Kids Cakes

Kids Cakes of All Kinds!

When my kids were little, we celebrated their birthdays in a big way. The birthday boy would choose what shape cake he would like and then I'd get to work, using my limited round and rectangular pans, a sharp knife, and a little imagination.

Although it was a lot of fun creating fancy cakes that way, there's nothing wrong with having a little help in the construction, such as using one of the large range of fancy kids' cakes pans that are available today. You don't need to feel that using a fancy pan to make your kids cakes would stunt your imagination. You can use those imaginative juices to think up some cool birthday games to play or to make up some birthday decorations. The cake will come out beautifully and your child will not appreciate it less for coming from a special pan. On the contrary, one of these kids cakes pans will become the special pan for making her or his fancy cake.

My little granddaughters just love animals of all kinds! I can imagine what fun a set of these muffin tins would be in their house! 

You can make these zoo animals and display them as is, or ice them with true-to-life food coloring. It wouldn't take too much effort to arrange them on a platter of lettuce for a vegetation effect or simply place one on each child's plate.

The party guests could play an animal guessing game. Provide three clues for each animal and then, when the animal is guessed, the child receives the little cupcake animal as a "surprise." Or each child could make the animal sound of his or her own cupcake friend.

Do you know someone who would love dinosaur kids cakes?

This kid's cake pan is the perfect choice for helping make a child who loves dinosaurs shine those pearly whites. Who could resist the loveable dinosaur character that this cake pan can produce?

This photo below gives you some ideas on how you can decorate your dinosaur cake as well. Coconut makes an interesting texture in the frosting, but you can get that distressed look by dabbing with a clean onion netting, too. (Though you want to be sure you have washed the netting thoroughly first so that there are no residual flavors added to your frosting!)

You can vary the design by using gummie candies for the teeth and spine. For the eye you could use a malted milk ball with white frosting for the background whites and another dab of white for the glisten in the eye. String licorice is good for outlining shapes.

Your dinosaur body can be any color you like, but I think this orange fella is pretty cute, don't you? It looks to me as if the cake decorator used frosting piping to make the features of this pictured dinosaur cake so perfect. Yours may vary a bit from the photo, but that doesn't mean it won't be just perfect, too.

Trains were always a big hit in our family. You may want to make a train cake for someone in your family, too.

These muffin or cupcake tins feature individual shapes for each train car. Nine different cars make up this set, including an engine, coal car, and caboose, among others. If you decorate them in different colors, the resulting train cake would be fantastic!

Now sometimes, no matter what fancy pans are out there, you just want to make your own cake design. Well then, don't let anything stop you -- making up your own cake design can be fun for you and for your kids as well!

We have a tradition in our neighborhood of having fancy tea and cake parties every summer. The local kids and a couple of us adults work together to make some pretty fancy cakes, and all the neighbors get together to share them. 

Last summer we made a dragon cake. (See the picture below.) Other cake designs we have done are tea pots and cups and flowers.