Help - Cake for 1st B'day!!

[Baby Girl]

OMG :eek: I can't find my WD Cake Book :detective: I have searched everywhere and I am thinking I may have lent it to someone!!

Anyway...

Does anyone have any easy recipes and instructions to make a rainbow shaped or a butterfly shaped cake :chef:

[p4purple]

Just make a sponge cake or any kind of cake in a special shaped cake tin! there are specialty kitchen shops. I found a love heart tin years ago. Or make several cakes and cut into a rainbow shape and then ice. you can make a marbel cake effect by separating any kind of cake mix into three or more bowls and add food colour then put in the baking pan and stir just once before you put it in the oven ..... be careful though because the cake could end up flatter and not rise with all that separtating. It would be easy to make a cake in the number 1 shape by cutting up a baked cake and icing it....then you could just ice a rainbow on..... all elsefails, remember, when you got a whitewings mum, you got it made.

[p4purple]

Here's and easy cake reciepe that it use for tutti frutii cake that is layered with strawberries, mango and kiwi:

3/4 cup of almonds
3/4 sup castor sugar
1/2 cup veg or safflower oil
fine rind of 1 lemon (opptional to taste) or 3 drops vanillla essense
4 separated eggs
1/2 cup youghurt or sour cream
11/2 cups self raising flour

Almonds in food processor till a fine meal produced. Add oil, sugar, lemon, egg yolks and yoghurt/sour cream and prcess till well combined. Add food colour at this stage. Transfer to mixing bowl and add flour. Whisk egg white til they form soft peaks and fold into cake mix Place in 24cm tin and bake for 30-40 mins at 180C or 350 F. 160 if fan forced. Test with skewer and wait til cake cools before you cut it into shapes.

Good luck and happy birthday to the little one!

[Baby Girl]

Thanks for your suggestions.

I ended up finding an old recipe and instructions of my mum's for a piggy cake!! Just finished icing it and it looks awesome - even if I do say so myself!!

Off to bed now :sleeping:

[Oscar's mum]

Thanks for your suggestions.

I ended up finding an old recipe and instructions of my mum's for a piggy cake!! Just finished icing it and it looks awesome - even if I do say so myself!!

Off to bed now :sleeping:


Ooh we want to see a picture of this masterpiece!:D

[Baby Girl]

I will take some photos today at the big party :smiliedance: and put one in my avatar tonight or tomorrow!!

[libandneo]

Hi OM,

Great to meet you the other night.. lovely to chat to you.

I have an AWW cake book for children's birthdays and it has a cake called 'butterfly beauty' in it. I would be happy to send you the recipe and instructions. It has heaps of other patterns too including numbers, animals, monsters etc, but I have not seen a rainbow. My tip for that - it should be pretty easy - is to buy a ring-shaped tin and make a cake (packet mix cakes turn out really uniform and easy to manage) then just cut it in half and you have a perfect arc for a rainbow. Then you can buy from a supermarket a 4-pack of colours, red, yellow, blue and green and it has a chart on the back about how many drops of each you need to make all the colours.

Does that make sense? I will pm you my number if you need any more help over the phone...

Libby
DH: Jard 20/08/68
DS: Neo Xavier 26/05/05
D?: jellybean due 22/12/06

[RuthK]

For my daughter's second birthday I got a whole lot of iced docunts, and made them into a pymamid with candles on top. I have never seen such an overwhelming and enthusiastic reaction by a bunch of kids to a cake (most adults were pretty keen too). It was colourful, fun and yummy. It also was very little effort for me (there's anough effort with kids parties without cooking cakes as well). Whats more, those kids with allergies to eggs were not affected.

[2littleprincesses]

I have a page from a magazine somewhere for a butterfly shaped cake.

All you need to do is make a basic buttercake batter (suppose any sort of cake would do, though) and bake in a round tin. Cut the cake straight down the middle so you have two semicircles, then put them outside-in, so you have two straight edges for the wings. Does that make sense?

Cover with icing, put cachous and other decorations on it and use two sticks of licorice for antennae.

Havent' tried it, myself, but it doesn't look too hard

[3boys1girl]

If u click on the link below to see what savannahs being doing, go to the section where her fist birthday is.
I made a beauitful birthday cake, which turned out pretty darn good!
It was easy to!
Just 2 rectangle buttercakes and then cut out a butterfly cake and ice! Its out of the new edition Womans day birthday cake book