Birthday Cakes for Men

Birthday cakes for adults, especially men is something which is not very easy to find at the bakers. The best way to have unique birthday cakes for men in one's family is to make one at home. Birthday cakes for men are not difficult to make. With some effort and creativity, one can come up with smart cakes to celebrate birthdays of men in the family. Some decorated birthday cakes for men are as follows:

Barbecue Grill Cake
One interesting birthday cake idea is the barbecue grill cake. For the modeling candy, one needs 14 oz. bag of candy melts, which is to be melted as per the instructions on the packet. Into the melted candy, stir in 1/3 cup of light corn syrup. Mix only till the two substances blend. Pour the mixture onto a 1 inch square of waxed paper and set it at room temperature to dry. Once dry, wrap well and store at room temperature until needed. One can add icing or food coloring to the mixture of candy melt and corn syrup if one wants tint candy.

For the barbecue, you need a two layer cake. The cake has to be iced smoothly, wherein the top portion is black and sides are black. For the grates, thinned royal icing strips, spaghetti size should be piped out onto the waxed paper, dried and then put on top of the cake. For the coal, place marshmallows. For the hamburgers, one should flatten the candy modeling dough to form flattened hamburgers. A cut bag can be used to flow thinned royal icing cheese over the hamburgers. Next, roll out the dough for hotdogs and paint them. Position the hamburgers and hotdogs on top of the grill. The bottom of the cake can be lined with icing for the grass.

Army Battlefield Cake
To prepare an army battlefield cake one needs a rectangular cake and butter-cream frosting. For colored frosting you need some gels of different colors. For a khaki color, you require brown, black, leaf green and orange gels. Take some of the khaki colored frosting. Add some extra brown and use it to frost the entire cake surface. For the trench, one needs to dig out an oblong portion of the cake. This dug out cake needs to be used to build a road and hill. To fill the trench with dirt one can sprinkle cracker crumbs with dark chocolate chippings into the trench. For a stone wall in front of the trench one can use chocolate skittles and frosting for the mortar. Some of the cracker and chocolate mixture needs to be sprinkled on the skittle walls as well. For the mound for the mountain, mini-marshmallows can be used. For grass use coconut and cut up marshmallows covered in green frosting. Cover the mountain with grass on the sides. For the road on the cake, one can use a mixture of extra cake, cracker crumbs and dark chocolate chippings. The army men and military tanks to adorn the cake can be bought at a discount store.

White Collar Shirt and Tie Cake
For this cake, one needs red and blue icing colors, ready to use rolled fondant and butter cream frosting. Prepare a single layer rectangular cake and cover it completely with rolled fondant. Easy glide smoothers can be used to smoothen and shape the fondant. Take another packet of rolled fondant; take one third of it and divide it again into half. One half is to be tinted red and the other blue.

For the shirt, cut out the pocket and flap out of the white fondant. Place the flap onto the pocket, aligning the edges at the top. Allow to dry. For the tie, roll the red fondant into ¼ inch thick strip and roll the blue strip into a ½ inch thick strip. The red and blue strips are to be cut in 3 inch sections and positioned diagonally one beside the other on freezing paper, such that the colors alternate. Roll out these sections. Cut out a tie from the alternating color dough. Quickly and carefully position the tie on the cake top. Using another small amount of tie dough, cut out a piece for the tie knot. Use a little white fondant to make a knot shape and cover it with the colored piece of dough. Place this knot above the tie. The tie can be given a ripple effect with the support of cotton balls below it. For the collar, one can cut out white fondant and fold in half lengthwise. Place it over the shirt cake above the knot, and position the pocket.

Besides the above-mentioned funny birthday cakes for men, one can even try out golf themes, soccer themes, F1 car cakes, pool table, guitar and many more themes. Preparing birthday cakes for adults can be as creative and fun as when baking birthday cakes for kids. So unleash your creativity and bring out your very own masterpiece.