20+ Birthday Cake Ideas For Kids That You Can Make Yourself, Minimal Baking Experience Required

You don't have to be a prize-winning baker or spend hundreds at a bakery to have a top-notch cake at your child's birthday party. If you have a little bit of decorating flair and can follow boxed cake instructions, you've got all it takes! Whether you bake a bunch of cupcakes and decorate them together to form a "cake," or make a few layers of your favorite boxed recipe, frost it, and throw sprinkles alllll over it, there's an easy way to make a cake that will taste great and wow your birthday kid.

Ahead, see some of our favorite easy birthday cake ideas for kiddo parties, minimal baking experience required.

01

Rainbow Cake

Marshmallows and M&Ms or Skittles are all you need atop this frosted round cake to make a rainbow.

02

Pink Sprinkle Cake

Top with a personalized cake topper to give it extra flair!

03

Sprinkle Number Cake

Use a number candle or cut out a paper template, lay it on the frosting, then sprinkle everything else. Pull off the number, and viola!

04

Rice Krispies Layer Cake

Make layers of Rice Krispies treats in cake pans, stack, frost, and boom β€” cake.

05

Frosted Fruit Cake

Frost your child's favorite flavor cake and toss some fresh whipped cream and berries on top.

06

Animal Topper Cake

Frost a simple round cake and top it with a favorite animal, TV character, or just a funky candle.

07

Sprinkle Bundt Rice Krispies Cake

Make Rice Krispies treats in a bundt pan, flip it, frost it, and sprinkle.

08

Cookie Cake

Make a sheet of brownies or blondies, then top with frosting and sprinkles.

09

Lucky Charms Cake

After frosting the cake, cover completely with Lucky Charms marshmallows!

10

Pineapple Cake

This one looks tough, but all you need is yellow food coloring, a frosting tip, and some green construction paper. You can use black paper for the facial features or chocolate frosting squeezed out of a piping bag (or a plastic sandwich bag!).

11

Sprinkle Number Cake

Use fun-shape sprinkles to write out your child's age atop the frosting.

12

Naked Cake

Make a naked cake or simple white frosted cake and let a fun cake topper shine.

13

Cake Pop Topper Cake

This chocolate cake has a bunch of cake pops as decoration, and, heck, they can even be some of those delicious ones from Starbucks!

14

Doughnut Tower Cake

This one's so easy β€” just grab a dozen or two of your kiddo's favorite doughnuts and stack masterfully.

15

Candy Number Cake

Using cake or cupcakes to form the number, frost, then line it with candies!

16

Candy Cake

Or just go totally crazy with different candies all over a round cake.

17

Swirl Frosting Cake

Swirl on frosting using a piping bag, then top with candies or sprinkles.

18

Doughnut Drip Cake

If you're feeling up to it, a drip can be so much fun, but this cake would look amazing even with just the white frosting and doughnuts!

19

Oreo Crumble Cake

Frost a cake, then top with crushed Oreos or another type of cookie.

20

Cupcake Number Cake

Using cupcakes with fun colored frosting, form your child's age!

21

Rice Krispies Shape Cake

Gumball machine, rainbow, unicorn β€” the possibilities are endless.

22

Flamingo Cupcake Cake

Or you can form a shape using the cupcakes!