Birthday cake for 3yo with Australia theme?

[weasle]

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

Boomerang?

Some ideas here

Nothing very inspiring

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

Big chocolate cake in ring tin.

Lots of choc icing.

Natural Confectionary Company jelly snakes, arranged artfully by ds.

Voila - pit of snakes.

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

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?).

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.

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

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!

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)

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

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.

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

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

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