birthday cake help please!!!!!

[nuttyaboutchoceggs]

its ds's 2nd birthday in 2 weeks and i would like to make the cake myself so if anyone can help with ideas or has any good recipes that would be great thanks

how good are you with cakes? I mean, can you do shapes etc, or do you just want fun decoration?

have a look at this thread

I have made the same cake for DS for 2nd and 3rd bithday.

For 2nd, I cut it in half, stood each half side by side on their "cut" end to make a hedgehog shape, covered in choc buttercream then choc buttons.

For 3rd I left it as a circle, covered in choc buttercream and put farm animals on top!

Not too ambitious but he was delighted with both. Good luck

Groovy cake, MamaG!

I made this for my goddaughter's birthday. Jut a plain iced sponge with painted decoration, easy peasy with a bit of rice paper!

aw lovely

I love making my DCs birthday cakes even though they are very amateur!

DS is one in two weeks, I am already excited about making the cake!

lovely - what are you planning?

urm i make a good sponge i could get some shaped tins i wanted a brum cake but its £25 and i thiught i could make one myself for that! but i think brum might be a bit ambicious!!

make a lovely cake
buy a brum car

stick on top of cake! put a car type ribbon round cake

I think I'm just going to do a "1" shape, and make icing balloons and teddies etc. he doesn't like any particular characters yet (although he's rather partial to the Archers )

nutty - mamaG's is a good idea - cake AND present in one! or else make a large tray cake and cut around this shape ?

I think you can hire cake tins nutty? Might be cheaper?

ll - your 1 cake sounds great btw

yeah i was thinking that there is a place just down the road from me

How about a cake made in a pyrex bowl, cut it in hald, decorate it with yellow fondant icing add a few extra bits as wings either sie and a nice beak and eyes etc. And VOILA you have an easter chick!!!

I have just made DDs B. cake if you look on my profile, I enjoy making them just worry what other people say and the reaction I got yesterday was that people are impressed that you make them!

What ever you decide to do Im sure DC will love it!

thats so cute bl

also decide on what kind of cake you want to make- is it just aplain Victoria Sandwich or a proper sponge cake(like a madeira-if thats the case I have a good cake mixture)

bubblicious - could you let me know your Madeira recipe please, or where it's from? I've never had much luck (although it may be psychological - when first DD was born I had just made a Madeira cake for my b'day 3 days later - unfortunately, after 2 weeks in hospital cake was looking a little mouldy...!)

ok here goes

7 inch sq tin-

6oz srflour
3oz plflour
6oz marg or butter
6oz castor sugar

add 3 eggs before you add flour! and add a couple of drops of vanilla essence!

it takes approx 50mins to cook on about 160 or gas mark 3

Are you artistic at all? I'm OK at copying pictures but not at proper cake icing. I copied a pic of Minnie Mouse, iced the cake with ready roll white icing, then used the coloured ready-to-use icing to make the parts of the picture of Minnie. If you can find a clear pic of eg Brum to trace (try the CBeebies website - they have pics to print and colour, I did Blue Cow the year before) you then just need to trace out the shapes in black/yellow/white etc and put them on the cake. (you can either cut the shapes out and go round them on the icing with a knife, or lay your picture on top of the rolled out icing and use a knife to score the shapes on then cut it out.

Look on my profile and there should now be a pic of Minnie Mouse there to give you an idea.

Thank you for the recipe - I need to do DD1's cake tomorrow. At 14, after about 5 years of saying she wants a bought cake, she's finally thought it's quite cool to have a mum who can actually make a cake!

Good luck, Im not artistic when it comes to drawing(LOL) honest Im useless but when it comes to cakes or making things such as story sacks(for school) something happens -LOl not sure if its the competetive streak of being a MUM, saying that I do enjoy making their cakes- just glad I have 3 and not any more

use the recipe in mamag's thread. (lovely btw) cut the top off. add some smarties or buttons, cover in melted chocolate and fork it to make it look like basket weave and make a paper 'handle'. Hey presto and easter basket.

I had never made or decorated a cake before the other week but it was easy. see my profile for pic.

while we're posting pics of the cakes we've made - check out these in my profile.

Got DS's 1st birthday next month and have much less inspiration for boys cakes so far.

my cakes

i love the hourse hockeypuck!