14 Beautiful Communion And Baptism Cake Ideas For Beginner And Pro Bakers.

Here, you’ll find 14 beautiful Communion and Baptism cake ideas, including easy designs with instructions to recreate them. If you’re looking for inspiration to place an order with your local baker, or you want to recreate one of these cakes yourself, you’re in the perfect place.

How to find a baptism 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 baptism cake ideas?

What cake recipe should you use to make your perfect cake come true?

To recreate these cake ideas, you will need a trustworthy cake recipe. You have several options.

Adapt your favorite cake recipe.

There are a lot of ways to adapt a cake recipe. You mainly have four options to tweak your favorite recipe :

• You could change the flavor of your cake recipe: with citrus zest, the essence of your choice, or turn it into a chocolate or carrot cake for example.
• You could add a filling: a caramel sauce, a homemade flavored whipped cream, ganache, or buttercream.
• You could also add some texture: oreo bits, crumble crumbs, nuts, or fresh fruit for example.
• Finally, you could personalize your frosting.

Be careful, if you’re a beginner baker, having to figure out both your cake design and creating a new cake recipe could be overwhelming. Therefore, I always recommend taking your learning journey one step at a time.

Look for a cake recipe.

Where? You can ask friends, or family or simply look on the internet. You have to keep two things in mind though :

• The recipe has to be suitable for cake decorating, especially for cakes that require stacking or carving (intermediate and advanced cake ideas).
• Once again, if you’re a beginner baker, be careful not to put too much on your plate and choose a recipe suited to your current level.

Use my cake recipe recommendation.

Finally, you could try the delicious recipe I recommend. I firmly believe everyone should have a trustworthy chocolate cake recipe, and my chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting is both beginner-friendly and perfect for cake decorating. I’m sure you’ll love it.

What you will love about this recipe :

• It has a perfect chocolate flavor.
• It’s a really easy recipe, perfect for beginners.
• It has a great texture.

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 baptism 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 !

Baptism Cake Ideas For Beginner Bakers

Here, you’ll find 4 easy baptism and communion cake ideas perfect for beginner bakers.

Simple Christening Cake

@sosagoodsbakery

Difficulty Level: 1/5.

What you will need:

• Enough frosting to cover your cake.
• Baptism-themed cake decorations.

How to recreate this cake?

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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).
4. 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.
5. Chill your cake in the fridge for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
6. Use a knife warmed with water to get sharp edges on your cake.
7. Finally, place your cake decorations.

What you’ve learned :

As a beginner cake decorator, the first thing you have to master is how to frost a cake. From there, you can easily create beautiful cake designs using cake decorations.

Simple Baptism Cake

@cakes_with_ez

Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.

What you will need :

• Enough frosting to cover your cake.
• A piping bag with an open star piping tip (such as the 1M by Wilton).
• Golden cake toppers.

How to recreate this cake?

1. First, crumb coat, cover, and chill your cake as explained in the previous design.
2. Then, cut clean the buttercream edges with a knife warmed with water.
3. For the buttercream swirls. You should practice on parchment paper first. Draw the swirls by keeping the piping bag at a 90° angle. Draw circular motions, slowly going upwards. Once you’re satisfied with the height, stop piping. You can watch this buttercream swirl tutorial to get a better understanding.
4. When you are confident enough move on to the actual cake. Pipe the first swirl on the edge of your cake. For the next one, draw it straight across from the first. The third swirl has to be placed between the first ones. So on and so forth. This allows for your swirls to be equally spaced.
5. Finally, place your cake topper.

What you’ve learned :

Buttercream swirls are a staple in cake decorating and one of the easiest ways to turn your cake into a showstopping centerpiece.

Adding texture to a cake, especially in the same hues, is an easy technique to elevate the look of your cake design.

Baptism Cake Ideas Perfect For Intermediate Bakers

Here, you’ll find 7 baptism cake ideas perfect for intermediate bakers.

Elegant Baptism Cake

@dearjuliacakes

Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)

This very elegant cake would make a perfect baptism/communion cake for an adult woman.

A little guidance

You can easily recreate this beautiful pattern effect following this buttercream stencils tutorial.

Golden Christening Cake

@cake_house_bc_

Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)

White and gold are also a great color palette for this special occasion.

A little guidance

Drip cakes are really popular these days. You can follow this drip cake tutorial if you’re not familiar with the process.

Baptism Cake For Girls

@marias.sweets

Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)

You could also opt for a girlier but more sober cake design.

A little guidance

If you’re not used to fondant flowers, you can easily recreate your own following this fondant roses tutorial.

Floral Baptism Cake

@bakedbyemmawoods

Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)

A floral cake also appears to be a great choice for a baptism too, as spring symbolizes new beginnings and renewals.

A little guidance

To recreate this kind of palette knife floral cake, you’ll need a little bit of practice, but it’s not as hard as it looks. You can follow this basic palette knife flowers tutorial.

Pastel Baptism Cake

@eatmycakes_

Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)

You could opt for a softer version of the floral cake using pastel colors.

A little guidance

Here you’ll basically need to use the same techniques as with the previous design but to get these beautiful gradient petals you’ll need to mix your buttercream colors as shown in this more detailed palette knife petals tutorial.

Baptism Cake For Boys

@cakeliciousbyvev

Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)

This simple palette color would make a perfect fit for a boy’s baptism.

A little guidance

When making tiered cakes, you have to pay extra attention to the structure of the cake. Therefore, you should always use a sturdy cake board for each tier. You should also support the bottom tier with dowel rods or bubble tea straws cut to the height of the cake. Finally, you make sure each tier is leveled before stacking them.

Tiered Baptism Cake

@creme_cakedsign

Difficulty level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)

Here you can find a more sober version of a tiered cake for girls.

A little guidance

Here you’ll need to keep in mind the tips provided earlier. To recreate the little flowers, you can use flowers and silicon molds. Dust them with cornstarch or powdered sugar to be able to unmold them more easily.

Baptism Cake Ideas For Advanced Bakers

These 4 baptism cake ideas will be perfectly suited to experienced cake decorators.

Watercolor Communion Cake

@thenakedcakebyvicki

Difficulty level: 5/5

This modern take on the traditional tiered cake would make a perfect communion cake.

Textured Baptism Cake

@littleladysweets_au

Difficulty level: 5/5

If you like unique cake designs, this textured cake will make a perfect centerpiece for your special celebration.

Square Christening Cake

@vicky.bederian

Difficulty Level: 5/5

You’ll love this square christening tiered cake that is suited more suited to adults.

Elegant Communion Cake

@annisbageri

Difficulty Level: 5/5

You’ll love this communion cake if you’re looking for a cake that will perfectly represent your memorable day.

If you’re looking for more cake ideas, you can check out one of my other cake ideas lists for children and adults.

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