cake ...

21st Bass Guitar Cake  Not rated yet
The cake is a chocolate devils food cake with chocolate buttercream icing. It was made by baking a sheet cake which was then cut in half and stacked....

A Gift of Flowers  Not rated yet
This is a two tier cake..with a fondant gift box on the top layer, covered in fondant flowers.

Blue & Brown ribbons Present cake  Not rated yet
Coloured my fondant blue. Coloured brown strips of fondant, twisted them on dowel rods to get the curlicules. Made a 10" square chocolate cake. Lightly ...

My butt  Not rated yet
The cake is baked in a rectangular (9x13) pan .It is a Chiffon Mango flavored cake filled with Mango Custard and Buttercream as filling. The cake is ...

Tomato garden  Not rated yet
The top tomato is made with cereal treats covered in icing, then red fondant. There is a small gap between the lip of the basket and the large tomato ...

Mom's Tulip Cake  Not rated yet
I baked a 2 tier round cake, covered it in buttercream and topped it with green stripes and gumpaste tulips!

TEQUILA!!  Not rated yet
This cake was an almond pound cake with a chocolate triple sec mousse filling, soo good! and perfect for the occasion. We started out with a rectangle ...

Cruising  Not rated yet
The cake is a chocolate with chocolate butter cream icing. I printed a picture of the cartoon of the guy on a motorcycle and put wax paper over the ...

Boat Replica Cake  Not rated yet
Boat is made out of rice krispie treats covered with fondant. It is a replica of my husband's speedboat. made for his 27th birthday. He was very surprised ...

60th Birthday Chocolate Mud Cake  Not rated yet
3 Very good quality packet mud cakes.
Chocolate Ganache to cover:
300g dark chocolate, chopped
1 cup cream
1 tablespoon butter (makes it glossy)...

Chess Board Birthday Cake  Not rated yet


Bake a boxed cake mix (I did marble) in two 9" square pans. Once cool, use dental floss to slice each cake length-wise so you have four even squares....

Big "Roasted" Bird  Not rated yet


This is the Thanksgiving Turkey cake that started a long string of cakes to come.

Standard pound cake for the body. We colored the cake in the ...

21st Birthday Cake for Chocolate Lovers  Not rated yet


This cake is made up of 2 vanilla sponge rounds filled and coated with chocolate buttercream. I then put chocolate fingers and chocolate straws ...

Barack Obama Hope Cake  Not rated yet
1 layer of white cake on top of a layer of chocolate cake with chocolate filling and buttercream frosting. Decorated with Barack Obama dawn in chocolate,...

Invisible Children Cake (Uganda)  Not rated yet



2 layer chocolate cake for the Invisible Children Foundation’s “Rescue Event.” Decorated with chocolate frosting, red piping. The design on ...

Super Celine Cake  Not rated yet



This cake was for a friend's 50th birthday party. She's always helping others so we call her "Super Celine", hence the name of the cake.
The ...

Spring Blossoms  Not rated yet



I made this cake for my mother in law's birthday. It's just my usual rich fruit cake recipe that's mazipanned and fondant iced. The flowers were ...

Wine Basket Cake  Not rated yet
The cake is a large rectangular cake, stacked. I covered it with a chocolate buttercream using a large basketweave tip. I then draped the cake with ...

Birthday Cake for an AKA  Not rated yet


Cake is Strawberry, made with real strawberries. Icing is buttercream and flowers are royal icing and ivy leaves are fondant.

Mom's 72 cake  Not rated yet



Each layer is coverd in different color fondant. The trim is white rolled fondant to make it look like clouds. It took a while because we had ...

Sunset Anniversary Cake  Not rated yet



Iced 9 inch 2 layer cake, applied chocolate transfer sheet and added ruffle garnish

giant cupcake  Not rated yet


I made this cake using the giant cupcake pan. The figurine on top is made out of modeling chocolate. It is iced in buttercream. This was for my ...

electric guitar cake  Not rated yet


This cake was made for a friend's birthday party. I drew the guitar shape on a piece of foil to make a sort of stencil and then carved the frozen ...

Whimsical Birthday Cake  Not rated yet



Everything from the cake to the fondant I made - I added special touches that reflect the individual - may not see all of them but there are pocketbooks,...

Guns and Roses  Not rated yet


First I baked a 7 inch round, 5 inch square and a 4 inch round cake to make up the 3 layers. All 3 were a different flavor. I allowed them to ...

Red lingerie cake  Not rated yet


The cake is a chocolate moist cake, I used 2-1/2 cup self rising flour (sifted), 3/4 tsp baking soda,1 tsp salt, 2 tsp baking powder, 2/3 cup baking ...

