As an avid The Sims player for over 20 years now, I decided to try and make fake bake versions of the game's birthday cakes 😄 Check it out:
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Here are how the cakes look from the game in versions 1, 2 and 3.
To create the base forms for the cake I glued dollar store foam rounds together until I had the height that I wanted. I then applied joint compound to look like icing.
The joint compound that I used goes on pink and dries white. The shade of white is kind of dull though, so I repainted them with acrylic. You can see the difference between the left and right cakes with the one on the right being a bit brighter.
I made the cakes in three different heights so that they weren't identical in size. It's just a personal preference, but I think it gives more visual interest that way when they are grouped together.
A couple of the cakes have what looks like fondant. I made this by rolling out some Modelite foam and cutting it to size.
I then ran a bead of glue around the cake and pressed the Modelite into place.
Another bit for the bottom.
I ran out of the white Modelite foam part way through! Luckily I found some random air dry foam clay in the bottom of a drawer. It was pink, but I figured it could work for the cake with the pink bottom anyway.
I did repaint it in the correct shade of pink using Pink Parfait.
For the top of that cake (The Sims 3), I painted the top in Pool Blue, added puffy paint dots around the top and bottom, and glued on foam stars. Some of the stars needed to be repainted first in Lavender Sachet, and the final touch was a few polka-dots in more of the Pool Blue.
Here is how the cake from The Sims 3 turned out.
For the cake from The Sims 2, I painted the top and bottom in Caribbean
before gluing on mini foam balls.
Here is how the cake from The Sims 2 turned out.
For the final cake (original The Sims game), I needed to add icing rosettes to the top. Using more of the joint compound in an icing bag I piped them on.
I went ahead and added the rest of the details with puffy paint while the joint compound was still drying.
Here is how that cake looked once dry. The 'icing' rosettes dried a nice white, but lost some of their shape. I also had a little trouble getting the blue detailing to line up correctly. Overall I'm happy with how it turned out Though!
And that's how I fake baked the birthday cakes from the first three versions of The Sims. I put these out with my birthday collection, which you can see here.
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Interested in more fake bake crafts?
I've gathered all of my tutorials and collections into this resource page.
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I hope you enjoyed this how-to post, thanks for stopping by!
-Jennifer
© Studio 27 by Jennifer Adams 2026
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