Decorated Cakes for every Celebration

Decorated cakes can bring a festive (and delicious) touch to any celebration or social gathering. Whether you are planning on making a princess birthday cake or an elaborate five-tiered wedding cake, you can find inspiring cake decorating designs by searching online or thumbing through cake decorating books and magazines.

Decorated birthday cakes are among the most popular celebration cakes. Many pictures of decorated cakes feature childhood themes such as the fairy tale princess birthday cake or the Sesame Street character cakes. Then there are the decorated cakes that celebrate an anticipated "birth day" – the baby shower cakes.

The disposable diaper cake is a popular baby shower cake that is actually made from the diapers rather than real cake. But most of the cake decorating designs you will see for baby showers use decorated cakes that are made of real cake.

Speaking of novelty cakes, you can find lots of cake decorating designs for fun decorated cakes such as the fish birthday cake. These cakes can be easy to make when you have a novelty cake pan, such as a fish birthday cake pan.

Many a decorated cake has its humble beginning in a novelty birthday cake pan. Take the Nemo birthday cake for example. This perennial favorite can be baked in a cake pan, iced and then decorated by filling in the fish's details with colorful icings and a star tip.

Decorated cakes that make use of these pans can also go three-dimensional when the character cake is placed on top of an iced cake. The bottom cake, whether a sheet cake or round cake, is then decorated to provide the background.

For example, Nemo would be placed on top of a cake iced with smooth, blue buttercream, and then decorated so that Nemo appears to be swimming through a coral reef.

Decorated wedding cakes can be just as fun. Wedding cake designs that reflect the theme of the wedding and the bride's personal tastes may be of any style from whimsical and fun to formal and ultra romantic and anywhere in between.

Cake decorating designs for wedding cakes usually include flowers. Decorated cakes for weddings often are garnished with live flowers, buttercream blossoms (usually roses) or gumpaste flowers (molds offer hundreds of flower types). The flowers, whether live, buttercream or gumpaste, should reflect the themes of the decorated cakes.

So as you can see, decorated cakes can be as fun and/or elaborate as you wish. Whether a non-cake diaper cake for baby shower, a princess birthday cake in the form of a doll cake or castle, or a romantic wedding cake, decorated cakes are a focal point at many a celebration.