Sometimes you want a gift to be not only beautiful, but also original. Try making a paper cake with your own hands. This cake is suitable for any event - the birthday of a friend or loved one, Valentine's Day, a wedding or March 8th. The cake consists of bonbonniere pieces filled with surprises or sweets.
This cake is not a very complicated craft, so anyone can do it. The main thing is more desire, creativity and accuracy.
To make a cake you need a little imagination, paper or cardboard, scissors, glue and various elements for decoration.
Tips for making a paper cake with your own hands:
Try to choose colors that are compatible with each other.
Children's drawings or bright colors are more suitable for a child.
Take your time and save time. A paper cake requires painstaking work. But the result will make itself felt - its owner will not dare to throw away such beauty for a long time!
To prevent each part of the cake from falling apart, tie all parts together with satin ribbon. This will give the cake originality and completeness.
When decorating each bonbonniere, do not forget that the cake must open.
Where to begin? Probably from a template that needs to be printed on a printer. Our cake requires 12 sheets of paper on which we printed the template. This is more convenient than transferring each part onto paper, trying to match the template. 
Cut out the template. To make the cake beautiful, we glued triangles of holographic paper to the top of it according to the size of the cake. You can also make additional stripes on the sides for decoration. We do all this before we need to glue the cake (it’s more convenient this way).
Next, we bend the paper at the folds and glue it together using a glue stick. It leaves no residue and dries quickly. 
We fill each piece with a gift and close it.
What can you fill each piece of cake with?
Sweets with wishes for a sweet life.
A small car with the desire to buy a new foreign car or a luxurious life.
A shell for a long-awaited trip.
Coffee (sticker) for good spirits.
A heart with a wish to find great love.
Smiley - always in a good mood.
Colored pencils - more joys in life, events filled with bright colors.
Dice - good luck, luck.
Vitamin - good health.
Money - financial well-being.
Candle - family warmth and comfort.
Battery - inexhaustible energy.
After all the parts are ready, decorate the cake using a glue gun. We fasten all parts with a red satin ribbon.
This is the cake we got: 
A friend had a wedding in April, but I didn’t really want to give money in an envelope. And so my search brought me here... And there are so many interesting things here. My eyes immediately ran wide and I wanted to do everything at once! Then I pulled myself together, was inspired by a paper cake with wishes from sutorikhina (link) and decided to create this miracle, but my own.
Finished cake, top view
And these are the “fillings” for my cake. Each “gift” was accompanied by a wish and a symbol pendant hung on a ribbon.
"Inexhaustible energy." Pendants: two horses.
"True friends". Keychain with little people, I really liked it, funny :-) Pendants: a heart with 2 embossed little people.
"Sweet life". A package of 4 candies did not fit into a piece of cake, I had to take out 2 pieces, cut off the cardboard on which they were lying, cut the package with curly scissors and tied it with a ribbon. Pendants: yacht and shoe
"Great love." Two chewing gums "Love is". Pendants: 2 hearts
"Health." Hemotogen and ascorbic acid. Pendants: 2 elephants in silver and copper color.
"Additions". Pink and blue pacifiers. Pendants: 2 baby feet
"Eternal Positivity" An eraser in the form of a smiley face and a candy whistle (you can blow a melody with a stick). Pendants: smiling suns
"Bright Moments" Colour pencils. Pendants: Eiffel Tower and Big Ben
"Untold wealth." Actually, there is a gift for the newlyweds that I didn’t want to give trivially. Pendants: a bag with a picture of $, and $ itself.
"Comfort and warmth." A sweater (or scarf) on toothpicks with balls. Tip: knitting with toothpicks is inconvenient. Therefore, it is better to take thin knitting needles, knit, and then put the loops on toothpicks.
"Incredible luck." Dice. Pendants: cards.
"Pep" Here I had to think.. What is the best way to pack coffee beans?! In the end, I took thick fabric (there was no burlap), found the inscription on the Internet and printed it on the fabric. I cut it out and sewed it into a bag shape and tied it with twine. Pendants: 2 cups and saucers.
I had pieces with two different “layers”. This is one of them.
