Fifties Themed Cake Ideas

Poodle skirts, record players and soda shops help recreate the scenery for a 1950s party. If you plan to celebrate a birthday or other momentous occasion, consider using a retro '50s theme for some added fun. To properly celebrate the event, decorate a cake to look like a popular item found in the 1950s. From swinging skirts to classic cars, you can design an original cake that looks like it was brought from the past. Add this to my Recipe Box.

Hamburger Embellishments

Recreate a 1950s diner look decorating a cake to look like a staple of American restaurants -- the cheeseburger. Use three small layers of round cake, with one at least being chocolate to represent a beef patty, cover the top and bottom layers with light brown buttercream icing. Place an unfrosted chocolate layer in the center and use cutouts of green, yellow and red fondant to represent lettuce, cheese and tomatoes. Wrap chocolate wafer sticks in a light yellow fondant to create the illusion of French fries.

Jukebox Design

Get colorful with a jukebox styled cake to contribute to a 1950s theme. Lay a sheet cake on a flat surface and trim the top with a sharp knife making the two top corners rounded into a jukebox shape. Cover the surface with brown fondant, and then use strips of bright pink and green to create neon light to surround the top of the jukebox cake. Pipe in details with an icing bag and buttercream frosting to mimic buttons and other intricate details.

Ice Cream Soda Cake

Print out an enlarged image of an ice cream soda in a tall, vintage-looking glass. Trace over the outline of the image on tracing paper. Cut the image out of the tracing paper and place it on top of a sheet cake. Carefully cut the cake around the outline of the tracing paper with a sharp knife to create the ice cream soda. Use a pale green icing to create the color of the glass, light brown or pink icing to mimic the color of the ice cream at the top of the glass and top with real whipped cream and a cherry to finish the cake.

Poodle Skirt Design

Nothing says it's a 1950s theme party like a poodle skirt. With a thin sheet of light blue or pink fondant, you can create a cake version of one. Loosely drape a thin sheet of colored fondant over a skirt-shaped cake. Pucker the fondant in a couple of areas to create the illusion of fabric folds of a skirt. Create a small poodle on the lower half of a skirt with black icing. Use a black licorice whip and dab buttercream icing on the back to adhere a loopy leash for the poodle on the cake.