HELP!! Ds and cake decoration

[MistressofIndecision]

DS is doing food tech at school, today he is making a sponge cake, all well and good, but this morning he tells us that he is decorating it tomorrow!

What are you decorating it with? I asked him
Anything! We can decorate it with anything we like! came the reply

So any suggestions of what he can decorate it with? As you can probably tell I'm not a baker, (understatement of the year!) He's in year 9 if that makes any difference!

I'm hoping he will be more helpful when he gets home but was hoping to buy supplies on my way home from work, just wish he had given us more notice too

Thanks for any (helpful) suggestions

Betty Crocker does butter cream icing in a pot. About £2.

Or buy butter and icing sugar and make him mix it. Couple of table spoons to softened butter. Quarter of a pat (non salted).

Apply with a normal knife only to the top. Cover thickly.

Smarties mini marshmallows on top dropped about nicely.

Pretty, easy, and for him recognisable. And he can come to tesco with you and 'shop'.

Dr oertker does icing pens, rice paper daisies and stuff. Be in same aisle as Betty Crocker/ baking

Thank you Greywackejones, that sounds easy enough for him to do, and yes he can come shopping with me and choose his own decorations

Can of squirty cream and a load of strawberries revenge on the teacher when they squirt it round the classroom

Show him how to make glacé icing with a bit of icing sugar and hot water. Less is more.

Welcome! I'm all for easy

Hope you get a slice

Cut a pattern into a paper template, put on top of cake, sieve icing sugar over cake, carefully remove template, spend the rest of the lesson eating the cake

What about doing the M&M cake

Betty Crocker all over cake.
Kit Kats or Choc fingers stuck to the side. Sting or ribbon round them.
M&ms or smarties or malteasers chucked on top.

Dead easy and looks like it was hard work.

Thanks everyone for your help

bobs not sure that any of the chocolate would make it onto the cake, ds is a chocoholic justlikehismum

but sounds yum

(must learn to proofread message before posting )

So what'd he do in the end?

Hi Bobs he went for your idea in the end, Betty crocker icing with chocolate fingers around the outside and Malteasers on top, it was lovely, thanks for your help

Oh, brilliant!

Chocoholics dream

Aw lovely.

Aww how lovely! That's how Marco Pierre White started you know