On the end side of the piece I glued wedding symbols: 2 wine glasses tied with a ribbon or 2 rings (in the next photo)
Another “layer”, with a different symbol.
If you don’t know what to give for a birthday or Valentine’s Day, you should pay attention to such an original souvenir as a paper cake. This is a very interesting gift, because you can put small cards with wishes or another present inside. A surprise box in the form of a cake looks very interesting and unusual.
How to make a paper cake?
You can easily pack various gifts and gifts in a paper cake. For example, you need to make as many “pieces” of cake as there will be people invited to the party. And inside each one place a note with sincere wishes.
- Ribbons - for decoration
- Beads - for decoration
- Long ruler
- Needle (large)
- Ready template
- Wishes on a small piece of paper or a souvenir
- Glue (can be replaced with double-sided tape)
- Scissors are sharp
- Colored paper (thick)
Instructions:
- We make a template of a piece of cake from thick paper, and then transfer it to paper (colored).
- To make it easier to transfer the template onto a sheet of paper, you should use a large pin. The fact is that, unlike a simple pencil, there will be no visible imprints left behind a pin.
- Using a needle and ruler, you need to draw all the fold lines.
- We take scissors and cut out a template - we make as many of them as there are pieces of cake. Typically, approximately 8-12 pieces are used.
- We fold all the cut-out blanks along the fold lines in the shape of small boxes and glue them together.
- We decorate all the glued parts with ribbons and beads - here you can completely surrender to flights of fancy and use all the means at hand.
- Pieces of cake decorated with hearts, multi-colored beads, decorative rhinestones and flowers made using the quilling technique look beautiful.
- Inside each piece of cake we place a note with wishes or a gift.
- We form a cake from the pieces and tie it with a beautiful ribbon so that it does not crumble.
- Place the finished cake on a beautiful cardboard tray. This dessert can be colored (each piece of cake is a different shade) or plain, and use paper flowers and various figures for decoration.
It is possible to create a paper cake using another scheme. In this case you need to take:
- Hole puncher
- Ready template
- Paper glue
- Double sided tape
- Colored ribbons
- Scissors are sharp
- Paper (various colors)
- Multi-colored cardboard (A4 format) – for each tier of dessert you will need 11 sheets
Instructions:
- For each tier we make exactly 11 pieces.
- We apply a template to the cardboard. It is cut along the solid lines of the workpiece, then they are bent and folded in the shape of a triangle.
- We glue the nose, as well as the side edge of each piece.
- We first fold the short sides inward, and fold the long sides on top and fix them in the cuts made.
- We put the ends together and use a hole punch to make small holes.
- You need to stretch the ribbon through the hole, then wrap the workpiece with a ribbon in the middle. We pull the ribbon through the next hole, then tighten the edges into a bow shape.
- Each piece of cake is decorated with a variety of decorative elements.
- We take a stand-plate and place all 11 triangles on it, which we fasten together with double-sided tape.
- We cut out not very large strips from colored paper, and then screw them onto a pencil. Use the resulting curls to decorate the top of the finished cake.
- Using this scheme, you can make a single-tier or multi-tier cake. You can put some pleasant surprise inside each piece.
Paper cake with wishes: making
To make this cake, you will need the following materials:
- Scissors
- Rhinestones
- PVA glue
- Colored beads
- Lace
- Colored ribbon
- Colored paper – 13 sheets
- Wishes on colorful leaves
Instructions:
- First you need to make a template - the long side should be 10 cm and the short side 5 cm. You can print the template on a printer. Thanks to the prepared template, it will be possible to significantly reduce work time.
- We cut out the template and transfer it to colored paper, using a ruler to draw all the fold lines.
- Bends must also be made under the ruler, so that the created boxes will be beautiful and even.
- We connect the edges with glue - first we glue the acute corner, then the side one.
- Inside each piece of cake we place a note with wishes and some small souvenir. If the boxes are made of fairly thick cardboard, then we simply bend the ends, and if they are made of plain paper, we glue them together with PVA.
- Now we are making ribbon decorations - making small bows from ribbons and lace. Using glue we fix various decorative elements.
