Animal Cupcakes

My sisters Mothers Group were having a joint third Birthday Party for all the children.  My sister and I put together some animal cupcakes so that each child could have their own cake at the party.

We placed the cakes on a black cardboard number three so there was some order to the cakes.

The frog.

The ladybird

The monkey

The lion

The pig

George the Monkey Cake

My middle daughter was obsessed with George the Monkey Books so of course asked for a George cake for her third birthday.

 She also loves butter icing so I free hand iced George's face onto a basic square cake.  I edged the cake with lolly banana's for an added monkey touch!

Princess Castle Cake

For my daughters 5th birthday she asked for a "Princess Castle" cake.  It was alot easier than I thought as you just ice some ice cream cones and pop them on a cake!

Rainbow Cake

My girlfriends daughter asked for a "Rainbow cake" for her 5th Birthday.  I decided to surprise her and make the cake rainbow as well.

I made an egg white based icing so that it was a very white base for the multicoloured rainbow on top.

Rabbit Cake

My youngest daughters 1st Birthday fell on the same weekend as Easter so we had to have a Rabbit Cake !!

I had some trouble with the blue gel icing I used for the eyes and have never used the pre-bought gel icing ever since.  Over all this was an easy cake and the family loved it.

Teddy Bear Cake

My sister made this fantastic teddy bear cake for her son's first Birthday.

She used three cupcakes to create the nose and ears and covered it all in chocolate icing.  She then used coco pops to create the textured look which not only looked great but tasted fantastic !! 

Butterfly Cake

One of my girlfriends daughter is also best friends with my oldest daughter.  I often make her birthday cake and every year she always has a plan for what she would like me to create.

For her fourth birthday she was very specific and asked me to make her a pink and purple butterfly cake. 

I made the centre of the butterfly in a loaf tin and the wings using two heart shaped cakes with the points trimmed off.