Try these lovely lamb burgers and feed your family for a fiver. Take lamb mince, chorizo and potatoes for your burgers. Add a heap of yummy salad like lettuce, tomatoes and cress, plus lemon for some zing. Pack it all into fresh, white rolls for delicious, hearty burgers to fill the whole family – and all for less than a fiver at Sainsbury’s! Take a look!
Just made a big plain traybake style thing, iced it and put a Dora cake topper on. Did the same for the second birthday, for subsequent I've let her choose one from Waitrose.
Just did a sponge cake and put loads of buttons/smarties on it. They don't really have a clue what's going on. Nice to make an effort, but don't think it's worth breaking into a sweat.
I'm sure this isn't the right thing to do but I went all out on the cake (bought) as I figured it would be appreciated by the mostly adult crowd. THe photos are fab, they will be my proof that i'm a good mum When he's older i'll have fun making a cake.
oh thanks for the ideas, i like making cakes so its no bother, i like the three teared smartie cake thats my kind of thinking. and the idea of a hedgehog cake of to look at that now..... brb
ooh it was soooo bad.. but done with enthusiasm.. It was a victoria sponge cake covered in melted chocolate with cadbury fingers stuck into it to make it a hedgehog... I had to repeatedly tell everyone it was meant to be a hedgehog
for 1sr birthday it was a Victoria Sponge that MIL made, for second erm this is terrible I cant remeber.. for third it was cupcakes with buttercream icing with fresh orange and orange coloring and then plastic spider rings (halloween theme as his birthday is 5 days before) last year I made a yellow cake (sponge) with chocolate icing and malteaser decorations as per his request, then had to make another one as we went to vist my parents in Idaho after that and they wanted to do another party for him...too much cake
No, it was my first attempt [proud] thank you! The reason it has the smarties is because I was trying to make it look a bit like DS's first ever toy: http://webimgsrv.burlingtoncoatfactory.com/erez4/erez?src=webimages/images-k/10/ks1_74563010_m1.ti f&width=200&height=200&fill=FFFFFF&quality=90&sharpen=25 Before the chocolate fingers though, DH described it as a "swamp thing" You made any decisions? How on earth would you do a swan?? Very ambitious
well yes perhaps a swan cake is a tad over enthusiastic even for me [ott drama queen]
i was thinking of a smallish oval cake, plastered in loads of either white icing or white choc [mmm yes choc] then make the neck and wings before and just stick them on after, might need to use some kind of foil/wire or something for the neck though, that wouldnt be edible of course, well suppose i could give that part to mil lol only kidding
shes just offered to buy dd a wheelybug,. for her bday bless her
it was an oblong cake with a triangular one on top (so that the clock was flat on IYSWIM - not standing up), covered in chocolate butter cream. The clock face was a circle of fondant icing (bought that from cake shop) and choc buttons for the numbers and sugar mice at various places.
If I was any good at such things, I would put a photo up but I am better at cakes than digital photos
not inventive at all! I got it from a book that my Mum had when we were children - it's a Family Circle one and 30+ years old! It's very tatty and covered in cocoa and flour and grease spots but we all used to look at it and choose our cakes. She made the clock one for my younger brother when he was about 3 - he's 37 now
tommy don't you find those old book are sometimes the best? i always use 1 cookery book, one gran gave me, its v v basic but it covers nearly everything, thats the only cokkery book i have.
she gave it to me as i didnt know what briskett was.
im not on cat howv do you set cat up anyway? i need it !
Just made a basic cake, covered it in pink icing and decorated it with a couple of bees, butterfly, duck swimming on a pond and a couple of flowers (one being a rose as England were in the Rugby World Cup semi's that evening!)
DD1-carrot cake, no frosting - looks like a brick in photos DD2 - M&S chocolate caterpillar: nasty flavour so DD3 - ice cream cake made with different ice cream in shape of a boat with smarties for decoration... amazing how quickly you realx about food!
want going to bother with cake at all what a bad mummy. not even having party now coz of family probs. will ds ask when hes older......did i have a party for my 1st bday and what was my cake like? hoping not!
I made -a-- completehashof an Iggle Piggle cake. It was awful and I ended up buying one . I think perhaps it may have been a little adventurous for my first attempt at cake making
I made a rainbow cake. Make a Victoria Sandwich cake, cut it half and put the cut side down on the plate. Cover with butter icing, then on the front put smarties in a rainbow pattern. You have to buy lots of smarties to make sure you have enough of each colour, then you can eat the left overs! I put some chocolate coins at one side of the cake to signify the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
DS had a number one covered in chocolate butter icing with smarties dotted all over and marzipan jungle animals on it, oh and I cut out green jungle leaves from moulding icing which were stuck under the cake.
A big chocolate sponge sandwich with strawberries and cream in the middle (Jamie O recipe from his first book) with a number 1 in white chocolate buttons on the top. The cake was more for the grown ups, but the babies loved it too.
Try these lovely lamb burgers and feed your family for a fiver. Take lamb mince, chorizo and potatoes for your burgers. Add a heap of yummy salad like lettuce, tomatoes and cress, plus lemon for some zing. Pack it all into fresh, white rolls for delicious, hearty burgers to fill the whole family – and all for less than a fiver at Sainsbury’s! Take a look!
When he's older i'll have fun making a cake. 
