To decorate a pre iced cake for dds 16th and refuse to pay £80 for a themed cake?!

[Dewdrops1]

So it’s dd’s 16th birthday and quotes on birthday cakes coming in at £80 or there about 😳 completely appreciate time and cost involved but it’s just out of my price range (and I’ve left it too late!)

So…..do you think I’d be able to decorate a pre iced shop cake and make it look acceptable (I’m not very good at baking so unable to make own!)?

any ideas on how I’d go about doing this in 2 days and pass it off as a ‘professional’ looking cake😂 was thinking black/gold decoration and possibly getting two different size cakes to put on top of each other, no idea how I’d go about doing that mind!

Honest opinions greatly appreciated.

Your daughter should appreciate it whatever it is because YOU cared enough to get it and decorate it for her.
I would have been mortified knowing my mum had spent 80 on something that would just be eaten!

Agree.
@Dewdrops1 is being a lovely mum doing her best. I hope it works out.

Buy single layer cake, big as you can afford / find, chocolate fudge or vanilla cake and layer with chocs for brown cake, or colourful jelly sweets and candy canes for vanilla.

No-one gives a toss about cake, even if they go oooh aaah when they see a good looking one.

I agree that if you're not good at baking it's very unlikely you'll be good at cake decorating unless you're very artistic and practical in other ways. I vote a simple higher end supermarket cake(s) topped with edible flowers.

Thank you 😊