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Homemade Salt Dough Birthday Cake Number Toppers
If you want to save money on buying birthday cake candles and number toppers, then have you ever thought about making your own? Using salt dough, you can create these fantastically bright and colourful numbers to use for many years to come! (I will keep using them until my children deem them ‘uncool’). They will save you money and are inexpensive to make too!
Check out my Homemade Paper-Mache Bowls craft activity here too. A great D.I.Y craft bowl to store your number toppers in!
Read on to find out how to make them.
To make my Salt Dough Birthday Cake Number Toppers you will need the following ingredients:
1. 3 cups of plain (or all purpose) flour
2. 3 cups of water
3. 1 cup of table salt
4. Wooden cocktail sticks for securing the numbers into the cakes
5. Glue
6. Colourful Paints
7. Varnish (optional) but helps them to last longer
8. Decorations such as glitter, small sequins and stick on gems.
*The Salt Dough recipe mentioned above will make approximately twelve numbers.
Step 1
Combine the three cups of flour, three cups of water and one cup of salt together in a large mixing bowl. Then lay out on a clean surface and mould into your desired shapes.
Step 2
Make one set of the numbers 0-9 first and see how much salt dough you have left over. Then make any extra numbers (or letters!) that you need.
Step 3
Preheat your oven to Gas Mark 4/180C /350F.
Make small holes in the bottom of your numbers using the cocktail sticks but then remove the cocktail sticks before baking. Make multiple holes in wide numbers such as the number two for support when it is standing in a cake.
(It is better to create a slightly larger hole in each number as you can fill around it with your glue-gun glue than to make one that is too small and the cocktail stick wouldn’t stay in).
*Then bake your numbers for approximately one hour or until they are starting to turn a nice golden-brown colour.
Step 4
Once the numbers are out the oven, I like to quickly work with the glue-gun and glue the cocktail sticks into the numbers. Then allow them all to completely cool before moving on to decorating them.
Step 5
Now my favourite part, the decorating! This is where you can be as creative as you like, get your children involved in the painting and decorating too!
Use glitter, paints, sequins, stick on gems and other embellishments to make your numbers special and unique.
Making these birthday cake salt dough number toppers is a great money-saving birthday party hack to use for years to come! Why not try making your letters too such as your children’s names or the words of your celebration such as ‘happy birthday’ or ‘congratulations’. I hope you enjoy making them too!
