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Birthday Cake Ideas

inspiration for your birthday cake decorating

Birthday cake ideas, the internet is an endless resource when choosing a birthday cake design.

You can use photos of other peoples cake decorating ideas to take to a cake designer or as inspiration to make your own unique birthday cakes.

I have started a design idea list at the bottom of this page to help you come up with ideas for your own birthday cakes.

Fondant birthday cakes are very popular especially for that very special first birthday cake.

detail of the alice in wonderland birthday cake

And it goes without saying that my chocolate cake recipes make delicious bases for any decorated cakes. At this link you will find recipes for my dark chocolate cake and white chocolate cake both of which I use as my birthday cake recipe base.

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If you are looking at having a cake made by Inspired By Michelle cake flavours and contact details can be found on the Inspired By Michelle page.

All my cakes have generous layers of either dark chocolate or white chocolate ganache underneath the rolled fondant icing. You want to make your own cakes you can find both the ganache recipes in my fillings and frosting pages.

I love designing birthday cakes, sydney areas all covered as delivery or pick-up can be arranged. I have included some photos of my recent cakes to help you with your own birthday cake ideas - but remember the idea is to create a cake that is uniquely yours.

For more of my cake decorating ideas and information on decorating cakes please click here.

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Teapot cakes are fun to make. This one was made to celebrate my mothers birthday but they also make great shower tea cakes.	Present cakes do not just have to be square. This black, white and diamante design is a design that suits many occasions.	1st Birthdays are always special. No1 cakes are a great way to celebrate. This one has a fondant elephant that I made sitting on top. These fondant animals can be kept as a keepsake.

Happy 21st Birthday Cake. Pinks and greens - stars and stillettos. Diamantes and silver chocolate smarties were included in the design for a bit of bling.	2nd birthday cake with a jungle theme. I made the giraffe,tiger and No 2 out of fondant. I received a wonderful thank you letter telling me the cake was a big hit with the birthday boy.	Hot pink and red present cake highlighted with diamantes. This makes a special birthday cake or an extra special valentine cake idea. The tag has the recipients intial in diamantes to personalise this cake.

This Louis Vuitton handbag cake is one of the most popular birthday cake ideas for girls of all ages. This interpretation of the Ursula design was for a 20th birthday. Bag cakes can be made in all your favourite designs.	This is a very colourful and fun cake to design for an 18th birthday cake. Stars, spots and stripes decorate this single mad hatter design. The theme for the celebration was Circus.	I love making cakes filled with colour. This colourful hearts and flowers birthday cake was for a group of us with birthdays all around the same time we enjoyed it over a lovely get-together lunch.

This simple dice cake design is perfect for someone who likes to gamble a little in life!	Another halloween birthday cake design - this time in pinks, purples and a little bling - what a great way to celebrate a 30th birthday.	This is the birthday cake for all CHOCOLATE LOVERS - a great big single chocolate. No I did not make it for myself but I have had this design in my head for a while and loved having the opportunity to create it.

These cute but cheeky baby bears have completely unravelled the bow on this 1st birthday cake. I can not claim to have come up with this idea it was inspired by the father of this gorgeous little girl.	This is a very big version of my lady bug 1st birthday cake. The stars in the design were added because they are the meaning of this little girls name - this is the perfect example of personalising your design.	Although I made this cake for a wedding I think this concept is beautiful for any birthday occasion. I call it my monogram floral fantasy - I guess it could be done in any colour.

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Hi Michelle, You made the Hammer Cake for my Husband"s 60th Birthday, He thought it was just great and the Guest were very impressed with your work and the cake was just beautiful to eat it was so moist. The Chef who catered for the party was also very impressed he asked for your business card, He has is own restaurant and also does functions and people often ask him if he can recommend anyone to make a special cake. Many thanks for your wonderful work which helped make our party a success.

(Kind Regards Sue)

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These cakes are amazing... we had a beautiful pirate cake done for our four year old son and it was gob-smacking... the children loved it!!! the adults loved it and best of all our little boys thought it was the best best!!!!! not only did it look fantastic but it tasted incredible too with a rich chocolate cake to die for!! loved it!!!!! loved it!!!! loved it!!!!!

