Easy Novelty Birthday Cakes

honey28

It looks very nice!

thriftmonster

I did a wigwam for ds2's 6th birthday last year. A sponge cake baked in a pudding basin. Make 6 tall shortbread triangles and ice them in zigzags. Stick them round the cake with buttercream to make the wigwam shape and put some dessicated coconut coloured green round the bottom for grass. Add plastic figures as wished. It went down well as any one that didn't like cake could have iced biscuit instead

Chipps

When our DD was small I did her a Teddy Bears' Tea Party cake. (I think Care Bears were the in toy at the time)
It was just a round sponge sandwich cake, covered with a roll-out icing "tablecloth".
I made stools for the bears to sit on in the same way with fairly cakes, then made the plates out of circles of roll-out icing. Food was made out of cake offcuts (from making the chairs & table flat!) and also little sweets like dolly mixtures & liquorice allsorts. The square sandwich type sweets were cut into triangles to look like little sandwiches. I used a fairy cake, cut down smaller & sliced in half then re-sandwiched with jam & iced, as the birthday cake in the middle.
All I had to do then, was to get the little toys (washed, of course!) and sit them on the stools round the table, looking as if they were ready to enjoy their birthday tea!