Type a name, pick a font, and get a printable cake topper back as a cut file or a 3D model. Everything renders live in the browser — the flat outline and the stacked, coloured version side by side — so what you download is what you were just looking at.
This is the question that trips most people up, and it depends entirely on the machine you are feeding, not on the design.
A topper that cannot stay upright is a coaster. Stakes are legs printed as part of the topper, below the lettering — simple, strong, and buried once they are in the cake. You set the height, the width and the spread, and pick a pointed tip that pushes in easily or a rounded one that is less likely to come through the top of a shallow cake. Drop the spread to zero and the pair merges into a single centred stake. Turn stakes off altogether and you get a flat topper to mount however you like.
The free tier is not a demo. SVG export is clean and unwatermarked, STL parts export works in full, and both previews are the real thing. What the paid tiers add is more capability — 3MF colour export, your own uploaded fonts, saved designs, deeper layer stacks, and a commercial-use licence — rather than removing an obstacle that was put there on purpose. The pricing page lays out exactly which is which.
- Is the cake topper generator free?
- Yes. The free tier exports clean SVG files and separated STL parts with no watermark, up to two exports a day. Paid tiers add 3MF colour export, custom font upload, photo and logo uploads, saved designs and unlimited exports, but nothing you download on the free tier is degraded or stamped.
- What file format do I need for a Cricut or Silhouette?
- SVG. Cutting machines work from flat outlines, so export SVG and import it into Design Space or Silhouette Studio. Each colour layer arrives as its own group, ready to cut from a different sheet of card.
- What file format do I need for a 3D printer?
- STL if you are printing in a single colour, or if you want each colour layer as a separate file to print and glue. 3MF if you have a multi-material printer such as a Bambu or Prusa MMU, because 3MF carries the colours with the model and STL has no concept of colour at all.
- Can I put a photo of my pet on a cake topper?
- Yes. Upload a photo with the background already removed and the outline is traced from it automatically, so you do not need a vector editor. You can print that shape as its own coloured layer, or sink a shallow pocket into the front face and glue in a picture printed on paper. The pocket comes with a PDF that prints the picture at exactly the right size with the line to cut along, so nothing has to be measured.
- Can I use my own logo or clipart?
- Yes. An uploaded SVG keeps its cutouts and its colours, so a two-tone graphic prints as two parts rather than a flat silhouette. Each colour becomes its own part in the 3MF and its own file in an STL parts export, so a slicer can put any of them on a different filament.
- Can I set a different size, angle or thickness for each line?
- Yes, on the paid tiers. Every line carries its own font, its own size, its own angle and its own thickness, so a name can run large across a smaller date, a word can sit at a slant under a straight one, or a delicate script line can be made bolder than the rest. Type an exact angle, or hold Alt and drag the line round on the canvas. Dragging a line into position is free on every tier. Where two lines cross, the one in front knocks a small gap out of the one behind, so the overlap reads as one word passing over another rather than fusing into a single blob.
- Can I make the lettering bolder?
- Yes, on every tier. The Thickness setting in the Text panel thickens every stroke by up to 2 mm, so a thin font holds together when it is cut from card and its fine lines do not snap off a print. Small gaps, like the inside of an e, close up first, so raise it a little at a time. On the paid tiers you can also set a thickness for each line, or upload the bold version of a font yourself.
- Do I need to install anything?
- No. The whole thing runs in your browser, including the 3D preview and the geometry that builds the file. Nothing is uploaded to a server to be processed and there is no software to download.
- How does the topper stand up in the cake?
- Stakes — legs printed as part of the topper, below the lettering. You set how tall they are, how wide, and how far apart they sit, and you choose a pointed tip that pushes into a cake easily or a rounded one that is less likely to come through the top of a shallow cake. Setting the spread to zero merges the pair into a single centred stake. You can also turn stakes off and mount the flat topper yourself.
- Can I sell cake toppers I make with this?
- Selling the physical toppers you print requires the Commercial tier, which includes a licence document you can download for your records. The free and Hobbyist tiers are for personal use.
- What size should a cake topper be?
- A common starting point is about two thirds the width of the cake, so roughly 130 mm of lettering on a 200 mm cake. You type the width and height in millimetres directly rather than dragging a slider, so you can match an exact cake size before you export.