Who says cake decorating for an adult has to be boring? Older folks nowadays need some joy and fun in their lives just like kids do on their birthdays.
In this article I'll give some quick ideas you can use to playfully jab any friend, no matter how old.
Rice Cake This is a great recipe, because it's so simple but so tasty.
You'll need to get some rice crispy cereal.
Make 2 batches of rice crispy treats just like the back of the cereal box says.
Prepare these two batches in 2 separate cake pans.
Now that their ready, don't cut them up, just leave them as two solid crispy sheets.
Now begin by icing your first layer, and covering it with chocolate chips.
Throw on another layer of frosting, and some sprinkles.
Now grab your second sheet of rice crispy goodness and place it smack dab on the first one.
Now all you've got to do is frost the whole thing just like you would a normal cake.
It will be a shock when they cut into it, but It's quite tasty.
I usually just throw some candy on top and call it done.
The "Past Their Prime" Cake It's fun to playfully jab an older friend during their birthday, and because you went to all the trouble of baking them a cake they won't complain! It's easy to make gray icing, so start there.
Just add around 2 o 3 drops of green and red food coloring into some white icing.
Get some rectangle shaped cookies, and ice them with a darker gray icing for quick tombstones.
If your making a creepy cemetery, line the sidewalk entrance with some black licorice, and decorate with some candy corn along all edges of the cake.
It's easy to confuse this cake with the kind you'd bake on Halloween.
During Halloween season though It's just too easy to find morbid edibles to place on your cake.
Everything from gummy skeletons to ghosts can be found at any shopping mart.
So go ahead and show your dark side when designing a cake with the theme of death and decay for an older chap.
Ball and Chain Cake My wife baked me this cake for my last birthday, so it's still fresh in my head.
She baked two round cakes for me, and after letting them cool completely, she covered the top of the first one with my favorite fruit filling.
Then she placed the second cake on top and iced the whole cake with a shiny gray icing.
Then she went out and bought a bag of small cake donuts and she frosted them just like she did the cake.
She then placed them next to the cake against the bottom to form a chain, and wrote a quirky message in frosting on top.
I'm not at liberty to tell you what it said, but I do know the cake tasted delicious.
Keep in mind it doesn't matter what cake theme you choose to go with, because a well decorated cake is always appreciated by the receiving party.
Any older "Adult" your baking for is probably just glad to have any friends at all.
Even if those friends do put on candles that can't be blown out, as one last playful jab.