Birthdays are special occasions and especially kids wait all round the year to celebrate their birthday in the most special way. Birthday cakes are of immense prominence and deciding on what kind of cake to have for a birthday can be a dilemma sometimes. If you are planning for a children’s party, a cake cannot be a simple affair as kids love interesting and uniquely presented cakes. From train shaped cakes to clowns, doll houses, superman and cartoon characters, everything is a fascinating sight for the kids. However, it is not essential that cakes have to have fancy shapes, sometimes even a simple round or rectangle shaped cake can be turned into something absolutely marvelous.

Creating different shapes

Besides the usual round or rectangular shaped cakes, one can get completely creative and innovative and create a new shape altogether. All kinds of different utensils such as cake pans can be used to create funny and adorable looking shapes. It is completely dependent on one’s imagination to create a lovely little shape out of nothing. Some popular shapes include a hamburger birthday cake, pizza cake or even a doll shaped cake.

Creating icings and decorations

A lot can be done by creating all kinds of unique and interesting icings and decorations on the cakes. One can get very creative and utilize chocolate bars, gems, marzipans, sugar icing and all kinds of edible decorative items to make the cake look more appetizing. Besides adding the decorations and icings, even the cake batter can be dyed with food coloring or sprinkles can be added to the batter to give it a new look.

Creating pictures on cakes

This is one of the most unique and a personal touch can be added to any birthday cake. A picture can be taken and added to edible wafer like cookies or it can even be laminated and placed directly on the cake. The cake can be decorated as per one’s personal choice and preferences. This is one of the most thoughtful gestures to make a birthday celebration that much more special.

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