This was my first attempt at a child's birthday cake (for my son’s first birthday). With hind sight, not the greatest cake ever made but my son could recognise the characters and he liked it, which is what counts!
This was his second birthday cake (Gromit). I kept the design really, really simple that year as I was pregnant with his brother and the sight of food made me feel nauseous! It was still an improvement on my cake decorating attempt for his first birthday.
This was his third birthday cake. It was based on a Thomas the Tank Engine design by Debbie Brown (I think the book it’s from is out of print now - “Favourite Character Cakes“). I altered the design and did Gordon, partly because Gordon is number 3, but mostly because Dr Oetker didn’t do ready coloured blue icing at that point and I didn’t want to colour my own!
Here’s the Ben 10 cake I did for his forth birthday. I had planned something more elaborate, but a family member being hospitalised meant I had very little time for cake baking in the end. I’m quite pleased with it considering the decorating literally only took me an hour!
Now for son number 2’s birthday cakes! This was his first one, inspired by a cake in Debbie Brown’s Wallace and Gromit Cracking Celebration Cakes. I actually enjoyed modelling all the little bunnies and this might be my favourite cake I‘ve ever baked.
This was his most recent birthday cake. It is also based on a Debbie Brown design, except I used Pato (from Pocoyo) rather than Spot.
This Mr Men cake is the one I baked for my other half’s thirtieth. Yet again, it is a Debbie Brown design (I copied this one faithfully though).
The Peppa Pig cake is the only girl’s cake I’ve ever baked! It was for my friend’s daughter’s birthday.
Finally, here is the ghost cake I made for the Halloween. I believe it was from “Storybook Cakes” by Lindy Smith. It was really easy to make and didn’t take long.
With two birthdays coming up I should be able to share more of my cakes soon!
