Looking for Men’s Cake Ideas? Here, you’ll find 15 beautiful cake ideas for men categorized according to the cake decorating level they require. Whether you’re in need of inspiration for your father, your boyfriend, your brother, or simply a friend, for a birthday party, or simply because you’d like to bake them a cake, you’ll find 15 beautiful cake decorating ideas perfect for men.
How to find a cake idea for men 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 the 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: Men’s 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 to 5/5 being the hardest one. 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 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 Men’s 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 !
Cake Ideas For Men Perfect for Beginner Bakers
Here, you’ll find 4 easy cake ideas perfect for beginner bakers.
An Elegant Men’s Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
This cake only requires the most basic techniques, which makes it perfect for beginners.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Organic flowers → you’ll need floral tape too.
- You could also use artificial flowers.
How to recreate this cake?
- For the cover of the 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 (until your frosting sets) in the fridge.
- 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.
- Chill your cake again for 15 minutes.
- Smooth the top edges with your offset spatula moving from the edges of the cake to the center. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the process, if needed.
- To prepare your flowers. If you choose to use fresh flowers, you have to prepare them before putting them on your cake. Simply wrap their stems with your floral tape to make sure it doesn’t come into contact with your cake when you stick them into it. Here,’s a quick video tutorial.
- Finally, decorate the cake with your flowers and cake topper following the pictures or your heart’s desire.
What you’ve learned :
Flowers are an easy way to elevate the look of your cake.
A Simple Cake For Men
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
If you’re looking for a simple men’s cake, this one is perfect for you.
What you will need:
- Enough frosting to cover your cake (color it the color of your choice)
- An alphabet mold
- White Chocolate
- A piping bag
How to recreate this cake?
- For the cover of the 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 (until your frosting sets) in the fridge.
- 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.
- Chill your cake again for 15 minutes.
- Smooth the top edges with your offset spatula moving from the edges of the cake to the center. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the entire process, if needed.
- For the chocolate letters. Melt the chocolate using a double boiler or microwave, stirring frequently to ensure a smooth consistency.
- Transfer the melted chocolate into a piping bag. and pipe it into the letter molds.
- Tap the molds gently on the counter to remove any air bubbles. Smooth the surface of the chocolate.
- Chill the chocolate in the refrigerator (30 minutes). or freezer (5-10 minutes) to allow the chocolate to set. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the process, if needed.
- Once the chocolate has set, carefully remove the letters from the molds, and place them on your cake with your fingers or kitchen tweezers.
What you’ve learned :
Sometimes less is more, you can definitely create a beautiful cake for men, with the most basic techniques.
A Golden and Black Men’s Cake
A Golden and Green Men’s Cake
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
These two versions of the same cake are the perfect example to show you how you can play with colors to create your “man cake”. Dark blue, dark green, grey, and black are colors that are considered suited to this type of cake.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Gold edible paint (buy it or DIY it as explained in this DIY edible gold paint tutorial)
- Golden macaron (optional)
- Golden cake toppers
How to recreate this cake?
- First, crumb-coat and cover your cake as explained in the previous designs.
- For the edible gold paint. Once your buttercream is set, simply dip your brush in your golden edible paint, and create splatter by pulling back on the bristles with your fingers and releasing it. Repeat until satisfied with the results.
- Finally, decorate your cake with your cake toppers, and macarons. If you don’t want or don’t know how to make them, you can simply replace them with cake toppers.
What you’ve learned :
As a beginner using golden edible paint is an easy way to add more personality to your cake.
Men’s Cake Ideas for Intermediate Bakers
Here, you’ll find 7 cake ideas for bakers with an intermediate level.
A Man’s Letter Cake
Difficulty Level: 2/5 (Low Intermediate)
Number cakes were really trending at some point, and they still are to some extent, but I don’t understand why letter cakes aren’t because who wouldn’t love a cake spelling their name?
