Cake Toppers

Cake Toppers are themed decorations that add instant fun to your cakes.

This is a cake that I made for my granddaughters 4th birthday! She wanted construction stuff so I found a back loader to use as the main decoration. Orange gumdrops made cute construction cones. The dirt was made by grinding up chocolate cookies.

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Do It Yourself Cake Decorating

Have you priced store bought cakes lately? It's very convenient to call and order a cake instead of baking one, but with the increase in cost, it's hard to justify not baking one especially for kids parties.

You can bake a cake, frost it, and then put on the same decorations you'd get if you purchased your cake. Online retailers offer a huge selection of cake toppers and supplies. They carry a larger selection than you can find at local stores.

Use shaped cake pans for matching your cake with a party theme. You can bake rectangular sheet cakes, heart shapes, or any number of character cakes. Cakes should be fun and with shaped pans you can easily do it yourself.

Types of Toppers

Figurine Toppers

Wedding toppers are the most familiar type of cake top. A bride and groom stand guard over the wedding cake. Wedding toppers are getting more elaborate every year, some even come with lights.

Popular cartoon character figurines, dolls and even small toy trucks can be used as cake toppers. If they can fit on the top of the cake, they can be used.

This is a Dora cake decoration that can be used more than once or turned into a small toy after the party. Click the picture if you want to see more information on that particular cake decoration.

Sugar Candy Decorations

These are my favorite. They're pressed sugar decorations (like a sugar cube) that you glue to the cake with a dab of frosting. The Party Works has a huge supply of sugar decorations for birthdays, holidays and weddings. Some of the wedding decorations are white and can be tinted with food coloring to match your wedding colors.

Sugar shapes are like cake jewelry. Use the flowers to decorate a garden party cake. Soccer balls can decorate a soccer party cake. The varieties of shapes available will amaze you.

Photo and Graphic Toppers

A highly popular addition to cake decorating are edible cake topper graphics.

If you can apply a fake tattoo, you can use graphic toppers. Just frost your cake, peel off the backing of the graphic and lay it onto your cake. You become an instant cake artist! So simple and easy to use.

Birthday cakes
Candles as cake decorations.