Flip Flop Cake

This flip flop cake is great for a young child or teenager birthday. Perfect for pool and birthday parties alike, a flip flop cake is suitable for a variety of summer gatherings. Follow the instructions listed below to decorate a fun and colorful flip-flop treat or branch out and create your own masterpiece.

Free Cake Decorating Ideas

This particular flip-flop themed cake is composed of one large and two small round cakes. Choose a summer flavor your family will enjoy and make your cake festive by coloring your batter.

Make Your Flip Flops

Allow the cakes to cool before you cut your flip-flops. The process of shaping can be difficult for complex cakes – especially if you’re a cake-decorating novice, but the simple flip-flop design shouldn’t give you much trouble.

Create a template by tracing a large flip-flop onto a piece of regular or wax paper. Using a sharp knife, cut around the template placed on the cake.

Decorating Your Flip Flops

Frost your flip-flops in the color of your choice, using piping cut tips and additional colors to add details and designs. Add whatever details you'd like for your flip flops such as polka dots, plain color, stripes, squilly lines. Thick piping tips are suitable for the straps or, for an extra burst of flavor, apply strips of taffy, licorice or fruit roll-ups. Be as creative as you want – using these or other candies to form stripes and other patterns on your flip-flops.

Decorating Your Base

With the flip-flips decorated, you’re ready to move onto the base. You can decorate the larger flip flop cake in a number of themes such as:

The beach – sprinkle crushed graham crackers over a basic white frosting surface and position your flip-flops on top of the “sand;” personalize with writing or other decorative details.
Beach ball – simply pipe black frosting to create the lines for your beach ball; place your flip-flops on the cake and fill the remaining space on the beach ball with colored frosting using the star fill method. Further instructions and ideas for decorating a beach ball cake are located on our site.

Add as many colors and elements as you want for a truly unique cake.

An Easy and Fun Project

A fitting addition to a summertime party, the flip flop cake offers a range of decorating and theme-possibilities. Requiring a little time and assembly, this design is still relatively easy to make – even for the novice baker. Also an enjoyable family activity, ask your kids to assist in baking and decorating the cake.

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