A little guidance
You don’t need to have letter molds to recreate this kind of cake, because who would have the necessary storage space? You can simply bake one or several sheet cakes. Make sure they’re thick enough though, and cut your letters in it following a guide. Yes, that’s not the most economical technique, but now you have just enough spare cake to make cake pops.
A Blue and White Cake For Men.
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
This blue cake is simple yet elegant and would be perfect for a man’s birthday.
A little guidance
To recreate this layered buttercream, once your buttercream cover has set in the fridge, apply a uniform layer of your blue buttercream around the bottom half of your cake.
A Man’s Letter Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low Intermediate)
This elegant man’s cake is another example of how you could use layered buttercream to create a beautiful design.
A little guidance
Here, you’ll have to repeat the process described with the previous cake design, but using three colors instead of two. Remember, before adding your next layer of buttercream make sure the previous one is perfectly set.
A Doodle Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
Well, I’m a strong believer that a doodle cake is always a nice idea, especially when I’m making a cake without any special occasion in my mind. I think it makes a really nice attention.
A little guidance
If you’re not comfortable with your drawing skills, you could first draw the doodles with a toothpick for example, and then retrace over the imprint with your buttercream to make it easier.
A “Concrete” Cake for Men
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
This effect you see on the cake is called concrete buttercream, it’s definitely not the most appetizing name, but I believe it makes a really beautiful men’s cake
A little guidance
This design isn’t hard to recreate, you simply have to apply roughly two colors to your cake before smoothing it. Here, you’ll find a quick video tutorial made by Sugar and Sparrow.
A Marble Cake For Men
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High Intermediate)
I love marble cakes because it gives so much character to a cake. This one is particularly elegant. It’s the perfect cake for a man’s birthday.
A little guidance
To recreate this marble effect, roughly put the colored buttercream on a sheet of parchment paper as shown in this quick tutorial, stick it on your chilled cake, and smooth it with your hands. Then put it all in the fridge until the buttercream sets and finally take the parchment paper off.
A Blue and Chocolate Cake
Difficulty level: 4/5 (High Intermediate)
This cake really looks simple, with its chocolate drip and blue buttercream, yet as with every tiered cake it requires quite some work.
A little guidance
Here are three little tips on making sure that your beautiful cake will not collapse. First, you should always make sure your tiers are leveled before stacking them. Next, use cake boards for each tier (you should really do it). Finally, use dowel rods or bubble tea straws in your bottom tier, to help support the weight of the second tier.
Even if it’s only two tiers, I always respect these principles because I’d rather work a little bit more than necessary than be sorry when my cake is on the floor.
Men’s Cake Ideas for Advanced Bakers
Finally, you’ll find 4 complex cake ideas for men for advanced bakers, perfect if you plan on ordering a cake at your local bakery.
A Gamer Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you’re looking for cake decorating inspiration for a man, you can easily take something he likes as inspiration. It was video games in this case, but it’s only one of the many options available.
A Sport’s Jersey Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
Speaking of options, this soccer jersey is another one. For the men in my family (as in most French families), soccer holds a really special place. But the sport you choose to represent really doesn’t matter, you could go for a baseball, rugby or basketball jersey. Simply think of the sports he likes the most.
A Cube Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you’re looking for something original, while still being quite elegant, this is the cake for you. You’ll definitely have to work for it though, cube cakes are not easy to cover, yet on top of that it’s also a geode cake. Finally, this stunning sugar sail (here’s a quick tutorial) really brings it all together. In one word, this cake is work, but it’s completely worth it.
A Gentleman Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
Finally, here is what I called a gentleman’s cake. I thought the suit on the second tier was a really nice idea. As you’ve already noticed, it’s a James Bond cake, but you don’t actually have to stick to the original design, you can make the first tier more classical if you don’t want to make the cake James Bond themed.
If you’ve enjoyed these cake ideas for men, don’t hesitate to check out my post about 14 Elegant cake ideas for men or my other cake ideas list for adults and children.
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