Top 11 Teen Birthday Cake Ideas

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As your child enters their teenage years, their thought processes change. Whether it is choosing a simple meal, desserts, sweets, or birthday cake, your teen could be super picky. Having some teen birthday cake ideas handy could help you choose or bake a cake easily for them. Earlier, you could please your child effortlessly with a simple, cute heart-shaped cake or a bunny cake. But, it may not be easy to please teens with these cakes, as they are very particular about the kind of cake they want for their birthday celebration. To help you choose the best cake for your teen, we bring you some lovely, colorful, and appealing birthday cake ideas in this post.

11 Birthday Cake Ideas For A Teen

1. Batman cake

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You Will Need:

• 1 box of cake mix
• 2 round cake pans
• 2 containers of vanilla frosting
• Black and blue food coloring
• Icing bag Black decorating gel
• Batmobile action figure

How To:

1. Bake the cake in two round pans as directed on the package.
2. Leave it aside to let it cool.
3. Mix blue food color in one container of vanilla frosting.
4. Then do the same with the black food coloring.
5. Frost both the cake layers with blue frosting and stack them together.
6. Then transfer the black frosting to a pipe and decorate the edges of the cake.
7. You can draw buildings with the black frosting to create the Gotham city.
8. Top the cake with bat mobile. Again one of the most unique teenage birthday cake ideas

2. Kitkat cake

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You Will Need:

• 1 round cake 3 packets of KitKat Frosting Ribbon Candies for decoration

How To:

1. Cut the cake into half and layer the frosting.
2. Make sure you put plenty of frosting around the sides.
3. Place KitKat all around the sides.
4. Add the frosting in the center and spread it out.
5. Fill the center with candies.
6. Lastly, tie the ribbon around the cake.This could count in as one of the best teenage girl birthday ideas.

Quick tip

You can replace candies by adding fresh strawberries and blueberries to the middle of the cake.

3. Football cake

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You Will Need:

• 9×13 inch cake pan Chocolate cake mix
• Chocolate icing or fondant
• 1 Tube white frosting or white fondant

How To:

1. Bake the cake according to the package’s direction.
2. Leave it for 10 minutes.
3. Then flip the cake upside down and let it cool.
4. Cover the whole cake with chocolate frosting or fondant.
5. With the white frosting or fondant, pipe in the lines.

4. Nemo cake

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You Will Need:

• 1 packet of cake mix
• Square shaped cake pan
• Orange frosting fondant
• 1 tube of white frosting or fondant 1 tube of black frosting or fondant
• A small packet of Oreo
• A packet of brown M&M or gems

How To:

1. Make the cake according to the packet’s direction.
2. Let it sit for 10 minutes.
3. Once the cake has cooled, cut the corners to create a fish shape.
4. Use the cut pieces for the fins.
5. Frost the entire cake with orange frosting.
6. Then, with the white frosting, draw the stripes.
7. With the black frosting, draw the fins, tail, and the smiling face.
8. Use the cream side of the Oreo as an eye.
9. Place a brown candy on it to give it an appearance of the pupil.

Quick tip

Before icing, ensure the cake has cooled thoroughly. The frosting could soften or melt if the cake is warm.

5. Red velvet cake

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You Will Need:

• 1/2 cup of shortening
• 1-1/2 cups of sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 ounce of red food coloring
• 3 teaspoons of white vinegar
• 1 teaspoon of butter flavoring
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 2 ½ cups of cake flour
• ¼ cup of baking cocoa
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 cup of buttermilk

Frosting

• 12 ounces of cream cheese,
• softened ¾ cup of butter,
• softened 5 ½ cups of caster sugar
• 4 ½ teaspoons of vanilla extract

How To:

1. In a bowl, beat sugar and shortening until light and fluffy.
2. Then beat the eggs, one at a time. Then add in food coloring, butter flavoring, vanilla and vinegar.
3. In a bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cocoa powder and salt.
4. Add to the creamed mixture along with the buttermilk.
5. Pour into the greased baking tins and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
6. Meanwhile, combine the frosting ingredients and beat until smooth and creamy.
7. Spread between the layers, sides and over the top.
   

Point to consider

Get rid of any cocoa powder lumps and sift the dry ingredients. Additionally, it will keep the cake light and fluffy.

6. Peeps sunflower cake recipe

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You Will Need:

• 1 packet of yellow cake mix
• 2 cans of chocolate frosting
• 20 yellow chick peeps candies
• 1 ½ cups semisweet chocolate chips

How To:

1. Bake the cake according to the packaging instructions. Cool for ten minutes before moving to the wire racks.
2. Spread the frosting on the layers, sides and top of the cake.
3. To make the petals, arrange the Peeps around the edge of the cake, curving slightly.
4. For sunflower seeds, arrange the chocolate chips in the center of the cake.

7. Sports jersey cake

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You Will Need:

• 2 packets of yellow cake mix
• 2 cups of cold milk
• 2 packets of chocolate instant pudding
• Few drops food coloring,
• any color 2 cups of whipped topping, divided
• 1 tablespoon of decorating gel
• 6 candy-coated chocolate pieces

How To:

1. Prepare the cake according to the package instruction.
2. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
3. In a bowl, whisk milk and pudding mix for 2 minutes.
4. Pour evenly over the cake and refrigerate overnight.
5. Then shape the cake as a T-shirt using serrated knife.
6. Mix food coloring into whipping frosting and spread on the tops and sides of the cake.
7. Decorate the cake with candies to represent your kid’s favorite team.

