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.
Be sure to upload your summer creation to our cake gallery!
Online Cake Decorating Tutorial
Party Planning
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