Take a look at these cool homemade Number One 1st Birthday cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
I made this 1st Birthday Cake from the “Hugs and Stitches” pattern from my daughter’s first birthday plates and napkins. The base is 2- 8″ rounds and the top is a 6″ round. I covered the bottom in pink fondant and then made the butterflies and flowers from fondant. Then the top I divided into … Read more
I got the idea for this creative cake for my Granddaughters first birthday from the napkins and party supplies my daughter purchased. I used food color markers and traced the images on to rice paper. I baked the cake according to package directions. I then iced the green, purple, and yellow patches on the top … Read more
I have used this site several times to get great ideas for cakes for my children’s birthdays, including this one. I hope others can benefit from my ideas as well. I made this car and first birthday cake for my son’s first birthday. For the cake, I made a vanilla sheet cake recipe in a … Read more
This 1st Birthday Cake Idea is a yellow sheet cake. For this size cake I used 2 cake mixes. The frosting is buttercream homemade. I used the frosting recipe from Wilton, modified just a little. I like to put more vanilla or butter flavoring in mine. I copied the design from a napkin. I just … Read more
I love tiered cakes and got this idea for a swirl cake from Martha Stewart Kids, but theirs was very pink and girly. So I changed the colors and added dots between the layers. Make sure to use support between the layers so the weight doesn’t squish the cake.
This creative cake was made for my daughters 1st birthday. Since she was only a year old, she was not into characters (Elmo, Dora, etc.), so we had to think of something cute to go with our pink decorations. The cake was simple to make. It is one large sheet cake with 2 small round … Read more
I made this First Birthday Cake for the 1st birthday of my friend’s son. She left all the design in my hands so I didn’t want to disappoint her. When I think about babies, somehow teddy bears pop up in my mind and at the same time I wanted to include a big number 1 … Read more
I made this 1st Birthday Cake Idea for my grandson Mac’s first birthday. Its a butter Madeira sponge cake which I split and filled with jam and vanilla buttercream. I crumb coated it with buttercream and covered it with sugar paste which I coloured green with gel food colouring to make a marble effect. I … Read more
I made this Hugs and Stitches 1st Birthday Cake for a friend’s daughter’s first birthday. The theme was the Hugs and Stitches girl first birthday. I basically made the cake to look like the plate. I made a half sheet cake and covered it in buttercream frosting once cooled. I colored fondant to match the … Read more
I did this creative cake for my sons 1st birthday. The cakes matched his party decorations.s 1st birthday. The cakes matched his party decorations.
I made this First Birthday Cake for my nephew’s 1st birthday. It was Cookies ‘n Cream, with cream cheese frosting. One box of white cake mix and chopped Oreo cookies and 1 can of cream cheese frosting. Follow directions on box and then add chopped Oreo’s. I used a 9×13 inch pan. When it was … Read more
I used a 9×13″ pan and cut it up 3 ways to form a number 1. I then used pink buttercream and smoothed it out over the whole cake. I then used a white shell border on top and white, lilac, and yellow drop flowers along the bottom with some leaves in there too. I … Read more