• Even a wedding cake becomes manageable by using free online cake decorating ideas and instructions.wedding cakes 1 image by Photoeyes from Fotolia.com
  
  Save money and have a little fun by baking and decorating your next holiday cake using free online cake ideas. Spend a few dollars on boxed cake mixes, and take advantage of cake decorating online resources. You may find an undiscovered talent for cake decoration hiding within. Impress a bride with a romantic tiered masterpiece, a birthday boy with a blue jeans cake or a group of wanna-be princesses with a castle cake. No matter your skill level, a beautifully decorated cake is an afternoon away.
  
  

Flowered Wedding Cake

• Decorate your own wedding cake and add to the wedding savings for your dress or honeymoon. Martha Stewart's weddings website offers instructions and tips for virtually every type of wedding cake. The skills necessary to create a beautiful cake, according to the site, remain easy but take practice. Master each step with precision for the best result. Secure the foundation of a towering round cake--with 3 or more tiers--by inserting dowels in the center of the structure. Stewart's cake decorating advice includes plenty of practice once you have learned the structural basics. Practice with different recipes, decorative trims and colors until you find the best cake for you. Add fresh flowers on the cake's tiers and simple icing trim on the tier's edging for a romantic finish.
  
  

Blue Jeans Cake

• Check out the Betty Crocker website when you need video instruction for cake decorating. Some free online cake videos include elaborate ideas, like a fire engine cake or barnyard cake. The videos take bakers through every step of the baking and decorating process with clear visual examples. The blue jeans cake starts as a simple sheet cake that is flipped and transformed into a pair of pants with a bread knife. Betty Crocker instructors show beginners how to mix a "blue jean" color, use pastry cones for the icing and change a fruit roll-up into a belt. The additions of candies for buttons and more roll-ups for patches give the cake a professional look.
  
  

Princess Castle Cake

• Create any number of festive cakes by using Disney's Family Fun website. Ranging from animal themes to the creation of a small cake village, this site has a cake for every age and every desire. The castle cake, for example, is a simple stack of 8-inch square cakes. The same structure lends itself to a flower garden theme, beach party theme or checkerboard cake. Stack four square-baked cakes with white icing between the layers. For a tower, cut another 8-inch square cake into four even pieces, and center three of these layers on top of the larger stack. The castle is covered in white and pink icing. Four sugar cones iced in chocolate, turned upside down, make turrets. Add small flags on the tip of the turrets and cover the cake in sprinkles and gumdrops.