Charlie and Lola birthday cake ! help !

[Cocobabe]

my dd's 5th birthday coming up and she is a big fan of c&l ..where can i find a cake with lola on it ? or where can i get a pix of lola to print off on cake ? ...ideas please!

Have you looked on ebay? they often do rice paper printed cake toppers with characters on....also I think that you can get photos printed on websites, maybe you have to email them a pic, so maybe you could also do it this way?
Or, could you get some c and l figures from woolies, or wherever, bake a cake and do it pink, then ice really simple flowers and butterflies round the edge, and bung the figures on the top!

this would be one option

both sounds good idea - just a matter whether i can fit the time to do it or not and go with the other option - but worry whether the cake topper would break in the post ?!......

look at my profile if you like either I can tell you how I did them

Wow ! greyskull- your cakes look great ! even your cupcakes looks perfect - i can never get my cupcakes to look like that ! - whats yr secret ?!
so how did you get lola on the cake ? ( u can email me the details pls x )

thanks everyone for your ideas x I'm inspired now

thanks everyone for your ideas x I'm inspired now

so I printed out this image
the size of the cake (Having Iced the cake with Cream rollout icing)
I then coloured up the roll out icing to the pink for the face and yellow for the hair and rolled and used the picture as a template to cut out the pieces as if they were playdoh. using a little water on the back of each individual piece I put the shape of the face on first then the hair then eyes.
I bought a pack of edible felt tip pens to do the black on the eyes and hair.

Hope that makes some sense.

btpogs, how did you get the sugarpaste on so smoothly?! I have cake smoothers but they still come out bumpy

I put a layer of buttercream (thin layer) onto the cake first then smooth it with the smoothers but alot of the smoothing is done with the warmth of my hands. but then finished off again with the smoothers.

I think icing the board at the same time makes it look more polished.

Greyskull - thanks x , yeah i think it makes sense - but i suspect I wont be good as you !

ah, I havent ever tried smoothing the buttercream with smoothers, Ill give it a try, your cakes look really great!
cocobabe, have you decided on a plan of action yet?

OOOh no sorry not smoothing butter cream with soothers.. the sugar paste.... just re read how awful my post is.......Sorry!

LOL, was thinking it sounded like a BRILLIANT idea, too.....I might smooth my butter cream and see what happens!

I am going to be icing a football pitch cake tonight.. will give it a go

exciting! Let me know how it goes!!

pitch looks great - am putting the goal posts and stuff on tomorrow.. will put picks on profile tomorrow night.

Brilliant! Did you smooth the buttercream?!?!?!?!? lol.
I have never made a football cake, I bet I will make lots when the boys get to a certain age! I have to make an upsy daisy at the end of the month, am quite looking forward to doing a night garden cake as can go totally over the top with leaves and flowers!
Looking forward to the pics of your cake!

pic on profile..

I love it, it looks brilliant! Did you pipe the pitch markings? And very smooth again!! You are queen of smooth sugarpaste!! I need to practise my smoothing technique
Was the little boy pleased with it?

very pleased thanks... and walked away from the birthday party with 7!!!!!!!!!!!! orders

OMG, that's so great, well done!!!!!

Get a photo cake from Sainsbury's or Asda. Worth checking first in case they're a bit funny about branded stuff, but I just got one done for my DD in Asda with her photo in the middle and all the High School Musical charcters round the outside and they were fine with that. They also do them in chocolate as well as the usual vanilla sponge (both £8.99)