This adorable and easy tropical flamingo birthday cake is perfect for a flamingle party or luau party! A simple aqua blue cake with pink flamingo decorations is easy for even beginner bakers to recreate.
PREP TIME 30 minutesminutes
COOK TIME 30 minutesminutes
TOTAL TIME 1 hourhour
YIELD 12servings
Ingredients
1boxed cake mix in your favorite flavorprepared according to box directions
1batch of homemade frosting or 2 cans of prepared frosting
Pink flamingo cake decorating toolsSee Notes
Instructions
Prepare the box cake mix according to the package instructions. You can make this flamingo cake as a round layer cake or as a rectangular 9x13-inch sheet cake, whichever you prefer.
Let the cake completely cool before you attempt to frost it.
Tint 3/4 of your frosting aqua blue for the water, reserve the last 1/4 of the frosting until you are finished in case you need a little more.
Ice the entire surface of the cake with the blue frosting. Once done, tint the reserved frosting a grass green color.
Use the special grass tip to pipe green grass around the border of the cake. (See product listing below.)
Add pink birthday candles and flamingo cake toppers to finish the cake.
Recipe Notes
Flamingo Cupcake Variation:
If you prefer to make flamingo cupcakes, you can use the flamingo cupcake picks and mini palm trees mentioned in the post above. Adding crushed graham crackers to form the sand is a special detail to consider adding, too.