Have you seen a cake like this?

[RikersBeard]

I want a Bob the Builder cake for DS1s birthday. The only one I have seen is tiny, have you seen one that will serve 15 children?

Alternatively, I thought I could find a plain iced cake and stick a BtB topper on it. Will this look ok, and if so do you know a good source of plain cakes? Waitrose have one, but it may contain peanut and so isn't suitable, so any other ideas would be much appreciated

Asda do a 12 serving one. When DS was little and wanted a theme cake I'd have two, one already sliced up in the party bags, and one with the candles on. It saved faffing at the end when the parents were ready to go and you were frantically slicing and wrapping.

Asda also do a cake on which you can scan a photo? Or I'd go with a cake topper and make my own large sponge.

Thanks maggots I'll have a look at that.
I would make my own, but I have never in my life made a sponge cake. And I wouldn't have a clue how to put icing on it! Is it hard?

I can only see a fruit cake on the asda website, is the one you've seen a sponge?

I was looking at this one, yes it's sponge

I don't find it too hard to ice a cake, but if you wanted to use a cake topper, you could just make butter cream icing for the sides, after you've sandwiched it together with jam/buttercream spread more of the icing around the sides.

But to be honest if you don't have the baking equipment, I'd just buy two of the cakes in the link! £7 job done!

That depends on whether you are sensible and just cut out bobs head, which would be a fairly easy trace and cut out job.

Or you are an idiot, like me, how let's herself get talked into doing a dizzy cake.

I found a nice colouring pic. of dizzy and carefully traced it on to orange icing and cut it out.

However, dizzy is all struts and wheels and twiddly bits, she was an absolute nightmare to get on the top of the cake looking anything like right.

It took until one in the morning and is etched into my brain. I had the radio on and it was the night the space shuttle Columbia blew up

Another option is to make a bigger cake, cover it in fondant and use the small Bob cake as a top tier. That way you get a big stacked cake but don't have to faff.

startail so glad I'm not the only one who gets myself into these situations.

Cue the Deathstar cake with realistic engineering detail.....I was bloody frazzled by the end of it.

The asda cake doesn't seem to be on their site any more :(
That's a point about buttercream though, I could manage that, or mascarpone icing or something.

Hahaha re Dizzy and Deathstar cakes. My DS will quite quickly learn my limitations I suspect