Category Archives: Girl’s cakes

Big Top cake for a circus theme party

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Circus Big Top tent cake with wild animals

For Cruz’s third birthday recently (and his third birthday cake made by me!) his mum asked for a circus theme party cake.

Instead of having a small tent on top of an ordinary round or square cake, I suggested that we make the whole cake into a big top, and this is how it turned out!

The circus tent actually forms the cake and is made from a stack of vanilla sponges, sandwiched with layers of strawberry jam and vanilla butter icing. The elephant and lion standing beside the Big Top door are made of icing so pretty much the only thing Cruz can’t eat are the candles.

If you’re not thinking about a circus theme party cake then check out some of the other latest cakes for children’s birthdays on the blog pages or the web galleries.

A great Mickey Mouse birthday cake design

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 Disney theme cake ideas

Hand-made Mickey Mouse cake

Hand-made Mickey Mouse cake

I loved putting this Mickey Mouse cake together, watching his face come to life with the addition of each feature. It’s always a challenge to re-create such a popular and well-known Disney character but I’m sure Jenson will have known who this was straight away!

I drew the face stencil in free-hand and then hand-cut the design from icing. It’s completed with a button nose, not forgetting the shiny highlight, for a great 2nd birthday cake surprise.

Other children’s party cake ideas are on the web gallery page. For slightly older children, go to the boys’ cake gallery and the girls’ cake gallery.

Cupcakes are ever popular!

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Ideas for cupcakes.

Individual party bag cup cakes and a special gluten-free one for Oma

Individual party bag cup cakes and a special gluten-free one for Oma

It seems that cupcakes don’t go out of fashion and their fans cover every age range – mums think that they are great for party bags, teenagers love them for their “individuality” and kids love them because they are just for them.

One of the good things about them is it means that they can be shared out as a gift or given to individuals for special reasons: sometimes it’s because one person has an intolerance like a nut allergy, or are a Coeliac; others because they want everyone at their celebration to have individual names or decorations. No one feels left out and everyone feels special.

More examples can be found on theCakeWorks cupcake web gallery page.

21st birthday cupcakes

21st birthday boxed cupcakes with pink and white flowers, hearts and butterflies. Gluten free cake with a bottle of champagne

21st birthday cupcakes

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21st birthday cupcakes

21st birthday boxed cupcakes with pink and white flowers, hearts and butterflies. Gluten free cake with a bottle of champagne

Pretty in Pink 21st Birthday cupcakes!

Pink and girly was the request for these little beauties, with a candle and 21 for the birthday girl! All of the dozen cakes were gluten-free vanilla sponge cupcakes with piped butter icing so they could be enjoyed by both the coeliacs and non-coeliacs at the party.

Excellent as a last-minute option as they can be made at a day or two’s notice if my workload permits!

Lego figure cake: Princess Leia

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Girls' 6th birthday party cake

Lego Princess Leia party cake

When I’ve been asked  for Lego figure cake designs before they have normally been for boys parties like Indiana Jones or the classic Lego-man.

So the other day, it made a nice change when I was asked to come up with something a little different in the form of Lego’s Star Wars heroine Princess Leia for Hannah’s 6th birthday.

Close up detail of a Princess Leia 6th birthday party cake

Lego Princess Leia party cake detail

 

 

 

The cake is made from a carved sponge cakes and then decorated with icing before finally adding the features and the defining hairstyle.

Google search for other cake design pictures of Princess Leia

First birthday cake: Number One

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Happy birthday Will!

Having had the honour of making his brother’s birthday cakes for a number of years, it was a huge pleasure to be able to produce this lovely colourful number one cake as Will’s first birthday cake. To top it off is a cute cuddly teddy bear modelled from sugarpaste icing, complete with his own cuddly toy bunny rabbit.

Teddy bear first birthday cake

Teddy bear first birthday cake

And I got a lovely thank you from Will’s mum too:

Cake was absolutely gorgeous Karen thank you so much, you’re amazing :) xx

First birthday number one cake

Little Miss Sunshine

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Little Miss birthday cake

Little Miss Sunshine 21st birthday cake

I was a bit worried about getting the shape of this birthday cake just right but everything turned out fine.

Little Miss Sunshine was a special request for Catherine’s 21st birthday from her parents…

 

 

 

Hi Karen,
Just to say thanks again for the spectacular Little Miss Sunshine cake – it looked absolutely great – fabulous detail, as well as tasting so good. Catherine loved it – we all did – especially the nutella filling! And it’ll keep us going all day today too….looking forward to our next big celebration …
Best wishes,
Heather

3D Teddy bear cake model

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3D Teddy bear cake

3D Teddy bear cake

Rachel’s parents wanted a very special 21st birthday cake for their daughter and came up with the idea of one in the shape of her favourite childhood teddy… which is still around if a little worse for wear.

I.G.G.Y. Moshi Monster cake

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Moshi Monster I.G.G.Y

7th Birthday I.G.G.Y cake - Moshi Monster theme

Popular with 7-12 year olds, I.G.G.Y. apparently stands for “I’m Gonna Get Ya!” and is the second rarest Moshi Monster. Everyday you learn something new!

I.G.G.Y. was hand cut from a large square cake and probably the hardest part was covering all those points!  Overall.. a nice childrens’ character themed cake.