Take a look at these cool homemade Poker and Cards 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!
This Las Vegas Cake was one of several I launched my first foray into cake making with. One day my fiancé lost his job after 7 years with same company. Times were hard and we had several birthdays in the family looming around the corner, including my best friend and my finance (who share a birthday), … Read more
This cake was done for a friend’s mom. It was a regular slab cake, with large, cubed rice krispie treats, covered in fondant. The poker chips and playing cards were done in fondant (denominations were hand-piped) left to dry overnight. Polka-dot ribbon trimmed it and the finishing touches were a paper (non-edible) sign I printed, and … Read more
I wanted to make a cake for my friend who has a birthday on Halloween. I have made her a Halloween cake before but this time I wanted to do something that was not going to be so predictable that tied in with the holiday. So I thought about her other interests and thought Vegas … Read more
This cake was made for a friend of mine for her sister who was to become the big 50. I asked what are her likes and she said poker and she loves red wine and my friend Mazza decided to go for the two ace playing cards on the top of the cake. I had Googled … Read more
I made this cake for my husband’s surprise 25th birthday. he loves poker, especially Texas Holdem. I made a chocolate pound cake, and a vanilla pound cake, with buttercream. I used leaf green for the green fondant (I used marshmallow fondant). The chips and cards are all fondant too, and were painted with food coloring … Read more
This homemade Poker table cake is made out of chocolate pound cake, it was made for a birthday cake but would make a great grooms cake! Poker chips are made from gumpaste. The table is cut from 10″ round cakes, then covered with chocolate icing and fondant. The table section was grooved to denote wood … Read more
I got this idea for Las Vegas cakes from the Wilton 2006 yearbook. I baked two half sheets of cake. I then took a half sheet cake board and but out the size of octagon that I wanted. I used that as a pattern to cut the double layered cake. The cake was covered in … Read more
This idea for a poker table cake came from the 2006 Wilton Yearbook and I also used an idea from this website using brown instead of black. This cake was made for my brother’s 27th birthday. He loves to play poker and cards so this was a great cake to make for him. I didn’t … Read more
This Poker 18th Birthday Cake I made for my boyfriend’s 18th. Just dark chocolate mud cake covered in solid dark chocolate. The bottom one was then layered with white icing (fondant) and the top with chocolate sprinkles. I painted the fondant features (triangles, suits & poker chips) with food colouring and around the bottom of … Read more
I made a 9 x 13 cake then iced it with Wiltons buttercream recipe. To get the cards onto the cake I traced an outline of some playing cards with them fanned out. Then I outlined them with prepared black icing, used a writing tip to put in the hearts. After using letters pressed into … Read more
This Poker Table Cake Design is made from a 12” square cake pan. I had to cut angles to make it octagon shaped like a poker table. That was kinda of tricky but I cut a pattern from cake board so I would get each layer the same. It is 3 layers of white cake … Read more
This Poker Table Birthday Cake was inspired by my son’s love for the game of poker. It was his 28th birthday, and I decided to make this cake after his girlfriend said the theme for his party was going to be a poker room. I made the cake the day before and put it in … Read more