Birdcage Cake - A Cake Decorating Video

We're so excited to have a video on how to make a birdcage cake! These cakes are cheerful, delicate and perfect for a variety of occasions from bridal showers, teas & garden parties, to birthdays.

I love this birdcage cake design because the cake itself looks so impressive, but is actually quite simple to make!

We hope that you enjoy this two part tutorial! You can find our materials list further down in this post.

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Bird Themed Cakes

In addition to today's birdcage cake, we have several more bird-themed cake designs! We just love a bird theme ;0)- Make sure to check out these other free bird cake tutorials!

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She's on the Nest- Mama Bird Cake Blog Tutorial

Birdhouse Cake Video Tutorial

Birdhouse Cake Toppers- Blog Tutorial

Enjoy the Video!

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you give this birdcage cake a try, we would love for you to leave a comment and photo below.

Part One

Part Two:

Materials

3 six inch layers

1 half ball cake (I used half of the Wilton Sports Ball Pan (aff.) set. It measures 6" in diameter.)

Buttercream- We used our "fluffy vanilla buttercream" recipe but any crusting recipe will do

Cardboard cake circle (cut to just under 6", it is placed within the cake)

Bubble Tea Straws or your dowels of choice. I used 3.

Cake base or pedestal. If you are stacking cardboard cake circles, I would stack 2 or 3.

Bench Scraper, Spatula of your choice.

Food coloring pen (I used an Americolor black pen for the birds' eyes)

Gum Paste (or fondant with tylose kneaded in) --For creating your birds & flowers

Fondant for the bars of the birdcage

Buttercream for frosting the cake - (Most of it was tinted blue, with a little reserved to be tinted green for our ivy vines)

Coloring Gel in desired colors--I used Americolor Electric Blue for the buttercream, Americolor Deep Pink for the pink shades of flowers, Americolor Electric Green for the ivy leaves & buttercream vines)

Cutters used: PME ivy leaf cutter, cherry blossom cutter, Wilton Daisy cutters, tiny flower cutters

FMM Multi Ribbon Cutter-- (aff.) I used this to cut my fondant bands/bars of the cage. The thicker bands are ¾" thick, and the thinner bands are ¼".

Extruder (very helpful)- We like Makin's Ultimate Clay Extruder (aff.)

Ball Tool & Foam Pad- optional (for thinning flowers)

Royal icing- I used for adding detail to the cage--you could also use a crusting buttercream. I also used it to glue our ring to the top of the cage

Sugar Pearls-optional. I used Wilton brand sugar pearls for some of our flower centers

Piping Tip 2- For piping royal icing bead board around the cage as well as our green buttercream ivy vines.

Misc: Sharp knife or x-acto for cutting, tylose/sugar glue (or your glue of choice),

If you love bird themed sweets, don't miss our free blog tutorial for Bird & Birdcage Cupcakes!! These are so cute and simple, and match our birdcage cake perfectly!

30 Comments

Hi Melissa. Fab cake. Can't wait to see video. However only part 2 showing up on the iPad. There is a big gap where part one should be!

Hey Jackie--I re-embedded, is it better now? I have to rely on my ipad friends to let me know :0)

Awesome!

What is the plastic sheet called you have covering your fondant from getting hard? Where can I get one?

Hi Melissa. Can see it now. Thank you

Bakerstreats......

I found one on ebay called The Mat. It's fabulous. You should enter The Mat on youtube and see how she uses it to cover cakes instead of a rolling pin.
Here is the link:

@bakerstreats--We really like The Mat that Ansa mentioned above. It is food grade vinyl. If you watched the monster truck video, we used it to assist with covering the cake with fondant. We also use it to keep fondant from drying out, as in the video.

Some people use use just plain old clear vinyl which you can usually find at fabric stores--- the catch is that it doesn't have the "food safe" seal of approval like The Mat does.

U read my mind again! It is gorgeous! Guess what I'll be doing for my bday next week???

For this cake, how much would you charge?

gorgeous as always Melissa,

Just a question, I have made the cake and buttercreamed it...but dont want to put the fondant accents on until tomorrow afternoon.... is the cake fine in the fridge until then or am I best off leaving it out to come to room temp

thanks

Hi Genelle-- I usually refrigerate my buttercream frosted cakes. It would be fine to leave it in the fridge until tomorrow afternoon and then apply your accents. I find that the fondant sticks easily to the frosting after the cake has been chilled because there is just the slightest bit of moisture on the surface of the icing.