What birthday cake shall I make for my 2 year old??

[BrownPaperandString]

I'm feeling all uninspired!

hedgehog! I loved making mine
Or for DS's second I just made a choc cake with a '2' on it in smarties

I made a train cake for DS's 2nd. Well, I bought cakes and assembled/decorated

I roughly followed this recipe but mostly made it up as I went along (and did not faff around colouring coconut green for the grass!)

plain victoria sponge with jam
two candles

if you start upping the stakes now you will have nothing left in reserve when she is 9 and wants a mermaid fairy princess pony cake on ice.

though I confess I did this for dd's 2nd. For her 3rd I will be doing the same thing but chocolate.

mmmmm I want one

What's your 2yo into?

You can have mine.
He's in to most things

These ideas are great and that '2' cake looks very profesh!!!

I think I might do a hedgehog and it's reminded me that I made a spider cake for someone's birthday once! that was very good but not sure that 2 is old enough to be chomping their way through a load of licourice legs!

My DS has always been a big chocolate cake fan. We've done numbers, chocolate trains and a big chocolate Dalek so far.

I would keep it simple really. Either a 2 or a round cake, decorated with icing and M and Ms ( better brighter colours than Smarties ).

and not nestle! I would use M&Ms in future

oh gosh no I can't do a hedghog as I've also made some choc bubble cake (refrigerator cake with maltesers in) so they'll be as high as a kite - I need a not choc option I think.

Could I do a diff colour hedgehog maybe or is that all wrong?

Well my hedgehog was multi coloured so you could do it on a plain sponge base

liking the blonde hedgehog

YES albino hedgehog with white chocolate buttons and pink smartie eyes

I take it you are having a party? If so, you could serve the choc bubble cake at the party and give them a slice each of choc hedgehog to take home. Let the parents deal with the sugar rush decide when they can have it then.

oh you said no chocolate...erm
if choc ok then white chocolate fingers would look brilliant I'm going to do that for DD's first birthday I think!

......and amyway, cake with buttercream etc is just as high in sugar as chocolate so I wouldn't worry about that TBH. they are supposed to run around like crazed sugar fuelled loons at parties.

oooh - multi coloured - what colours and how did you do it???

choclate cake with choc butter icing and smarties and fingers - here

but am doing albino one for DD's birthday - is that odd?

What do you think is the lesser of the 2 evils - white choc buttons or milk choc fingers for the spines?

I did a ladybird for mine, went down very well and pretty easy to do (just made a cake in a pyrex bowl and a muffin for the head and smothered in butter cream!)

I usually use matchmakers for hedgehogs
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thus

oooh or I could do a spider cake with pipe cleaners as legs !

badger they're brilliant

I want that for my 40th MrsBadger!!

I'm trying to avoid sweets on mass for them that's the trouble. I'm having trouble rationalising choc buttercream with choc fingers as it is!

spb they are the pics in the book

mine do not usually lok that good

A dog?

You can sprinkle with dessicated coconut to get the fur effect, and that's sort-of-fruit-innit.