Here, you’ll find 21 unique princess cake ideas to celebrate your little girl’s birthday and impress all your guests, with tips to DIY them.
How to find a Princess cake idea that is 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 Princess 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 !
Princess Cake Ideas For Beginner Bakers
Here, you’ll find 4 easy princess cake-decorating ideas perfect for beginner bakers.
Easy Disney Princess Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
What you will need :
- Enough yellow frosting to cover your cake.
- Disney princess cake decorations and cake toppers.
- White and yellow edible pearls.
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 princess cake toppers and your edible pearls.
What you’ve learned :
As a cake decorator, the very first technique you have to master is how to frost a cake properly.
Simple Disney Princess Cake
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover and decorate your cake.
- Disney princess cake decorations and cake toppers.
- 1D piping tip + a piping bag.
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, to recreate the ruffles on top of your cake, keep pressing your piping bag perpendicularly to your cake until you reach the desired height. You can practice beforehand on parchment paper.
- 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.
- Finally, add your princess cake toppers.
Pink Princess Cakes
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover and decorate your cake.
- Disney princess cake decorations and cake toppers.
- 1M piping tip (cake #1) or 4B piping tip (cake #2) + a piping bag.
How to recreate this cake?
- First, crumb coat, cover, chill, and cut the edges of your cake as explained in the previous cake design.
- To recreate the buttercream rosettes, no matter what piping tip you’re using, press your piping bag moving slowly in a circular motion as shown in this video tutorial. Remember, you can always practice on parchment paper beforehand.
- Add a few dots of buttercream here and there for a fuller look.
Princess Cake Ideas Perfect For Intermediate Bakers
Here, you’ll find 12 princess cake ideas perfect for intermediate bakers.
Pastel Princess Cake
Difficulty Level: 2/5 (Low-Intermediate)
A little guidance
To make this beautiful princess cake, you’ll need to add touches of color using a palette knife. For the bottom and the top of the cake, reuse the buttercream swirl technique explained in the previous cake design.
Buttercream Princess Cakes
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
A little guidance
To recreate these buttercream princess dresses, you’ll need to master the basic buttercream piping techniques. If you don’t have a coupler, you can also easily change the buttercream color and piping tips thanks to this trick.
Princess Aurora Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
A little guidance
To create this beautiful ombré buttercream effect, stack your two colors of buttercream one on top of the other as shown in this ombre buttercream tutorial. Then, smooth the demarcation line with your offset spatula. Finally, smooth your cake as usual and add a few buttercream rosettes.
Princess Vintage Cakes
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
Vintage cakes are really trendy these days and perfectly suit the theme, so what’s better than a princess vintage cake?
A little guidance
To create your own princess vintage cake, you can follow this vintage cake piping tutorial.
Princess Doll Cakes
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
With this kind of princess doll cake, you’re sure to make your child’s princess-themed birthday party unforgettable.
A little guidance
While you could carve classic cake layers to recreate this kind of cake, I think using a doll cake mold is a much easier and more time-efficient solution. You’ll need a flexible cake scrapper to be able to cover your cake with buttercream. Finally, for the decorations you can inspire yourself from the vintage cake techniques presented in the previous cake design.
Rainbow Princess Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
Maybe you’ve never thought about it but using small toys as cake toppers is an easy way to make children’s cake designs stand out.
A little guidance
You can easily create your own rainbow cake topper and use this hack to create rainbow buttercream.
Princess Fondant Cakes
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you’re more of a fondant lover, these princess cake ideas are perfect for you.
A little guidance
This detailed tutorial will teach you how to perfectly cover your cake in fondant. Here, you’ll find how to create your own fondant princess crown. You’ll need fondant molds to recreate the details of the second cake. Finally, you can check out this tutorial to recreate the fondant princess dresses.
Simple Princess Tiered Cake
Difficulty Level: 4,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you plan on hosting a big princess-themed birthday party, a tiered cake is your best option.
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. Follow this tiered cake tutorial to learn all the basics.
Princess Cake Ideas For Advanced Bakers
These 5 princess birthday cake ideas will be perfectly suited to experienced cake decorators.
Disney Princess Tiered Cakes
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you want the same grandiose look without needing that much cake you can easily ask for some of these cake tiers to be fake ones.
Rapunzel Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
You can easily personalize this cake with the princess of your choice.
Carved Princess Cake
Difficulty level: 5/5
Finally, carved cakes are guaranteed to wow any of your guests and perfectly suit the princess-themed birthday party.
If you’re looking for more cake ideas, check out my other cake ideas for girls or my cake ideas for teens.
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