My 2 year old boy loves “up day” as he calls her and I was going to make a digger cake, but at the last minute opted for Upsy Daisy. To his great delight (and mine) my homemade Upsy Daisy birthday cake was a huge success. I purchased the sponge and set to work on … Read more

In the Night Garden is an extremely popular TV program the UK for very young kids. My daughter loves one of the main characters, Upsy Daisy, so I decided to make her an Upsy Daisy cake for her second birthday. I downloaded an image of Upsy Daisy from the BBC website and then enlarged it … Read more

I started by printing a picture of Upsy Daisy that I downloaded off the internet and then I enlarged it to be the actual cake size on the photocopier. I then cut the template out and placed it on the slab of butter cake that I had baked and cut out the shapes. I cut … Read more

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

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