32 of the Most Amazing Baby Shower Cake Ideas

Are you looking for ideas for a baby shower cake? Look no further because these recipes inspire you to create your cake.

A Few Words About Baby Shower Cake

Baby shower cakes are a must when you are celebrating a new addition to the family. Traditionally, you can have a theme that suits a certain gender by using pink or blue colors. But lots of people also use gender-neutral colors when they celebrate.

It will be much more special when you can make your baby shower cake. Although you might be a beginner baker, we have plenty of ideas suitable for all skill levels.

Look through our recipes for baby shower cakes for girls, baby shower cakes for boys, and teddy bear baby shower cakes for those who want to keep it neutral-gendered. From a feminine dress cake to one with a nautical theme to a cute bathing teddy bear as a cake, we guarantee your loved ones will be in awe of your creation.

See the best selection of Baby Shower Cake for Girls

Is a beautiful baby girl coming to your family? Then celebrate her arrival by making one of these cute and feminine baby shower cakes for girls.

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Dress Baby Shower Cake

There’s nothing like a beautiful dress to signify the arrival of a baby girl. This cake by Deborah Hwang is the perfect one to make when you want a feminine celebration.

This beautiful cake takes hours of effort, so buckle up since you’re going to work hard for this. The cake is a single-tier cake put on a cake stand, and it looks like a dress for your baby girl.

You’ll use a sponge cake to create the bottom part of the dress and rice Krispies to make the top half.

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Pink 3D Pillow Baby Shower Cake

This is another impressive-looking girl baby shower cake by Tan Dulce, and its three-dimensional look takes this cake to another level.

In theory, the cake is a plain single-tier cake with baby shoes as its cake toppers. Start by creating a regular sheet cake, then shape it using a carving knife to look like a pillow.

Then cover the cake with a crumb coat before finishing it with fondant.

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It’s a Girl Baby Shower Cake

This is one of our favorite cakes on this list. This cake by Scrumptious Cakes is understated, simple, feminine, elegant and easy to make.

The cake is a single-tier cake, with splashes of pink and gold on its sides, sweets on the bottom, and a giraffe cake topper.

To make this cake, the maker uses red velvet cakes as a base cake, then covers them with light gray buttercream. Then put splashes of pink colors on the side of the cake, and line each splash with gold paint. Place your sweets and topper, and your cake is ready for the party.

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Baby Shower Cake with Baby Shoes

The cake has more buttercream decorations, and the fondants are just for the shoes. The cake is a single-tier cake with the shape of a bassinet that has flowery decorations.

On the side of the bassinet are flowers and a pair of pink baby shoes. Start by creating the base cake using your favorite flavor.

To get the bassinet shape, you will need two layers of rectangular cake and a layer of dome cake. The maker also uses molds to make the shoes, but you can easily carve the shape without mold.

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Baby Shower Cake with Cute Baby Feet

This is a unique idea for baby shower cakes, a cake with a baby’s bum and feet covered with a pink blanket. This cake by Cake Nation is a single-tier cake with a baby bum topper.

You can start by making the base cake and decorating it with fondant. The decoration for the cake is white fondant, then pink polka dots, and a pink ribbon that ties in front of the cake.

Then start creating the baby bum part of the cake using rice Krispies.

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Pink Meringue Baby Shower Cake

The next cake is an elegant and straightforward cake by Rosie’s Dessert Spot. This cake is more for the mom than for the baby.

The cake is a single-tier cake with a gold drip effect, meringue flowers, popping candies, and a gold topper. Start by preparing your base cake and covering them with a light pink buttercream coat.

Chill the cake and start preparing your meringue petals. Then splash some edible gold on the cake to give it more details and finish with the topper.

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Pink and Purple Baby Shower Cake

This colossal cake can serve everyone if a big crowd comes to your house for your baby shower celebration. This cake by Janie’s Sweets is a three-tier cake with three different color schemes.

The second tier will be a white tufted fondant, and the top tier will be a purple polka dot with ribbon. You will use a piping bag for the first tier to create the rosettes.

Work with the second tier separately and assemble the tufted fondant. Then complete the third tier with fondant to make the polka dot pattern.

