Dress up your birthday or holiday cake with these easy decorating ideas. Some fancy up the outside of the cake with frosting, candy or fruit, while others use simple layering tricks to make the inside shine.

We know that cake isn’t the easiest thing to bake in your kitchen. Failure awaits you at every turn of cake baking. It could refuse to rise, bake lopsided, burn, crumble, crack, explode... the list goes on and on. But, if you know how to decorate a cake, you can hide all of those failures under a layer of sugar, butter and fun (except maybe the burned ones).

While cake decorating has the reputation of being more than a little tricky, we’ve got 50+ cake decorating ideas that are stupidly easy and yet still look impressive. So take out your frosting, find the sprinkles and get to work hiding all the flaws in your sad excuse for a cake. Once decorated, it will taste just as sweet as any other cake out there.

Impress your guests with easy cake decorating ideas that go from fab frosting tricks to lusciously stacked layers. These genius hacks take the cake for best decorating ideas of all time.

Here are favorite easy birthday cake decorating ideas that look hard, but simple enough that anyone (including you) can do them. This is exactly is why i've put together 50+ cakes that totally adorable and will make you look like a birthday goddes.