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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These are too cute, they’re kinda making me hungry! lol!
My little son loves playing Soccer. That soccer cake would be superb for his birthday next month. I love the grass.
nice, really nice!
Will tell my wife about this site she is going to love it.
Now that we have lots of our childrens bithdays coming up!
wow, What a nice looking cake !
It will definitely be a delicious one also.
These look awesome, but they’d taste horrid
ts amizing will try on ma sons birthday
What amazing ideas!
I love th rocket cake!!! will defo b trying that 4 my lil mans bday :-)
this DIY cakes are so lovely, think i might make the purse one for my mother’s birthday ,really admire your inspiration.
love your site, i made a lot of things by myself for my baby BDay!!!
What a fabulous recipe!! this sounds like a great variation.
My favorite is the purse cake.! but all those cakes are so cute and beautiful