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Two-Tier Pink Baby Shower Cake for Girls

If you want the Mom to feel like a princess, try making this cake for their baby shower celebration. This cake by Simple Birthday Cakes is a three-tier cake with different themes.

The first tier is a tufted buttercream layer with sprinkles of tiny pink flowers. The second tier features pink ribbons. Then the top tier is another tufted layer with edible pearls. The cake also has a crown as a topper.

Start by preparing the base cake, then assemble each tier. For the first layer, you will create the tuft using a ruler, then line it with fondant. The same goes for the top tier. For the second tier, you will cover it with buttercream, then decorate it with strips of pink fondant. Put the cake together, and top it off with a gold crown.

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Pink Ruffle Baby Shower Cake

This cake can feed your entire family since it has two tiers. Then cover the cake with some crumb coat before working on the decorations.

You can pipe the buttercream onto the cake straightaway for the lower tier. While for the second tier, you will cover the cake with fondant before putting it on top of the first tier.

Decorate the second tier with pink petals, then top the cake with fondant baby shoes.

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Pink Rosette Baby Shower Cake

This tutorial will show you how to make a two-tier cake with an understated design. You will need a piping bag and fondant cutter to create this cake.

The first tier will be decorated with a rosette, and the top level will be decorated with fondant lace.

After the first tier is done, use the fondant cutter to create the beautiful lace effect on the second tier. Lastly, use a pair of pink baby shoes as the cake topper, and your girl’s baby shower cake is ready for your family and friends.

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Two Tier Baby Shower Cake with Crown Topper

If you want the Mom to feel like a princess, this is a feminine-looking two-layer cake that can fit the bill.

The first tier features tufted fondant with edible pearls. Start by making a base cake that’s enough for a two-tier cake. Start with the bottom level, meaning you must buy fondant cutters and molds.

In that case, you can always use a carving knife or toothpicks to create your decorations, but this will take so much time to do manually.

Finish the cake by painting the fondant with gold paint and top the cake with a pink fondant crown.

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Pumpkin Baby Shower Cake with Gold and Pink Ruffles

This cake was created for a mom obsessed with pumpkins; that’s why the base cake has pumpkin flavors, and there are fondant pumpkins on top of the cake.

It’s just the base cake with a crumb coat and a coat of edible gold glitter. Pipe on pink buttercream in between the two tiers, then chill the cake.

While the cake is cooling, create the pumpkins using fondant. Top the cake with the pumpkins, and your cake is a dome.

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Single-Tier Baby Shower Cake for Girls

This cake by Bake N Roll is similar to the last, but it’s simpler. The cake is a single-tier cake with ruffles. But you will create two different folds for this cake; the bottom layer is pink, and the top three are white.

Start by stacking the moist chocolate cake, then cover it with a crumb coat. Then pipe on the buttercream frosting using a petal tip and piping bag. Chill the cake, and prepare the fondant elements of the cake.

Create a baby bottle, pink shoes, and flowers using fondant. You can also spell the baby’s name using a fondant letter cutter. Put all the elements together and chill before you serve it.

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Beautiful Pink Baby Shower Cake

If you’re not a big fan of fondant, you will appreciate the following recipe by Got Cake. The majority of the cake is made using buttercream. The bad news is buttercream will need a much more stable hand than fondant.

The cake is a two-tier cake with a rosette covering the entire first tier. Then the second tier is just plain white buttercream, with a fondant welcome baby sign and a pink ribbon.

Start by making your base cake, and ensure you have enough to create two different tiers. Then decorate the first tier with a rosette.

Don’t worry if you mess up; scrape the buttercream and start again. Then create the ribbon and baby sign with fondant and put the elements together.

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Super Sweet Pink Pastel Baby Shower Cake

This next cake by Carlee will need you to have different skills to master. Create the base cake using the vanilla sponge cake recipe, then stack them to make a two-tier cake.

Then cover the cake with pink buttercream and let it chill. While the cake cools down, create the decorative elements using fondant.

Put all the elements together, and your baby shower cake is ready for the Mom to be.

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Pink Ombre Baby Shower Cake

If you want to only splurge on one type of piping tip or focus on your piping skills, this cake can be a great practice round.

