Fondant Birthday Cakes

More and more decorators are making fondant birthday cakes instead of traditional buttercream ones. Besides looking cleaner, fondant allows you more creative opportunities. Decorations including flowers, leaves and even animals are easier to create with fondant.

A tiered cake with fondant flowers makes the perfect addition to any girl's birthday celebration. Besides being fairly easy to decorate, this style of cake is not only fun but beautiful too!

A fondant covered round cake decorated with a pretty princess is perfect for any young lady's birthday. You can easily outline a pattern or transfer of a picture of a princess for this cake, or if you are creative enough, draw it freehand. Use various colors of fondant to emphasize the details of the princess.

White fondant makes the perfect background for a winter birthday cake. Use thin icing to make the snowflakes, as well as the snowman, and airbrush a little "ice" as well.

For the animal-lover in your life, create a cute giraffe cake out of fondant. Cut out different size pieces of fondant for its spots.

Everyone knows a baby's first birthday is a huge milestone. Why not commemorate the occasion with this eclectic, yet colorful, tiered cake? What child wouldn't love this one!

Fondant figures, such as this clown, add color and character to plain birthday cakes. Use different size fondant cutters to make the stars.

Recreating your child's favorite television or toy character can be done using fondant. Even if the figures aren't perfect, your child will still love it.

Fondant covered cupcakes are a good alternative at birthday parties. Each one can be decorated to match the children's personalities.