How to Fix Up a Plain Birthday Cake

Store-bought birthday cakes from a local grocery store are handy to pick up when you're short on time. Choices will be limited to what's available, and standard cakes often have plain frosting or colored, sugar roses. Dress up a plain confection with sugary embellishments and whimsical candles. Personalize the cake by adding the birthday person's name to the cake. By following the steps outlined below, you can fix up a plain birthday cake into something extraordinary. Add this to my Recipe Box.

Ocean Blue Cake

Take the blue cake out of the box. Use green icing to make seaweed on one side of the cake. Do this by icing on horizontal stripes.

Add gummy fish to the bottom of the cake, in and out of the seaweed design. Arrange gummy sharks on the cake. Place a tiny plastic boat on the cake.

Crush the graham crackers in a plastic bag. Sprinkle them at the top of the cake. This will look like a beach.

Poke blue birthday candles into the cake, one for each year.

Confetti Cake

Sprinkle the edges of the plain cake with candy confetti making a 2-inch wide border. Leave the center of the cake just plain frosting.

Arrange four mini cupcakes in the center of the cake.

Break off the end of the sparkler so that it will stand 4-inches above the cake.Poke the sprinkler in the center of the cupcakes. Light the sparkler and carry the cake into the party.