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ChelaW -> Birthday Cake Ideas (8/6/2008 3:26:43 PM)

My daughter is turning 4 Monday...WAH! [:(]

Anyhow, we're just doing a family-only get together, not really a party. Every year I make her cake in a different shape & design (butterfly, a gift-wrapped present, etc.). Any ideas & instructions on what to do this year? She loves anything pink & girly, especially princesses and dress-up.

OH, and purchasing a cake is not an option...I won't even consider it [:D]



Jenny-Fair -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/6/2008 4:00:30 PM)

www.familyfun.com usually has great ideas.



LovingtheSavior -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/6/2008 4:08:45 PM)

One of the fun things I have done is to make a scrapbook page and laminate it. Then make a double layer cake and basket weave the sides and place the page on top with a frosting border around it. She will love to see herself on the top of her cake and you will also have a nice keepsake.



VisitorinWaiting -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/6/2008 4:35:26 PM)

We had one made for my daughter one year that was like a Barbie doll of one of the Disney Princesses, and the bottom of her ball gown was cake. It was really neat... A lady from our church made it. It seems pretty easy. I don't know where you could find instructions for it though...sorry...but I'm sure with a little goggle search, it would pop up pretty fast.



SweetLittleErin -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/6/2008 4:39:57 PM)

I always enjoyed decorating my own cake. She may be a bit young, but you could buy some candies and frostings and let her do it. Or maybe do cupcakes.

There is always the doll cakes, where bake the cake in the bowl type pan (or just use a bunt pan) put a doll in the center and decorate the cake as her skirt.

I also saw variation done with cupcakes..a small doll on top of a powdered donut on top of a blue cupcake. It is supposed to look like a lady lounging in the water on an inner tube.

I've seen some castles with pillars and such made from ice cream cones and candies.



Jenny-Fair -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/6/2008 4:42:48 PM)

Many kitchen/cake shops rent pans, as well. I know I rented a Pooh Bear pan when Brandon turned three, and it was much cheaper than buying...besides, what would I do with it afterwards?

The site I linked to in my first post does have a castle cake, btw.



Tinkerbell_ -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/6/2008 4:48:24 PM)

If you have a nice mixing bowl that is wider at the top than the bottom and not too big you could bake a cake in it, then turn it upside down and stuff a Barbie doll in it. Then decorate the cake as a skirt and 'dress' the Barbie in icing. I have done that with an actual pan like this and it turns out adorably and it's pretty quick. You don't have to make the skirt perfect. Just make it pretty. [:)]



MrsTracy72 -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/6/2008 5:56:21 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Tinkerbell_

If you have a nice mixing bowl that is wider at the top than the bottom and not too big you could bake a cake in it, then turn it upside down and stuff a Barbie doll in it. Then decorate the cake as a skirt and 'dress' the Barbie in icing. I have done that with an actual pan like this and it turns out adorably and it's pretty quick. You don't have to make the skirt perfect. Just make it pretty. [:)]



I have done that too and it is great. Another thing you can do is bake a few different sized round cakes and layer them like in a step pattern rather than rignt on top of eachother, and you can decorate around like a castle. I have seen people use sugar cones and frost them. Turn them upside down and they would be like the pointy parts of the castle. You can do so much with that.



TammyIsBlessed -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/6/2008 9:39:33 PM)

You can make a butterfly cake by baking a round cake, cutting it in half and flipping both sides around so that the round edges are together - then put a row of Oreo cookies in between the 2 sides for the body (or a chocolate bar or something).

I've done teapot and teacup cakes. I've done Princess cakes with the dress like mentioned above. I've done a rainbow cake. I've done a castle cake.

I've done a treasure chest cake. This is easy and quite the hit. You make them out of loaf pans (or mini ones if you want them to each have their own). Cut off a bit of the top - enough to make the "lid" of the chest. Put chocolate coins, candy necklaces and (if it's Easter time), shiny mini eggs as the treasure on top of the bottom part. Put the lid on top. Looks awesome!

If you need better instructions for any of these let me know!



creationtalk -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/6/2008 9:56:08 PM)

So what does your daughter want on her cake? You can look through cookbooks and magazines together and come up with an idea she likes and you can do.

My son has always had very specific ideas as to what he wanted...
age 3: rainbow with pot of gold and flowers (made from m&m's) on a cake with blue frosting
age 4: a cake with grass and a pond--which means it must have an alligator, frog, lily pads, wading bird, fish, duck--in the pond, a palm tree, a bush, flowers, people, a flag and a rocket. And yes, I managed to do it--and every thing on it was edible except the rocket
age 5: his father did the party...so it was a purchased cake and "It wasn't what I wanted" (in a whining voice)
age 6: a hiking cake with a hiker on it that looked like my son (fortunately he was satisfied with me making the hiker out of frosting and toppings and I didn't have to shape the cake into a hiker...)
age 7: specified a cheesecake decorated with a pirate treasure chest.



csl7037 -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/7/2008 7:07:51 AM)

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ORIGINAL: ChelaW
OH, and purchasing a cake is not an option...I won't even consider it [:D]


My kinda girl! I was going to suggest the doll cake too - it's a classic. I actually made it recently with an actual baby doll instead of the barbie. Just cut a bigger hole (saran wrapped and taped up the dolls legs)...it was for my friend's 3 year old. She was amazed!

