1. Mardi Gras Masquerade Cake

The festival of colors brings in good luck and faith. So is this cake. All you need to do is bake a normal round cake. Slice into half and allow the slices to rest side by side, so that it resembles mask. Use festival colors for icing.

2. Betty Boop Masquerade Birthday Cake

A perfect choice for your daughter’s 16^th birthday, prepare the cake from the white chocolate mud cake and white chocolate ganache. Use modeling chocolate and gum paste to create Betty, while you can use gum paste and edible glitter for making the masks.

3. Tiered and Square Mardi Gras Cake

Use square cakes instead of the normal round ones. Create a tiered one, may be two or three tiers, with each tier having one of the colors of Mardi Gras – green, purple, gold. The Mardi Gras beads can be added to the bottom to make it more splendid looking.

4. The Mask Is The Star

Bake a multi-tiered cake and use two masks or a mask and a beautiful crown so symbolize your daughter’s Sweet 16^th birthday. Instead of the Mardi Gras beads, choose flowers, glitter and feathers having the festival colors.

5. Mard-Gras-Colored Glitter Cake

Use chocolate cake as the base and butter cream icing. Using an icing gel, trace mask outline from a wax paper stencil and place it on the cake’s top. Fill the mask outline with black and deep purple icing. Use green and gold starts stars and sprinkle Mardi Gras colored glitter.

6. Spicy Chocolate Chili Cake

A very unique cake, this marvelous Mardi Gras themed cake is a true reflection of the festival. Choose a Spicy Chocolate Chili Cake and make creative fillings and frosting flavors using Cinnamon Swirl Butter Cream.

7. Tiffany And The Topsy Turvy Cake

A cool idea, you can put the zebra stripes on this cake in deep purple colors. The number 16 which you place on the cake’s top can be made in golden, while use green colored marshmallow fondant.

8. Hollywood Cake

These sweet 16 Mardi Gras cakes come with vanilla flavor and butter cream icing. Cover the cake and decorate it using Mardi Gras colored marshmallow fondants.  

9. Winter Wonderland

Four tiers and each tier with a different color and flavor. Use vanilla, butterscotch, and blackcurrant flavors for the cakes. Top it with roasted golden brown cashew nuts.

10. Mari Gras Princess Cake

Drenched in the deep purple and golden colors, this yummy vanilla flavored cake with butter cream icing is really mouth watering. Create a replica of your princess on the cake top. Drench her in golden dress with purple stripes and an emerald green necklace. 

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