Hi Everyone. Hoping someone can please help me with some ideas for a birthday cake for an accountant. Its a half sheet cake made out of buttercream. They are paying for a fairly basic cake so I don't want to get into fondant decorations.

Thanks for all the ideas!

You can make the cake look like a giant calculator, or even the cake look like a desk with a calculator and paper with numbers on it, on the "desk"....
Or to be simple, you can just pipe a calculator, some different mathematical equations, maybe a "balance sheet" look... etc...

thanks!

A "spreadsheet" look was the first thing I thought of...something like this:
http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1210401

There are lots of nice adding machine/calculator cakes in the gallery but they are more complicated than you want. Maybe you could put an actual calculator on top of the cake (dollar store type), and pipe a birthday message with some sort of appropriate pun about counting the years, adding up the grey hairs, or "can't account for" how young you look, something like that?

Holly

Thank you!