Here, you’ll find 19 Minecraft 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 tips I provide, you’re in the perfect place.
How to find a Minecraft 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 Minecraft 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 !
Minecraft Cake Ideas For Beginner Bakers
Here, you’ll find 3 easy Minecraft cake-decorating ideas perfect for beginner bakers.
Easy Minecraft Birthday Cakes
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
What you will need :
- Enough green frosting to cover your cake.
- Minecraft cake decorations and cake toppers.
- DIY edible moss.
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 Minecraft cake toppers and your DIY edible moss.
What you’ve learned :
As a cake decorator, the very first technique you have to master is how to frost a cake properly.
Minecraft Cake Ideas Perfect For Intermediate Bakers
Here, you’ll find 10 Minecraft cake ideas perfect for intermediate bakers.
Simple Minecraft Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
A little guidance
To recreate this iconic Minecraft cake design, you’ll need to frost your cake as usual. Then, draw your shapes on parchment paper, that you’ll follow to cut your black fondant. Finally, simply place your shapes on your freshly buttercream-covered cake, the buttercream will act as glue.
Layered Buttercream Fortnite Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
You can easily make any of these cake designs more girly by adding a few splashes of pink or purple here and there.
A little guidance
To create this beautiful layered buttercream effect, frost your cake as usual and let it set. Add your second layer of colored buttercream on the two bottom thirds of the cake and let it set in the fridge. Repeat the process for the third color of frosting on the remaining bottom third of the cake.
Minecraft Drip Cakes
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
A little guidance
You can easily add personality to your Minecraft cake with a simple white chocolate drip (that can easily be colored) or dark chocolate drip. Learning how to pipe buttercream borders is also another classic way to add dimension to your cake design.
Minecraft Sheet Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
You could also opt for a Minecraft sheet cake that’ll be easier to serve.
A little guidance
Sheet cakes are kind of easy to decorate if you’re confident enough with your buttercream piping technique. Check out this basic buttercream piping tutorial if you need to refresh your game.
Buttercream Minecraft Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you’re more of a fondant cake person, you could easily recreate this design using fondant instead of buttercream.
A little guidance
To get a clean finish, you’ll need to map out where each color is going to be placed. To do so, you can use a toothpick or the tip of a knife and a palette knife to get straight lines. Then, you’ll simply have to fill your canvas with each color using a star-shaped piping tip.
Tiered Minecraft Cake
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
A little guidance
If you’ve never made a tiered cake before you can follow this clear and detailed tutorial that’ll teach you all the basics when it comes to tiered cakes.
Fondant Minecraft Birthday Cake
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
While this cake design might require quite some work the end result is definitely worth it.
A little guidance
To recreate this beautiful design, you can follow this detailed Minecraft cake tutorial.
Minecraft Cake Ideas For Advanced Bakers
These 6 Minecraft birthday cake ideas will be perfectly suited to experienced cake decorators.
“TNT” Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
This cake would be a perfect fit for an adult Minecraft fan.
Tiered Minecraft Birthday Cakes
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you’re planning on hosting a lot of people a tiered cake is a great option.
Minecraft Gamefield Cakes
Difficulty level: 5/5
Finally, what’s more iconic for a Minecraft-themed birthday than a cake recreating the Minecraft game field? Whether you like fondant or buttercream, I have no doubt one of these cakes will be perfect for you.
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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