Kids cake decorating ideas should be based on what will inspire and entertain your child. Every parent knows what their kids' favorite toys, favorite movies and favorite cartoon characters are. You can use this knowledge to bake and decorate a memorable cake. This article will provide some hints and suggestions to help get you started. These ideas cover cake decorations that will appeal to a wide range of children.
The Fire Truck
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There are few little boys who don't love big red fire trucks. If your son's favorite toy is a fire truck, this method of decorating a cake is a simple way to get a great reaction. There are levels of complexity when it comes to making a fire truck - you can do a simple, rectangular cake with red icing and 'draw' on extra features with an icing bag. This cake would be a 'side-on' or two-dimensional view of the truck.
For something more complicated and impressive, you can bake a 3-D fire truck. You'll need a deeper baking tray to create the correct shape. Icing the cake would again require lots of red icing and some white and brown icing from a bag for the finer details. You can also make the siren lights out of icing or use a plastic add-on.
Animal Cakes
Animal cakes are another great idea - chances are you have a family pet or your child has picked out a favorite animal from a trip to the zoo. A cat, dog or fish shaped cake is fairly simple to prepare with some basic baking trays. These are also fairly simple to decorate with icing, as often only one or two colors will be needed. For something more challenging consider an animal like a monkey with bendy arms and tail, or a striped tiger cake.
Number Cakes
An old favorite for birthday cakes is to bake the cake in the shape of the number of the child's new age. To achieve this you can either buy a baking tray in the right shape, or simply bake a round or rectangular cake in a normal cake pan and then cut out the shape of the number. As far as icing and decorations, you can get creative and add in figurines or iced images signifying important events from the child's year just gone, or the year to come (starting school, for example).
Cartoon Cakes
There are a variety of ways to make use of a kid's favorite cartoon character for a cake. You can do a whole-body cake or just the face to make the task easier. Alternatively, you can bake a simple round or rectanglular cake and buy an edible press-on to go on top of the icing.
Cakes That Look Like Other Food
For some more fun ideas for different cake decorations, consider trying to decorate a cake to look like a pizza or a hamburger. You can use candy and icing to replace vegetables, cheese and meat toppings.