Creative Birthday Cakes for Kids

Chocolate cereal provides the fur on this adorable, edible monkey. A banana peel serves as simple but fun garnish.

To make this adorable no-bake dessert, top frozen pound cakes with marshmallows to create the interlocking Legos. Brightly colored powdered sugar frosting tinted with paste food coloring adds realistic shine.

It's simple to convert any 13x9x2-inch cake into this cute robot. Candy-coated milk chocolate and licorice candies add futuristic flair.

This cool cake is nearly identical to the All-American lunch favorite. To make it, sandwich chocolate ice cream, cheese made of fondant, and shredded coconut (dyed to look like lettuce) between two round yellow cakes. Serve it with "fries" made of sliced pound cake.

Layer a pound cake with ice cream to create a delightful summertime treat. To create the flip-flop shape, trace the bottom of a child-size flip-flop onto cardboard. Then use the cardboard stencil to cut the shape out of the cake.

Create your own winter wonderland on top of this coconut-covered cake. Frosting-topped pretzels make a miniature pine forest, while bear-shaped cookies on fruit-leather sleds make an adorable decoration.

A standard 13-x-9-x-2-inch cake transforms easily into a sports jersey. To personalize the cake, use your child's age as the number on the jersey.

This adorable bird's nest cake is a snap to make. Pretzel sticks create the nest's branches, while marshmallow candies make precious baby chicks. Sugar cookies are decorated to resemble the eggs.

This cake is perfect for little campers. Flour tortillas transform into tiny tepees, pretzel sticks become logs, peanuts serve as pieces of a path, and dyed coconut turns into plush grass.

Blue gelatin becomes the water of a miniature swimming pool. Tropical embellishments, such as fish-shape gummy candies and cocktail umbrellas, give the cake a summertime feel.

This cake, studded with citrus candy, sets the mood for a fun time. Kids love to pick off and eat the fruit snack embellishments. Serving 10-12, this cake is perfect for a small party.

Pretty in pink, this strawberry-topped cake only looks like a pie. Convenient ingredients such as yellow cake mix, instant vanilla pudding, and canned frosting cut down on prep time.