Birthday Cake for 3 yr old

Mrs_Miggins_2

I did this for one of my daughters, and used ice cream cones upside down on top of the swiss roll turrets - you can drizzle icing over them, or just buy "party cones" which are ordinary cones with splashes of food colouring on them

Mrs_Miggins_2

mjk wrote:

Two quick questions:

1. Where can I buy pink ready roll icing? My Asda didn't have it, and I've just tried making ordinary pink icing but it looks really messy (this is for the piggy fairy cakes BTW). Or can I just make normal icing thicker and roll it out?

2. Planning on making cake in one round 20cm tin, using 3 eggs etc. How long should I cook it for? All the recipes seem to be different quantities or different size tins!

Thanks for any help!

1. Buy white and use a bit of pink / red food colouring - this works fine if you only need a bit of colouring. Otherwise you can buy white and knead in a bit of ready made red rolling icing - Supercook do a set of 4 colours (black, red, yellow, green), then knead it well. You should be able to get this all at a supermarket - colouring paste is only cake decorating shops.
You won't get ordinary icing to roll, but you can buy "Fondant Icing Sugar" now (Silver Spoon do it), and this is the rolling stuff.

2. 30 mins at 170c should do it - cook until centre springs back when touched, and it begins to shrink away from the sides.

Good luck! I've got a request for a Barbie Pegasus cake from mine for next weekend!

across

the fairy castle cake sounds great i never would have thought of using ice cream cones thanks for that i'm sure my girls would love that i better get practising for october and november!!!

boiler_man

I "made" a train cake for DD1s 4th birthday. Involved some shop bought oblong shaped cakes and swiss rolls. Cut up & stuck together to make train shape and 2 wagons, covered in coloured buttercream icing, stuck on chocolate yo-yos for wheels, used liquorice for track and piled dolly mixture on top of the wagons to make a sweet train.