I am looking for ideas for a ladies 40th birthday cake. I am interested in delicious cake recipes that are your clients favorites or family favorties and also some design ideas that are simple to make but very appealing to the human eye. Any ideas would be very helpful, thank you!!

I am not in favor of "over the hill" stuff .... I think it went out of style and stopped being funny .... was it ever really funny? ..... 30 years ago (and I was only in my 20's back then!), so here's one I made for a friend: http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1182526

Hi,

I did a 21st cake here that you could easily change to a 40. It was very simple to make, but I thought it looked great:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lushcakes/3803994215/