Speaking of birthdays, my friend Abby Clawson Low has a brilliant approach to kids’ birthday cakes: She’ll make a delicious round cake and then decorate with favorite small toys, like animals or trucks.
How cute is that? (So much easier than something like this.) Bookmarking it:)
P.S. Abby’s beautiful house, plus cheeky candles.
(Photos by Abby Clawson Low/Instagram)
Another tradition I forgot to mention…this pastweekend my girlfriends daughter turned 18…she put a little plastic ballerina on the cake. My friends grandma made her “ballerina” birthday cakes every year and she kept the little ballerina and puts it on her kids cakes every year. Love that.
Every year my mom made us Duncan Hines (I was born in 1965 and my siblings in the 1950’s) Chocolate Fudge layer cake with homemade icing. I do the same for my kids because there’s nothing like family tradition.
We did this for my son’s bday last year and he loved it. My mother in law made carrot cake cupcakes and got a bag of plastic dinosaurs to put on top. So cute and the kids loved choosing which dino cupcake they would have. And now he has a little bin full of tiny dinosaurs to live in the houses he makes with blocks. Win win!
This looks delicious! With the perfect frosting skills you made it awesome. Those look even better than described! YUM!
Loved this idea. Theme cakes in New York just always seem so expensive. I used this idea for my son’s second birthday. Picked up a cake at Paris Baguette, added some Mickey and Minnie figurines, and he was thrilled. Maybe he’ll be a tougher critic down the road – but for what it’s worth, the grown-ups at the party loved it too.
Cute! This year for my son’s 2nd birthday, we are doing a donut tower “cake” like you did for Toby’s birthday a few years ago!
My mom did this for every one of our birthdays growing up! Always a rectangular sheet cake, though. Once we were a bit older, we got free rein to make the landscape out of frosting as we saw fit (green grass for a Snow White forest cake, blue water for the Little Mermaid) and place the figurines just so. I remember creating entire fantasy worlds based on those simple cake platforms!
My favourite birthday cake as a kid was my 101 Dalmatians cake. It was a white cake with some black icing splotches and a red ribbon “collar” around it and it was covered in little plastic dalmatian toys! It was great cause all my little party guests got to take the figure from their slice home.
Is there a favorite recipe she uses, I would like that!
oH! I did a animals birthday for my daugther too. Yoy can see in this link: http://www.fotografiadeunmomento.es/fiesta-de-animales/
This makes me want to be a kid again. Can’t remember the last time I got a customized cake like that! Well, maybe my wedding? Looks like a lot of fun to make =)
These are adorable, I will have to pin these for later!
xx Kelly
Sparkles and Shoes
Done this for years! It is always a hit!
Cute, personal and takes away some of that “throw the most immaculate birthday party ever” pressure.
my son does not like cake so we did a tower of donuts for his birthday cake.
mmm… cake!
When I was a baby, my mom took a cake decorating class, and made the most elaborate birthday cakes for the first few years of my life. And then realized everyone “oohs” and “ahhs” and maybe snaps a quick picture, and then it gets devoured and no one thinks of it again! So since then, she’s kept it pretty simple – this is a great idea, plus the toys can be played with later or reused for another celebration.
My husband always makes are boys’ birthday cakes and really enjoys doing elaborate designs. Last year it was a rocket with smoke and lights! This year we were running late with getting the cake together and happened to be at Costco. Our son asked if he could have one of their standard birthday cakes – it just had a rainbow on it. We decided why not, he obviously likes it and it would save us a lot of effort/time. He ended up bragging about it at school to his friends. Goes to show you don’t have to do a lot, just celebrate them and they will be excited.
Yes! that saved my life when my youngest wanted a starwars cake for his seventh birthday! After accepting that I didn’t have any skills at all!!!!!! in the cake embelishment department… I decided to decorate it with star wars toys. :) He was happy to keep them after the party! :) It really is a very helpful idea.
I did the same thing for my daughter’s reptile themed party last year. It was probably the simplest birthday cake I’ve ever made and the kids LOVED it! You can see it here: http://www.littlehiccups.net/2014/02/a-reptile-birthday-party.html
What a smart idea, love this!
Love seeing this. I hate the “make your 2 year old child the most intricate, detailed cake ever” fad that seems to be in fashion. Any cake is good cake, who needs it to be shaped like anything besides a cake!! So I’m all for things that are fun and yet still just CAKE! (now i want cake)
Such a fun idea and so time efficient! :)
The tiny animals with party hats are so cheerful. I kind of want to put them around my house, and I don’t have any children. I think my favourite kid’s cake is the donut tower you’ve done. Maybe next year?
Totally cool.. now i just need to think of ways to ‘sterilise’ the toys or objects… x
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