Caker decorators! Maureen needs your help!!

[MaureenMLove]

The 17 years of making birthday cakes for DD have taken their toll and the umpteen 'you decide on a theme, it'll be lovely anyway' requests have zapped my imagination. All this just 3 short weeks from DD's 18th birthday!

I've made 4 cakes in the last 3 weeks, one fruit cake is being fed, ready for icing for DD's pre-birthday weekend away with DH, I'm holding a MacMillan Coffee Morning on 28th, which will require more imagination and I'm stuck!

What the hell sort of official cake am I going to create? Ever wish you hadn't made such an effort and gone to Asda for the caterpillar cake all those years ago?

So, inspire me, with your 18th birthday creations please!

Well maureen i'm stuck with ideas for the 18th cake, but we're also holding a coffee morning in work and i will be making lime cupcakes with a two tone buttercream in the same colour as Macmillan logo, well thats the plane anyhow.

Also i make a fab tiffin slab which goes down a storm with my colleagues, a fab blueberry and apple cake.

Oh, lime flavours for the green colour! Brilliant. Will be stealing that!

Still stumped on cake for DD!

Well what about a handbag or make up bag and accessories? Or a Kath Kidson type theme and colouring, i know my own dd loves that but she's 31. I did her cake this yr as a rosette cake, pic on my profile if your looking for anything like that.

Gorgeous cakes Nanny! Really lovely. Still not entirely sure. I just want something special for my only little girl! She's had handbags and makeup bags. I've got until this weekend to make a decision, so it's not too late yet!

how many are you feeding, Mo?

a minion?

Not many lovely. Just immediate family, so 12 at the most.

I have no idea what that is and I don't think she's been to the pictures for ages! Beautiful cake though. One of yours?

so cool

I love the minion! I've got minion on my list of cakes to make.

What have you made her in the past Mo?

No, none of them are mine (although I would like to do Despicable Me sometime)

Trying to think if I have done any which would apply - not really. She dives, doesn't she - but you did that already?

OMG!!! That is very possibly it! Very, very easy too!

Yeah, the dive cake is in the making. That's for next weekend, when she and DH go off to dive with the seals!

Filled with smarties instead of malteaser if you want colourful.

She's had handbags, box of chocolates, make up bag, shopping bags, Forever Friends sofa, complete with teddys, 3 tier, 3 tier, everything! And it all started on her first birthday with the good old fashioned hedgehog cake!

I rather like the Smarties though. Very cool indeed.

I'm liking the sweets idea. Thanks Mike. I have got this one to do for someone in November, so I could mix it all up a bit and create a sweet cake for her.

I've done a diving cake (for DH)

I've been asked to do that sweetie one. Not done wonky before though.

This is the start of the last diver cake. This time I'm doing two divers on top. One in pink and one in blue, as her dive buddy is 18 too, so it's a joint cake. Gonna do seals around the bottom too.

I might well be doing diver cake mark II in a few weeks - DS's birthday. He did his PADI Open Water this summer, and had his dive computer as (very early) birthday pressie, so I will need to remind him. I was given a set of topsy turvy tins for my birthday, so I could use those. I have only used one at a time so far.

Didn't know you could buy topsy turvy tins! I usually do it myself and have scraps of cake with my cup of tea! Off to google I think!

Lakeland

The lakeland ones are om my Christmas list. Are they the ones you have stealth?

I love their tins.

Yes, those are the ones I have. Lovely lovely friend bought me all 3 sizes for my birthday

I need friends like that.