Looking for Hello Kitty Cake Ideas? Whether you’re simply looking for inspiration or want to recreate one of these cakes yourself, you’re in the perfect place. Here you’ll find 16 Hello Kitty Cake Ideas perfect for a birthday, including easy designs with instructions to recreate them.
How to find a Hello Kitty cake idea suited to your cake-decorating level?
I’ve come up with a system. The cake ideas are presented to you according to their level of difficulty. There are three categories :
What Are Beginner Cake Ideas?
These are easy cake ideas. If you’ve never decorated a cake before (or only did it once or twice), these are the cakes that you should pay attention to.
- What you’ll find: Beautiful cake ideas that only require basic cake decorating techniques. This is a great place to start your journey.
What Are Intermediate Cake Ideas?
Low Intermediate Baker: If you are confident that you’ve mastered the cake decorating basics, such as how to smooth a cake, but feel like you still have a lot of techniques to learn apart from this foundation, this category is perfect for you.
- What you’ll find: Cake ideas that require both basic decorating skills and one or two techniques that are a little bit more advanced. This is a great place to grow your cake-decorating skills.
High Intermediate Baker: If you’ve mastered both basic techniques and several more advanced cake decorating techniques, these cake ideas are made for you.
- What you’ll find: Stunning cake ideas that can be fairly challenging, but are a great place to get even better than you already are.
What Are Advanced Cake Ideas?
If you consider yourself an experienced cake decorator and have mastered most of the decorating techniques, including the use of fondant, then this is the perfect place for you.
- What you’ll find: Showstopping and challenging cake ideas, perfect to sharpen and maintain your skills.
The Grading System
Finally, I’ve also assigned a grade of difficulty to each cake inspiration: 1/5 being the easiest design and 5/5 being the hardest. The goal is to make the ranking the most accurate possible. You will find this to be particularly helpful if you happen to fall in the Beginner or the Intermediate Cake Ideas categories.
Growth Tip : This list is great a place to set goals about your cake decorating skills. Pin this post and come back later to tell us how far you’ve come in your cake decorating journey !
How to recreate these Hello Kitty cake ideas?
How to follow the instructions of the designs.
For the cake designs in the beginner category: I’ll provide written instructions on how to recreate the cake idea presented to you. Don’t hesitate to watch video tutorials about the basic techniques such as how to smooth a cake.
For the designs in the intermediate category: I’ll provide some guidance on how to perform the more complicated techniques.
For the advanced category: you are an experienced baker, at this point, and you will find great opportunities to put this experience to use. To be completely honest, I cannot make myself several cake ideas from the advanced category, so trust your abilities and go for it.
Find the perfect Hello Kitty cake idea for your baking skills.
Growth Tip : If you aim to get better at cake decorating, you should choose a cake idea that feels sligthly above your current cake decorating level. Get out of your comfort zone !
Hello Kitty Cake Ideas Perfect for Beginner Bakers
Here, you’ll find 3 easy Hello Kitty cake ideas perfect for beginner bakers.
Easy Hello Kitty Cake.
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
As a beginner cake decorator, the first technique you have to master is how to frost a cake.
What you will need:
- Enough frosting to cover your cake
- Hello Kitty cake toppers.
- Sprinkles.
How to recreate this cake?
- First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
- Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect as it only is the first coat. Chill the cake 20 to 30 minutes in the fridge (until your frosting sets).
- Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the covering process, if needed.
- Place your sprinkles and chill your cake for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
- Finally, place your cake toppers.
What you’ve learned :
Once you know how to frost a cake, with the help of cake toppers, you can easily create personalized cake designs.
Pink Hearts Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- A pink ribbon.
- A Hello Kitty cake topper.
- White chocolate colored in pink in a piping bag.
- Heart lollipop molds.
- Lollipop sticks.
How to recreate this cake?
- For the cover of the cake, simply refer to the instructions from the previous design.
- For the hearts. Melt your chocolate, color it, and place it in your piping bag.
- Then, slowly, fill the silicon molds, tap the molds to get any air bubbles out, and scrape the excedent with your cake scrapper.
- Place lollipop sticks in the hearts you want to use on the top of the cake and leave the other hearts as is.
- Let them firm up in the fridge or the freezer.
- Then, place your hearts on your cake.
- Finally, tie your ribbon to your cake and place your Hello Kitty cake topper.
What you’ve learned :
Heart molds are an easy way to elevate the look of your cakes as a beginner.
Hello Kitty Cake With Layered Buttercream
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover and decorate your cake.
- Sprinkles.
- Hello Kitty cake toppers.
How to recreate this cake?
- For the cover of the cake. You can refer to the instructions from the first cake idea.
- For the layered buttercream. Once your buttercream cover has had enough time to set in the fridge, color what’s left of it.
- Apply a uniform layer of your colored buttercream around the bottom half of your cake.
- Smooth that new layer of buttercream with your cake scrapper, just like you did for the first layer.