The cake is a simple single-tier cake with ombre ruffles that goes from dark pink to white. Then cover the entire cake with some crumb coat and let it cool while you make the buttercream icing.

Then pipe on the ruffles from the bottom until you cover the entire cake.

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See the best selection of Baby Shower Cake for Boys

There’s nothing like adorable baby shower cakes for boys to welcome the new addition to your family. Get inspired and look through our list!

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Elephant Inspired Baby Shower Cake

Everyone will love this cute blue elephant cake, which will taste delicious too! This cake is the way to go if you like a clean, straightforward design that can still impress your guests.

The cake is a simple two-tier cake with elephants and carnival decorations. The first tier has multi-colored elephants and carnival flags. While the second tier has an “it’s a boy” signage, and at the top is a fondant elephant topper.

You will create the carnival flags with edible printouts, but you will need to use fondant to make all the other elements.

If this is too challenging for you, you can always use printouts for the signage and a toy elephant figurine as the topper.

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Boy Baby Shower Cake with Cute Baby Feet

This recipe will show you unique baby shower cake designs. The cake is an adorable single-tier cake that features a baby boy’s bum and tiny little feet.

There will also be a string of carnival flags with “it’s a boy” written and the words “coming soon” on the baby’s bum.

Start by making the base cake. You can even use a store-bought cake as your base. Then cover the entire cake using white fondant.

They use blue, gray, white, and flesh-colored fondants to create the other decorative elements.

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Simple Baby Shower Cake for Boys

Are you looking for clean and simple baby shower-themed cakes? The cake is a single-tier cake with white chocolate ganache dripping and sweets as toppers.

Start by creating your base cake, then cool it before you start stacking. After you stack three layers of the base cake, cover the cake with light blue buttercream icing.

Then use white chocolate ganache to create the drip effect from the top of the cake. Then decorate the top of the cake with macarons and sweets, and put some specks of edible gold on the cake’s sides.

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Blue Teddy Bear Baby Shower Cake

Here’s a beautiful inspiration to make baby shower cake boy buttercream without too much fondant. The cake only uses fondant as decoration instead of covering the entire cake.

The cake is an impressive two-tier cake with teddy bears, a string of flags, stars, the moon, and a picture frame with the baby’s feet.

Then prepare the two-tier cake using your base cake and a mixture of white and blue buttercream. Then put the cake together by arranging the decorations on the cake.

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Simple Blue Buttercream Baby Shower Cake

If you’re looking for elegant boy baby shower cakes, you will love the following recipe. This is one of the most straightforward baby shower-themed cake designs on this list, yet it still looks impressive to be a centerpiece on your table.

The cake is a single-tier cake with blue buttercream decoration, a teddy bear, and a sign that says “it’s a boy” as a topper.

You will create the teddy bear using brown fondant, then decorate the single-tier cake by smearing blue buttercream on the bottom.

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Simple Blue Baby Shower Cake

And that’s the central idea in this cake, which is one of the most adorable baby shower cake designs on this list.

The cake is a single-tier cake with fondant decorations that look like footprints, hearts, and tiny blue sneakers on top of the cake.

Cover the cake with a buttercream crumb, then top it off with blue buttercream. Put the cake together by sticking the pieces onto the cake using water.

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Baby Shower Cake with Fondant Sneakers and Buttercream Ruffles

This particular homemade cake features impressive blue ruffles to signify the arrival of a baby boy. It would help if you listened closely to the tutorial because the maker will give you many valuable tips on decorating the cake.

For example, when creating the ruffles, you should use the petal tips and make one-inch guidelines on the cake using a toothpick.

Chill the cake, then generate the fondant shoes and signage to add to the cake.

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See the best selection of Teddy Bear Baby Shower Cake

You can never go wrong with babies and Teddy Bears; they go together like cakes and birthdays. Look through our gender-neutral Teddy Bear baby shower cake ideas!

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Moon and Stars Teddy Bear Baby Shower Cake

This is a beautiful cake by the Lovely Baker; if you’re looking for a unique cake for a baby shower, this is one of the best on our list. one bear is standing on a taller cake with a fishing line and a star at the end of it.

