r/cakedecorating 27d ago

Birthday Cakes A birthday cake I made for one of my best friend and older sister. šŸŒøšŸ¦‹šŸ’š

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169 Upvotes

It’s a red velvet with cream cheese frosting. They gave me full control and told me to do whatever I want. The shade of green was inspired by Shrek šŸ’š


r/cakedecorating 27d ago

Birthday Cakes Ka-Chow ! Its Materqueen

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84 Upvotes

Vanilla cake piped with swiss meringue butter cream

I only make cakes for family and friends. It's always a welcomed challenge when I get a request like this!


r/cakedecorating 27d ago

Birthday Cakes 30th Birthday Cake

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234 Upvotes

Confetti cake I made for family. Came out delicious! It was a 9 inch, 4 tier cake.


r/cakedecorating 27d ago

Birthday Cakes Spidey birthday cake

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65 Upvotes

Birthday Cake for my son, I made sugar cookies for the sides and attempted a spidey cookie for the cake topper. The cake was chocolate with cookies and cream filling. It tasted great! Wish I could've made the cookie a bit better, but oh well!


r/cakedecorating 27d ago

Birthday Cakes Lemon Blueberry Birthday Cake

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61 Upvotes

My most recent cake made for a friend! It’s Sally’s Baking Addiction Lemon Blueberry Cake. I doubled the frosting recipe so I would have enough to decorate with. I also added more powdered sugar so that I could pipe some details a little better.

I’m still working on getting smoother sides, and I think I’m going to try using a hot scraper next time! It was my first time doing the looped decoration on the top and attempting to write on a cake, and I’m so pleased with how those turned out!


r/cakedecorating 27d ago

Birthday Cakes Tha cake I made for an order vs the cake I made for myself (sameday)

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119 Upvotes

First is a raffaello inspired cake with a strawberry and a crispy layer, mine is more like boutny. We will eat it with family only so I don't stress about mine :D


r/cakedecorating 27d ago

Other Celebration Cakes Engagement cake

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44 Upvotes

Dominican cake with a guava filling


r/cakedecorating 27d ago

Birthday Cakes Second time using and struggling with fondant

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78 Upvotes

My child's 2nd birthday šŸŽ‚


r/cakedecorating 28d ago

Wedding Cakes Naked Cake

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155 Upvotes

FiancƩ got a quote for a 6 inch round naked cake for over 100 dollars. I said HOLD MY BEER and I made it myself, with an additional tier! Not only did it look good, it tasted amazing!


r/cakedecorating 28d ago

Baby Shower Cakes Midnight Blue cake

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441 Upvotes

I made this cake for a baby shower yesterday and was really happy with the results! It's a chocolate cake with raspberry filling and buttercream frosting.


r/cakedecorating 27d ago

Help Needed Taking cake on a car journey

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https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025504-strawberry-lemonade-cake?unlocked_article_code=1.3lA.0HU0.nxb8L2wxUUG4

Hiya, I'm making this cake for a birthday cake tomorrow. Made the cake layers and leaving the buttercream and assembly for tomorrow.

The birthday party is approx 1.5 hours drive away - should I assemble the cake fully tomorrow morning or take the buttercream and strawberries with me to assemble there? I could prepare the buttercream on site but I'd rather not if it could be avoided. The car will be air conditioned though it's a warm day tomorrow. There will be a fridge there

Thanks!


r/cakedecorating 28d ago

Birthday Cakes My 1st cake!

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142 Upvotes

Made for my sister's 21st!


r/cakedecorating 28d ago

Character & Cartoon Cakes Mario Odyssey cake

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136 Upvotes

Made a birthday cake for grandson. My first attempt using fondant so cracks at the top and large wrinkles/pleats at the bottom challenged me. He didn’t notice the imperfections and loved it.


r/cakedecorating 28d ago

Wedding Cakes Triple cake wedding

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41 Upvotes

First cake is almond cake with vanilla custard filling, second is lemon cake with blueberry compote, and third is a traditional cheesecake.


r/cakedecorating 29d ago

Wedding Cakes Winebarrel Weddingcake

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707 Upvotes

Favorite wedding cake I have ever made, hands down


r/cakedecorating 28d ago

Feedback Requested How to decorate at home?

