You certainly do not have to be a master baker to be able to whip up a soft, moist, and delicious sponge cake, cover it with pre-made white icing, and pop some candles on the top. However, suppose a friend, family member, or other loved one has a significant landmark birthday on the horizon. In that case, you will want to create something spectacular, surprising, and, most of all, a true edible showstopper!
Continue reading to discover some fabulous ideas and inspiration to decorate the homemade birthday treats.
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Cookies
There is nothing better than receiving a fresh batch of homemade chocolate chip cookies on your birthday, especially when the baker has utilized their extensive creative flair in decoration with letter stencils and intricate sugar work.
Personalize the cookies with motivational or comedy quotes from moments you and your friend or a family member have shared and finish off with beautiful icing rings and swirls in your loved one’s most favorite color.
Cupcakes
The sky really is the limit when it comes to your options for creating beautiful, decadent, and total delicious cupcakes for a special person in your life’s birthday celebration.
Bake pull-apart cupcakes by gathering each cupcake together in a group and decorating it as one big cake, creating a beautiful and fun effect when you pull them back apart again. Why not use sprinkles or chocolate chips or mini marshmallows around the edges of each cupcake to create a sparkly but somewhat decadent edgework. You could even try your hand at baking tie-dye cupcakes which will truly be the talking point of any birthday buffet.
Celebration Cakes
If your friend or family member is perhaps into the finer things in life, the best idea when planning a celebration cake for their birthday is to create a decadent, visually aesthetically stunning layered cake by adding fizz and sparkle by baking the cake in prosecco or cava. Display your prosecco cake by positioning it in the center and then flanking the cake with glasses of bubbly full to the brim.
Another fabulous idea is to make a birthday surprise cake, whereby when the birthday girl or boy cuts through the center of the cake, all manners of candies, chocolates, and other sweet surprises come spilling out onto the cake stand.
Fudge & Toffee
Homemade toffee and fudge are one of the best presents you can ever give to a birthday girl or boy who has a sweet tooth. There are a plethora of delectable flavor combinations that will truly make your homemade fudge and toffees a gift they will remember and want to savor forever.
If your loved one’s birthday happily falls around the holiday season, why not theme your fudge hamper to include flavors of Christmas such as egg nog, panettone, Christmas pudding, and even trifle flavor. Alternatively, arrange your different birthday toffee selections to remain in keeping with childhood dessert flavors that you know your loved one absolutely loves.
