Three Easy Children's Birthday Cake Ideas

When birthdays roll around in my house, I start planning how I'll decorate the cake. If you have all of the stuff needed to bake and decorate a cake, then decorating a cake using any of the following ideas won't take you long at all.

Three Easy Children's Birthday Cake Ideas#1: Dinosaur cake

Kids love dinosaurs so they would be thrilled with a dinosaur birthday cake. Bake a cake as you normally would but in addition to that, bake one or two cupcakes to go with it. You'll need a bag of small plastic dinosaurs to put on top of your birthday cake and food coloring. For my dinosaur birthday cake, I dyed the frosting green and blue. The green frosting was put on most of the cake to act as grass, then I used the blue frosting to put a thick line in the middle of the cake to represent a river. With the cupcakes, I put one on each side of the cake with the river between it and I frosted those with green frosting. The cupcakes were a perch for a couple of the dinosaurs so they could rule over their land. I put the rest of the dinosaurs in various areas around the cake, a couple close together so it looked like they were in a dino fight, some by the stream so it looked like they were getting a drink, etc. This is optional but I had some green sugar sprinkles that I sprinkled all over the grass to help it make look grassy. I put some of the tubed frosting and outlined the cake and the cupcakes to make it pop out more. My son loved his cake and it was a huge success. You can buy the dinosaurs at Walmart and they run for about a dollar.

Three Easy Children's Birthday Cake Ideas #2 Spiderman Cake