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julz85 
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 11:06am |
I have a family friend who is amazing at making cakes so im going to get her to make Amelias cake for her first birthday , (i really would like to make it but i know it will come out turning like a big colourful blob ) anyway i have no idea at this stage what i want , i was thinking a butterfly or a clown but thats about as far as my imagination has gone . has anyone got any ideas on a girls first birthday cake ? also would be fantatsic if anyone has any photos of their kids cakes , thought it might get the old imagination working a bit 
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 11:13am |
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Ive got lots on my facebook....I don't think we are friends on their though. I made a doll cake for Charlotte for her #2 birthday butterflies for #1 and cupcakes with sparkly butterflies on them for #3. I have also done a 3d pirate ship, a 3d train, a cool dinosaur and the good onld numbers. Butter cream icing is really easy to make and if you get good food colouring (I use a gel) you can make awesome colours and they look more impressive than hard work!
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 11:19am |
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 11:36am |
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I added you. Will post a recipie for buttercream icing too for you soon, just need to dust it off!
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 11:40am |
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wiked thanks so much , just looking through the pics now , all i can say is WOW!!!!!!! those cakes are amazing!!!! i LOVE LOVE LOVE the one for Charlottes 3rd birthday ( the cupcakes )
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 11:51am |
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I'm tryna decide on a castle or a knights helmet thing for Jakes 3rd bday :sigh: I have no imagination and we can;t use conventional food colouring so its gonna be abit of a PITA!!! I think theres a bday cake thread in the food section too...
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 11:52am |
I love making birthday cakes!
I'm not the best at the decorating (but the end result tastes sooo good!).
The butterfly was Hannah's 1st and the Very Hungry Caterpillar was for her 2nd as she was obsessed with the book at the time.
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 11:53am |
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And the thing is they only look hard!
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 12:16pm |
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wow MamaPickle they look great.
fattartsrock your cakes sound fantastic, how do you do your buttercream icing?
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 12:19pm |
I did a buttefly too. Very similar to MamaPickles. I lOVE the HUngry Caterpillar !!! Might have to steal it for next year 
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 12:23pm |
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Mamapickle, is that the butterfly out of the Womans Weekly cake book??
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 12:48pm |
We were talking about cakes in our thread and one of the girls suggested This site - has lots of ideas and instructions (though you might want to make your own icing instead on canned stuff - not even sure we can get canned icing  )
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 1:13pm |
 Babe wrote:
I'm tryna decide on a castle or a knights helmet thing for Jakes 3rd bday :sigh: I have no imagination and we can;t use conventional food colouring so its gonna be abit of a PITA!!! I think theres a bday cake thread in the food section too... |
In one of the AWW books they have a castle cake and it's covered in a white icing (or maybe it's meringue) the towers are icecream cones
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 1:13pm |
Betty crocker does canned icing... 
Vanilla buttercream frosting
200g unsalted butter (softened) or margarine
35 ml milk
2 tsp vanilla essence
500g icing sugar
Cream butter for a couple of minutes, add milk, vanilla and half the icing sugar beat for at least 3 mins or until the mixture is light and fluffy, then add remaining icing sugar and beat a further 2 minutes or until it is spreadable If icing is too wet add more icing sugar, too dry add more water.
This makes a large amount. I make this amount and seperate it out to colour seperately. Add your colour at final beating stage. I use gel colours, much richer and better depth colours, however Im sure normal food colouring is fine.
To make chocolate butter cream make it 200g coco powder and 300g icing sugar.
Freezes really well, too if you make too much.
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 1:14pm |
MrsH23 wrote:
Babe wrote:
I'm tryna decide on a castle or a knights helmet thing for Jakes 3rd bday :sigh: I have no imagination and we can;t use conventional food colouring so its gonna be abit of a PITA!!! I think theres a bday cake thread in the food section too... |
In one of the AWW books they have a castle cake and it's covered in a white icing (or maybe it's meringue) the towers are icecream cones |
The white icing is royal icing. You can buy it at the supermarket.
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 1:38pm |
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there is a cake thread with pics on the recipe section too if you want to look at some OB'ers efforts.
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 1:41pm |
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 1:43pm |
Heres a few of my creations.
Butterfly
Littlest Pet shop
Thomas
Nemo
Jurassic Park
I didn't want to over do it but have pics of skater chick, whale, unicorn, castle, hedgehog... Kids start choosing their cakes a good 3-6 months before their birthdays lol. I second using gel colourings and sometimes I buy a sponge cake etc as I am a bit crap at baking. Although Betty crockers cake mixes are pretty full proof but expensive here. We used to get them for 99c (US) so it was cheap to put three of them together for a cake. Here not so much.
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 1:49pm |
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ok so I resized those all the same before posting it and for some reason two won't resize. Even been in and made them smaller than the others and still no luck. sorry.
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Posted: 08 June 2010 at 2:04pm |
Wow, you are very talented ladies!!!
I can't wait till DS turns 1 so I can try my hand at doing a cake. I used to love picking out what cake I'd have for my birthday as a little kid.
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