I made this Upsy Daisy Cake for a friend’s 2 year old. It is a vanilla sponge cake (20 cm) with vanilla buttercream. I covered both the board and the cake with green fondant. All the decorations, including Upsy Daisy, I modelled from gumpaste (also called flowerpaste), which dries hard, except the rocks behind Upsy … Read more
Here is the HAAHOO Birthday Cake I made for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. I was a bit stuck for ideas until my son suggested making her a Haahoo as she has a Haahoo cushion that she loves. I made the cake in a large roasting tin making two mixes of cake one yellow and one … Read more
The base of this homemade In the Night garden cake is an 8″ round chocolate sponge sandwich with chocolate fudge icing centre, sat on a 10″ round cake board. The top tier is a 6″ round lemon sponge sandwich with lemon buttercream icing centre, sat on a 6″ cake board. There is a clear plastic … Read more
My 3 year old loves In The Night Garden and I was going to make Upsy-Daisy, but I saw the little figurines for sale in Woolies, so decided to make the In The Night Garden Gazebo Cake instead. I bought a piece of dowel and cut it into 5, then covered each in blue and … Read more
I made this In the Night Garden Birthday Cake Idea for my friend’s son Joseph`s first birthday, he loves Iggle Piggle. Before starting I looked around on similar websites for ideas of where to start – so here is my cake. It is an 8 inch Victoria sponge with raspberry jam and buttercream. I covered … Read more
My daughter’s favourite In the Night Garden Character is Makka Pakka. Therefore for her 2nd birthday I decided to attempt to create a Makka Pakka birthday cake. First of all I drew a rough sketch of what I wanted it to look like. I decided I would need two square cakes (approx 20cm tins). From … Read more
My son is a fan of In the Night Garden, the British TV programme aimed at toddlers and pre-schoolers. His sister watches it occasionally but it was when she got the Makka Pakka plush toy that sings and talks that he really started taking an interest. So it was a bit of a no-brainer when … Read more
I made this In the Night Garden cake for my obsessed 2 year old daughter. Used banana cake, need a heavy cake for the white icing. I cut the cake into 6 parts, legs (minus feet), arms (minus hands), head and body. Ice the head first with skin colour white icing. Make the hands fully … Read more
I was inspired by this website and all the fantastic photos on it, to actually do this Upsy Daisy Birthday Cake. I bought 3 Tesco small cake mix packs and duly made all 3, in Pyrex dishes (as someone else had suggested on here). If anything they came out too flat, but I thought hey-ho … Read more
I was asked to create a cake in the style of Iggle Piggle or a Pinky Ponk for my friend’s grandson on his 3rd birthday. I have been attending an evening class for cake decorating techniques for the last 6 months so thought I would give it a go. Alex is partially sighted so thought … Read more
For this homemade in the night garden first birthday cake – I started off by making a square cake using a packet mix, and cut it into pieces to make a number one. I covered the cake all over in green buttercream icing, and piped some grass using a grass tip around the edges (you … Read more
This In The Night Garden Birthday Cake was for my daughter’s 1st birthday. We were unable to find a cake we liked so decided to give it a go ourselves. We made the sponge cake with jam and cream and used green icing round the cake to make the grass. We then draw the character … Read more