Easy child's birthday cake

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I like cooking but I'm a bit rubbish at baking. I would like to make DS a birthday cake this year. Nothing too fancy as my Mum is making him a 'proper' cake for his party. I was thinking along the lines of something covered with buttercream and some smarties put on it type of thing. I can't find anything that fits the bill on the internet, they all look a bit overly complicated with tons of ingredients. Have any of you got a go to recipe for children's birthday cakes? If so, please share

Weigh 4 eggs.

Weigh out same amount of butter and sugar. Beat together until light and fluffy.

Add each egg one at a time, beating well in-between.

Weigh out same amount of self raising flour. Carefully fold in.

Split between two lined and buttered tins. Bake at 180C for about 20 mins.

Sandwich together with jam and buttercream.

Cover in buttercream. Go wild with the smarties

There's a picture of me with a birthday cake at a very young age... A round cake, butter icing, 12 buttons arranged around the edge, numbers piped into each one (you can buy writing icing in tubes in the baking section) and the 'time' is the age of the child in icing of chocolate fingers. Decorate with a sugar mouse if you can find one: hickory dickory dock.

Love that idea Jen

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/532634/grannys-victoria-sponge

I use this one, really easy. Fill and top with buttercream and decorate with smarties or any other chocolate/sweets. I like just coloured sprinkles and fancy candles.

I would make the same cake as RNBrie, except I would make it a 3 egg cake - 4 would make it too tall for this design. You could sub some flour for cocoa if you want a chocolate cake. I would also recommend adding a little flour (a tablespoon or so) before adding the eggs, to prevent curdling, but not everyone does this, I know.

Now for the design.
You've filled and covered your sardndwich cake with buttercream.
Get a few packets of chocolate fingers and place them vertically around the outside of the cake, so it looks like a fence going round the outside iyswim. Tie a ribbon around this to hold it in place.
Then get loads of packets of smarties and flood the top of the cake with them - hopefully the cake won't be too tall, and the chocolate finger "fence" will keep them all in.

Looks colourful, smart, fun and is full of chocolate - job done :)

if you google "chocolate finger smartie cake", you will get lots of images to show you what I mean :)