Buttercream to Fondant birthday cake try these romantic cake decor ideas

Picking a cake can be a daunting task, especially when you know your spouse has a sweet tooth and loves surprises. You take care of the cake, start with a plain one, in your spouse’s favorite flavor, and frost the cake or roll out fondant for the cake with decorations piped, pinned, or attached to the cake. Before you know it your romantic birthday cake design for husband or your wife will be ready to light up their face. We highly recommend a heart-shaped cake, but if that sounds cringe, pick any, round, square, or rectangular, your choice.

All Hearts In

This is especially, if, the cake base is not heart-shaped, for nothing says romance quite like hearts. Use heart-shaped cookie cutters to create fondant cutouts, or practice your piping skills using complementing frosting flavors and colors to draw small hearts, or go for different sizes, depending on the cake size, with royal icing.

A Rosey Affair

Red roses will never go out of style especially when it comes to romantic gestures and birthday, anniversary, or celebration cakes involving couples. Create sugar roses in hues of soft pinks or deep reds to adorn your cake using food color and gum paste. If that sounds too daunting, then make it simple by sprinkling edible rose petals, preferably dry over the frosting.

Spell it Out

Handwritten notes are the call of the decade, and if you have a steady hand that is the envy of any surgeon, pipe it out in cursive or use letter stamps. Be a little cheeky, write an inside joke, or just melt their heart with something short and sweet. If that makes you sweat, a simple “I Love You”, or “Eternally Yours” should work fine too.

Go All Lace

Lace screams classic, classy, and vintage, why should it be restricted to clothing only? This applies to only fondant cakes since the fondant is quite set and can neatly hold the lace patterns. Invest in lace mats in classic patterns, they also come with words written on them or silhouettes. Ready-made lace mixes are readily available online, and all you need to do is, follow the instructions on the pack, fill the lace cavities, twice, then remove any excess and once it’s dry remove it from its mat and carefully roll it around the cake. If using color, you’ll have to be careful to not dye your lace mat or stain the cake. This is a pro-level idea.

Go Golden on your Cake

Golden goes with a lot of colors, from whites, and reds to blacks, and adds a touch of luxurious appeal to them. This is an excellent idea especially if it's a cake for a golden jubilee. Use edible gold leaf, foil, or luster dust, just a few flecks of gold can elevate your cake’s whole look. To make it even more stunning, try a gold-dipped effect by putting it on chocolate covered strawberries.

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Cakes are already fragile so if you are going with this really simple option, we suggest picking small-sized strawberries, which are similar to each other in size as well as shape, as much as possible. Keep the stems and dip them in chocolate, either dark chocolate, milk chocolate, or white chocolate, keep the cake’s color scheme in mind and pick one, or go for white and dark. You can dip the whole fruit in the chocolate or go for sparsely dipped ones so the reds peek through and add a pop of color.

Create an Ombre Effect

This is only for buttercream-frosted cakes and the ombre effect needs at least two different colored ones. Try red, pink, and white and all you need to do is gradually blend shades of the same color for a gradient look. This needs zero piping skills and can be smoothened for a uniform look with a palette knife or something similar.

For the Chocolate Lovers

For people nuts about chocolate, red velvet might not even be an option for the traditional and modern, peak romantic cake. Go the extra mile and craft chocolate shapes to use on your cake! Melt chocolate and pipe intricate designs onto parchment paper, or use cookie cutters or something similar to cut out designs from a sheet of thin chocolate icing. Carefully place these chocolate creations on your cake, as per your discretion, once they've set. If you’re going with a red cake anyway, dark chocolate decorations are a perfect contrast with reds.