Cake decorators - serious help needed re dalek cake and allergies

[alison222]

It is DS's birthday next week. Party is Saturday. He is allergic to eggs nuts and chocolate and blue food colouring.

I can make a cake - no problems but would like to try to make a dalek one.
I have googled but most seem to involve swiss rolls and chocolate buttons.
Ok so how do I make the shape and what to get the "button shape" on the outside without chocolate buttons.

Anyone have any ideas or do I need to think of something more simple?

Not sure about the egg-free problem, but upside-down stubby ice cream cones make rather good Daleks, we've found!

Yes - I like it - We have some of them they are ok for DS.
How do you decorate?

Can you make a DS-friendly cake mix, put it in a Swiss roll tin adn make your own Swiss roll?

As for button shapes, use rounds of ready-made roll out icing in approriate colours/sizes.

If it were me I would make your usual cake, cook it in 1 large & 1 small deep pudding type bowls

then pile one on top of the other, sticking together with some sort of jam etc that he can eat

cover with a bit of your chosen jam - cover with rolled white icing - you can buy it ready made to roll out, or a ready rolled sheet.

cut out discs in icing too

mix up some sugar paints, by adding a drop of food with icing sugar & mix to a paste, thick enough to stay put, thin enough to paint with

use clay tools, knives, thin rolled out tubes of icing etc to make the rest of the detail & then paint with the sugar paint as you would anything else

When you say he's allergic to blue food colouring - do you mean the artificial stuff??

if so, my own DD is allergic to all the artificial ones, but its easy to get natural colours now, so blue in those will likely be okay

rockinhippy - thanks - I've gone for the easy option in the end as am up to my eyeballs in work and ordered one of those cake toppers and some little ones to make cup cakes - DS very happy .
re the blue food colouring - I'm not sure - I suspect it was an artificial one - one of the cooks ones from the supermarket - came up in hives all over his face and itching tongue and throat. - we haven't dared try anything blue since.

Glad you got it sorted :) -

but YES, that sounds the same as my DD - so for future you might want to look out for the "natural ones" you get them in all colours & most supermarkets do them now too - she's fine with those :)