So I'm going to attempt something like this cake for DS1's birthday on Saturday...any tips?!

[MamaG]

cake

I was thinking instead of using green sprinkles for the middle bits (ugh) I could colour fondant icing green and cut circles to drop into middle of each half.

How can I pipe icing without a piping bag? Or maybe I should try to cut circular strips by cutting round the cake tin? Or something?!

Was thinking of just leaving hte sides blank unless anybody can suggest anything that isn't green sprinkles!

er...that white icing I'm going to pipe, is it just "normal" icing sugar mixed wiht a bit of water?

Yes or buy the stuff I suggested or buy white ready roll and use like playdoh

ooooooooooh i could roll out the white stuff like playdoh, a big long snake!

Just a different thought but you could get ready roll for the whole thing (the Asda value stuff is about 44p / pack so quite cheap) and die for the various bits different colours roll and cut to shape.

Then if you could use easy writer pens (basically felt tip pens with colouring instead of ink about £2/ 4 in Asda) and write the birthday message around the cake and customise the track with start/ finish etc.

You can use a ziploc type bag as a piping bag - just make sure it is a good one rather than a flimsly cheap one. Fill with icing (could just do water/ lemon juce and icing sugar), snip tiny bit off corner and away you go.

Good cake, btw

Good idea about plastic bag. I will post a pic of hte result!

Oh yes....I made something very similar to this last year but made it on a square cake.
I just used coloured icing (either buy royal icing and use food colouring or/and buy the icing already colured from tesco), black strips for the road and I made cars using a car mould from ds's play dough (yes it was cleaned and steralized beforehand). Then I also used some little trees from a thomas the tank set and flag from another set for the finish line....it worked really well

ta daaaaaaaaaaaaa he loved it

Thats great! Well done to you

Well done MamaG

Thanks = as you can see it doesn't really look like the original...!