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Creative Adult Birthday Cake Decorating Ideas This is a great place to get ideas for making your own adult birthday cake. They all come with step-by-step instructions. Kids always tell you what they want...there's always a favorite cartoon character or popular movie that interests them. When it comes to making a cake for a grown-up, sometimes you may experience decorator's block. Those same people who tell you they don't want a present aren't very helpful when it comes to a cake idea. So, check out this collection for some inspiration. There are easy, intermediate and advanced level cake decorating instructions, so choose one that best suits your skills. Click here to see visitor submitted cakes. Over The Hill A cake with a grass-covered hill. Guitar Cake For rock band fans and guitar players.

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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.

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 ...

BETTY BOOP BIRTHDAY CAKE 

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

"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 ...

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

Cowboy Hat 21st cake 
I made this for my niece for her 21st birthday!!!
We are huge country music fans and love Garth Brooks (which is what the G stands for)
I made a ...

3-D Purse Cake 
I did this 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 what she ...

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

Grateful Dead Bear 
This is a Greatful dead Bear. It is for a teenagers birthday. Seems that the Greatful Dead stay cool throughout all ages. I caved the cake to a bear ...

Pink Birthday Cake 
I used boxed cake (I know, sad but true) and homemade fondant for the covering. The fondant is made of equal parts melted marshmallow and powdered sugar....

TEE TIME 
Two rounds iced in buttercream and stacked. The blue is painted with green buttercream hills. The Flags are fondant. The lower golf balls are chocolate....

Bra and Harley 
The bra is made from a ball cake pan. It is a yellow cake torted with raspberry preserves. It is covered in homemade marshmaellow fondant. It is then ...

Cigar Box 
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 in. I then covered the cake ...

Toilet Cake 
This is a hand carved 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, and ...

Washed Up 
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, then covered in fondant. I ...

Iris Birthday Cake 
I made Kristin's buttermilk cake, (REALLY yummy!), covered in buttercream icing with lemon extract flavor. Next, added a white ribbon, any color would ...

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

ROUND TIFFANY CAKE 
WHITE CAKE WITH STRAWBERRIES AND WHIPPED CREAM

THE LOVE CAKE 
FONDANT AND BUTTERCREAM

slot machine cake 
FONDANT AND BUTTERCREAM

Cameo Nostalgia 
This birthday 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 ...

Poker Night Cake 
This 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 mine as a surprise....

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 this hobbit hole birthday cake for ...

Mom's Yellow Roses Hat Cake 
1. Baked two cakes. Bottom was 10" and top was 6". Bottom was pretty thin and baked top to rise. Iced both the cakes with a very thin layering of buttercream....

Moon and Stars Cake 
German chocolate cake with pecan/coconut filling. Decorated with chocolate-coconut frosting, pecans, sprinkles and molded chocolate stars and moons....

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 ...

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,...

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 ...

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,...

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 ...

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....

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 ...

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 ...

Pumpkin Palooza Cake  Not rated yet



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 ...

Purse Cake  Not rated yet



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....

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 ...

High Heel Shoe  Not rated yet



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 ...

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 ...

Pink Elegance  Not rated yet


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 ...

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 ...

Quincera Cake  Not rated yet

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!...

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

GROOMS TUXEDO CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE NEW YORK CHEESECAKE  Not rated yet
Used a 12 inch heart pan for a recipe of New York Cheesecake. Decorated in chocolate truffle buttercream & bow tie is fondant.

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 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 frosting, then ...

Nana's 90th Bithday cake  Not rated yet

This is a yellow cake with raspberry filling. I used buttercream frosting with yellow coloring. I used real roses,starburst lilies and daisies for ...

princess crown  Not rated yet
Gumpaste to mould crown. Other decoration by fondant. A simple and little time to decorate cake.

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

Mermaid Dreaming Cake Decorating  Not rated yet
I saw something similar in a cake book and wanted to make my own version of a Mermaid cake, so here is it. I hope you like it!

3 to 4 days in advance....

Party-Girl Cake  Not rated yet
My good friend and her sister just moved into a new home together. They are young girls and love to have fun. When they requested a cake for their ...

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

Darrel B'day at work  Not rated yet
Simple cake for one of my friends at work. A little naughty to match him. We called it the tuna taco cake. Standard yellow cake flavored with strawberry ...

Beefeater Bottle Cake  Not rated yet
Baked a few sheet cakes, carved into the shape of the bottle. Used fondant to make the cap and label. Painted with food coloring and used markers for ...

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.

Sotas & Lillies Cake  Not rated yet
This was my very first birthday cake that I decorated. I made this sotas & lily cake for a friend of ours who was celebrating his 56th birthday. The ...

Old Fart Cake  Not rated yet
This 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.

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

Brownie Cake  Not rated yet
Corey's 18th birthday "cake." 2 layers of chocolate brownie with a layer of cookie dough in the middle. Decorated with chocolate frosting, white piping,...

Chocolate Quasimoto Cake  Not rated yet
Cesar's 18th birthday cake. 3 layers of chocolate cake with strawberry filling. Decorated with chocolate frosting, chocolate chips, a strawberry, a ...