I am so lucky to see (and eat) so many different birthday cakes for kids birthday parties. Recently I say a fairy cake, covered in fairy floss, for a girls magic fairy party. It looked (and tasted) amazing! I also saw a pirate cake recently too, in the shape of a treasure box. Inside the treasure box cake , spilling over the top were chocolate coins and jelly snakes and squishy jelly eyes – looked fabulous!
What is sometimes nice is to have the birthday cake on show –after all that effort of making one – people rarely see it in the whole form and en up getting a glimpse at it while the candles are blown out and that’s it! I have sometimes been to children’s birthday parties where the cake is on a stand – looks great! But you have to be careful as some children just can’t keep their hands off! ☺
One party I recently went to the cake was in the shape of a football. It was covered in white hard chocolate and the boy, who was very shy (ahh) smashed the birthday cake with a small mallet which had been covered with silver foil.
As I am a fairy magician for fairy birthday parties I always get invited to princess parties too! One time, about a year ago, I performed my magic show at a girls princess party and on her cake was a tiara. When the birthday girl blew out the candles she then took out the tiara (that was reasting on hard-ish icing) and wore it! AHHHH so cute!
I also saw a beautiful butterfly birthday cake made from smarties – The home made ones certainly look the best. Being English, the ice cream cakes are also very new to me – We never see those in England. Fairy bread and cheerios don’t exist in England either. It is fascinating how different cultures have different food for children’s birthday parties. One of my favourites is in South Africa oranges are cut in half – the orange scooped out and made into juice – then the orange peel acts like a bowl , in which you put jelly. Once chilled the orange is then cut and you have jelly segments – wonderful! If anyone wants instructions for these please give me an email and I will send them to you along with some pictures of my attempt (yes I am sad – went home and made my family some jelly segments)
The sparklers for children’s birthday cakes never seem to be long enough for the photos – maybe there is a place to get extra long sparklers – they certainly do make the cake look magical. If anyone knows of any please let me know.