- Place all the cake pieces and tie them with a ribbon.
This souvenir is just perfect for a present on March 8th or a romantic evening with your loved one. Inside the paper cake you can place:
- Inscription: I will bring hot coffee every morning and pour in a few beans of aromatic coffee.
- The inscription is eternal luck and positivity. Place dice or a small horseshoe inside.
- The inscription - a sweet life awaits us, and inside you can put your favorite sweets or small chocolates.
- Inscription - I wish you many joyful days, and add emoticons from paper.
- The inscription is boundless and eternal love, put a plush heart.
- The inscription is home warmth, put a scented candle.
- The inscription says heavenly holiday, and place shells or mini glasses inside.
- The inscription is a luxurious and carefree life, place a toy limousine inside.
- The inscription says fabulous treasures, pour a lot of small coins into the box.
How to make a cake from corrugated paper?
To make such a paper cake, you will need the following materials:
- Decorative decorations
- Scissors are sharp
- Styrofoam
- Thread
- Compass
- Large needle
- Corrugated paper
- Double sided tape
- Brush
- Satin ribbon (must match the paper)
Instructions:
- We take foam plastic and draw a circle of a pre-selected diameter on it. Then a figure is cut out along the contour using a sharp knife. If thin material is used, then several parts are cut out and fastened together.
- You can replace the foam with a paper base, inside of which the gift is placed.
- We take the workpiece and outline its outline on paper, cut out a circle of the required diameter.
- The resulting circle needs to be glued to the top of the cake.
- We cut out fairly long strips of corrugated paper. The height of each strip should be 4 mm higher than the cake blank.
- Fold the strip and then unfold it. Then along the resulting line it is stitched with a basting stitch. The thread is pulled together and the paper is slightly gathered, then we secure it.
- Using this pattern, we make several strips and cover the entire side surface of the cake with them.
- Scotch tape is attached to the bottom and top, and frills are attached to it.
- The threads and all seams are masked with a satin ribbon, and on top we decorate the cake with a candle or other decorative elements.
To decorate a paper cake with a candle, you will need the following materials:
- Scotch
- Crepe paper
- White twine
- Paper glue
- White straws – 3 pcs.
Instructions:
- First, we take the straws and carefully cut them.
- The straws are folded and a not very long piece of twine is stretched between them. Then we fix everything together with tape.
- Take yellow crepe paper and make a fringe. Then it is carefully twisted around the straws and secured with a small piece of tape.
- The tubes are taken and wrapped with a blue stripe with fringe. If necessary, fix it with tape.
- We take an awl and make a small hole in the cake, pull one end of the twine through it, then fasten the candle.
A paper cake is not only a festive symbol. Such a craft can be an excellent original packaging for a gift, a note and a postcard with wishes, or a small present. The birthday boy will definitely appreciate such a surprise, and your celebration will definitely be a success!
Having received an invitation to a wedding, immediately after thinking about the outfit, we begin frantically looking for gift ideas for the newlyweds. And, to simplify the search, most guests give money. It is convenient, practical and logical: such a gift for a young family comes in handy. There is a joke that modern newlyweds count the money they have given them on their wedding night, rather than doing something appropriate for them :-)
And so that your gift is not just in an envelope, but is remembered by the heroes of the occasion and the wedding guests, I suggest making a wedding cake with wishes.
1. A trip to the sea (in addition, I put small seashells in a piece of cake);
2. Prosperity and abundance (this is where the most important gift lies - money);
3. Sweet daughter (I put tiny baby socks, you can put a pink pacifier);
4. Four sons (there are 4 small keychains depicting: a soccer ball, a basketball ball, a tennis ball, an American football ball);
5. Good luck (Russian Lotto and Golden Key lottery tickets were placed here);
6. Love (candle in the shape of a heart);
7. Health (vitamins from the pharmacy);
8. Sweet life (I put candies, you can also fill the whole box with m&m or Skittles);
9. Many true friends (I wrote down the phone numbers of our friends and laminated them; you can also make a paper garland of people);
10. Lots of energy and vigor (energizer batteries);
11. Happy family holidays (pipe with a spinning tube, balloons, confetti, streamers);
12. Golden wedding (50 years) diamond wedding (60 years) (image of an ingot or Swarovski stones).
When all the pieces of the cake are filled, you need to place them either on a cardboard backing that imitates a dish (plate). I placed my pieces on a wooden plate from Ikea and tied them with satin ribbon to keep them in place. Then she put the plate itself in a transparent gift bag and tied it with a huge gift bow.
