21st Birthday Ideas for the most creative Birthday Gift!

I wrote a post earlier about making a cake completely out of lollies that can be both the main Birthday cake or given as a gift. Well for a 21st Birthday last year, I decided to make something instead of buy something for my friend’s 21st. Now I believe I’m relatively creative and I strive to make my gifts ones that would be remembered for a life time so for this party, myself and a male friend (and being male is important as you later see) raided a dozen hardware stores and managed to get ourselves half a dozen free big boxes before going to the $2 Store and buying packets and packets of cheap wrapped lollies. Then we bought a few large boxes of Ferrero Rochers and dug up a big bottle of glue from my mate’s garage. All up this cost us about $20 each. Not to bad for a 21st Birthday present.

We set out a space in my mum’s art studio and began with the cardboard. We made three cylinders, progressively getting bigger in size. The largest just over a metre in diameter and the smallest about 1/2 a metre wide. It wasn’t an easy thing to do, making square boxes round but we reinforced the curved surfaces with a mixture of duct tape and ice cream sticks (unused). The trick is to flatten the cardboard out first and then roll it into a tight tube before laying it flat again. It should naturally want to curve.

We then stacked the three cylinders on top of each other and then cut out the centres of the cylinders so their was a large gap in the cake’s middle to allow one certain individual to fit inside.(More on that later!). Unfortunately all photos I have of this magnificent master piece were on my phone which accidentally went swimming with me so I drew a picture of what it did look like to give you an idea.

The Cardboard Cake!

For the candles we rolled up small tubes of red cardboard and topped with orange tissue paper (originally white but we coloured it in with orange crayons). The huge red bows we painted on with some red paint we found after attempting to colour them in with permanent marker (don’t even try it. It almost ended in tears!) We then stuck the Ferrero Rochers on to spell out our friend’s name and her age and then completely covered the rest of the cardboard with the cheap lollies. That was lots of fun and (being honest) we had to go to the store to buy more because we ate far to many of them ourselves.

W hen the big day arrived ( with the help of the birthday girl’s mum) we set up the enormous lolly covered cardboard birthday cake out in the backyard and draped a big dark sheet over it to conceal it.When she pulled back the sheet, my male mate jumped from the cake wearing Borat’s mankini! We almost all died of laughter and the poor birthday girl was almost beside herself. My friend in the cake preened about, flexing his muscles before a couple of other guys wrapped him quite forcefully in the sheet to protect our innocent minds.

It sorta goes without saying that this was one gift my friend would never forget!

My mate demanded that I draw him clothed despite the fact that the picture looks nothing like him.

Not Quite Cakes

Not all cakes need to be made from fillings, frosting and sponge cake! In fact a fantastic idea for your 21st Birthday cake is to create a cake out of muffins, profiteroles, cupcakes or even lollies! I’ve seen all four at birthday parties and they’re great because you don’t have to divide the cake using highly advanced calculus but just hand out to everyone their own very individual piece.

Cupcakes and muffins are really easy to make and you can decorate them with icing, lollies and even spell out your name in icing, one letter per cupcake! You can make a mountain of profiteroles and pour hot chocolate over the top to have a hot cake! Lollies are great as a cake as they can easily be stuffed in your pocket and eat later whereas cake often goes funny after being wrapped in a serviette for hours.

This cake is made of florist foam and wrapped candy but you can use any base to stick the lollies to. Be imaginative! Make it huge and have someone jump of of it! The sky’s the limit!

More cakes!

You must check out easy-cake-ideas.com for the most beautiful and delicious cakes! They are truly a work of art and the recipes are included! I recommend that you practice baking and decorating the cake a couple days before the big day or make two to insure that at least one of your masterful creations turns out as planned.

Here are a few images from easy-cake-ideas.com to wet your appetite and your imagination.
A very bright and awesomely pink poodle cake! Yum!

Kiss this handsome green frog and you might get a true prince/princess for you birthday!

Here’s a charming butterfly cake for the ladies!

You can almost smell the sunflowers on this edible delight!

Decorate with your own personal motto and shield on this scrumptious donut cake!

Roll up your sleeves and make a cake that you’ll not only be proud of (and impress everyone with your creative cooking skills) but will remember forever. Only problem is the cutting of the cake. They’re almost to beautiful to eat!

21st Birthday Ideas for Cakes

I couldn’t help but laugh when I found this 21st Birthday cake. It would be perfect for any bloke’s (and even girl’s) party and would most likely be remembered no matter the amount of alcohol consumed (although I wouldn’t be surprised to see someone attempt to drink this cake as it’s so realistic!)

A 21st Birthday cake has to be fun and different. A pleasure to look at and makes the mouth water. For the recipe for this beautiful design check out here.