Bithday Cakes

[codswallop]

Amyone seen the following
a pirate ,bey blade or pokemon cake?

Or any idea show to do a simple one?

I made a pirate ship for DSs this year. 2 square sponges cut into shape, placed on a board and iced. Will send you photo!

I made a Pirate Treasure Island cake this year. Plain round sponge, decorated with sandy coloured fondant icing with blue/white streaked butter icing around the base for sea. Added small balls of black fondant around bottom and on top for rocks and decorated with plastic pirate figures/trees/accessories from Playmobil. Rocks were a big hit with the boys and silver sugar balls in an edible treasure chest a hit with the girls.

Pirate Ship sounds great though. Also was passed a
suggestion for a Pirate Flag cake - square board covered in black fondant with skull made from 2 round cakes of different sizes placed like an 8, decorated white with black for features, and bones rolled out of white fondant. Looks a bit eerie but I guess boys would love it.

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Try that for Pokemon cake - they have a kit but you could copy the design

Treasure chest - square cake, chocolate icing, stuff loads of chocolate coins on top. Somehow manufacture lid out of more cake & chocolate icing. I've seen it done - it was my Plan B in case my pirate ship didn't work.

Got to say that I go for the easy option. Ask said child what kind of cake it wants then buy a yummy scrummy gooey Marks and Spencer chocolate cake and decorate with either Icing plaque from a party shop, plastic figures purchased from a toy shop, toys we currently own that are suitable, small chocolate novelties that are in the chosen theme (again M&S do great little bags of them) or pictures taken from magazines. That way we ended up with a cake last year with Tellytubbies, Peter Pan and a giraffe, and one this year with Tweenies, Spiderman and Action Man.(yes all on the same cake)

The cake is really popular as it is gooey and covered in gorgeous chocolate icing that is really thick, and the decoration is dead easy and really quick to tailor to your childs wishes. You then just stick candles in as required. Oooh and you can also use those little helium balloons that you can buy that have characters on them.

Is this helpful???

LOl at wondering how the helium baloon fits on!!

Good ideas all - the choc cake sounds nice. we are doing something similar for the babys christening cake making a fruit cake and then sticking some icing on and some baby related tat on the top.. I am not paying the best part of a hundred quid for one!

He now reckons he is on to an action Man party - pirats would be alot easier!

coddy I have a book called "cake decorating for morons" or something like that (nicely aimed at my skills category) which you can borrow if you like. Has a treasure chest and a desert island I think involving pirates - anyway pretty good for inspiration. I made a christening cake and a couple of birthday cakes that looked positively professional using it, never having made a cake in my life before.
As long as you don't need it before Monday!

Action Man Cake : bake a cake in a pudding basin, shove an action man through the middle, ice like a crinolene et voila! Transvestite Action Man. Very modern and liberal

soupy, do you recommend that he holds an AK-47 assault rifle, or perhaps one of Barbie's fairy wands?

ps coddy the book does exist and it is in my kitchen. unlike my miraculous disappearing pop up baby tent

AK-47 - it shows that transvestites can be macho too.

Love the idea of transvestite Action Man - LOL.

Seriously though, don't suppose there is any chance that McDonalds are doing one of their Action Man Happy Meal Toys over there - just about small enough to go on a cake. Actually come to think of it I thought I saw an official one in Safeway, Waitrose or Tesco on one of our more recent visits...(sorry can't be more specific but we go into overdrive when it comes to UK supermarket shopping!!)

Liz you taunt me. Go out now and find out where!!

Codswallop,

Sorry, would love to but am sadly 1000 miles away ! My last visit over to UK was just after I had to make fondant icing from scratch as the Swiss just don't seem to do decorated cakes in the same way, let alone ready-made fondant icing and spray-on food colouring which I saw in Waitrose, I could go on. I suffer from serious supermarket envy

Hope you find a suitable cake

Our big Tescos has a variety of Action Men (no trannies though) - if only you'd asked earlier I could have looked to see what size they were. I've just got back.

Coddy

You stick the balloon on with one of those balloon stick things of course! However I am very interested in the tranny Action Man!!! To be a bit more butch he could have a camoflage skirt on couldn't he??

Have seen those Action Man cakes and think that for what you get they are very expensive, and the cake tends to be a bit dry too. As I said before the M&S cake is lovely and it all gets eaten up too (rather than just the icing!) - and you get hordes of cake for your money. (You'd think I had shares in their cakes wouldn't you ) And if you look on Ebay you might find some of the small MacD's figures. We just used a full size Action Man who sort of straddled the cake in a butch kind of pose, without gun though as he is the one that has a skidoo and no weapons.....

Wedgiesmum(please change your name!) you are funny. ma seriusly considering that, must get dh to down lead soupys photo too.

Soupy get back to the shop and look - what esle do you do all day? :0