- Choose an animal-themed cake that coordinates with the party's theme. For a barnyard party theme, make a three-dimensional cow, horse or pig cake, or turn a rectangular sheet cake into a barnyard full of animal-shaped cookies. For a safari or jungle-themed party, make a two-tier cake decorated with green fondant and plastic or fondant safari animal figurines. Make a tyrannosaurus rex cake for a dinosaur-themed party, or cover a rectangular sheet cake with chocolate cookie crumbs and fill it with bone-shaped cookies for a dinosaur dig cake.
- When the party group is made up of little princesses or princes, make a two-tier cake in the shape of a fairytale castle with cake pillars for the castle lookouts. Cake decorators can also make a three-dimensional princess doll cake using a cake baked in an oven-safe bowl and a real princess doll --- the doll is placed in the upside-down bowl shape to look as if she's wearing a ballgown. Other fairytale cake ideas to consider include a unicorn cake baked in a unicorn or horse-shaped cake pan, a square cake cut and decorated to look like a knight's shield or a cake cut to look like a magic wand. For a party group that loves fairytale stories, use a book-shaped cake pan and write the words from a favorite fairytale on the pages. Decorate the cake further by turning it into a pop-up book by adding a three-dimensional shape of a castle, princess or dragon to the center of the book.
- For a movie-themed party, consider a cake in the shape of a clapboard, a roll of film or a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. For the guest of honor's favorite movie, make a cake that looks like the movie's poster using edible frosting images, or decorate the cake as a scene from the movie and use plastic or fondant figurines of the characters. For a party at a movie theater, make a cake in the shape of a popcorn container and top the cake with yellow-tinted marshmallows to look like popcorn.
- For a party group comprising children of any age, make a cake in the shape of a sports ball, such as a basketball or soccer ball, using a sports ball cake pan set. Cheer on a favorite team with a cake cut and decorated to look like a sports team jersey with the favorite team's emblem cut from a sheet of fondant. Other sports-related cake ideas include a cake decorated to look like a bowling lane with fondant bowling balls and pins, a football field with fondant football players or a round cake stacked six to eight layers tall to make a golf club bag with fondant golf clubs protruding from the top.
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