Anyone have any 1st birthday cake ideas for girls?

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Bit stuck with ideas. Anyone?

Anything you like - she'll be knocked out by the candle! What about an animal - do you have any pets

My DDs had a number 1 shaped cake. Not very original but it looked good and she loved it.

I did a sweetie mountain

A big dome shaped cake covered in white icing and then rows of sweets eg smarties, licquorice allsorts, jelly beans etc all round. Then I stuck a few sparklers in the top. They LOVE sparklers at this age!

Sparklers are great!!!!

How about a colourful caterpillar

Ohhh, love the caterpilla idea!

Oh yes the famous caterpillar cake. Can't go wrong there. DH had one for his birthday last month and he was 34!!!!

What about a Hansel & Gretel sytle cake. With biscuits for the roof and choclate fingers for windows and door frames. I might have a picture of one I did somewhere, I will try to upload. Give me 5!

I once did a ladybird cake: a big sponge sandwich covered with strawberries, blueberries for the spots, and strips of licorice for down the middle and the antenae..

How would you do a caterpillas body?

Sorry, I didn't take a picture of that one, but I used fondant icing on the cake board and put mounds of icing on the board first to make little hills once it had been covered in green icing. Then I used lollies as trees (just pushed them into the mounds) and I used jelly tots and white chocolate buttons to make a path. You could go wild with different sweets really.

I did a hedgehog. Choc cake with choc butter icing, buttons for the eyes, lots of chopped up flake for the spikes.

Swiss roll. Cut it into chunks and then stand them up on their ends iyswim.

I did a lion for dd. I hoped she would see it and roar (her party trick at the time).

She said Baa.

Just did a cake for ds' 5th birthday which was an ordinary sponge with a number five in smarties. Smarties aren't quite so sinister now they've had to take the evil colourings out (still Nestle though). A "one" in smarties could look really colourful. ALso try to spell her name out those letter candles you can get from card shops - simple but really effective!

Have a look at [http://www.coolest-birthday-cakes.com/cake-gallery.html]

Still can't quite figure out how to put a link in properly.

Sparkler's Caterpillar cake recipe = buy in Tesco

Like thismishy!

Thanks MML... but how did you do it?

Just put Dd's lion on my profile. But those caterpillars are cute!

Barbie cake, on my profile.

Sorry I accidentally changed my username and have been struggling for a few days trying to change it back. Hope this works .

cool cakes maisie - how did you do the screen for the laptop??

When you copy the file name you have to remove the bit and replace with Then at the other end you either leave a space and write 'this' or 'here' or whatever and then put Job done. Try it out and if you do a preview first before posting, you can see if you've got it right!

I've done it..thanks MML!

the screen is just a laminated piece of A4 paper that we printed off of the computer. Then put it on some barbeque sticks and insert on to cake.

When I made the cake for Grandad we put a picture of the children on it instead.