Parenting.com has a fabulous birthday cake gallery/tutorial that is nothing short of AMAZING! Each of the 31 cakes in this gallery comes with step-by-step instructions on how you can recreate it at home. There’s some serious creativity & resourcefulness going on here!
Pictured at top: Castle cake – featuring ice cream cone turrets…SWEET!
Pictured below: Pirate Ship and Soccer Ball cakes. (The use of Oreo Crisps for the soccer ball is GENIUS!)

This Lion cake design is adorable too… especially the chow-mein noodle “mane”!
More favorites pictured below: Purse Cake with Giant Tootsie Roll handle, Train Birthday Cake – Engine (also check out the entire train cake) ,Ladybug cupcakes, Snake cupcakes, Dump Truck cake, ridiculously clever French Fries cake (toasted pound cake slices with red frosting dip!), Shark cake, and Monkey cake.

Click here for a thumbnail view of all 31 cakes!








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31Comments
These are SO cool!
These are so awesome! My son would LOVE that pirate ship one!
love these! i will have to try one out for my daughter’s 3rd bday.
these cakes are SO cute!
oh my goodness- so cute! Thanks for the heads up about this.
Oh my, those cakes look great. I would have a hard time cutting into those.
Adorable!
If I was 7 again I would love that castle cake!!!
These are all wonderful! Such a timely post as I just blogged about a party for my son where I attempted to make the cake. It was a bit of an embarrassment, to say the least.
*Maybe* after seeing this, I’ll try again.
What Beautiful Cakes ! I think i might have to make the purse one for my birthday !
These are amazing! I am going to have to try that train cake. My son’s birthday is nearing and he is obsessed with all kinds of trains. This will be a HUGE hit! Thanks for sharing.
WOW, what great cakes!!! I love the french fries!
These look absolutely amazing! Thanks for the step by step decorating ideas, I can just see kids going nuts over cakes like these coming out at a party.
Very creative! I like your use of the marshmallows for the flowers. Keep up the great posts…chefRob
This is cool, but I can’t imagine that the chow mein noodles in the lion one would make the cake taste very good.