Birthday Cake Ideas for a Pre

Birthday Cake Ideas for a Pre<br /><br />If your child loves everything to do with fashion, surprise her with a cake that helps show off her divaliscious side. Make a handbag cake from two sheet cakes. Hold the cakes together with royal icing, made from egg whites, confectioners sugar and vanilla extract and use a knife to sculpt the cakes into a handbag. Cover the handbag in a smooth fondant layer and use licorice to create the handle. Once complete, embellish the bag with edible gemstones and other tasty toppings. You can also surround the cake with fashion goodies, like fondant lipstick and candy necklaces and rings. You can make him a replica of his digital music player from a single sheet cake, covered with a perfectly smooth layer of fondant in a color that matches his own electronic device. To finish the cake in a hurry, use icing pens to draw buttons and symbols on the cake. If you have a little time to spare, invest some of your creativity into the cake and make each tiny button from small pieces of fondant. If your preteen is more into his phone or video games than music, you can create a cellphone or gaming console from sheet cakes as well.Sports Enthusiast CakeWhether your child is the captain of the middle school softball team, a weekend soccer enthusiast or a fan of golf, you can make her a birthday cake that celebrates her love for the sport. Use a special sphere shaped cake mold to make a soccer ball or basketball cake, and then use a textured fondant roller on a sheet of fondant to create a realistic texture for the ball. If your kiddo cant decide which sport she loves the most, make several small ball shaped cakes instead and arrange them all on one tray. Other sport themed birthday cake ideas include a jersey shaped cake to replicate her favorite teams jersey, or if youre really ambitious, a cake sculpted into a soccer stadium, with green grass icing, fondant goals and fondant or plastic figurine players.Music Lover CakeTransform an ordinary sheet cake into an extraordinary guitar with a simple cardboard cutout. Trace the shape of a guitar onto the cardboard, cut out the shape and place the shape on your sheet cake. Cut the cake, following the outline of the guitar and then cover it with buttercream frosting or fondant. Use string licorice for guitar strings and gum paste for additional details. If your child prefers to sing rather than strum the guitar, make him a cake in the shape of a microphone, or make a miniature microphone for each child from an ice cream cone and a cupcake covered with frosting. To make a drum cake, stack the cake three layers high, sculpt to form a drum shape and cover it with a smooth sheet of fondant. Add the outer rims of the drum by using strips of fondant and then make the drumsticks from two rolled pieces of leftover fondant.