Rock Star  Not rated yet

Bake 2 rectangle sheet cakes. (I don't use fondant as most people don't like the taste. Using regular icing is much better)I added food color to make ...

Gone Fishing with my dog  Not rated yet

Easy as pie, this boat cake with fisherman! I used 14 inch cake tin oblong for the bottom cake. Square tin for the boat, any size (you may waste cake ...

V8 engine Cake  Not rated yet

a\I used buttercake mix placed in 2x14 inch cake tin 2x loaf tins. Place the cakes as in picture. Ice it to the colour you want. I used butter icing ...

Baja Boat  Not rated yet
This cake was used as a grooms cake.. The cake itself was Red Velvet Cake filled with cream cheese filling then covered with black fondant.
All of the ...

80th Birthday Cake  Not rated yet
This is a cake for our grandmother's 80th birthday cake. It's just a two tiered vanilla with buttercream icing. I wanted to add a special touch to it....

ARTISTS PALLETE BIRTHDAY CAKE  Not rated yet


This is a 18 X 36 chocolate fudge cake, filled with Belgium chocolate ganache. Covered in rich chocolate fudge frosting. The artists pallete is ...

Relaxing on the Beach  Not rated yet
This particular cake was for a man's birthday, however it would be GREAT for a beach themed wedding! Relaxing at the beach in the adirondack chairs,...

BIRTHDAY GENOISE CAKE  Not rated yet
Genoise cake frosted with white/dark chocolate buttercream. Chocolate plaque for writing Happy Bday

BRIDAL SHOWER CHEESECAKE BUSTIER  Not rated yet
Used a 12 inch heart pan for a recipe of New York Cheesecake. Used the Wilton ball pan to bake two smaller cheesecakes for the breasts. Covered in ...

Orchid Cake  Not rated yet

I baked 2 1/2 sheet cakes, iced and decorated with buttercream icing, decorated using gumpaste orchids, silk bamboo leaves at request of client.

Go Angels  Not rated yet
This Go Angels Cake was a birthday cake I made for my brother's 60th birthday. This was a sheet cake made of marble cake, I covered it with Buttercream ...

Nana's 90th Bithday cake  Not rated yet
This fresh flower cake is a yellow cake with raspberry filling. I used buttercream frosting with yellow coloring. I used real roses,starburst lilies ...

princess crown  Not rated yet
This princess crown cake is a one tier cake covered in lavender fondant. The banner going across the top of the cake is white fondant. The name was created ...

ELEGANT BIRTHDAY  Not rated yet
This elegant birthday cake is my vanilla cake filled with pineapple. I covered the cake in white fondant and brushed super pearl lustre dust on the top....

Mermaid Dreaming Cake Decorating  Not rated yet
The idea to create the Mermaid Dreaming cake decorating scene came from something similar I saw in a cake book and wanted to make my own version of a ...

Party-Girl Cake  Not rated yet
This party girl cake was for my good friend and her sister who just moved into a new home together. They are young girls and love to have fun. When ...

Pleated Chocolate Elegance   Not rated yet
This pleated chocolate elegance cake is an 8" 3 layer, 5" deep chocolate cake filled with southern comfort buttercream and cherries. The exterior was covered ...

Darrel B'day at work  Not rated yet
This is a simple cake for one of my friends at work featuring a taco in the center of a chocolate cake. A little naughty to match him. We called it the ...

Beefeater Bottle Cake  Not rated yet
This beefeater bottle cake is a carved cake with buttercream icing and fondant decorations.

I baked a few sheet cakes, froze them and then carved them ...

Playboy Cake  Not rated yet
This is a 2 tier playboy cake , made with a fruit cake layer on the bottom and sponge cake on the top layer.

Each layer is dusted with irridescent ...

Sotas & Lillies Cake  Not rated yet
The sotas and lillies cake was my very first birthday cake that I decorated. I made this sotas & lily cake for a friend of ours who was celebrating ...

Old Fart Cake  Not rated yet
This old fart cake is made with the ball pan set on a sheet cake and then cut to form legs and shoes. I then covered the cake in fondant.

Between ...

Huge Chocolate Cake  Not rated yet
HUGE chocolate cake made with 2 layers of a 14 inch chocolate cake. Decorated with chocolate frosting, sprinkles, smarties (English M&Ms) and pink piping....

Brownie Cake  Not rated yet
This brownie cake was made for Corey's 18th birthday "cake." It's 2 layers of chocolate brownie with a layer of cookie dough in the middle. Decorated ...