does anyone know where i can get an aeroplane birthday cake from?

[nappyaddict]

unfortunatly i couldn't make one myself and can't afford to pay someone to make it so it's going to have to be from a supermarket if they do one.

You can make one easily, we did it for DS this year. Buy a swiss roll (or 2 for a longer fuselage!) and buy or make a plain, flat, square sponge cake. Cut the square cake into 2 wings - simple rectangles is fine, or you can angle the cut to make more triangly wing shapes. Then cover with white roll-out regalle icing (also from supermarket) - you just roll it out like pastry and drape over the cake, press down and trim away excess (coat cake in thin layer of jam first, as glue). Then decorate with sweets for windows and sugar ball bearings for rivets. Piece of piss honestly. If you really lack confidence with it, ask a friend or relative to help.

I would buy a plain sponge cake (Waitrose do a plain white-iced one) and put some aeroplane decorations on the top.

It's not for a child so as great as your idea is SL i don't think it's the right sort of thing.

NBJB - do you know how much they are and where i can buy aeroplane decorations. looked in the cake shop today and they didn't have any.

Airplane candle holders on here?

they had those at the cake shop but thought they were more for children.

nappyaddict, they have info about the cakes on Waitrose website, from memory I think the plain white iced ones were £15 (yep, steep, but a lot cheaper than the fancy commissioned ones: I had no idea people would pay £40 for a birthday cake). Could you not get a model aeroplane for the top of the cake?

What sort of 'plane did you have in mind? I would be tempted to decorate the cake very simply (blue with clouds?) and then add an appropriate toy/model plane, if you can't afford to have one made.

Plain iced sponge. Make a "runway" on it. Put a toy plane on the runway.

oooh toy plane good idea - can give it to DS after.

Even easier than runway idea; plain white iced sponge, paint clowds onto it with a pale blue food colouring wash, add toy plane.