With some wafer paper, edible ink, and a lighter, you too can impress your friends with one of these many burnaway cake ideas inspired by the newest TikTok baking trend. Just have the fire extinguisher handy.
This new fire trend isn’t your mother’s baked Alaska. (Though, please let her know that’s delicious.) Setting desserts on fire is hardly new, but the burnaway cake trend is a whole other level of dessert reveal.
As long as your cake is more Hunger Games: Catching Fire and less…actual catching fire you’ll be fine. Here’s more than a dozen burnaway cake ideas to get you started.
What is a Burnaway Cake?
It’s exactly what it sounds like. You begin with a cake decorated with a printed image, which you light on fire. The first layer burns away, revealing another design underneath.
Denise Steward, of Denise’s Delights, is credited with starting the trend. Her first video featured a New Year’s cake to welcome in 2024, and the idea took off.
Creators from all over the world are now getting creative with the burn away cake trend, from burning away their 20s to trolling their followers with one particular memes. We’re here for it all. Even if it involves Rick and Roll.
19 Burnaway Cake Ideas That Are Absolutely Fire
1. Charizard Double Layer Burnaway Cake
The Pokemon kids get it. This cake is COOL.
2. “Yes, And…” Burnaway Cake
Bet Ariana Grande didn’t think she’d see her immediately iconic song on this heart-shaped burnaway cake but then…who could have predicted this?
3. Flavortown Burnaway Cake
Ok, but where’s the video of Guy Fieri reacting to this cake?
4. Super Bowl (Taylor’s Version) Burnaway Cake
It’s not too late to add another element to the cake you were already planning for your Taylor Swift-themed Super Bowl Sunday. Who needs the halftime show? This cake is entertaining enough.
5. Proposal Burnaway Cake
This is the new elite way to propose. Who can say no to a whole cake? (Not us.)
6. “Burn” by Usher Halftime Burnaway Cake
We can’t be the only ones only watching the Super Bowl for Taylor Swift and Usher, right?
7. Spicy Valentine’s Burnaway Cake
Sometimes you just need to spell it out. Literally.
8. “Reputation” Burnaway Cake
The old Taylor Swift can’t come to the phone right now. Why? She’s burning this cake.
9. “I’m Just Here for the Snacks” Super Bowl Burnaway Cake
It would feel almost wrong to refer to Taylor’s boo as a snack, if it weren’t so darn true. We love you Killa Trav.
10. Hunger Games Burnaway Cake
Is now a bad time to say we used to be Team Gale…? He’s a Hemsworth brother, come on!
11. Burn Book Burnaway Cake
We’re loving the Mean Girls comeback in 2024. Wearing Juicy velour sweatsuits can stay in 2004, though, thanks.
12. Too Old for Leo Burnaway Cake
Savage doesn’t seem like a strong enough word to describe this, and yet…
13. Death to my 20s Burnaway Cake
It’s giving grown-up goth girl entering her Reputation era. We stan.
14. Gender Reveal Burnaway Cake
One day you’ll show your kid how you revealed their biological sex and they’ll be like, “that’s so 2024.” Ouch.
15. Princess Mia Burnaway Cake
Mia’s transformation is the perfect theme for a burnaway cake. If Paolo could have done this in the movie, he would have.
16. “Happee Birthdae Harry” Burnaway Cake
Starts cute, gets hilarious. Dumbledore will never live down this line.
17. Birthday Cake
NBD just us lighting the past on fire.
@nonchalant.dest
18. Elmo Burnaway Cake
Elmo, you did ask how we were doing.
19. Drake Birthday Cake
If you try this cool idea for a birthday cake with an old and current photo of yourself we recommend not using an image of Drake. Unless, of course, you are Drake. In which case, carry on.
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