Need to make a Fireman Sam cake!

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DS is 3 in Feb and is obsessed with Fireman Sam and has asked for a cake as a fire engine!

Well Waitrose do one for the small price of £23 but I reckon I could do it for a lot less than that!

But how? I was thinking of making two sponge cakes in a loaf tin and trimming them to suit - would this work?

Also where would I get the red icing from - can you buy it ready made?

Cheers!

not sure if this helps
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jh1z_how-to-make-a-fire-engine-cake_lifestyle

You can buy the ready coloured stuff from cake decorating shops or I have seen it in Hobbycraft

does it absolutely have to be Fireman Sam himself or would he settle for a fire engine?

I did a fire engine for DS2's 3rd birthday last summer and it was fab, if I do say so myself.

I know our local cake decorating shop will take any jpeg image you like (e.g. a photo of your child, or the local fire service's logo, or a picture of Fireman Sam) and transfer it onto a sheet of icing (ours charges £6 to do this, irrespective of how many images you can squeeze onto the sheet of icing). You can then cut them out with a knife and add them to your cake, e.g. Fireman Sam could be visible in the window of the fire engine.

Or of course, in the same vein, you could get a big picture of Fireman Sam and all his crew transferred onto a piece of icing and just put it in the middle of a regular circular cake that you've iced white, or red, or yellow.

Find a local friendly cake shop - red is quite hard to get right, much better to buy it.

I would search flickr (or google images) for inspiration - here is fireman Sam, for example, but he seems to mostly appear with his fire engine like this

Just the fire engine will do - I know my limitations!

That video link is good - will take notes from that! Choc cake would be fab!

Will ring local cake shop to see how much the icing is as I will need red, grey black yellow and blue - hope they do small quantities!

ours certainly does, you can buy a little cube for about a quid.

Do you have a tesco's? you can take a photo in there and get it put on a cake? I don't think it's abywhere near as dear as Waitrose either.

I did a fire engine cake, very simply by layering up sponges and slapping on buttercream. It wasn't great but my 3 year old LOVED it.

Buy red paste from a cake shop for the icing...I used from a bottle from the supermarket but the icing was a touch pink (not that lovely ds minded!)

Google fire engine cakes and you'll get loads of images.

i did a shrek and a roary for ds2 and ds1. used the dr oetker icing, which comes as blocks wrapped in foil and you can roll out into sheets, or just mould into shape. you can buy at tesco, and it came in white, black red, yellow, green and blue. i had bought two packs, but one was enough for both cakes.
i had bought some icing pens as well, to use for the little details.

i just printed off two colour-in prints of the desired characters and then tried copying this onto the cakes (made chocolate ones).

as a backup i had bought some sugar animals, but the results were lovely.

good luck!

it was this ready to roll icing

Maybe too late but I copied this M&S fire engine cake very successfully. I did plain grey windows and made the figure a bit more sam-like. I made a big square cake and cut a bit off to make the front part of the fire engine higher. I covered it in sugar paste though found it a bit tricky, had to strategically place the wheels etc to hide the messy bits.