- A sparkly flower cake is simple to decorate and can be styled to look like a daisy, a sunflower or a tropical flower, depending upon the theme of your party. Begin with a round layer cake and cover it with one solid color of frosting. Use a drinking glass to press a circle shape into the frosting in the center of the cake. This will be the middle part of your flower.
Use a toothpick to draw the petals of the flower. To make them even, begin by drawing three petals. If the face of the cake were a clock, you'd be drawing one at the 12 o'clock position, one between 4 and 5 o'clock and another at between 7 and 8 o'clock.
Make colored sugar by mixing food coloring and granulated sugar in a plastic bag. It's best applied to wet frosting, so work quickly.
Once the first layer of petals is drawn, carve in a second layer. Use a spoon to place colored sugar into each petal. Carefully apply it on the edges of the petals and then use the back of the spoon to press it in toward the center of each petal. Leave a 1/4-inch border between each sugared petal.
After each petal has been sugared, go over the edges with a solid line of frosting, from a tube or a piping bag. For the center of the flower, you can make a puckered region using the star tip. Add sprinkles to this area for decoration. You might want to pace a plastic bumblebee on your flower, too. - The shape of a Bundt cake is quite distinctive, like a giant, embossed doughnut. Traditionally, Bundt cakes are frosted with a drippy layer of glaze. You can make this a little more interesting by coloring the glaze.
Bake a vanilla or white Bundt cake and cover it with white glaze. Allow it to dry.
Put a few drops of yellow food coloring into a bowl with plain white glaze, until it's a nice bright shade of yellow. Use a spoon to drizzle it on, in a random pattern, along the top of the cake. Leave plenty of open spaces for the other colors. Once the yellow has dried, repeat the process with orange, then red, green, blue and finally purple. Be careful to make sure the colors dry so that they don't get "muddied up" into brown. Try not to overlap colors too much, for the same reason. - A smiley face cake is quite generic. It can be made to congratulate a Wal-Mart retiree, or just to cheer up a friend. It's possibly the simplest cake you'll ever make.
Begin with a round layer cake, and cover it with yellow frosting. Allow the yellow frosting to dry (so that the black doesn't "bleed') and then make eyes and a happy mouth with a tube of black frosting. An alternative to black tube frosting would be jelly bean eyes and a licorice mouth, pressed into wet frosting.
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