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Birthday cake for 3yo with Australia theme?

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weasle · 17/03/2009 04:07

My ds will be 3, and we are living in Aus for 1 year. Would like to do some sort of Aussie cake, but what??

We have some small animals (kangeroo, koala etc) that i could put ontop of a cake, but would like to do something more than just plonk them on an iced sponge. Map of Australia looks too hard! Any ideas?

Thanks

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SuperBunny · 17/03/2009 04:18

Boomerang?

Some ideas here

Nothing very inspiring

RoseOfTheOrient · 17/03/2009 04:21

yes, I thought boomerang...with aboriginal style dot decoration.
Or a big chocolate cake in the shape of Uluru?

thirtypence · 17/03/2009 04:38

Big chocolate cake in ring tin.

Lots of choc icing.

Natural Confectionary Company jelly snakes, arranged artfully by ds.

Voila - pit of snakes.

PadDad · 17/03/2009 04:50

Could you bake Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman appearing in a pile of poo?

Astrophe · 17/03/2009 04:57

Australian Flag? Would actually be quite easy I think - big rectangle, with coloures icing. If you have s star shaped cookie cutter you could cut the starts out of roll out fondant (available at coles). What about a big sun? Or a Red Back spider (licorice legs?).

eidsvold · 17/03/2009 06:14

oh I made dh a red backed spider!!

It was a pudding tin and a mufin size patty cake.

Turn pudding shaped cake upside down when taking out of pan - round off edges up top, then make legs out of licorice and did black icing with red dab at the back.

Weasle - look for women's weekly birthday cakes recipe book - brilliant ideas - nothing essentially Aussie but they are fab cake s- so easy to do. I used the lady beetle one and just adapted it for red back spider.

savoycabbage · 17/03/2009 07:09

There are Australian-ish cakes in my woman's weekly cake book. There is an echidna, platypus, spider, wombat and crocodile. Also, clutching at straws a bit there is a swimming pool and a beach!

Mine is this version

Astrophe · 17/03/2009 09:31

Oh, those cake books are fab! We have an old adition, in which we write who had it and what year - so we have all my brothers and my b'days writen in from when we are kids, and now the DC too!

weasle · 17/03/2009 11:40

thanks ladies.

i am really at the basic-cake-skills end of the range! Like the idea of the boomerang, but not sure how to construct it. might do a sun, as i found another thread with this idea on as well, and ds's favourite colour is yellow/orange.

i had one of those books, left in uk, not sure if time to get another before the party on sunday (no bookshop very near us)

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thirtypence · 17/03/2009 18:04

An excited 3 year old and yellow food colouring...

bananapaddlepop · 17/03/2009 18:13

You could do an echidna....

here

chocolate style sponge with flakes for the spikes or something...clutching at straws sorry, I'm not great with the creative decorating part.

eidsvold · 18/03/2009 07:36

oh I have seen a fab one done with this.

glass bowl - 3 1/2 litres of choc chip ice cream and a choc roll.

Melt icecream somewhat and put in freezer bag lined mixing bowl/pudding steamer shape.

Once frozen

invert on tray - stick choc roll in front for head.

Then using choc fingers for the spines - cover the back part with the choc finger bisuits.

Cover the choc roll and the front with choc ice magic - green smarties for eyes.

See if I can get a pic for you.

one here

aussie cakes here

pic of the cake I described above

bananapaddlepop · 18/03/2009 07:38

That's it eidsvold....I couldn't describe it

eidsvold · 18/03/2009 12:53

i forgot that one is in the women's weekly cookbook - you prompted my memory.

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