It’s always nice when they remember your birthday and don’t forget about anniversaries and significant events. In order to express your attitude towards another person, just to please him is enough to prepare an original, non-standard gift. A gift that is chosen specifically for this birthday person always carries a positive charge. And here a sweet gift will help, which raises the level of happiness and gives a good mood. Modern sweet confectionery products can be called masterpieces of culinary art. And who would refuse a sweet original gift?
It’s hard to surprise true connoisseurs of sweets. They are well versed in fillings and know the taste of various sweets. Therefore, in order to surprise and please such a gourmet, it is necessary to prepare such a sweet gift that will turn out to be both non-standard and tasty.
In this case, you can give a sweet gift - a cake. Such a gift will not only help you get taste pleasure.
The cake, decorated in the form of a box with a gift, attracts with its originality and mystery. Having received such a gift, you experience aesthetic pleasure.
You can make such an unusual cake yourself. To make your sweet gift original, you need to prepare:
Stages of creating a gift cake:
If you do not have the opportunity to buy ready-made mastic, you can prepare it yourself.
Examples of cake gifts:
Sweet cake with a surprise inside, step-by-step recipe with photos
Giving a sweet cake made yourself is a great option to show a person your good attitude and show your attention. And if there is also a surprise inside such a sweet treat, then both the child and the adult will be delighted with such a gift.
You can prepare a surprise cake using your own recipes.
The process of making a surprise cake:
A gift you have prepared, which can be hidden in the middle of a sweet treat, can also act as a surprise. This gift option can be seen in the video
An original version of a sweet cake can be chess cake. Externally, this cake looks like a simple sponge cake. However, when you start cutting it, you can see multi-colored squares in the middle, which are arranged in a checkerboard pattern.
To make such a cake you need to prepare:
- cream according to your recipe,
- biscuit dough (you can also use your own version),
- several food colors,
- ruler,
- baking dishes (round).
Steps for making a chess rainbow cake:
Pinata cake with a surprise inside, recipe
Piñata literally means a toy. This word refers to a Mexican toy made from papier-mâché. In the middle of this toy is filled with sweet foods. But to get to them, the toy must be broken. In this case, you need to break it blindfolded.
Therefore, a cake with a surprise also has the name “piñata” by association. In appearance, this sweet treat looks like an ordinary cake. However, when it is cut, sweets begin to fall out of it. These are the kinds of surprises that children really love. Therefore, the piñata cake is mainly intended for younger family members.
To prepare such an original cake, you need to prepare:
Cooking steps:
- Mix all the ingredients specified in the recipe for the dough. Just leave the dye. There is no need to mix it yet. Beat everything with a mixer.
- Divide the resulting mass into two parts.
- Add food coloring to one of the parts.
- Place the resulting portions of the dough into baking pans. In the form where the dough will be baked without dye, place a tall round metal object (tin can) in the middle. Place the dough around this ring. The result is a cylinder cake with a hollow center.
- We simply fill the second form, which is intended for dough with dye, with the prepared mass.
- We bake the cakes. Maintain the temperature in the oven at 160 degrees. The time required to prepare the cakes is about 25 minutes.
- Remove the baked skins from the oven. You need to give them time to cool down. After this, cut the cake with dye horizontally into two parts.
- We are preparing the cream for our cake. To do this, mix curd cheese, soft butter, powdered sugar. After mixing, you should get a mass of homogeneous consistency.
- Spread the cream on the first cake layer with dye.
- On a cake greased with cream, place a cake that has a hollow center. Pour chocolate dragee (or another surprise) into this space.
- Lubricate with cream, put a cake layer with dye on top.
- Apply the remaining cream to the top of the cake and decorate with dragees. You can decorate it with anything you want.
