Cat Birthday Cake Ideas

Cat birthday cake ideas can range from simply using a cat shaped cake pan to building the cake from several other cakes cut into shapes and glued together with icing. Inspiration can come from looking at photos of other cat cakes and visualizing how to create the various parts of the cat’s anatomy. Share your cat cake with us, too!

Cat-Shaped Cake Pans

One dimensional cat cakes are the easiest to design. If you bake the cake in a cat shaped cake pan, all you will need to do is focus on decorating it.

Creative Multi-Cake Pans Cat

For a slightly more complicated one-dimensional cake, use two sizes of round cake pans, one slightly smaller than the other. The actual sizes will depend on how large the cake needs to be to feed all the guests. Bake two cakes in the larger pan and one cake in the smaller. Use one of large cakes for the body and the smaller cake will serve as the cat’s head. Position them on the serving platter, one on top of the other, to form the cat. From the second large cake cut a crescent shape about three inches wide at the middle of the crescent to form the tail. Next, cut triangular pieces for the ears and add the tail and ears to the body of the cat using frosting to adhere them in place. Freezing the cakes before carving and shaping them will make it easier to avoid crumbling edges.

Decorating

Other cat birthday cake ideas include decorating ideas. The color of frosting you will use depends on what kind of cat you desire to make. For example, to make your cake look like a tabby cat, use butterscotch frosting with streaks of white. Orange, brown and buttercream are other popular icing colors for cat-inspired cakes. Once you have used frosting to secure and attach the edges of the cat components, frost the rest of the cat to hide the seams. Separate the head and body with a collar made from licorice or fruit leather. Use white or pale pink frosting to accent the insides of the ears.

Use our cat cake decorating pattern and make a buttercream transfer on a 13x9 or round cake.

Making a Cat Face

Cat birthday cake ideas include ideas for making a face on the cake employing different candies and confections. Make the eyes from black candy-coated chocolates or fruit pastilles. A heart-shaped candy is perfect for the nose, and use pink taffy or fruit leather for the tongue. Make whiskers from licorice sticks or you can draw them on using black writing frosting. Form the facial features from fondant of different colors and then place them on the cake.

Themes

Other cat birthday cake ideas may take on a thematic note but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are complicated. If the birthday falls near Valentine’s Day, place cat cake toppers on a traditional cake with a heart cake topper between and write a cute phrase on the cake, for example, “Have a Purrfect Birthday”.

A cat sprawled on a ball of frosting made to look like yarn sitting atop the cake would lend a cute visual aspect. If you are somewhat artistic, create a cat face covering the top of a round cake with a pastry bag and a few different-sized tips.

cat on ball of yarn cake.

Cat made from gum paste. Photo courtesy of snarkygurl
If you have a cat who thinks the living room belongs to him, decorate the top of a sheet cake to resemble a living room with tiny furniture and cat miniature, which you can find at a hobby store.

Another idea children will love is to surround the large cat cake with additional cupcakes decorated to look like baby kittens.

Cat birthday cake ideas are great for the cat lover, child or for pet owners to celebrate the birth of their favorite family feline. Don’t be afraid to try your hand at cake design; and cover your mistakes with icing.

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