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    Home » Baking

    Kids' Birthday Cakes

    Published: Nov 3, 2021 by Vanya Insull

    HERE ARE THE AWESOME KIDS’ BIRTHDAY CAKES WE'VE HAD AT OUR PARTIES. HOPEFULLY THEY'LL GIVE YOU SOME INSPIRATION AND IDEAS!

    A boy standing behind his number 8, football themed birthday cake.

    ARCHIE'S BIRTHDAY CAKES


    Archie's 8th Birthday: Archie requested a "Football 8" cake for this birthday so I got creative and made him just that! I used my Celebration Chocolate Cake recipe and my Buttercream Icing recipe to create the base layer. I then added coloured coconut and football accessories. 

    A number 8 birthday cake with green icing decorated to look like a football pitch.

    Archie's 7th and 6th birthday cakes: After some pretty epic preschool cakes, Archie cut me a break for these birthdays and requested some simple, decorated number cakes! These were both easy and fun to make.

    A number 7 chocolate cake decorated with lollies A number 6 birthday cake decorated with green icing and jet plane lollies.

    Archie's 5th Birthday: After seeing a picture of a swamp cake in a magazine Archie requested it for his 5th birthday. It was so easy to make -  I just made my Chocolate Banana Cake recipe as the base. Then I carved out the swamp part, iced it with green buttercream icing then filled the hole with green jelly. I bought the little critters in a pack from my local variety store.

    A birthday cake shaped like a green swamp sitting on a white tray.  A boy sitting at a table with a green birthday cake decorated to look like a swamp.

    Archie's 4th Birthday: This pirate cake turned out so well! I used Curly Wurlys, Rolos and chocolate coins to decorate it. For the flags I made a design on the computer, printed it, then spray glued the sheets together and cut a wavy flag shape into each one.

    A birthday cake decorated to look like a pirate ship sitting on a white tray.

    The base of a pirate ship cake covered with chocolate icing. A pirate ship cake decorated with curly wurly chocolate bars A chocolate pirate cake decorated with pirate figurines. Two Pirate ship sails made from paper with bamboo skewers attached to them.

    The process of building and decorating the pirate cake.

    A family, dressed as pirates sitting around a boy with his pirate ship birthday cake.

    Archie's 3rd Birthday: An amazing waterfall cake based on the The Good Dinosaur which is one of Archie's favourite movies. My sister Grace made it, she is very good at making and decorating cakes!

    A Waterfall cake decorate with dinosaurs sitting on a white plate.

    A family sitting around a dinosaur birthday cake. A family standing behind a minion cake that a boy is cutting into.

    Archie's 2nd Birthday: An awesome Minion cake also made by Aunty Grace, isn't it amazing!

    A birthday cake decorated to look like a minion sitting on a blue striped tray.

    Archie's 1st Birthday: The classic 1 from the Women's Weekly Birthday Cake Book. I covered it in chocolate buttercream icing, then added colourful smarties.

    A number one birthday cake decorated with Smartie lollies.

    Pieces of chocolate cake in the shape of a number one on a tray. a chocolate number one cake being iced with chocolate icing. A family standing behind a decorated number one cake.

    HENRY'S BIRTHDAY CAKES


    Henry's 5th Birthday: Our boys were obsessed with going to the skatepark at this stage. So I decided to make Henry his own skatepark cake for his birthday!

    A birthday cake decorated to look like a skate park sitting on a wooden board.

    I wanted quite a big base to decorate, so I made a Huge Celebration Chocolate Cake - and adaptation of my smaller Chocolate Banana Cake. I decorated it with Tech Deck skate park toys which doubled as a birthday present for him.

    A large chocolate cake still in the tin sitting on a grey bench.

    Henry's 4th Birthday: Henry specifically asked for a superhero swimming pool cake this year. I had made him a similar cake for his first birthday, but this was next level. I used superhero figurines and printed out a fun banner with his name on it.

    A chocolate birthday cake decorated to look like a swimming pool with super hero toys in it.

    a boy standing behind a 4th birthday cake decorated to look like a swimming pool A family standing behind a green, dinosaur themed birthday cake.

    Henry's 3rd Birthday: This year I cut myself a break and outsourced Henry's cake! The cake maker did an awesome job creating a dinosaur drip cake. this could easily be made at home with some dinosaur figurines, tree figurines and lollipops.

    A green birthday cake decorated with dinosaur figurines and lollipops

    Henry's 2nd Birthday: I used a Monster Truck Cake making kit from a company called Cake 2 the Rescue, it was great having everything I needed in the kit plus step-by-step instructions.

    A cake decorated like a green monster truck sitting on a silver tray.

    A family standing behind a green monster truck cake.    A family standing behind a birthday cake decorated to look like a swimming pool.

    Henry's 1st Birthday: I made a swimming pool cake filled with blue jelly and surrounded with chocolate fingers. Another great, classic cake from the Women's Weekly Birthday Cake Book.

    A chocolate birthday cake decorated to look like a swimming pool sitting on a white plate.

    Over the years I have tried a few different recipes when making birthday cakes. By far, my favourite recipes are my Celebration Chocolate Cake decorated with my perfect Buttercream Icing. Click on the pictures below to get the recipes!

    The process of making a large chocolate cake. The process of making buttercream icing in a stand mixer. 

    I also made this Witch Cake for my sister's Birthday, another classic from the Women's Weekly Birthday Cake Book.

    A birthday cake decorated to look like a pink witch sitting on a silver board.


    Two children's birthday cakes


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    For more birthday inspiration, check out my blog post on Kiwi Party Food. 

    Kiwi party food sitting on a table

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    Comments

    1. Natasha Walker

      March 22, 2022 at 1:36 am

      Hi! These are brilliant and I’m going to try and replicate the pirate cake for my little one’s 4th birthday soon 🙂 can you tell me how much buttercream icing you need to cover the cake (I’m not a natural baker)! Thanks, Natasha (UK)

      Reply
      • VJ cooks

        March 22, 2022 at 9:38 am

        This recipe produces enough icing to ice 1 large cake https://vjcooks.com/buttercream-icing/. Good luck!

        Reply
    2. CC

      September 11, 2022 at 9:31 am

      Hello! Does your Aunty remember how she made the white behind the minions eye and his little pink tongue? It’s so cute.

      Reply
      • VJ cooks

        September 12, 2022 at 9:40 am

        So cute! She used white fondant for the eye and then white fondant coloured with a little red food colouring to make pink fondant for the tongue.

        Reply
    3. Aya

      October 08, 2022 at 7:45 am

      Hi im gonna try and recreate the minion cake, does your aunty remember wha t she used for the silver part around the eyes (the edge of the glasses)

      Reply
      • VJ cooks

        October 11, 2022 at 10:23 am

        Hi Aya, clever Aunty Grace used a cookie cutter wrapped in tin foil!

        Reply

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