First Birthday Cakes

[SassyMummy]

I was GOING to get the Aust Womens Weekly Kids Cakes book...but I had a look through it, and ALTHOUGH the cakes LOOK nice...they look like they'd taste kinda super sugary (considering most of them are mostly icing with lollies, jelly and such).

Any suggestions about cakes I could make for DD's first birthday? I want something CUTE...but I still want it to taste nice (and not like eating tablespoons of coloured sugar).

[JATS]

you can use alternatives that don't contain as much sugar, different types of cake, there's also many types of icing, even almond paste you can use instead of icing (know someone who does it, works for her.

The books are basically to give you creative inspiration, and you can be just as creative with your ingredients :thumbsup: For Tom's first b'day I'm doing a combo of 3 different cakes :o

[bbem]

For my son's 1st birthday cake I did the Number 1 cake from the Aust. Woman's Weekly cake book using a simple butter cake recipe. I used the fluffy icing they suggested (coloured blue) but I didn't put it on very thick so that it you weren't getting so much sugar. Then I just decorated it with 'chocolate freckles' which I pulled off all but 1 from DS's piece. Looked great and tasted great and easy to decorate without all the sugary lollies.:)

[jaimie]

i did the ladybeetle from the front cover! it looked so good! I was very proud of myself:D

[Ky]

For my 8th birthday, instead of a cake, my mum made some green jelly so that it could be chopped into rough pieces. She put it into a baking tray and put choccy frogs and candy toadstools in it ... I loved it, it got eaten, no messy cake crumbs, no excessive sugar and not too filling!

I am planning on doing something similar for my dh's birthday in August ... it should be quick and easy to do and the kids can help!

[lukesmama]

i bought an ice cream cake for my DS first bday, you can always make an ice cream cake with any ice cream you like. it's a bit sugary but its cake and it's not like they eat it all the time.

[Tingles]

Cookie Monster face or Elmo... round cake...red or blue icing...lge marshmellows for eyes with black smarties... thin licorce strings(pull apart a big strap) for the big mouth...

Very easy...

[Tingles]

PS...

I buy my icing in the tub 'betty crocker' it's in the icing sugar section... the white one...just add food coloring...:thumbsup:

[MonkeyMum05]

I made a whole stack of patty cakes... iced them a variety of different colours with sprinkles etc... then stacked them up in a pyramid. I think there was about 56 of them... and it looked awesome :thumbsup:
There are natural food colourings that you can buy... and you could leave the sprinkles off if you wanted... (I personally just decided that seeing my little man man had such a healthy diet normally, he could have just one coloured, sugary cup cake for his birthday!)

[SassyMummy]

Thanks for all the great replies!

There are some good ideas! I think I might do the cup-cake thing...maybe with pig-faces on them (because that's DD nickname...and she doesn't watch TV really, so she doesn't have a favourite character or anything).

I would LOVE to be able to do an Ice-Cream cake...but DD's birthday is the end of July...so kind of in the middle of Winter...lol. It might be a bit cold (especially if everyone is kind of sick...lol). The Jelly thing is a neat idea too...but I hate jelly (always have) so it wouldn't work well for me (the wobbly consistancy freaks me out...same with boiled egg whites...:barf: ).

Thanks again for the brill ideas!

[jasminesmum]

For my dds birthday I made her a number 1 cake. It was just a plain cake and I coloured it with beetroot. I also made the icing with beetroot juice. Turned out really well. It was a pretty pink colour and I put pink gerberas along the bottom of it.
Tasted pretty good too!

[safox]

Hi ladies,

These guys are based in Victoria but they do a whole range of different cakes, including design-your-own photo cakes and comics cakes - might be good for some ideas :)

http://www.birthdaycakes.com.au (http://www.birthdaycakes.com.au/)

Sal

[SassyMummy]

This thread is really old. Written before DD turned 1... she's now 5... :laughing:

[mum2bubba]

I was gonna say 'gee, I thought Chanel was a bit older than 1' lol

[CookiesRYum]

This thread is really old. Written before DD turned 1... she's now 5... :laughing:

I was stratching my head trying to work it out - thinking maybe it was a type or you were making a cake for a friend or soemthing...or it was her FIRST cake... not her 1st birthday etc.... I wasn't smart enough to look at the post date...

I was really straining my brain... :detective: