How to make a cake topper – for beginners

20 March 2024

Turn your cake into a showstopper with these simple tips for making a cake topper.

Discover the art of elevating your homemade cakes into stunning masterpieces! You can create delightful DIY cake topper ideas for birthdays, weddings, and more. Get inspired and add the perfect touch of creativity to impress your family, friends or guests!

You will be amazed how easy it is to make your own cake topper with a Cricut machine and these simple tips.

Roisin, the talent behind Sweet Eve Designs, is a London-based Paper Crafter, an official Cricut UK Community Leader, as well as a Cricut Content Creator. She is renowned in the Cricut community for her expertise in crafting stunning cake toppers. Roisin offers in-depth tutorials on YouTube for designing and assembling your cake toppers.

Check out this amazing tutorial from Roisin on our TikTok channel and see how easy it can be to make a stunning cake topper with Cricut.

Rosin saves her beautiful cake toppers on her Cricut Design Space profile so you can recreate them yourself. Here are some of our favourites:

  • Mum Cake Topper – make it here
  • Simple Happy Birthday Cake Topper – make it here
  • Barbie-inspired cake topper with shaker feature – make it here
  • Baby Shower cake toppers – for a girl and for a boy

Roisin also shows us how you can preserve your cake toppers in a frame. This simple step makes them last forever. This Teacher Appreciation cake topper is also framed so it makes an amazing end of term gift for teachers.

Make a cake topper for a gift for a teacher
Make a cake topper for a teacher gift

Share your homemade cake toppers with us

We can’t wait to see what homemade cake toppers you make with your Cricut machine so be sure to share with us. Tag us on social media with @cricut_uk on Instagram and TikTok.

Share with our community on Design Space by publishing your project live. Find out how to publish and share projects in Design Space here so that other people can like, bookmark and make your projects.