Simple yet effective birthday cake for a 12 year old?

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Dd is going to be 12 very soon and I have promised to bake her a cake. I do something elaborate every year (still traumatised by the unicorn year) but this year she doesn't want a themed cake, just something chocolatey and 'nice'. She loved one I made with kit kats round the edge and filled with smarties, which was really easy but looked effective. Does anyone have a similar idea they'd be kind enough to share?

What about a rainbow cake? Have a look on pintrest they have some amazing ideas

Apparently, 'anti-gravity' cakes are less difficult than they look. Need melted chocolate to'glue the malteesrs or whatever together on a skewer, and then the packet goes voer one end and the other into the cake ...

www.google.co.uk/search?q=anti+gravity+cake+ideas&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=955&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLpYLP2J_KAhXEk3IKHX4oCl4Q_AUIBigB#imgrc=7R3rBln7Zio4yM%3A

What about a chocolate box cake?

www.yankeecandleworldwide.com/#!fragrance-of-the-month/cnql

step by step ...

www.fullscoops.net/2015/01/how-to-make-gravity-defying-cake-kit.html

Wrong link, LOL!!!

How about a chocolate pizza. Various places to get them

This one?

I saw the TV episode that she did it in and it looked straightforward and v impressive.

www.google.it/search?q=heart+in+cake+tin&rlz=1C1CHFX_itIT518IT533&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=979&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwju492o5J_KAhXHBiwKHZveAbUQsAQIHg#imgrc=taSrTJq3Cj-PYM%3A

Ihave this tin and it is lovely it does need practice and a denser cake is better....I pour chocolate ganache over the top so it drips down the sides.

Or a rainbow cake looks fab when it is cut. Filed with white chocolate icing ??

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I love the pigs!!! That is soon going to be DD's next birthday cake (she'll be 5), she loves pigs!

Did you make the pigs zzzzz?

I'm loving these ideas, thank you very much! Now to decide which one to pick!

What about a pile of proffiterols, they are chocolate as she requested, you could fill some with chantilly cream and some with coffee custard.

Perhaps a finishing touch of fragments of gold leaf on some of them.
They would be quite grown up, but still a real treat.

Ooh, profiteroles are her absolute favourite!

Piñata cake?