The second cake is shorter, and another bear is catching the star. It’s a cute cake that will leave everyone in awe of your decorating skills.

Start by preparing the two base cakes for each bear, and cover them with purple and light blue fondant.

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Purple Teddy Bear Baby Shower Cake

This is one of the perfect girl baby shower cakes by Tan Dulce. The cake is a two-tier cake, the bottom tier features lovely fondant ruffles, and the top level is plain white with a sitting bear as its topper.

Start by creating your base cakes. In this tutorial, the maker tries something different. The bottom tier is chocolate sponge cakes covered with cookies and cream buttercream.

The second tier is a vanilla sponge cake with strawberry buttercream. Then start wrapping the cake with white and purple fondants. The purple fondant has gradients and goes from dark to light.

Finish the cake with a fondant bear and make a purple fondant ribbon to connect the two tiers.

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Teddy Bear Bath Baby Shower Cake

This unique and cute cake takes baby showers to the next level. In this tutorial, the maker takes the pun of showering and creates a teddy bear bathing inside a tub complete with bubbles and rubber ducks.

You will use several different materials for this cake: fondant, buttercream, rice Krispies, and modeling paste.

Start by creating the base cake first, then cover the cake using fondant to make the tub. Then create the rubber ducks, towel, smaller teddy bear, and bathroom tiles using modeling paste.

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Two-Tier Teddy Bear Baby Shower Cake

If you’d like to keep the cake gender-neutral, make this green teddy bear cake for your next baby shower celebration. Sometimes a baby shower party can also be a gender reveal party, so it’s better to keep things gender-neutral.

This cake by the Dessert Wizard is an excellent gender-neutral cake. The cake is a two-tier green cake with teddy bears, the moon, stars, and clouds all over it

.Start by making your base cake and covering them with green buttercream. Then make the decorative elements using fondant.

You will make the clouds, the stars, the moon, and three bears. Put everything together, and your gender-neutral cake is ready.

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Teddy Bear Baby Shower Cake with Fresh Flowers

This cake by Mint Rose Cakery is another gender-neutral cake with a green color scheme. The cake is a single-tier cake with green buttercream, a sitting bear on its side, and flowers on top.

Start by making your base cake and covering the cake with green buttercream icing. Chill that cake, and start working with rice Krispies and fondant to make your teddy bear.

Put the teddy bear on the side of the cake, then food-grade flowers. If you can’t find food-grade flowers, you can still use baker’s tape on the stems and stick them into the cake.

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Starry Night Teddy Bear Baby Shower Cake

If you like to experiment with their cake design, the following tutorial is a fun recipe you can try at home.

The cake is a two-tier buttercream cake with blue watercolor designs, a teddy bear, the moon, and stars. The maker uses chocolate sponge cake and covers it with cookies and cream buttercream as a crumb coat.

Then she starts to incorporate the blue and white colors by haphazardly putting the blue buttercream on top of the white.

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Baby Shower Cake with Balloons and Teddy Bear

The following tutorial by Deniz cake is a cute little addition to your recipe book. For this cake, you will work with several decorative materials: chocolate ganache, buttercream, fondant, and melted chocolate.

Start by creating the base cake, then cover the cake with a buttercream crumb coat. Then you will cover the cake with some chocolate ganache before putting a top coat of fondant.

Make the bear using fondant, and then create the balloons using molds and melted chocolates.

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Cute Baby Shower Cake with Teddy Bear

If you love delicate lace and ribbons, you will love this cake by Cakes Step by Step. You will need several different molds to create the same effects that they have on this cake.

Start by preparing the base cake; the cake is a two-tier cake. The second tier features lace edges and a bear figurine on top of the cake.

You will use fondant to complete all the decorative elements on this cake, so make sure you buy a decent amount.

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Gravity Defying Teddy Bear Baby Shower Cake

This cake by Cook and Bake with Noreen is highly complex, with decorative elements that defy gravity.

Although, this cake will require effort and materials. For instance, you will need a cake stand with a steel rod to hold up the entire structure.

The cake is two-tier, but in the middle of the first and second tiers, there will be a teddy bear holding up the top level.

You will cover the cake with fondant and then use chocolate ganache to create the dripping snow.

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