8. iPhone cake

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You Will Need:

• 1 Rectangle cake pan
• 1 packet of cake mix
• 1 edible image of the phone
• 1 tub of icing Black or white cake fondant

How To:

1. Bake the cake according to the steps provided in the box and allow it to cook.
2. Remove the top piece and set it aside.
3. Apply the icing on the cake, including the edges.
4. Place the fondant on the entire cake.
5. Cut off the excess fondant to make the cake appear nice and pretty.
6. Then place the edible iPhone image over the cake. One of the superb birthday cake ideas for teens.

9. Guitar cake

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You Will Need:

• 1 guitar shaped tin
• 1 cake mix
• 1 white icing bag Brown and black fondant
• 1 tub of edible glue
• 1 tub of chocolate icing
• 1 teaspoon corn flour
• 1 bowl of buttercream

How To:

1. Bake the cake in the guitar shaped cake tin.
2. When the cake has cooled down, cut the cake in half and fill it with buttercream.
3. Spread the chocolate icing over the cake.
4. Spread some cornflour in the bowl and knead the fondant with your hand until it is smooth.
5. It will make it easier to roll.
6. Then roll the brown fondant to a thickness of 5 mm using the rolling spacers.
7. Spread over the cake and cut the excess.
8. Cut a strip of black fondant for the fretboard and stick to the neck and body using edible glue.
9. Cut the white fondant into small pieces and stick on top of the guitar neck.
10. Making the strings of the guitar using a white icing piping bag. This is again one of the power packed birthday cake ideas for teenagers.

10. Princess cake

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You Will Need:

• Dolly Varden cake tin
• 2 packets of cake mix
• 300ml of thin cream
• 1 tablespoon of caster sugar
• ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract
• Red food coloring

How To:

1. Bake the cake according to the package instruction in the Dolly Varden cake tin.
2. Trim the base of the cake so that it sits flat.
3. Make a hole at the top of the cake and place the doll’s head.
4. For the decoration, whip cream with sugar and vanilla essence until it is fluffy.
5. Attach a star piping nozzle to the piping bag and fill with cream.
6. Add a few drops of red food color and mix till it turns pink in color.
7. Pipe the cake into long, triangle shapes, leaving gaps for pink parts.
8. Then pipe the pink panels of the skirt and the Princess’ bodice. This teenage girl birthday cake ideas

11. Dinosaur cake

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You Will Need:

• 3 mud cakes, chilled
• ½ cup (45g) desiccated coconut
• 1 ice cream cone made of waffles
• 1tbsp dark chocolate bits
• 3 Lindt Lindor dark chocolate balls
• 3 leaves of spearmint lolly
• 168g packet of Cadbury flake chocolate sharepack
• 8-10 drops of green food coloring
• 1 chocolate biscuit
• 40g Maltesers

For the dark chocolate ganache

• 400g dark chocolate, broken into small pieces
• 300ml thickened cream

How To:

Making chocolate ganache:

1. In a small food processor, place the chocolate and grind until it is finely chopped.
2. Transfer the cream to a small saucepan over medium heat and bring it to a gentle boil.
3. Slowly add the cream to the chocolate while the motor is running, and process until smooth.
4. Transfer to a bowl and place in the refrigerator for ten to fifteen minutes, stirring from time to time, or until thickened.

Making the cake:

1. Place one cake on a round cake board or serving dish, icing side up. Put another cake on top, icing side down. To attach, lightly press down.
2. Transfer the leftover cake to a cutting board. To get rid of the frosting, trim the top of the remaining cake with a serrated knife.
3. Using an 11–12 cm circular plate or bowl as a template, cut out a smaller cake disk. Put the disk on top of the stacked cake, cut-side down.
4. Set aside 2tbsps of the chocolate ganache. Cover the entire top and edges of the cake with the remainder.
5. Set aside one flake. The remaining flakes should be roughly chopped and pressed onto the sides of the bottom cake layer.
6. Put the coconut into a little bowl. Stir in the green food coloring into it and mix well. As grass, sprinkle green coconut flakes on top of the bottom cake layer.
7. Slice off the pointed end of the waffle cone with a serrated knife. Place on top of the smaller cake, cut-side up, to create the volcano shape.
8. Apply some of the reserved chocolate ganache to the cone. Chop 2 tsp dark chocolate bits coarsely and the chocolate biscuits finely. To cover, press the chocolate bits and biscuit into the volcano’s side.
9. Decorate the cake’s top layer with the leftover chocolate chips, Lindor Balls, and Maltesers, around the volcano.
10. Put the remaining flakes that had been set aside in the grass. Drizzle the flake with some of the saved chocolate ganache, then attach the spearmint lolly leaves to create a tree.
11. Use toy dinosaurs, artificial grass, and palm trees to decorate the cake.
12. Cut a sparkler to fit inside the volcano and place it slightly above it for serving. Serve right away after lighting.

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