I'm making my granddaughter's 8th birthday cake in 2 weeks. She is a gentle little girl who loves butterflies and small creatures. I have an idea in my mind of a little girl sitting in a woodland setting, maybe on a picnic blanket, with a butterfly on her finger and maybe a bunny laying beside her, and the usual mushrooms, ferns, etc. This is the picture in my head, but I have difficulty transferring my mental images onto something 3D. I've made a few figures and am not too bad at those, but it's the whole picture that I have trouble envisioning.
Should the cake be a tree stump? Any help to get my creative juices (such as they are!) flowing would be so appreciated. She's a sweet little girl and deserves something special. Thanks in advance!
Dawn
AI've been planning my godsons cake - he's going to be 7 and he wants a hedgehog. I was thinking along the same lines - chocolate cake and buttercream so it can double up as mud, and the surround as tree bark in fondant, i.e a tree stump but with the top of mud and leaves, and a hedgehog perched somewhere there. Maybe do the cake as a little mound where she sits with her teddies/rabbits etc round a picnic blanket like a teddy bears picnic? You can shoehorn a lot of pink in there too! (In the blanket, mini cakes, mini tea pot) Surround the cake with a white picket fence? Just off the top of my head :)
Edit : Those re so cute! I started this post and got a phone call before posting
Cute little mushroom house, cute little similar shaped cake, but it's a tree house. Not a treehouse, but a tree that's a house, as with a door on the front of the tree and chimney or smoke stack coming out of the top of the tree..
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I've been planning my godsons cake - he's going to be 7 and he wants a hedgehog. I was thinking along the same lines - chocolate cake and buttercream so it can double up as mud, and the surround as tree bark in fondant, i.e a tree stump but with the top of mud and leaves, and a hedgehog perched somewhere there.
Maybe do the cake as a little mound where she sits with her teddies/rabbits etc round a picnic blanket like a teddy bears picnic? You can shoehorn a lot of pink in there too! (In the blanket, mini cakes, mini tea pot)
Surround the cake with a white picket fence?
Just off the top of my head
That sounds so cute! I was also thinking of chocolate and possibly modeling choc. tree bark if I go with a tree stump. Thanks for the ideas.
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Edit : Those re so cute! I started this post and got a phone call before posting
Cute little mushroom house, cute little similar shaped cake, but it's a tree house. Not a treehouse, but a tree that's a house, as with a door on the front of the tree and chimney or smoke stack coming out of the top of the tree..
I like the mushroom house idea! Thank you. Wow, you could go so many ways with this basic theme!
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