1st birthday Pirate and Jungle cake

Harry’s grandmother asked me to make ‘something special’ for her first grandson’s first birthday. She lives a long way from him and wanted to treat him as she doesn’t see him as often as she’d like to – and this is the result!

He loves jungle animals and so the jungle theme formed the base of the cake and was topped with a pirate.The cake tiers were a combination of chocolate mud cakes on the top two tiers and vanilla Madeira sponge on the bottom.

A great party bag idea!

An alternative to party bag cupcakes... an army of spider cakes

And as if the jungle cake wasn’t enough, the cake was accompanied by an army of colour coordinated spider cakes!

Those 88 legs and feet took an age to get through but so worth it in the end – we all loved them!