Take a look at these cool homemade 50s Theme 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 was asked to make a 59 pink Cadillac cake for my cousin’s 13th birthday. I was excited about the idea, but hesitant about how I would pull it off, having never made any car cakes before. Making the Pink Cadillac Cake I baked enough cake for 30 people in a half sheet pan. I … Read more
My daughter requested we do a 50s themed party for her 10th birthday, so off to the internet we went searching for cake ideas. This cake is a combination of a couple of images we found and some of my own creativity thrown in for good measure. Please understand that I am not a baker, … Read more
To put the picture of the car on the cake I printed off a coloring page. I then used a size 3 tip and traced the car’s details with my buttercream icing and let it crust. Once the icing on the cake had crusted too I was able to imprint the car onto the top … Read more
I made this beautiful I Love Lucy cake for a coworker’s mother. She had asked me to make her some kind of I Love Lucy cake (she suggested just the heart). I came up with this cake and made it extra special because I know how much her mother means to her. Now starting from the … Read more
This Fifties Rock and Roll Cake is of my own design. I had a request for a 50’s rock & roll cake, and this idea was born. I made three 12″ cakes, filled, stacked and iced them with white buttercream. I made my own checkerboard stencil and used Wilton spray color to make the checkerboard … Read more
This 50s Skirt Cake was made of boxed lemon flavored cake mix and the fondant is home made also lemon flavored. I followed the directions on the box and made one 14 inch round and a 12 inch round. With the help of internet research and many calls to my cousin (who makes beautiful cakes) … Read more
I made this Rock and Roll cake for my sister’s 50th birthday where the theme of the party was the 1950’s. This was my first attempt at playing with fondant and cake paint. The edible parts of the cake were: – the cake base, which was a simple rectangular butter cake, iced with butter icing, … Read more
I love making cakes and this was something special. I made this cake using a size 12x18x2 cake pan made by Wilton. I made four layers of chocolate cake and filled with chocolate buttercream. Once the cakes were baked and filled I carved two layers in the shape of a skirt and two layers in … Read more
I was thinking of making cakes for a fifties birthday when I got this idea for a Rock and Roll Birthday. The Records came from a Party Store. I added the picture air brush the cake and place the records around it.
For my friends daughter’s 13th Birthday, they decided to have a 1950’s theme. I made a 9″X13″ cake and frosted it with white Wilton’s icing. I piped it with icing colored with Wilton’s pink and aqua food coloring, and used black piping icing for the words. For the other decorations I purchased a figurine of … Read more
I made this cake for my mom and her friend who were sharing their birthdays. This was one of my first cakes, believe it or not! I looked for a picture of the car on the internet. I enlarged it then printed it out, then traced it onto tracing paper. I outlined the design with … Read more