For every birthday my daughter picks a cartoon or movie character and we do a theme party upon her choice. For her eighth birthday she was so in love with Bear in the Blue House (and I have to admit that I was nuts about this cuddly bear too!!). First I looked up in the internet for free cake designs of Bear and I found this gorgeous face picture.

First I bake an 18" x 11" rectangle cake and frosted it with white frosting. I traced the Bear face on top of the cake (I did it free-hand but if is difficult for you, you can use the template directly on top of the dry frosting and trace the outline with a toothpick). With chocolate frosting outline the face; cover the face with orange frosting and the muzzle area yellow, piping little stars with a #16 Wilton decorating tip. Decorate the tongue and inner part of the ears with pink frosting and the nose with blue frosting.

When Bear's face is done with a lot of patience (no kids near by of course) start to line one by one the gummy bears, combining colors as much as you like (I used a 5 lb. bag of gummy bears). When all the gummy bears are in place trim the borders of the cake yellow, top it with funny candles and let the party begin! Extra tip: when I am preparing the batter for the cake I like to tint it with strong colors combining with the decoration for example this cake was tinted orange, red and blue in the same way as a marble chocolate-vanilla cake. When you cut it to serve you can hear a big "Wow" from everybody because no one expects the cake to be colorful on the inside too.

Hey cass.

For Caitlins 1st birthday we had a BIG piglet cake. I cheated and brought half a slab of cake from the baker (I know, cheating but i wanted quite a big one and I dont have the cake tins necissary) it was really cheap as well and yummo and then cut out a drawn picture and brought it to life with different coloured icing. Cant seem to upload a pic but it was cute! The brought sponge stayed together really well as well.

Hi cass, Im doing the same! Trialing bday cake, Jades having lady bugs. Tip: freeze the cake before icing so the cake doesnt crumble into the icing! I have cook books on how to make kiddies cakes, Im sure you can get them where you are, plus google it. I found this pic of a cake.
The australian womens weekly cookbooks on kiddies cake are at the newsagency or on Ebay.Plus you can buy a slab cake pre cooked at supermarket or here is a recipe for an easy chocolate cake thats moist.

one cup SR. flour

one cup caster sugar

2 eggs

3tablespoons butter

1 1/2 cups of milk (put in bit by bit incase to much)

4 tablespoons coco

mix ,bake, eat oven about 180, takes about 45mins, poke with a skewer when its comes out clean its ready.

Icing is just icing melted butter and a tsp of milk.

Mail me if needed. xxxxxx habe fun I will, lol

i made jess a dora cake, i just made a normal choc cake and cut out a pic of dora put it one the cake and used those icing pens to give it a border and added somw icing flowers..

you could do a square vanilla cake x2 and cut one vertically to make a roof and make a house, then use blue food dye and do blue icing and then uses string licorice or similar to make doors and windows... and then use a cut out pic of bear and place him in the door way??

xoxox

for luv nor money can i remember who wrote the article but there is one on here. basicly all you do is buy a packet mix and the long trays. cook the cake and while the cake is cooking online search for the pic you want. print cut out the main shape put on cooled cake with a serated knife cut the shape out and ice.

many years ago for my sons 2nd birthday i made a spongebob square pants. my son loved it

Hi Cass

wow Austins 1 already...how cool....in answer to your question have you thought of making a butter cake and getting one of those edible pictures of the character/s you like...you can usually get them from the supermarkets and the cheesecake shop sells them to.

alternatively go to this site www.easy-birthday-cakes.com as they have heaps of cakes,recipes, designs and specialty cakes.....its a great site and if you want you can even get their free newsletter

good luck with the cake and I hope you all enjoy austins 1st b'day

  jenny  xx