Looking for Super Mario Cake Ideas? Here, you’ll find 15 Super Mario cake ideas perfect for a birthday, including easy designs with instructions to recreate them. Whether you’re looking for inspiration to place an order with your local baker, or whether you want to recreate one of these cakes yourself, you’re in the perfect place.
How to find a Mario 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: Mario 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 Mario 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 Mario 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 !
Super Mario Cake Ideas Perfect for Beginner Bakers
Here, you’ll find 3 easy Mario cake ideas perfect for beginner bakers.
Easy Mario Cake.
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
As a beginner cake decorator, how to frost a cake is the most important technique you have to acquire.
What you will need:
- Enough frosting to cover your cake
- Super Mario cake toppers.
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.
- Chill your cake in the fridge for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
- Cut your cake edges with a knife warmed with water.
- Finally, place your beautiful cake toppers.
What you’ve learned :
With a few cake toppers, even beginner cake decorators can create cool cake designs.
Super Mario Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Super Mario cake toppers.
- Edible paint you can DIY.
How to recreate this cake?
- For the buttercream cover. 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.
- Chill your cake in the fridge for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
- Cut your cake edges with a knife warmed with water.
- For the edible paint splatters. Once your buttercream is set, simply dip your brush in your edible paint, and create splatter by pulling back on the bristles with your fingers and releasing it. Repeat until satisfied with the results.
- Finally, place your beautiful cake toppers.
What you’ve learned :
Paint splatters are an easy way to personalize your cake designs.
Sprinkles Mario Cake
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
Using children’s toys as cake toppers widens your creative opportunities until you learn how to create fondant cake toppers.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Sprinkles.
- Super Mario cake topper
How to recreate this cake?
- For the buttercream cover. 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.
- Cut your cake edges with a knife warmed with water.
- For the sprinkles. Now apply your sprinkles, you can follow this tutorial to learn how to apply sprinkles if needed.
- Finally, place your cake topper.
What you’ve learned :
With a few sprinkles and toys as cake toppers, you can easily create beautiful cakes on any theme.
If you’re looking for more easy cake ideas you can check out my other posts about children’s birthday cake ideas.
Super Mario Cake Ideas for Intermediate Bakers
Here, you’ll find 7 Mario cake ideas perfect for intermediate bakers.
Mario And Luigi Cake
Difficulty Level: 2/5 (Low-Intermediate)
If you’re looking for a cake design to transition to the intermediate cake decorating level, this one is your best bet.
A little guidance
Buttercream swirls are a staple cake decorating technique. You can easily recreate them following this buttercream swirls tutorial. You should definitely practice on parchment paper before piping on your cake.
Purple Mario Cake
Difficulty Level: 2/5 (Low-Intermediate)
Up until now, all the cake designs had pretty traditional Super Mario colors, but you don’t have to stick to them and you can switch them up, as shown with this beautiful purple Super Mario cake.
A little guidance
To recreate this cool fault line cake, simply apply your purple buttercream around the bottom half of your cake once your buttercream cover has set. Then, use a cake comb to recreate the texture. Finally, let it firm up in the fridge.
Colorful Super Mario Cake
Difficulty level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
If you love colorful cake designs, you might love this cake idea.
A little guidance
To recreate these paint stroke effects, simply put layers of your buttercream with your spatula where you think it will suit. You can then either leave them as they are or smooth them with your cake scrapper to get a flatter finish.
Rainbow Road Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
This is the perfect cake to start working with fondant.
A little guidance
While the rainbow road is quite straightforward to recreate, you can follow this fondant cloud tutorial, to get more realistic clouds. Pro tip: you can easily use toys as cake toppers, as long as they’re not too heavy.
Princess Peach Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
If your favorite Super Mario character is Princess Peach or if you’re looking for a girly Super Mario cake design, this is the perfect cake for you.
A little guidance
Another great way to start fondant work is to use silicon molds. They allow you to create fairly easily super cute elements, and if you’ve never used any before you can refer to this fondant flower tutorial.
Super Mario Drip Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you’re looking for a fun and colorful cake idea, you’re going to love this Super Mario Drip Cake.
A little guidance
Drip cakes are everywhere these days. You can follow this drip cake tutorial if you’re not familiar with the process.
Mario Bros Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
If Mario Bros is your favorite video game from the Mario franchise, this cake will be a perfect match.
A little guidance
To get the best-looking buttercream grass possible, you can follow this grass nozzle tutorial that teaches you how you can get the perfect type of grass buttercream for your design.
Bowser Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you’re not a fondant fan, you can also opt for a full buttercream type of cake design.
A little guidance
You can easily personalize this cake by switching the cake topper. As for the buttercream elements, all you really need is a little practice on parchment paper before piping on your actual cake.
Super Mario Switch Cake
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you’re both a Super Mario fan and a Switch aficionado, you’re going to love this Super Mario Switch Cake.
A little guidance
Except if you’re really good at free-handed drawing, you’re going to need a buttercream transfer. Pipe your design 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.
Super Mario Cake Ideas for Advanced Bakers
These 3 Mario cake ideas will be perfectly suited to experienced cake decorators.
Mario Mystery Box Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
Mario’s mystery boxes are iconic, it would also be a great opportunity to make a mystery-flavored cake and see if your guests can guess what it is.
Mario Kart Cake
Difficulty level: 5/5
If you’re planning the birthday of a Mario Kart fan, this cake design will definitely be a hit.
3D Mario Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you’re really good with fondant and are looking for a cake your guests will remember for years, this is the perfect cake design for you.
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