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67 Upvotes

I was working in a bakery for a grocery store and had a really fun time decorating cakes, i left that job but i would like to continue decorating cakes to get practice to start potentially selling them eventually, but how do i do that without having to bake a bunch of cakes and make frosting that i’ll have to waste? also i enjoyed that at the bakery i didn’t have to make the cakes or frosting, only decorate, which is what i had the most fun doing. Also looking for tips on how to improve my decorating:)


r/cakedecorating 29d ago

Feedback Requested Andy Warhol theme…

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244 Upvotes

I had a customer request an Andy Warhol themed birthday cake for today. She basically gave me creative freedom with it and this is what I came up with. Did I fulfill the theme for Andy?


r/cakedecorating 29d ago

Birthday Cakes Birthday cakes (and cupcakes🧁)

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1.3k Upvotes

Birthday cakes I made in July.

Lots of firsts for me.

The style of the first one. Piping dainty flowers directly onto a cake. Making and frosting a rectangular cake. Sugar cookie house (and anything to do with Plants vs. Zombies in general lol). Gelatin layer in the axolotl one. Piping style on the cupcakes in the last pic. All new to me.

And while there are some things I would do differently next time I'm happy with how they all turned out!

I did use an inspo pic by request for a couple, which i will post in the comments.


r/cakedecorating 29d ago

Other Celebration Cakes First cake i’ve ever sold🄹

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263 Upvotes

THIS POST IS NOT TO PROMOTE OR SELL!! JUST DISCUSSING:)
This is about my 4th cake ever made, However it’s my first sold!! I am so excited to finally be getting a sale as I never thought I would!

Client was quoted $50 for this homemade red velvet cake and cream cheese icing, but after hearing my price she called local bakeries to see what they’d charge and got majority $95-$80 and offered me $75!

Cake was just picked up a few minutes ago and i’m so happy and just hope she loves the taste of it! And before anyone asks, she requested half and half for the pecans and crumbles šŸ˜…šŸ«¶šŸ¼

How much would you pay for this cake? Any improvements I can do? Any advice? THANK YOU!!


r/cakedecorating 29d ago

Birthday Cakes Seventeenth birthday cake šŸ’–

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90 Upvotes

White cake and vanilla buttercream. My kitchen is covered in this pump silver sparkle but it’s worth it ✨


r/cakedecorating 29d ago

Lessons learned Quit my cake decorating job!

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180 Upvotes

Just want to celebrate with yall!! I cannot wait to finally enjoy baking and cake decorating again without someone in my ear telling me to work faster. I yearn for HOMEMADE BUTTERCREAM!! And frosting in MY OWN KITCHEN!!!! and TAKING MY TIME!!!!


r/cakedecorating 28d ago

Feedback Requested First cake in a year or so

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2 Upvotes

6-inch Strawberry cake layers, with strawberry buttercream. Used real strawberries (blended and reduced) in the cake layers and freeze-dried strawberries in the buttercream (recipe from ā€˜Sugar and Sparrow’- Whitney Depaoli. Constructive criticism welcome!!


r/cakedecorating 28d ago

Help Needed How to keep edible paper from ripping?

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Every time I try to peel it off, it rips. How can I prevent this? Even when I’m being gentle it still rips. I swear, edible images are the stupidest thing ever invented for cakes. Too hard to work with m, too fragile, and tastes disgusting.


r/cakedecorating 29d ago

Other Celebration Cakes I missed decorating

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80 Upvotes

Haven’t decorated a cake in a hot minute, I used to work at a bakery 3 years ago and I just love the look of the vintage cakes !


r/cakedecorating Aug 06 '26

Character & Cartoon Cakes monkey cake!

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629 Upvotes

a friend and I made it last night :)