Here, you’ll find 15 unique Stitch cake ideas for boys and girls, 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 Stitch 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 Stitch 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 Stitch 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 !
Stitch Cake Ideas For Beginner Bakers
Here, you’ll find 3 easy Stitch cake ideas perfect for beginner bakers.
Stitch And Angel Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
If you’re looking for an easy-to-recreate Stitch cake for girls, you’ll love this cake design. You can easily adapt it using more or less deep colors, like pastel pink, or even switching to another color like purple.
What you will need:
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Pink Sprinkles
- Stitch-themed cake decorations.
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.
- Then, place your sprinkles. If you’re not used to it you can watch this tutorial on how to place sprinkles on a cake.
- Next, chill your cake in the fridge for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
- Use a knife warmed with water to get sharp edges on your cake.
- Finally, add your Stitch-themed cake decorations to your cake.
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 create stunning cake designs thanks to simple elements like sprinkles and cake decorations.
Pastel Stitch Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
If you have a preference for pastel hues, you might like this cake design more.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Melted chocolate + food coloring of your choice.
- A piping bag.
- Heart silicon molds + Lolipop sticks.
- Stitch-themed cake decorations.
How to recreate this cake?
- First, crumb coat, cover, and chill your cake as explained in the previous design.
- Next, cut the raw edges of the cake with a knife warmed with water to get sharp edges.
- For the chocolate hearts. Melt your chocolate, color it, and place it in your piping bag.
- Then, slowly, fill the silicon molds, tap the molds to get any air bubbles out, and scrape the excedent with your cake scrapper.
- Place lollipop sticks in the hearts you want to use on the top of the cake and leave the other hearts as they are.
- Let them firm up in the fridge or the freezer.
- Finally, place your hearts and your Stitch decorations on your cake using buttercream as glue.
What you’ve learned :
Silicon molds are another great friend of the beginner cake decorator as they allow you to easily create your own cake decorations with fondant or chocolate.
Stitch Cake Ideas Perfect For Intermediate Bakers
Here, you’ll find 11 Stitch cake ideas perfect for intermediate bakers.
Ombré Stitch Cake
Difficulty Level: 2/5 (Low-Intermediate)
You’ll love this ombré cake if you’re looking for a soft and girly cake design. You can easily use it as inspiration for a boy’s birthday by turning it into a light blue ombré cake.
A little guidance
To recreate this beautiful ombré effect, apply your light buttercream on the top third of your cake, your transition color on the middle third, and your darker shade on the bottom. Then, use your spatula to blend the demarcations as much as possible. Finally, smooth your cake as usual. If you think the gradient isn’t as blended as you’d like, keep blending and smoothing your buttercream until you’re satisfied.
Printed Stitch Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
If you’re looking for a birthday cake with a touch of elegance, this textured Stith cake is the perfect cake for you.
A little guidance
You can easily recreate this pattern effect following this buttercream stencil tutorial.
Stitch Drip Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
If you’re looking for a trendy Stitch cake, a drip cake is definitely a safe bet as they’re everywhere these days.
A little guidance
To recreate this cake don’t hesitate to follow this drip cake and this buttercream rope border tutorials.
Purple Stitch Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
Maybe you like more classical cake designs, in this case, you’ll love this cake idea.
A little guidance
To recreate these cute buttercream shell borders, you should practice first on parchment paper if you’re not used to it. Don’t hesitate to follow this quick shell border tutorial to get a better understanding of the technique.
Pink And Blue Stitch Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
Embrace a colorful and playful approach with this pink and blue Stitch cake design. A mix of blue and green would also make a great match for a boy’s birthday.
A little guidance
Once you’ve recreated your layered buttercream, you can add basic piping on top of it to make your cake even more festive. If you’re unsure where to start or need to refresh your memory, check out this basic piping techniques tutorial.
Lilo And Stitch Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
Maybe you want a softer design but still showstopping, in this case, this cute Lilo and Stitch cake is perfect for you.
A little guidance
When using fondant to create decorative elements on your cake most of the time you don’t have the perfect cookie cutter, and it’s perfectly fine. You can print or draw Lilo & Stitch paper patterns that you’ll follow as guides to cut each fondant piece. Then, you can color them using DIY edible food paint or edible ink markers.
Gradient Stitch Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
Indulge in a gourmet cake design by using cupcakes, cakesicles, and other of your favorite treats as decorations for your cake.
A little guidance
To recreate this layered buttercream, once your frosting cover has set, apply a new buttercream layer around the bottom half of your cake, and let it set in the fridge. Repeat the operation with your darkest buttercream on the bottom half of the previous buttercream layer.
Watercolor Stitch Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
Add a touch of both softness and originality with this pastel watercolor Stitch cake. Don’t hesitate to have fun with the colors you choose.
A little guidance
To recreate this beautiful textured watercolor effect, you can follow this detailed video tutorial.
Stitch Bento Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
Bento cakes are the best to share with 1 or 2 people. Their cute decorations can also be adapted to bigger cakes.
A little guidance
All you have to do is a buttercream transfer. Simply draw your buttercream decoration on a sheet of parchment paper following a guide that you put underneath it. Then, once it has set in the fridge, simply stick it on your cake. Finally, overline the drawing and add the details. Here’s a video tutorial of a buttercream transfer to make the process easier.
Simple Stitch Tiered Cake
Difficulty level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
When hosting a lot of guests, tiered cakes are the best option. They also give you more room to express your creativity.
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 should ensure each tier is leveled before stacking them.
Baby Stitch Cake
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
Here is another type of cute Stitch cake design. This one will require more complex techniques though.
A little guidance
When making fondant figures you’re not used to, don’t hesitate to look for clay modeling tutorials on YouTube as they’re more or less the same. Here you can follow this Stitch figurine tutorial.
Stitch Cake Ideas For Advanced Bakers
These 3 Stitch cake ideas will be perfectly suited to experienced cake decorators.
Blue Stitch Cake
Difficulty level: 5/5
If you’re planning on hosting a lot of people, this king of mega tiered cake is the perfect choice for you.
Girly Stitch Cake
Difficulty level: 5/5
You could also opt for a less traditional and girlier Stitch cake design. If you’re hosting a small party, don’t hesitate to turn this kind of cake into a one-tier cake.
3D Stitch Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
To get such an amazing result, you’ll definitely need the help of a specialized 3D cake decorator. But there’s no doubt this kind of cake will awe every single one of your guests.
If you’re looking for more cake ideas you can check out one of my other cake ideas for children and adults.
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