My little pony birthday cake

[Kobrakid]

Dds 3rd birthday is still a couple of months away but I always need time to plan and practice so I'm starting now. I'm not bad at cake making and decorating but definitely a home baker and nowhere near as good as people on here. Dd loves my little pony so thought a tall round cake with rainbow coloured sponges and then icing the sides rainbow coloured with buttercream. I usually use fondant, which I'm crappy at, so need some help with buttercream techniques if anyone can help please?

[PersisFord]

What about ?

[PersisFord]

(Disclaimer: I love this channel, I love MLP and I love cake!)

[Kobrakid]

This is more the sort of thing I was leaning towards, but I do love that cake. Dd wouldn't eat the sweets on it though, she's not massively into sweets and chocolate but would do anything for a slice of cake!

[PersisFord]

Looks lovely! I've never ever decorated a cake so can't help but i couldn't resist an opportunity to watch that video!

[icklekid]

Some nice ideas here
pin.it/rpWuCdJ

Love the sprinkles on this one pin.it/Lq96B4c

I know it's not butter icing but very effective rainbow idea pin.it/XukOS8g

[Kobrakid]

I'm not set on butter icing but it's easier to do than fondant for me. Thanks for all the links I've got loads of ideas now.

[coffeeandchoc]

thecakeblog.com/2013/07/diy-rainbow-petal-cake.html
Here is a blog about decorating a cake in rainbow buttercream

[Kobrakid]

That blog is pretty much what I wanted thank you so much!

[ijustwannadance]

Use an actual mlp for decoration rather than try to make one from icing. She can keep it afterwads too.

[PutDownThatLaptop]

I made a My Little Pony cake for my daughter but really took the cheat's way out. I made a cake, iced it in white, topped it with a personalised printed My Little Pony topper from Ebay, then bought an actual My Little Pony toy to sit on top of it, so she had one to keep. I surrounded it with little cupcakes and used edible My Little Pony cake toppers made out of rice paper (Ebay again.)

[LBOCS2]

You can get sets of small MLP on eBay to stick all over it.

This is the one I made for DD's 3rd birthday - it was a labour of love (and not perfect by any stretch of the imagination; as always I ran out of time and ended up winging it!) but she was suitably impressed. I filled the inside with skittles which came out when you cut it.

[LBOCS2]

But the rice paper/printed icing toppers are also fantastic (and also, a great way of tarting up a shop bought cake if you do run out of time!).

[Kobrakid]

Thought tall round cake with rainbow buttercream on sides, fondant disk on top with a proper mlp toy and maybe a rainbow or some other 3d type decoration. Thank you all.