Take a look at these cool homemade Poker and Cards cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
This Las Vegas Cake was one of several I launched my first foray into cake making with. One day my fiancé lost his job after 7 years with same company. Times were hard and we had several birthdays in the family looming around the corner, including my best friend and my finance (who share a birthday), … Read more
This cake was done for a friend’s mom. It was a regular slab cake, with large, cubed rice krispie treats, covered in fondant. The poker chips and playing cards were done in fondant (denominations were hand-piped) left to dry overnight. Polka-dot ribbon trimmed it and the finishing touches were a paper (non-edible) sign I printed, and … Read more
I wanted to make a cake for my friend who has a birthday on Halloween. I have made her a Halloween cake before but this time I wanted to do something that was not going to be so predictable that tied in with the holiday. So I thought about her other interests and thought Vegas … Read more
This cake was made for a friend of mine for her sister who was to become the big 50. I asked what are her likes and she said poker and she loves red wine and my friend Mazza decided to go for the two ace playing cards on the top of the cake. I had Googled … Read more
This cake was made for my mom’s 55th birthday (hence the pair of 5’s) plus green is her favorite color. I did 3 8″round cakes, leveled them out and covered them with a thin layer of fondant then placed them just slightly off center from each other (being careful to keep the weight all in … Read more
We made this Homemade Magic Birthday Cake for a 10 year old boy who loves magic and Criss Angel- Mindfreak. We made one large sheet cake then cut two 8×8 squares and two 6×6 squares. We stacked the two 8×8 squares with icing between them and then stacked the two 6×6 squares with icing between … Read more
I made this casino cake for my daughter, she had a party at school and the theme was casino. I made a sponge cake with chocolate butter cream. And all you can see on the plate was made with fondant. And the cards were painted with icing color.
I made a round cake and covered it with green butter icing. Then I used sugar paste to make the cards and the poker chips. I used a fine paint brush and food colouring to decorate them. This Texas Hold’Em Birthday Cake is quite simple to make but time consuming. My brother in law loved … Read more
I made this birthday cake for my son-in-law who works for a company installing computer poker tables. I checked out this wonderful site for Las Vegas cakes and this is what I made. Just two boxes of cake mix in a large roasting pan. I cut out five individual pieces of paper to the size … Read more
I made this cake for my husband’s surprise 25th birthday. he loves poker, especially Texas Holdem. I made a chocolate pound cake, and a vanilla pound cake, with buttercream. I used leaf green for the green fondant (I used marshmallow fondant). The chips and cards are all fondant too, and were painted with food coloring … Read more
This homemade Poker table cake is made out of chocolate pound cake, it was made for a birthday cake but would make a great grooms cake! Poker chips are made from gumpaste. The table is cut from 10″ round cakes, then covered with chocolate icing and fondant. The table section was grooved to denote wood … Read more
I got this idea for Las Vegas cakes from the Wilton 2006 yearbook. I baked two half sheets of cake. I then took a half sheet cake board and but out the size of octagon that I wanted. I used that as a pattern to cut the double layered cake. The cake was covered in … Read more