Birthday Cake Ideas

Inevitably when planning a birthday the subject of birthday cake ideas comes up. There are a hundreds of ways that a birthday cake can be created from store bought magical creations to ones that you can easily do at home.

There are a few things to consider when brainstorming ideas about birthday cakes. How much cake are you going to need? What are the types of things that the person who the cake is for likes? If it is a child, what sort of characters or shows or books is that child into?

If the intended recipient is an adult what they like should be considered as well, though for adults more thought should be placed into color choices and flavor choices rather than in what to decorate it with.

Size is best determined by the number of people who are planning on attending and then increasing that number by a few. It is better to have leftovers than end up short. This is important because it changes the scope of birthday cake ideas that are feasible.

For example a single 9x13 cake won't work for 30 people unless everyone is only getting a small sliver of cake. Once you know the number of people you are going to have approximately you can check to see how much each size and type of cake feeds. This will help determine what you need.

You also have to decide between traditional birthday cake and ice cream cake. Once you have decided it is time to move on to the decorating aspect of your birthday cake. There are a number of different types and kinds of decorations out there.

The first thing to do is decide your base icing. Just about every cake has it some people choose white, others choose something else but all in all it is usually a solid color that covers the entire cake. The next step is to decide what is going to go on the cake from the inside out. There are edible decals, figures, toys and candies which can be used to create whatever you want on top of the cake.

Finally, it is time to consider what to do for the writing and the edging or icing designs. All of these are part of the brainstorming process to come up with great birthday cakes. Each type of cake has certain things that blend well with it and these must be taken into consideration when doing the brainstorming for cake ideas.

There are also a number of places to check for different ideas if you are going after a store bought decorated cake. You can make things easier by purchasing the cake without any decorations and only the icing done to save yourself a little time if you are trying to come up with cake ideas that you can do at home.

There are usually decorating books available at the bakery of your local store to give you more ideas and the baking aisle or local party store will have decorations and decals so you can get an idea of what is available while you are coming up with birthday cake ideas.