Month: June 2015

Like many three-year-olds, Little Miss Gift is obsessed with Peppa Pig. She would spend hours absorbed watching it on TV, if I let her. So it was no surprise when we were planning her third birthday afternoon tea that Peppa Pig was her theme of choice. 

I wasn’t sure how I was going to create a birthday cake in the shape of Peppa Pig. So I opted for a simple round-shaped birthday cake (two slabs of cake, sandwiched with butter cream icing to keep it moist) and focused on decorating it with a Peppa theme. 

I have never done cake decorating, so wasn’t confident I could make sugar Peppa Pig figurines, but then I had the idea of incorporating some of the Birthday Girl’s presents into the cake. I had bought some plastic Peppa Pig figurines that I thought would be fun to pop on the cake. When the cake ceremony was done she would have some new little friends to play with. 

This idea worked a treat and Little Miss Gift was thrilled. 

Other cake components included:

• White fondant icing (left over from my son’s birthday cake, but rolled dangerously thin – I don’t think you can get two cakes out of one pack of icing!) covering a Funfetti-flavoured cake.
• Pink marshmellows cut in half and dipped in Hundred and Thousands sprinkles
• Birthday candles purchased from local discount store 
• White and silver organza “Happy Birthday” ribbon around the base of the cake (to cover where the fondant finishes) and add to the birthday theme. And yes, this is the same ribbon I used on my son’s cake;-)

This cake looks so realistic I’m not sure if I’d actually like to eat it! However, this would be a pretty cool cake for a car enthusiast. The level of detail alone in the tyre tread is super impressive, which is why this one made it onto our cake of the week list…

Why we love it:

• You’ve got to appreciate the level of detail and craftmanship here
• This would get a tick of approval from car enthusiasts

Check out more cake ideas here…

Little Master Gift was born on ANZAC Day last year. This year, his 1st birthday coincided with the ANZAC centenary, so we wanted his cake to commemorate this very special occasion. I thought an Australiana-themed cake would be appropriate, and thoroughly enjoyed myself creating the below result…

• The cake itself was a chocolate cake. I covered it with plain white fondant icing (after covering the cake with a basic butter cream which gives the fondant icing something to stick to). 
• Red poppies (for ANZAC Day) were sourced from the Australia War Memorial and gum leaves from the park. The candles were purchased from a local cake shop and I picked up the flags in a local discount store. 
• The cake is wrapped with red ribbon and white/silver organza ‘Happy Birthday’ ribbon. This helps to hide the base of the cake, as I didn’t trim the fondant icing as neatly as I would have liked! 

Check out more cake ideas here…