- Next place your sprinkles, and let your cake chill in the fridge for 15 minutes.
- Finally, place your cake toppers.
What you’ve learned :
Buttercream layers are an easy technique to personalize your cakes as a beginner cake decorator.
If you’re looking for more easy cake ideas, check out my other birthday cake ideas for girls.
Hello Kitty Cake Ideas for Intermediate Bakers
Here, you’ll find 9 Hello Kitty cake ideas perfect for intermediate bakers.
Hello Kitty Drip Cake
Difficulty Level: 2/5 (Low-Intermediate)
If you’re looking for something that’s both cute and elegant, you’re going to love this drip cake design.
A little guidance
You can follow this drip cake tutorial if you’re not familiar with the process. Also, if you’re not comfortable with macarons and cakesicles, you can easily replace them with ball cake toppers of the same color.
Ombre Hello Kitty Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
If you’d prefer a cake design less muted, and more punchy, you might like this ombre Hello Kitty cake.
A little guidance
You can easily recreate this ombre effect following this quick ombre buttercream tutorial. Once it’s done, use a cake comb to recreate the same texture.
Red Hello Kitty Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
Most Hello Kitty cakes tend to be pink, but that’s not the only option you have, as this red Hello Kitty cake perfectly demonstrates.
A little guidance
To recreate this beautiful red layered buttercream, simply apply your first buttercream layer around the bottom half of your cake, let it set in the fridge, and repeat the process on the bottom half of your first buttercream layer. Then, paint the edges of each layer with DIY edible gold paint.
Doodle Hello Kitty Cake
Difficulty level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
If you’re looking for a cake that will stand out from the crowd without being too difficult to recreate, this is the perfect Hello Kitty cake for you.
A little guidance
If you’re not used to drawing buttercream hearts, strawberries, and rainbows, you should practice on parchment paper, until you feel confident enough.
Cute Hello Kitty Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you’re not afraid of cuteness overdose, you’re going to love this doodle Hello Kitty cake idea.
A little guidance
If you’re uncomfortable drawing free-handed with buttercream, you can try a buttercream transfer. Simply draw your design on a sheet of parchment paper following a guide (drawn or printed) that you put underneath it. Then, once it has set in the fridge, simply stick it on your cake. Finally, overline the drawing and add the details. Here’s a video tutorial of a buttercream transfer to make the process easier.
Duo Hello Kitty Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
This duo Hello Kitty cake is the perfect design if do not want to choose between a girly and a goth design.
A little guidance
In order to get the neatest result, you should make sure your first side has set in the fridge before moving to the next color. That way, you’ll avoid any buttercream leaks between the two colors.
Coquette Hello Kitty Cake.
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
On the other hand, if you want a cute and pastel design, you’re going to love this coquette Hello Kitty cake.
A little guidance
The secret to recreating this kind of coquette/vintage cake is to use the proper piping tips. For this design, I recommend you use one big and one small open star piping tips (like the 6B and the 16 by Wilton), a small round nozzle, and a small leaf piping tip.
Floral Hello Kitty Cake
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you’re looking for a design with more vibrant colors, and a little more suited to young children, this is the cake for you.
A little guidance
To recreate these beautiful fondant flowers, all you have to do is use flower molds, which are quite beginner-friendly. However, you’ll need more work to make your cute fondant Hello Kitty, but if you don’t know where to begin, you can follow this fondant Hello Kitty tutorial.
Hello Kitty’s Head Cake
Difficulty Level: 4,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you’re looking for a more classic Hello Kitty cake design, this is the cake for you.
A little guidance
My three tips when covering a cake in fondant are the following:
- You should pay extra attention when preparing your cake. Make sure it’s leveled, and your buttercream (or ganache) should be very neat to get a cleaner finish.
- You should roll your fondant to a thickness between 1/8th inch and 1/4 inch.
- You should keep in mind that your first attempt probably isn’t going to be flawless, but it’s perfectly fine because practice will make your technique perfect.
Finally, here’s a detailed video tutorial, that’ll teach everything you need to know about the process. You’ll need to adapt it to the shape of your cake.
Hello Kitty Cake Ideas for Advanced Bakers
These 4 Hello Kitty cake designs will be perfectly suited to experienced cake decorators.
Colorful Hello Kitty Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you’re looking for a colorful and original Hello Kitty Cake design, this cake is perfect for you. If you want to take the cake design even further, you could swap the fondant elements for decorated sugar cookies.
Vintage Hello Kitty Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you love cute and vintage cake designs, you’re going to adore this vintage Hello Kitty cake.
3D Hello Kitty Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you want a cake that your guests will remember forever, be assured that a 3D Hello Kitty is the perfect cake idea for you.
Enchanted Hello Kitty Cake
Difficulty level: 5/5
If you’re looking for a fairytale-like cake design, you’re going to love this enchanted Hello Kitty cake.
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