50th Birthday Cake Ideas

When looking for 50th birthday cake ideas, you'll find everything from simple cakes to elaborate designs involving casino themes using little blinking slot machines! A few of the standard cakes are those shaped like a "5" and a "0", or the "Over the Hill" cake.

While simple cake ideas certainly do the trick, something different will definitely brighten a 50th birthday party and give the person of honor reason for wanting you to make their next birthday cake.

Easy 50th Birthday Cake Ideas

• Rock and Roll Cake
• Bookworm Cake
• Cake Decorations and Ready Made Cakes

The Rock and Roll Cake

Bake three 12-inch round cakes. This size is the same size as a vinyl record. Once cooled, stack your cake layers and frost with white buttercream frosting. To make a checkerboard pattern, use a stencil and gray and white edible spray coloring such as Color Mist. After this, pipe dots along the bottom of the cake with colored buttercream icing using a round tip on your pastry bag.

Use flat lollipops that can resemble records to edge the cake and place an actual record on top of the cake. Before adding the vinyl record to the cake, clean it well and add a circle of waxed paper the same size as the record underneath the record and on top of the cake.

50th Birthday Cake for the Bookworm

Another from the long list of 50th birthday cake ideas is the homemade "book" cake. This recipe makes a scrumptious velvety white cake, which can later be decorated to resemble an open book:

Ingredients

• 1 box Pillsbury white or vanilla cake mix
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup plus two tablespoons cake flour 1/8 tsp salt
• 1 1/3 cups water
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup melted butter
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or almond extract

Sugar Free Icing

Ingredients

• one package of sugar-free instant pudding mix (any flavor)
• 3/4 cups milk
• 1 package cream cheese (8 ounces)
• 1 container of (lite) frozen whipped topping, thawed (8 ounces)

Other 50th Birthday Cake Ideas

Cake pans come in all shapes. Some of the shapes that are appropriate for a 50th birthday party may be wine bottles, guitars, motorcycles, boats, fish; and for the animal lover, a cat or dog-shaped cake pan.

Concepts for 50th birthday cake ideas are limitless, as are themes. If you are at a loss for a good idea, visit Learn Cake Decorating to spark some cake decorating ideas.

This article was written by Debbie at www.learn-cake-decorating.com

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