Decorating a birthday cake can be fun and especially when you do it in the company of the kids
. If it is their birthday you are going to celebrate there are lots of ways they can help you out and give suggestions. Children have a wonderful imagination and this can be utilized in the decoration of a cake which is unique in its own manner and extremely tasty. By involving your kids and letting them have a say in the matters it is possible to increase the enjoyment of the process manifolds. Here are five fun ways to decorate a birthday cake.
Make a butterfly cake. For this bake a confetti cake mixture. Now cut it out so that the shape resembles those beautiful winged insects. Now with a platform to work on it is possible to use frostings of different kinds to give the various colors to the wing of the butterfly. The second way is to go for a fully personalized birthday cake which is extremely unique. In these you will need to take a photograph of your kid and then go to the bakery of your choice. There a digital version of this photo gets made which is totally edible.
Another fantastic cake decoration idea can be the one which resembles building blocks. This is quite simple indeed. You will require baking a big sheet cake. Now cut it into equal sized pieces. Place marshmallow on each and then use frostings for various decorations. The fourth decoration type can be a baked jersey where again a sheet cake gets cut up in the form of a jersey. Give it the team colors of the favorite player of the kid. Now write the name of the child and the number on the jersey to complete this beautiful ensemble.
A fifth type of cake which you can consider for your kid this birthday is also quite fun indeed. It is a hobby cake where you shape this bakery item into something which you child likes to do in the spare time. If guitar playing is a passion then its going to be a guitar cake indeed complete with strings and all. For somebody who loves to wrack brains on a chess board, shape a cake in this exact form. There can even be those which are shaped as laptops and other gizmos if the latest technologies hold an appeal to your beloved child.