what kind of 1st bday cake did you have?

[milkgoddessmakesthefinestmilk]

i was thinking of doing a teddy or swan cake for dds party

just wondering what sort of cakes youve brought or made ???

botbot, everyones welcome!
what was it like?

aargh
hedgehog

well yes perhaps a swan cake is a tad over enthusiastic even for me [ott drama queen]

i was thinking of a smallish oval cake, plastered in loads of either white icing or white choc [mmm yes choc]
then make the neck and wings before and just stick them on after, might need to use some kind of foil/wire or something for the neck though, that wouldnt be edible of course, well suppose i could give that part to mil
lol only kidding

shes just offered to buy dd a wheelybug,. for her bday bless her

it was an oblong cake with a triangular one on top (so that the clock was flat on IYSWIM - not standing up), covered in chocolate butter cream. The clock face was a circle of fondant icing (bought that from cake shop) and choc buttons for the numbers and sugar mice at various places.

If I was any good at such things, I would put a photo up but I am better at cakes than digital photos

tommy, that sounds great
v inventive too, ive never heard of anyone making a hickory dickory clock cake before!....and ive reserched it too!

not inventive at all! I got it from a book that my Mum had when we were children - it's a Family Circle one and 30+ years old! It's very tatty and covered in cocoa and flour and grease spots but we all used to look at it and choose our cakes. She made the clock one for my younger brother when he was about 3 - he's 37 now

have found a photo but really can't work out how to post it

I could email it to you if you want - you can CAT me and I'll send it

Just got a big victorian cake and stuck a candle on it.

tommy don't you find those old book are sometimes the best? i always use 1 cookery book, one gran gave me, its v v basic but it covers nearly everything, thats the only cokkery book i have.

she gave it to me as i didnt know what briskett was.

im not on cat
howv do you set cat up anyway? i need it !

CAT facility - hope that helps

I love the old cake book - my DSs love looking at it as well but they can only do it supervised now or it will fall to pieces!

thanks tommy

Just made a basic cake, covered it in pink icing and decorated it with a couple of bees, butterfly, duck swimming on a pond and a couple of flowers (one being a rose as England were in the Rugby World Cup semi's that evening!)

DD1-carrot cake, no frosting - looks like a brick in photos
DD2 - M&S chocolate caterpillar: nasty flavour so
DD3 - ice cream cake made with different ice cream in shape of a boat with smarties for decoration... amazing how quickly you realx about food!

I made it - couldn't wait. Chocolate sponge, pink and plain buttercream icing inexpertly piped. Piped name and number 1 too

and for dd2, chocolate sponge, orange icing so we could make it look like a huge pumpkin (near hallowe'en)

want going to bother with cake at all
what a bad mummy.
not even having party now coz of family probs. will ds ask when hes older......did i have a party for my 1st bday and what was my cake like? hoping not!

I made -a-- complete hash of an Iggle Piggle cake. It was awful and I ended up buying one . I think perhaps it may have been a little adventurous for my first attempt at cake making

My dd had just a plain oval sponge cake with white icing and a pink number 1 on top which was a smaller cake.

Ds had just a blue number 1 and my auntie decorated it with blue bunnies that were either high on drugs or caught in headlights.

I made a rainbow cake. Make a Victoria Sandwich cake, cut it half and put the cut side down on the plate. Cover with butter icing, then on the front put smarties in a rainbow pattern. You have to buy lots of smarties to make sure you have enough of each colour, then you can eat the left overs! I put some chocolate coins at one side of the cake to signify the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

DS had a number one covered in chocolate butter icing with smarties dotted all over and marzipan jungle animals on it, oh and I cut out green jungle leaves from moulding icing which were stuck under the cake.

Just about to make his second... a tractor!

A big chocolate sponge sandwich with strawberries and cream in the middle (Jamie O recipe from his first book) with a number 1 in white chocolate buttons on the top. The cake was more for the grown ups, but the babies loved it too.