10 Minimalist Cake Design Ideas

Looking for some design ideas for your next celebration? Minimalist cakes are a good fit for any occasion. Be it Birthday, Anniversary, Christening, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or any festive celebrations – there is a suitable minimalist cake design to match the theme of your celebration or party.

Here are some design ideas to get you going!

  1. Floral
  2. Portrait
  3. Swooshes
  4. Painted Scenery
  5. Calendar
  6. Lyrics and Quotes
  7. Pet and Animals
  8. Movies and Games
  9. Hobbies and Sports
  10. Occupation

1.Floral

Floral design cake makes an attractive minimalist cake and it is great for a variety of occasions. Our floral designs can be made of colored frosting or sometimes using real dried flowers. The design is then accompanied with colorful sprinkles as well as other design elements like leaves and stems.

View our Floral Cake Gallery for more design ideas.

2. Portrait

Arguably the best way to celebrate a person is to have him or her as the centerpiece of the minimalist cake design. Portrait designs are perfect for couples too. The design can be either with plain background, some gradient background, or even fully painted background. Here’s some portrait minimalist cake created by our passionate cake artists.

View our Portrait Cake Gallery for more design ideas.

3. Swooshes

Popularized by cake artists from South Korea, minimalist cake designs with swooshes are clean and simple, yet very attractive at the same time. This style of design usually features muted pastel colors, finished with edible sprinkles of matching color.

View our Korean Minimalist Cake Gallery for more design ideas.

4. Painted Scenery

Painted scenery minimalist cakes are the pride and joy of our cake artists. Our artists create these designs by meticulously applying colored frosting using palette knives onto the cake, much like how a painter would apply oil paint on the canvas. Some of these minimalist cake designs takes hours to complete, especially the ones with a lot of details.  

View our Painted Scenery Cake Gallery for more design ideas.

5. Calendar

Calendar design minimalist cake is best for birthdays, anniversary, or to commemorate a special date or occasion. The calendar cake usually features a solid or pastel color base or your choice, and has a minimalist approach to the finishing. Sometimes edible sprinkles are added to sparkle up the design.

View our Calendar Cake Gallery for more design ideas. 

6. Lyrics and Quotes

Whether it is a song that brings back memories, a cheesy quote, or an important quote to remember, having lyrics or quotes as the dedication on the design of the minimalist cake can work wonders. While there is a limit of how much text you can write on a cake, bigger cake means more space for writing.

View our Lyrics and Quotes Cake Gallery for more design ideas.

7. Pet and Animals

We all love our pets don’t we? We often get requests from our customers to draw their dogs, cats, or hamster on the minimalist cakes, and we are more than happy to do that. Sometimes it could also be the favorite animal of the celebrant, in some cases unicorns and mermaids too.

View our Pet and Animals Cake Gallery for more design ideas.

8. Movies and Games

How about the favorite character of the celebrant from a movie, game, or cartoon on the minimalist cake? Many kids would definitely be thrilled to see that on their birthday cake, even some adults too!

Although characters drawn on the minimalist cake using whipped frosting might not look 100% accurate, our artists try their best, here are some of our creations.

View our Movies and Games Cake Gallery for more design ideas.

9. Hobbies and Sports

Many adults would have their favorite activities. Whether if they have developed it into a serious competitive sport, or remain as a leisurely activity, most importantly thing is that they enjoy doing it. It could be basketball, cycling, motor riding, running, or anything really. Makes it easy to decide what minimalist cake design to get for their next birthday. Here are some of our favorites.

View our Hobbies and Sports Cake Gallery for more design ideas.

10. Occupation

Most of us take pride in what we do, and some of us even have our character developed around that occupation that we do. Or someone has landed on a new job or just received a promotion. All these are reasons to celebrate, and here are some minimalist cake design ideas for various occupations crafted by our cake artists.   

View our Occupation Cake Gallery for more design ideas.