Very, very important cake question. Votes needed.

[JackBauer]

DD2 is obsessed with chocolate cake.
She will be 2 next week.
She loves Timmy (Baa)

Do I make her
a) A chocolate cake in teh shape of a sitting up Timmy as that picture linked to and covered in icing or
b) a normal round chocolate cake with a small Timmy figure sitting on it.

I am having a ridiculously difficult time deciding.

Take a photo of her holding her Timmy then have the supermarket make a photo cake.

A would be lovely if you can do it, and I think you can! Can you get white candyfloss for the wool I wonder?

QS, the thing is, there aren't going to be any guests! Just us and a camera!

I can't do a photo cake! I have to make it myself, how much worse would it be when she sees DD1's animal cake and her peppa cake and all DH@s cakes and I got her a photo cake?! SHe'd leave home!

I was going to pipe on buttercream to do the wool, it shoudl work, Not sure how to balance a head on top though.....

Luckily DH is not so much bewildered as excited at more icing, as then there is more to eat destroy

My DD and many of her friends ( 2 year olds) all started to wail as I began to cut into the dalmation cake that had been requested - the result I had to whip the cake away cut it in another room and and then reappear ...in our house there will never be another animal shape cake again - I'd go for teh sheep on the top

i would do a) as i like making cakes. ive jsut done a 3d Ivor the Engine and i just layered up a normal choc sponge to get the shape.

I would ice with butter icing as it would look more woolly then make fondant legs/head.

Looking at your pics you will be able to manage this no probs.

Go on, you know you want to!!!

cocktail stick to hold head in place.

Ps pic of Ivor on my profile if you want to have a nosy.

That's what I was planning hairybabysmum, and just hope that I can fix the head on without it all sliding off

All of is is dependant on whetehr the black colouring turns up in time though...if it doesn't I don't have enough to do a big timmy, if it does I am ok...

where do you live, i have some black colouring left over form Ivor's coal if you are near York??

Jack do the 3D Timmy, it will be brilliant and have you any wooden kebab sticks to go from Timmys head right down through the cake, then there is no chance of it toppling off!

Or go with a small sugarpaste Timmy on a hill of flowers

I did a mario one for ds, didn't have very much ingredients left so had to make do, he still loved it, green hill with mushrooms on it and a Mario toy sticking out of one!

thats sweet hbm but i am in wales! Have ordered it with begging message so hopefully it will get here on time.... (sorry carmel, i just darent think like that!)

I would do A but then I enjoy making cakes

sorry just realised thread has moved on lots, timmy and his friends sitting on the grass together sounds great!

You can buy black icing in Tesco - they sell packets of 4 different colours. They aren't huge bits though, so you might need to buy a few!

Yes, kebab sticks would be better, or 3 or 4 cocktail sticks (can you tell ive been thinking about this!).

Make sure you post a pic when you do it so we can all applaud you!

Seems like you might not want to hear this, but I agree with pretty candles and carmel - dd is almost 3 and would get very upset if I suggested we ate a favourite character of hers... sorry!

What I would do is a round chocolate cake, splodged all over with betty crocker ready made choc fudge or vanilla icing (cheat!) and covered in halved white marshmellows for timmy's wool.

Then using minirolls and chocolate icing (doesn't have to be black, chocolate is tastier than black icing!) fashion his arms, legs, face and ears and assemble.

Chocolate and marshmellows= WIN.

Oooh, a bit like this in fact! Although I think she's used white icing balls rather than marshmellows.

But, I don't like that cake. I have done ones lkike that and I know I can do a bigger one.
The decision will be made by when the colouring turns up I think as I can't afford loads of the supercook stuff but I have loads of icing sugar so can make as much blakc 'fresh' as I like.....

(and how dare you suggest I cheat with the icing!
)

Well I would have agreed with you about the cheating icing, BUT when I caved in and bought some, it was so much nicer than any icing I'd ever produced myself that I resolved not to bother again!

Sweet that your DH is excited about more icing to eat.

My 2 yr old plus rest of party were totally happy to devour Ivor, same with other shaped cakes ive dopne, never had a problem in thta dept.

After DD1 squished Peppas head, with lots of accompanying screaming I doubt she would have a problem... (still wouldn't eat it though, the weirdo)

PMSL at Carmel's cake dogicide!!

Ugh, the cake stuff still hasn't turned up. Am going to make buttercream in a bit and freeze it so fingers crossed it turns up monday morning or DD2's cake will be late....

hope it turns up today for you JB!!