knights

[Natt]

Birthday coming up for turning-two DS2. Obsessed with knights and am wondering what gifts are good - he has the usual plastic sword helmet combo which is almost never removed except when prised off at bedtime. Any suggestions for a knight-themed cake gratefully received too!

ELC do a wooden castle and assorted knights, wizards, horses etc. I think it is 3+ but you could check for loose bits etc. yourself.

Have just had a look and they do a fab pop-up castle and knight's outfit (reduced too) ELC knights and stuff

For a cake I think I would do a shield or something simple like that - a castle would be tricky!!

I'd second the shield-shape cake - you could decorate with small sweeties. Or you could do a rectangular cake with cupcakes at the corners, cover in grey/blue butter icing and use marshmallows for the crenellations, top with a personalised flag.

Marthamoo, the castle is brilliant. I'll never get him out of it. LIZS' simple castle cake sounds good - not sure he has grasped the idea of shields despite carrying one around half the time...Thanks.

www.partypieces.co.uk/PartyPieces/category/Dressing%20Up_Knights/1/

That is the one I can't extract him from at the moment - he often has horrible weals on hisface from the visor

I did a castle cake for dd, dead easy. You buy a few different shaped swiss rolls, roll out some fondant icing and stick it to the swiss rolls with apricot jam and then put them all on their ends to make a castle shape. You can then play around with the turrets (I used those small marshmallows)and I used those small icing pens to draw in windows.

I hope this makes some kind of sense!!

Another idea . The recipe seems to be American but you get the gist by the picture!

IKEA also do the knights outfit and castle - sorry I can't do links.

Great picture Clayhead - and i love a cake which involves packet mixes! i thinks the boys will love anything which looks even roughly like that (like last year's wobbly train..) thansk