Birthday Cake?

queenpig

I was thinking of making the little man a cake for his birthday (he turned 5 on weds)
I was going to make vanilla and almond cale with chocolate spread on the top (whipping cream and melted chocolate spread on a hot cake).
But I have a chocolate log, has anyone got any idea how to make a worm (or some other alike insect) from/with the log.?

I hope this makes sence.

QP.

moo2moo

The Very Easy Caterpillar

A no-cook birthday cake for artistic types…

• First, make some butter icing (beat 150g softened butter with 1tbsp milk, and slowly sift in 300g icing sugar until spreadable). Add a few drops of green food colouring to achieve a soft green colour.
• Next, take a shop-bought swiss roll, and cut cross-ways into 5cm-chunks.
• Using a foil-covered cake board as a base, arrange the pieces of roll to create a twisting caterpillar shape.
• When you’re happy with the design, lift each piece, one at a time, and attach to the board with a little butter icing.
• Now spread butter icing over the entire cake, making sure there are no gaps (the icing helps to keep the cake moist).
• Put extra icing on each end, and coax into a rounded shape. Using a knife, gently mark rings on the caterpillar from top to bottom. This is your basic caterpillar shape; the decorations are flexible!
• Snap chocolate mint Matchmakers into small pieces and stick them into the cake along the bottom to create ‘legs’. To make eyes, use two white chocolate buttons with edible silver balls stuck in the centre. If your board looks a bit empty, make some leaves using fondant icing which you’ve coloured with green.
  
• Add flowers made from jelly orange and lemon slices. Finally, slit the caterpillar’s head to create a ‘mouth’ and tuck in a ‘leaf’, so he’ll have something to munch during the night!

katiesmummy

moo2moo wrote: »

The Very Easy Caterpillar

A no-cook birthday cake for artistic types…

• First, make some butter icing (beat 150g softened butter with 1tbsp milk, and slowly sift in 300g icing sugar until spreadable). Add a few drops of green food colouring to achieve a soft green colour.
• Next, take a shop-bought swiss roll, and cut cross-ways into 5cm-chunks.
• Using a foil-covered cake board as a base, arrange the pieces of roll to create a twisting caterpillar shape.
• When you’re happy with the design, lift each piece, one at a time, and attach to the board with a little butter icing.
• Now spread butter icing over the entire cake, making sure there are no gaps (the icing helps to keep the cake moist).
• Put extra icing on each end, and coax into a rounded shape. Using a knife, gently mark rings on the caterpillar from top to bottom. This is your basic caterpillar shape; the decorations are flexible!
• Snap chocolate mint Matchmakers into small pieces and stick them into the cake along the bottom to create ‘legs’. To make eyes, use two white chocolate buttons with edible silver balls stuck in the centre. If your board looks a bit empty, make some leaves using fondant icing which you’ve coloured with green.
• Add flowers made from jelly orange and lemon slices. Finally, slit the caterpillar’s head to create a ‘mouth’ and tuck in a ‘leaf’, so he’ll have something to munch during the night!

wow i think i might make that for my friends dd birthday.

much cheaper than the m&s caterpillar cake i remember my mum getting for me lol

moo2moo

Surfing for "worm cake" bizarely brings up this http://www.nibblous.com/recipe/395 which may appeal to Weezel more than the rest of us, although my 5 year old thinks its a great idea but is a little concerned that the worms may wriggle out of the cake tin whilst in the oven.

katiesmummy

moo2moo wrote: »

Surfing for "worm cake" bizarely brings up this http://www.nibblous.com/recipe/395 which may appeal to Weezel more than the rest of us, although my 5 year old thinks its a great idea but is a little concerned that the worms may wriggle out of the cake tin whilst in the oven.

lol. my dd used to collect worms in the pocket of her school dress. i almost had a heart attack the first time i put my hand in the pocket and found 2 worms:eek:

notenoughcash

Home made is always the best. My son was 5 in April and he's ben 10 mad so I made a round cake and decorated it to like the omnitrix. I'm not the most artistic person in the world and wasn't convinced it looked that good but all his friends loved it because they've never seen a ben 10 cake before and wanted to know where we'd bought it from!!

queenpig

Thanks for the tips guys, my mate cancelled so couldn't come to my little ones birthday, so kept the chocolte roll for another time, however I then took the idea from notenoughcash and made an Omnitrix with the small sponge cake I had, my little man loved it. Its amazinf wheat you can do if you put your mind to, isnt it?

QP

Chris25

Hands up - am I the only one to have googled Omnitrix??

Keeping_Motivated

Chris25 wrote: »

Hands up - am I the only one to have googled Omnitrix??

Do you wanna share and save me googling it

Chris25

Keeping_Motivated wrote: »

Do you wanna share and save me googling it

It's a mysterious watch like device from a kids programme called Ben 10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_10

helen81_2

My boy and his friend were having a fire engine party so I made this cake for them.......




I bought a number 5 cake tin from Ebay,made a victoria sponge cake in it, filled it with jam and buttercream then coloured some ready roll icing grey using black food dye and covered the cake with it and decorated it to make it look like a road. It was abit lumpy in places..but what road do you know that hasn't got the odd pot hole :rotfl:
The kids,and the mums were impressed and it tasted delicious!
Helen x