(Jaspers 4th Birthday Pirate Cake)

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Michelle's cakes are the best cakes I have ever tasted. One of them was for my husband's birthday. The cake not only looked STUNNING.....but also tasted SENSATIONAL. Well...the outer layer was made of a sheet of chocolate which was folded into a cylindrical shape of about half a meter high and inside were pieces of chocolate cakes that tasted the most delicious; not too sweet, not too heavy, it was JUST RIGHT, with some perfectly whipped cream and some ferrero chocolates. The second one was a cake in a shape of half a soccer ball. There were nutty, sweet, crunchy bits right underneath the thin layer of cake. It was just SUPERB! I brought some of the left over cakes to work and the colleagues just LOVED it. They were amazed. I totally recommend Michelle's cakes.

(Liana)

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Michelle,
THANK YOU once again for the excellent work you did on my 21st birthday cake..the end result was even more beautiful than I had imagined and tasted exquisite!! All 150 guests at my birthday had a piece and enjoyed every last bite..it was well worth the money! you were the most helpful and friendly cake designer and baker I encounted during my months of searching for the perfect cake and it was partly because of you personality that I chose you..it also helped that the sample you brought for me to taste was delicious! Look forward to dealing with you again in the near future. All the best!!

(Lots of Love, Zita)

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Dear Michelle
We wanted to thank you very much for the wonderful cake you created for our Mum's 70th birthday ..
It was a huge hit and Mum was all smiles when she saw it! to add to all the excitement, not only did the cake look brilliant, it tasted absolutely delicious!!
so thanks again, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend you!!

(Ireni)

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Dear Michelle,
Thank you so much for the fantastic cake you made for Phill's 50th. He loved it. Everyone was very impressed (of course). Phill said he wanted you to now how thrilled he was and loved the taste, lots of cherries just how he likes it.

I wish to say thank you for your creativity and helping make the night special for Phill.
(Gabrielle)

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Hi Michelle
I just wanted to drop you a quick line to say thankyou so much for the cake. My daughter thought it was fantastic and with the speed her and her friends polished it off I'd say they thought it tasted fantastic.
Once again thankyou for making such a very special cake for her to celebrate with.

(Rachael)

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Ideas for Birthday Cakes

I really hope my birthday cake ideas have inspired you for your own designs. If you are trying to decide on a birthday cake design maybe the following starting points will help.

Favourite colours
Favourite sport
Wrapping paper or scrap booking papers are good for colour combination ideas.
TV, Movie or Toy characters
T-Shirt designs
Favourite foods
Hobbies
Invitations for birthday parties often have design details that can easily be used in a cake design
A favourite piece of fabric is also a great design resource. That is where I got the idea for my own cake.
The internet has thousands of birthday cake ideas espeially if you do an image search.
If you are having a themed party then the cake can match. The rabbit coming out of the magic hat cake I made was for a magic birthday theme party and the rabbit I made actually matched the invitation.
Occupation is also a good place to start. A tooth for a dentist, tools for someone in construction, an apple for a teacher, a ball of wool for a fibre artist or knitter, a fried egg for a breakfast chef or maybe a pot of flowers for a gardener.
Even nicknames might give you inspiration for a cake design.
Heros
Favourite flowers give you instant birthday cake ideas including colour scheme and decoration.
I thought I would mention that sometimes the top tier of a wedding cake can also be used to celebrate a birthday or special occasion.
When looking for birthday cake ideas searching wedding cake pictures can be a good resource that is not often used. The simplicity of an elegant wedding cake works beautifully for wedding anniversaries and female birthday celebrations.

A gallery of my wedding cake designs can be found by clicking here.

bow, blocks and butterfly baby christening cake

This page has my ideas for baby christening cake and more ideas for 1st birthday and baby shower cakes

colourful kite birthday cake idea

To explore my cake decorating designs for special occasion cakes click here.

These cakes can also make great birthday cake ideas! Check them out.

For my cupcake decorating ideas pages please click here.

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