Here, you’ll find 15 Fortnite cake ideas to celebrate your teen or kid’s birthday and impress all your guests. If you’re looking for inspiration to place an order with your local baker, or you want to recreate one of these cakes yourself thanks to the guidance I provide, you’re in the perfect place.
How to find a Fortnite 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 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 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 Fortnite birthday 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 !
Fortnite Cake Ideas For Beginner Bakers
Here, you’ll find 3 easy Fortnite birthday cake decorating ideas perfect for beginner bakers.
Easy Fortnite Birthday Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
Let’s start with a simple Fortnite cake design perfectly suited to very beginners.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Fortnite cake decorations and 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.
- Next, chill your cake in the fridge for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
- Use a knife warmed with water if you want sharp edges on your cake.
- Finally, add your sprinkles, cake topper, and cake decorations.
What you’ve learned :
As a cake decorator, the very first technique you have to master is how to frost a cake properly.
White Fortnite Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
What you will need:
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Marshmallows + edible black ink pen.
- Fortnite cake decorations and cake toppers.
How to recreate this cake?
- First, crumb coat, cover, chill, and cut the edges of your cake as explained in the previous cake design.
- Then, draw faces on your Marshmallows using an edible ink pen.
- Finally, place your marshmallow faces and your cake decorations on your cake.
What you’ve learned :
Cake decorations are the beginner cake decorator’s best friend. You can easily DIY them with a little bit of creativity.
Black Fortnite Cake
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
What you will need:
- Enough black frosting to cover your cake.
- DIY silver edible paint + a small paintbrush.
- Cake toppers and decorations (you can use your favorite sweets as cake decorations).
How to recreate this cake?
- First, crumb coat, cover, chill, and cut the edges of your cake as explained in the previous cake design.
- Then, once your buttercream is set, simply dip your paintbrush in your silver edible paint, and create splatter by pulling back on the bristles with your fingers and releasing it. Repeat until satisfied with the results.
- Finally, add your cake toppers and cake decorations.
What you’ve learned :
Adding silver or golden accents to a cake design is an easy way to elevate its look.
Fortnite Cake Ideas Perfect For Intermediate Bakers
Here, you’ll find 9 Fortnite cake ideas perfect for intermediate bakers.
Simple Fortnite Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
A little guidance
To recreate this Fortnite cake design, you’ll need to cover your cake with frosting as usual and let it set in the fridge. Then, apply your blue buttercream like in the picture using an angled spatula.
Layered Buttercream Fortnite Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
You can also create a cake with all the iconic colors of the game.
A little guidance
To create this beautiful layered buttercream effect, frost your cake as usual and let it set. Add your purple buttercream layer on the bottom third of the cake and let it set in the fridge before repeating the process for the black frosting.
Striped Fortnite Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
A little guidance
You could also opt for a striped look. Check out this quick striped cake tutorial if you’ve never made one before.
Green And Blue Fortnite Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
You can also use colors reminiscent of Fortnite’s playing field.
A little guidance
To recreate the buttercream grass, you’ll need a grass piping tip like the #234 by Wilton. Check out this grass piping tip tutorial to get the best-looking results.
Fortnite Drip Cakes
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
Drip cakes are a great choice if you’re looking for a Fortnite-themed cake that’s a bit more elegant.
A little guidance
Use this drip cake tutorial and black food colorant to recreate a black drip.
Fortnite Sheet Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
A sheet cake with some Fortnite cake toppers also makes a great Fortnite birthday cake.
A little guidance
Sheet cakes are kind of easy to decorate if you’re confident with your buttercream piping technique. Check out this basic buttercream piping tutorial if you need to review your technique.
Fortnite Number Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
A little guidance
You don’t need to own a special cake tin to create a number cake you can easily DIY them using a simple sheet cake pan.
Blue Fortnite Cake
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
Rather than using store-bought cake toppers, you can also create your own edible Fortnite cake decorations using fondant.
A little guidance
To do so, check out this fondant Fortnite cake decorations tutorial.
Fortnite Cake Ideas For Advanced Bakers
These 3 Fortnite birthday cake ideas will be perfectly suited to experienced cake decorators.
Tiered Fortnite Birthday Cake
Difficulty level: 5/5
When you’re hosting a lot of guests, this kind of tall tiered cake is the best option. Don’t hesitate to play with shapes and colors to personalize it.
Grey Fortnite Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you’re looking for a cake a little more elegant/sober while still perfectly suiting your Fortnite-themed party, this cake design is a great fit.
Nintendo Switch Fortnite Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If your kid/teen is a fan of both Fortnite and Nintendo Switch, there’s no doubt they’ll love this cake design. You can also adapt it to your kid’s favorite console.
If you’re looking for more cake ideas, check out my other cake ideas for boys or my cake ideas for teens.
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