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Simply Fantastic Birthday Cake Ideas

Do you ever come up short when you need a few really good birthday cake ideas? Why not start out by thinking about the person's age and interests. You'll be surprised how many birthday cake ideas start rolling in. Get creative, and have some fun!

With a 9 x 13" cake, another mix and some soup cans, you can build the castle of their dreams for any boy or girl. Birthday cake ideas like this one may seem daunting, but the actually baking and construction is super simple. Cake baked in soup cans that have been filled to the 2/3 level, will make four "towers" with a skewer placed down the center, to hold one can cake atop another. Cut the pan cake down the center, and then cut a two inch section off the end. You have two long walls, and two short ones. Set the "walls" on their edges and form a rectangle. Place your towers at the corners. As birthday cake ideas go, this one takes the cake! Ice the whole thing, and draw on bricks with a decorator. Top off the towers with pointed ice cream cones covered in icing, then mini-marshmallows. Fill the center of the castle with popcorn balls and it's party time!

If you're searching for birthday cake ideas that are a little more adult in nature, how about something fresh and natural for the ladies? Many people on diets, or who don't like excessive sugar, prefer a cake with less icing. Charm your birthday "girl", by replacing traditional icing rosettes with real, live flowers. Florists or cake supply stores will have the tiny tubes which an be filled with water and inserted in the cake, and then filled with everything from single sweetheart roses, to small bunches of violets.

For men, birthday cake ideas can be as easy as checking to see what sports pages he reads. Then make your cake and decorate it as a football, baseball, or soccer ball. Married to a fisherman? Pick up some plastic fish at the local Dollar Store for decorations. If he's a reader, reproduce his favorite book, by taking a 9 x 13" cake and cutting it in half, so you have two 6 ½ x 9" "pages". Set them together, as an open book, and ice them, drawing on the pages, and inscribing it with a favorite quote. Of course, if he's a real t.v. addict, you can whip up a "remote control" in no time, with just a rectangular cake, and a decorator to draw on the buttons. Alternatively, a square cake makes a good television that's easy to decorate, and the "screen" provides a great place for the inscription.