Recipes for girlie 5 year old's birthday cake please!

[sweetandtenderhooligan]

All suggestions welcome. I've never made one before so not too tricky. Pink, princessy, ballerina, cinderella type thing. Thanks.

Castle cake? With ice cream cone on the top as turrets? Dolly mixtures cover a multitude of sins! Betty Crocker icing is available in tubs but use gel colours to achieve a deep colour as liquid ones will make it runny. Try youtube for demos.

If you want something simple do a ballerina cupcake tower, or the fairy castle is a simple one I've done before.
Also a butterfly is pretty and you can get silicone moulds to make the shape for you.

I've just been looking at the same thing and found this which looks fairly easy.

Or just buy a cupcake stand, card board ones are cheapest, and do lots of those. Personally, I just buy a small model of Bob the Builder, Buzz Lightyear etc and stick it on a cake with a number candle.

You could try a princess/Barbie cake - bake a sponge/madeira cake in a pyrex bowl (or you can get special tins). Cover it with a thin layer of buttercream, then roll out premade fondant icing and drape over the upturned cake. Get a clean barbie (or another doll that will fit, wrap her bottom half in clingfilm (can take off the legs if she's too tall!) and push into the top. Paint a bit of redcurrant jam onto the doll and cut out a "bustier" type top and stick it to the doll. Hey presto - a princess cake, and a new doll (if you can get the legs back on!)

My DD's fave cake was a big square Vic sponge I did for her 3rd. I covered it in pink sugarpaste and then every single different hue of pink jellybean you can get.

She still talks about it, two years on. Its obv very easy but looks great and all the kids adored it ( even the boys! )

Have a look at the ballerina on my profile. I think it's the last picture.

that's serious stuff, seeker. wow

Easy actually. There's one small piece of specialist equipment you need. If you've got a cake decorating shop near you I'll talk you through it. You'll surprise yourself!

I was just about to recommend the cake I made for DD's 4th birthday but couldn't remember your name taffeta to give credit. I did my version as huge (8 eggs I think, mainly due to lack of appropriate cake tins at the time!) round victoria sponge, covered in bright pink butter icing & lots of different pink jellybeans. It was fab & DD loved it, thanks for the idea taffeta! :)

Have done a Peppa Pig one and a Hello Kitty one, both quite simple. Made a chocolate brownie base so no need to cut or fill. Then thin layer of butter icing and then ready coloured fondant icing from the cake shop. Made template by using a grid (copy a pic you find square by square to scale up to the size you need) and ice. Used bought sugar flowers as a necklace on Pepper to hide the join between icings. Made a box out of pink gingham for Hello Kitty's head. Happy daughterness all round.