700+ Homemade Holiday Cake Ideas and Special Occasion Cakes

Holiday cake ideas are a wonderful opportunity for cake bakers to share their cake decorating skills with family and friends. It can get hectic trying to bake and decorate at the same time as regular holiday preparations. However, one look at this section, and you will agree that making holiday cakes are definitely worth it!

Halloween cakes are so much fun to peruse. The creativity is incredible! Scare your loved ones with amazing spooky graveyard and creepy skull cakes. Check out Thanksgiving themes where cakes are decorated in gorgeous Fall colors. Christmas cakes will put you in a festive mood. Celebrate with a New Year’s Eve and Mardi Gras cakes. Take in the beautiful pastel Easter egg cakes.

In addition, you will find cakes here to commemorate special occasions. Most of them include wedding, anniversary, and retirement cakes. There are also bridal shower, baptism and christening cakes. You will even find a divorce cake!

Whatever you are celebrating, make it unforgettable with one of these holiday cake ideas.

Latest Holiday Cake Ideas

Romantic Homemade Valentine Cakes
I browsed this site for cool Valentine cakes and this is what I came up with. This was my second … Read more
Coolest St. Patrick’s Day Holiday Cakes
This cake was for my son’s first birthday! We did a St. Patrick theme party but I wanted the cake … Read more
Coolest Religious Symbol and Special Occasion Cake Ideas
This special occasion cake was made for an infants baptism. I displayed it on a Southern Living Tray turned upside … Read more
Coolest Homemade Graduation Cap Cake With Pencils and Diploma
I wanted to make my daughter a special cake for her graduation from university. This is the graduation cake I … Read more
Coolest Homemade Monkey Graduation Cake
This homemade graduation cake was made for a friend’s daughter’s graduation… she loves monkeys. I made the monkey out of … Read more
Coolest Heart Shaped Box Cake
The homemade heart shaped box cake is two 12” heart, dark chocolate, cakes. The cakes were covered in cream cheese … Read more
Coolest Me to You Teddy Bears Cake
I did this Me to You Teddy Bears Cake for a girl who is a great fan of the Me … Read more
15+ Coolest Graduation Cakes – Awesome Graduation Cake Ideas!
This cool collection of graduation cakes is sure to provide you with inspiration as you set off to create the coolest graduation cake … Read more
7 Cool Graduation Cake Ideas for Med School Graduates
This cool collection of Graduation cake ideas is sure to provide you with inspiration as you set off to create the coolest graduation … Read more
Coolest Homemade Bapstism Cake With a Rustic Theme
I made this cake for my daughter’s best friend’s Little Angel. I used yellow fondant to cover the cake and … Read more
Coolest Homemade Funny Divorce Cake
Going through a 3 year divorce is exhausting mentally and physically but you learn how to push yourself and it … Read more
Coolest Homemade Jerusalem Wailing Wall Cake
I made this Wailing Wall cake to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem Day for my daughter’s kindergarten. Background for … Read more

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Featured Holiday Cake Ideas

Coolest Christmas Snow Globe Cake!

This Christmas snow globe cake was made for a family dinner.

It was a 3-layer 8 inch vanilla cake with white chocolate ganache filling.
I iced the cake in buttercream, covered it in red fondant, amd embellished it in white fondant snowflakes.
The snow globe was created with a glass bowl from the Dollar Store.

I made this cake for my husband’s birthday. He is almost a Halloween baby, so I decided to surprise him with this little fellow. It is a ‘wine cake’ that you have to baby sit for a week by dripping sweet wine daily. The batter contains dry fruits and nuts, similar to a fruit cake, but tastes very different. The base was baked on an aluminum pan to give the coffin shape and the mummy was carved out of a bear molded cake. Read more »