- The finished surprise cake is placed in the refrigerator for several hours.
- The piñata cake is ready.
You can put any other surprise in the middle of the cake. Such sweet surprises can include candies, marmalade, even small toys. It all depends on who the surprise is intended for.
Cake with wishes inside, step by step in the photo for the New Year and Valentine's Day
A cake with wishes is a non-standard option for congratulating friends. Such a gift will not only stand out from other congratulations, it will also help to congratulate you in an original way.
In order to prepare such a gift cake, you need to prepare a small set of materials:
- cardboard,
- scissors, pencil,
- elements for decoration,
- glue, double-sided tape.
Stages of preparing a cake with wishes:
- Prepare a template. You can draw such a template yourself. If you have a printer nearby, you can simply print the template. This will save time.
- In the standard version, the short side is 5 centimeters, the long side is twice as large - 10 centimeters. If you use these parameters, the cake will have twelve pieces. If you increase the size of the short side, you will get fewer pieces.
- Cut out the template and trace the finished version on colored cardboard. You need to decide on a color scheme. Cut out the required number of blanks.
- Fold along the lines indicated by the dotted line. On each workpiece, using a ruler and the back of the scissors, we mark the bend points.
- Glue the edges together. First we attach the acute angle, then the side one. For this purpose it is better to use double-sided tape. The result should be a pyramid with an open base.
- We decorate each piece at our discretion. For this you can use beads, flowers, paper elements.
- Each individual piece of cake can be tied with ribbon. Don't forget to put your wishes and little surprises in the middle.
- We put all the pieces together to make a finished cake. We tie the cake with ribbon.
New Year's cake design options
Examples of cakes with wishes for Valentine's Day
Money cake, step by step with photos
Nowadays, more and more often, money is given to the birthday person as a gift, so that he can manage the money himself and purchase the gift that he needs. However, here the question arises, how to give money in a non-standard way? The option of a cash gift in an envelope is not original. Here you can offer a gift design option - a money cake.
To make such a non-standard gift yourself, you need to have on hand:
- banknotes (small denomination, banknotes should not be worn out or torn);
- paper clips;
- tape, glue;
- ribbon for decoration.
Now let’s move on directly to the steps of creating a money cake:
It will look original if you attach a balloon to the top of the cake, in the middle of which you can hide several bills.
Another option for decorating a money cake is to decorate the cake with colored paper, and the bills themselves are hidden in the middle of the lower tier.
The process of creating a money cake yourself requires perseverance and patience from the donor. However, such a gift will bring a lot of pleasure to the birthday person, so both the giver and the hero of the occasion will receive a charge of good mood.
Money cake options
Paper cake with gifts inside, detailed instructions with photos for the New Year, March 8, Valentine's Day
A paper cake is an original option for congratulating another person. Advantages of this gift option:
- the cake itself acts as an original non-standard packaging for a gift;
- with the help of such a cake you can give several gifts at once (it all depends on the number of pieces of the cake);
- In addition to gifts, you can put cards with your wishes and words of love in the middle of the pieces.
This cake can be made in several ways. One of the options is that the cake is made according to the same principle as a cake with wishes.
The second method of paper cake is that each piece of cake has a separate lid.
In order to make such a cake, you need:
When making such a gift, you should listen to the advice of professionals:
- If you want to make a multi-tiered cake, then you need to reduce the template so that each layer is smaller than the previous one. The number of parts can not be changed.
- It is advisable to choose a color scheme that suits the birthday person: for children choose bright colors, for adults - colors of more muted tones.
- The colors of the pieces themselves should be combined and match each other;
- It’s worth decorating not only the top of the cake, but also the sides.
To congratulate your loved one in an original way, you can prepare several nice gifts for her. And you can pack such gifts in pieces of paper cake. You can also write your confessions and congratulations, which can also be placed in the middle of the cake pieces. Such a congratulation will look much more original than a standard gift in a package.
Receiving gifts is always nice. Especially if such a gift is made by yourself. In this case, he carries a piece of the donor himself, conveys his warmth and love. By making a pleasant surprise for another person, you will give a good mood to at least two people - the birthday person and yourself.
