3 Birthday Cakes for Kids That You Can Make at Home

 Kids birthday parties can either be the best time of your life or the most stressful. There are decorations to make, games to organize, party packs to assemble, invitations to send and, most importantly, a fun birthday cake to wrangle!

These tasks might seem daunting to some and exciting to others, but the beauty of kids’ parties is that there is no right or wrong way to throw a party! Children’s birthday parties can be as easy as you want them to be. If you have younger kids, then they probably won’t be nearly as picky about the decorations, cake flavor or color of balloons you choose, so most of the time you don’t need to stress out as much as you think you do. 

Birthday cakes are the centerpieces that tie the whole party together — or so they appear to be. Birthday cakes don’t even have to be cakes, necessarily, so don’t worry about making a picture-perfect cake that has to steal the show. Cakes are often swapped out with cupcakes, fruit platters, donuts or whatever your child likes! Birthday cakes or cupcakes are fun to make, and, most of all, making them can be far easier than you might think.

Here are some fun birthday cake ideas to make that will wow your party guests. They can be customized to fit themed birthday parties, so feel free to use these as guidelines, not rules!

The basics

Cake for Birthdays

Kids birthday cakes are all about the decor and not so much about the flavor, so feel free to use plain ol’ boxed cake mix as the basis for your cake. If you get a vanilla or white cake mix, then you have the option of adding food coloring to the batter to make for some colorful fun inside the cake as well as outside.

Bake the cakes as directed, making as many layers as you need for the amount of people you need to feed.

Frosting

There’s no hard rule for frosting at all. The type of frosting you pick really just depends on what you want to do with it!

If you’re covering your cake with candy or other decorations, then all you’ll need is a can of frosting to hold it all together, and the flavor or color is up to you. If you’re wanting to use frosting to color the cake, then you’ll have to think about the color of frosting more than the flavor. White frosting is the easiest to color, so stick to that if you’re going for a colorful cake covering, like an under-the-ocean blue cake. 

If you want to create texture with frosting, like fur on Elmo or grass in a garden, then you'll have to use buttercream frosting, which has a stronger structure and can be made in larger quantities.

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