Save money by baking and decorating your own easy DIY birthday cake by doctoring box cake mix and using ready-made icing.

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Easy DIY Birthday Cake

You'll find a complete source list of the items used at the end of the post. Like and similar items are used. 

My kids are both in their early twenties and in college. They both graduate from Clemson University in December 2021. I can't they have one more semester. 

My mother took cake decorating classes as a hobby when were kids. She made many of our cakes when we were little. 

While I never took decorating classes, I made my own cakes for our children when they were young using my mom's tips from her kit. 
Please note that I am not trained nor an expert. With Youtube and instruction booklets, you can tackle this easy DIY birthday cake as well.

I actually sold all of my big pans and character pans on the Facebook marketplace a couple of years ago. I still have all of mom's tips and basic supplies.

I've been loving the larger tips that are available today. There are even some that are huge referred to as Russian tips that I have not tried….yet!

Out of the set, I decided to use Wilton 2 D tip to icing the cake. It makes large rosettes and is so simple. I practiced 3 times on waxed paper before moving to the cake. Here is a...