DD wants a Frozen cake for her third birthday and Im a crap baker!

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Did a rainbow layer cake for her first birthday but shoddy icing on the outside. Managed a nice victoria sponge for her second with strawberries and cream inside.

This year she wants Frozen I have the figurines which I can "adorn" the cake with, but how to I go about icing it (I really am that bad at icing!)? And it will surely need some sort of decoration?

Help!!

You could just buy one - Tesco have them

Otherwise, bake a Victoria sponge, ice it with white icing and glitter, and stick a doll in the middle.

Just buy one. Either a Frozen one or a plain iced one you can decorate yourself.

I wanted to keep up the home made tradition until at least she started having Big Parties (when Id start buying handmade ones) but itd probably be easier wouldnt it.

Make a sponge, either buttercream whole outside or ice it then sorinkle with pale blue and white glitter, add figure to the top and either some sparkly or frozen ribbon around the edge.

Spiky mucky white icing, edible glitter and figurines.

ta da! Buy a basic sponge, chop in half and add jam and cream/butter cream, get some rollable icing and place over the top of the cake (use apricot jam to make it stick), then use the jam to stick on the transfer. Sorted.

When I say mucky, I mean untidy - like royal icing - rather than dirty.

Well in that case , just use ready made icing

I agree with LadySybil, have a look on Ebay there are usually loads of printed edible cake toppers like that in a variety of sizes and shapes.

loads of options

Excellent advice - ok, am going to go for a plain white iced cake (should I get fruit?! its a family birthday tea, only littlies will be DD and her cousin who is two months older), then a transfer and or ribbon plus edible glitter and blue sprinkles.

Ooh maybe some mini marshmallows round the bottom where it sits on the board.

Just make a plain sponge cake and ice with light blue ready to roll icing. Sprinkle some edible glitter on and put the figures on top.

There is a lady on facebook called Kandy Kits (she also sells on ebay I believe) and she sells ice blue and white rock candy and on her facebook page you can see how somebody used a plain white cake, the figurines and sometock candy to make an amzong but simple frozen cake!

I did white buttercream icing, with cut out snowflakes topped with icing figures of elsa and Anna and Olaf, but the bit people were most impressed with was the simplist bit.
Crush foxes mints, melt in saucepan with a spoon of water. Add blue food colouring, pour into silicon baking tray or lined baking tray. Leave to set than smash and you have cool ice shards to adorn the cake with.

They have lovely ones in asda for £10 :)

Na, not fruit. Sponge is better.

oooh ice shards!!

erm...why dont you make an ice cream cake ?????

layering up different flavours slightly softened icecream with cake - such as thinly sliced swiss roll in a cake tin and re-freeze adding any other nice things that freeze well - between layers if you like
then top with say ...marshmallow fluff and sprinkles as it comes out of the freezer
or cream - if you prefer
you can slice these - just like normal cakes
I'm amazed these arnt more popular as they can be spectacular - and are soooo easy to do

Here's one I made earlier. 2 cakes stacked on top of each other, messy royal icing, glitter and snowflakes and voila! Instead of shards, smashed up boiled sweets or lollies work just as well.

Oh, that looks wonderful!

Thanks but it was honestly so easy and DD loved it x

Asda have some little snowball cake decorations in their christmas baking stuff

We got the ice shards stuff from eBay - it looked great.