A 14-Year-Old Girl's Cake: The Best Decorating Ideas (85 Photos)
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Need a delicious and incredibly beautiful festive cake for a 14-year-old girl – We're ready to offer lots of interesting recipes, as well as the best decoration ideas (fashionable covers, designs with a passport, and a variety of creative decor for a 14th birthday).
Passport Cake
Many bakeries today offer beautiful cake designs for girls, with a design element featuring an edible passport-like "booklet." Meanwhile, mothers planning such a surprise cake for their daughter's 14th birthday wonder whether it's possible to create such an unusual design at home.
Edible passports and other similar decorative elements are created using modern food printing technology, which allows for the application of inscriptions, high-quality color images, or even high-detail photographs onto confectionery products.
The following are used as a basis for applying the design:
- sugar paper (a thin, soft covering that easily takes any shape when subsequently transferred to the cake);
- thin wafer paper (has a porous, denser structure, but is also placed on some kind of base);
- thick wafer paper (dense, holds its shape well, can be used without an additional base).
For a more detailed look at the differences between three popular printing bases, watch this video:
The cake can be baked according to any recipe:
- Honey cake;
- Napoleon;
- Day and night;
- Prague and others.
We offer you creative ideas for how to decorate a cake with a passport for a 14-year-old girl.
If buying a food printer isn't on your list and you can't order passport-sized cookies in your city, we suggest implementing an idea similar to decorating regular gingerbread cookies. Bake the cookies, cover them with icing (most commonly lilac or purple), and then print the design and the words "Passport" using a classic icing for decorating gingerbread (if desired, the mixture can be tinted in any color using food coloring).
Butterfly design
To create this design, the cake is covered with mastic or lined with thick cream, which is lightly tinted pink.
You will also need:
- butterfly images printed on medium weight wafer paper;
- clean sheets of white wafer paper;
- floral wires (for fixing butterflies).
For more details on how to create a luxurious cake decoration with delicate, flying butterflies, watch this video:
We offer a selection of cake designs with butterflies:
Design with toppers
Today, you can find stylish cake toppers in specialty stores. A variety of options are available:
- openwork inscriptions (inedible): the traditional “Happy Birthday”, as well as names and various wishes;
- gingerbread cookies in the shape of a number or the first letter of a name;
- cookies with food printing (there are no limits to your imagination here, and you can create anything from inscriptions and stickers to photos of the birthday girl and her friends);
- lollipops (colored or transparent).
See the photo for some ideas on cake toppers for a 14-year-old girl:
We also offer several ideas on how to decorate a cake with lollipops in an original way, creating an interesting composition from various edible elements.
Number cake
Decorating this cake can be very diverse. You can create a stylish design using:
- deposited cream;
- marshmallows of different colors;
- cookies and gingerbread;
- chocolates and candies;
- fresh fruits and berries;
- nuts;
- mint leaves.
See this collection of photos for how to design a stylish "Number" cake for your daughter's 14th birthday.
You can also find a detailed step-by-step recipe for making this Digit cake at home on our website.
Chocolate velour coating
Here's what popular velvet cakes look like:
Learn how to make a velvet cake covering and what you'll need in this video tutorial:
Set of sweets
A very original solution might be to prepare not just one dessert for a birthday, but a whole set of sweets, which includes:
- beautiful birthday cake;
- a set of mini-cakes, decorated in the same style as the main one.
More ideas
What else can you make for a 14-year-old girl's birthday? The options are endless:
- with an ice cream cone or popsicle (naturally, the ice cream itself is a potato cake with a colored coating);
- Rubik's cube (three-tiered portioned cake);
- bouquets of edible flowers;
- Animal cakes (some might think these are more for children, but even if you've never received such a beautiful gift before, even a 14-year-old girl will appreciate such an unusual sweet present).
We invite you to add to our list of creative 14th birthday cake decorating ideas by leaving your own in the comments.
