Birthday cake help for my little girl

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I would like to try making my little girls cake this year, I’m not great at baking but I enjoy doing & I love cake 😂
I don’t want to necessarily make it snazzy, would just like to make it pretty & girly she loves what most 5yr old girls like rainbows, unicorns, anything that sparkles etc.
Can anyone help me? Give me ideas or a recipe that I can’t bugger up?
She doesn’t like jam so I’d just have to use buttercream for the filing or make a chocolate cake.

I’ve had a quick google but they all seem too much hardwork I won’t have a lot of time as I work & her birthday falls on a weekday but would like to try giving it a go

You can buy/hire number tins- they look great! Your DD can help to decorate it. My DD did this one year and loved it. You can buy ready made icing, little flowers etc. Maybe a little unicorn for the top?Is there a cake craft shop nearby? Or look online?
(Soz I'm getting carried away now- I love making cakes)
🎂🎂

oh and edible glitter
Home Bargains has good cake stuff
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You can buy ready made fondant icing to cover it and there's loads of cake toppers, edible picture etc online so you can go as wild as you dare

Rice krispie cake www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/cakes/rice-crispie-celebration-cake

Sweetie cake www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/cakes/sweetie-birthday-cake

Bug and butterfly cake www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/birthday-bug-cake

Piñata cake realfood.tesco.com/recipes/surprise-pinata-cake.html

How about adding a few drops of food colouring gel in the sponges. Just 3 or 4 cakes stacked would make it a rainbow cake. Use buttercream inbetween the layers and on top. Or if confident in covering a cake with fondant, cut out some shapes with a cutter (I've used a heart one and a number one before) out of coloured icing and stick them onto a covered cake.
And yes - edible glitter! although it can cover your hands when cutting and eating it !

Thanks everyone some great ideas here!

The edible glitter sounds fab, she’d love this for sure.

this cake is delicious and easy. For some reason, when we make it, it never rises that much so we don't bother with the layers and just keep it as a single layer cake.

The ganache is surprisingly easy.

But here's the reason it' is DD's FAVOURITE cake of all time.... once the ganache has firmed up, I set her up with a selection of mini smarties, edible glitter and whatever other pre-made decorations I pick up at the supermarket and she spends a happy hour decorating the cake herself.

Attached is a photo of her last effort.

For DS, I do the decorating and it's a lot neater!

I'd make the simplest cake possible and then go to town on the dressing. Butter cream can be coloured and covers a multitude of sins.

If you 'fluff' up butter cream it can look like snow or the sea (depending on colour) you can then have unicorns swimming in a glitter sea.

You could use toy unicorns to keep or edible ones.

A friend of mine had a great book, I think it was Australian Women's weekly and had fab ideas for cakes, one was a bought flan sponge transformed into a swimming pool by adding chopped jelly.

@sashh

I'd make the simplest cake possible and then go to town on the dressing. Butter cream can be coloured and covers a multitude of sins.

If you 'fluff' up butter cream it can look like snow or the sea (depending on colour) you can then have unicorns swimming in a glitter sea.

You could use toy unicorns to keep or edible ones.

A friend of mine had a great book, I think it was Australian Women's weekly and had fab ideas for cakes, one was a bought flan sponge transformed into a swimming pool by adding chopped jelly.

Australian women's Weekly recipes books are always good. But they're like BBC recipe books, if you find one you love you need to guard it with your life because it's only in print for 5 minutes and then they've moved on! I still mourn the loss of one I had 20 years ago!

@MsMarch I have a couple, they are, as you say, guarded.

However, through the magic of modern tech

www.womensweeklyfood.com.au/australian-womens-weekly-childrens-birthday-cakes-29679

You lot are fab thank you - this has been so helpful.

I always use the recipe on this blog for birthday cake, both the vanilla and the chocolate. They are the perfect cross between a Madeira and Victoria so dense enough to ice however you want but still light and tasty.

charlotteslivelykitchen.com/birthday-cake-all-in-one-vanilla-sponge/