My kids have had:

dd's 1st - a rocking horse character pan
dd's 2nd - Bear in the Big Blue House*
dd's 3rd - Dora*
dd's 4th - ladybugs, so cool!
dd's 5th - I made a "whimsy cake" in pink and white and we did a Barbie wedding
dd's 6th - bear princess (made the teddy bear character pan into a princesss - it's was a Build a Bear party)
dd's 7th - a cupcake tree at pump it up
dd's 8th - High School Musical*

ds's 1st - Pooh Bear - I used the 3d bear pan
ds's 2nd - cowboys, character pan again
ds's 3rd - Thomas - 3D pan with Thomas, Annie, Clarabel, and a caboos
ds's 4th - Thomas, James, Percy, and Lady (because all the kids wanted Thomas and not Anie and Clarabel the year before!)
ds's 5th - sports with the ball pan made as a soccer, basketball, football, hockey puck, etc.
ds's 6th - Star wars - traced Luke Skywalker & Darth Vader on the cake
ds's 7th - Webkinz - I made a picture of all the ones he had (14 at the time) and traced it on the cake)

We have so much fun with this! I've done a castle for friends - 3D with towers, crazy! I even found little Disney princess keychains I put all over one of them. Ridiculous, that was hard.

Let us know what you decide on!

Cynthia

* I've used Edible Images a few times. Look at www.sugarcraft.com I don't know if you have time to order but they're easy and fun to use.



csl7037 -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/7/2008 7:10:53 AM)

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ORIGINAL: creationtalk
age 6: a hiking cake with a hiker on it that looked like my son (fortunately he was satisfied with me making the hiker out of frosting and toppings and I didn't have to shape the cake into a hiker...)
age 7: specified a cheesecake decorated with a pirate treasure chest.


...looks like you've created a monster like I have. Ds now wants Indiana Jones being chased by a boulder on his 8th birthday cake.



ChelaW -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/7/2008 10:27:11 AM)

Thank you all for these wonderful ideas! I'm glad there are other "wacky" moms like me who insist on making their children's unique cakes!! Anything for our kids...

Anyhow, I think I've decided on either a castle or a rainbow. She's so into princesses and has an imaginary castle of her own "down the street", she says.

Last week after it rained there were 2 HUGE beautiful rainbows in the sky. I explained to her about them being God's promise to us, and she's hooked!

So, if anyone has instructions on making either one of those, please post or PM me.

Thanks!!



revbob4God -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/7/2008 10:56:19 AM)

Although Sylvia believes that barbie can be a detriment to young girls (perfect looks and what not) The Barbie doll cake is a favorite with the young granddaughters. You can purchase the cake mold, decorate the cake, secure a plastic baggie around the legs of the doll, insert it into the cake and then create the skirt, the top, you can then have a princess with a rinbow for a skirt, a Bible heroine.

Over the years I have never ceased to be amazed at the creativity of that one cake mold.



ChelaW -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/7/2008 11:38:38 AM)

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ORIGINAL: revbob4God

Although Sylvia believes that barbie can be a detriment to young girls (perfect looks and what not)


Those cakes are amazing, but I agree with Sylvia: I don't really care for Barbies. My daughter's not interested in them yet, so hopefully I can at least put off her interest for awhile longer.



TammyIsBlessed -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/8/2008 12:22:40 AM)

I made this rainbow cake once.

I'll try to post the castle one later..



Georgia-Peach -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/8/2008 8:02:36 AM)

I really want to make Hunter's birthday cake for his 2nd birthday...I need to start researching how to do that.



Jenny-Fair -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/8/2008 1:31:37 PM)

Chelle, if you just get this year's Wilton catalogue, it usually has plenty of instructions and ideas. That's how I learned to decorate cakes.



Georgia-Peach -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/8/2008 1:48:09 PM)

Thanks!



csl7037 -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/8/2008 2:22:15 PM)

And look for the Wilton classes at Michael's or JoAnn's or a place like that - it really is a lot of fun.



Jenny-Fair -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/8/2008 2:58:22 PM)

I could be wrong...but I don't think JoAnn's does Wilton classes anymore. Maybe the ETC stores but certainly not the regular ones.



MrsTracy72 -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/8/2008 3:56:36 PM)

I think that the classes vary by store. I know some of the Michael's here don't, but JoAnns will. They just have to have somebody willing to conduct the classes. We also have community classes at our tech college which are really cheap. They aren't for college credit, but they don't need to be. Cake decorating and basket weaving and things like that.



Karaboo2 -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/8/2008 4:45:20 PM)

Hobby Lobby (at least around here) offers cake decorating classes ... so you could look into there as well.



zoebob -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/8/2008 10:35:18 PM)

Some of my favorites and easiest to do were Bob the tomatoe, Larry the Cucumber, and Bob the Builder.



coolfamily6 -> RE: Birthday Cake Ideas (8/14/2008 8:05:41 PM)

I did a bowling alley cake for dd's bowling party. It's on the familyfun website. I have done a space shuttle; two square cakes cut into the right shapes. We did the barbie cake and a Nemo cake. For the Nemo cake I collected the McD's toys from the happy meal and did not open them until we put them on the cake. We have also had a construction cake and just plain cakes with sprinkles.



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