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Maltesers Birthday Cake | Triple Chocolate Treat | Recipe

Maltesers Birthday Cake – Quick & Simple Instructions
You won’t find a recipe idea easier to assemble yet with the wow factor this Maltesers cake brings to the table.
Using just three ingredients, our clever Play & Go friend Heidi shared her simple birthday cake idea with us.
Using a store bought mud cake (from Coles),  Kit Kats […]

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Bluey ‘The Beach’ Birthday Cake | Recipe & Instructions

How to Make Your Own Bluey ‘The Beach’ Birthday Cake
by Katrina Gogel
Like many young kids these days, our youngest is obsessed with the popular Aussie children’s TV show Bluey. For his recent fourth birthday he ummed and ahhhed between the Women’s Weekly train cake (he’s also obsessed with trains) or a Bluey themed birthday cake. […]

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Flower Brownie Birthday Cake

For Miss 13’s Birthday cake, I needed something simple and fast to make, consisting of things she likes to eat, with lots of pretty. The Flower Brownie Cake perfectly complemented her flower crown party. 
Earlier in the year I came across this gorgeous ‘giant cookie’ birthday cake (pictured below) on Instagram, by Adi Klinghofer.  They are […]

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Chocolate House Birthday Cake – Like a Gingerbread House, only chocolatey | Party Recipe

This Chocolate House is a great alternative to a traditional cake – there’s no baking involved, it’s fairly quick to make (about 1.5 hours), and you can be pretty sure all the kids will love it. Just make sure you have plenty of people to share this one – there’s a LOT of chocolate involved. […]

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How to Train a Dragon 2 | Jumping Castle Birthday Party

How to Train a Dragon 2 Birthday Cake
My little love turned 6 last week. He loves everything about ‘How to Train a Dragon 2’ so it was not a surprise that he wanted this theme for his Birthday cake.
I hired the number ‘6’ cake tin from my local cake decorating shop and used ideas from […]

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Disney Frozen Ice Cream Cake | Disco Sleepover Party

 
Disney’s ‘Frozen’ movie was the theme for the cake for my daughter’s 9th Birthday. As she is not much of a cake eater but is a massive ice cream fan, the ‘cake’ had to be all ice cream of course. This went very well with the ‘Frozen’ theme.
Originally I was going to make Olaf with […]

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Simple: Let the Birthday Child Draw on their Cake

Decoration Idea – Let the Birthday Child Draw on their Cake!
Have you spent hours stressing, researching, agonising and slaving over your child’s birthday cake?
Well when I saw this cake for the first time, I couldn’t believe it. It’s such a simple idea, but Oh so gorgeous. And unique!
Cover a cake with white fondant and then […]

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Little Blue Bird Birthday | How to Make a Chocolate Smash Cake

My daughter’s 7th Birthday was a blue bird theme. Her birthday is just before Easter so we were lucky to find some gorgeous little birds from the Bed Bath n Table Easter decoration range to hang on some twigs from the garden. A birdy tea towel was used to decorate the front of the table.
Blue […]

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Mini Name Bunting Birthday Cake | Now We are Six

For my daughter’s 6th Birthday last year her ‘brief’ to me was pretty simple – a number 6, chocolate cake with chocolate icing.
Knowing that I’m not very clever with icing a cake all smooth and lovely, I decided to distract the eye from the bumpy icing with a mini bunting in her name. The mini […]

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Pony Party | Smash Cake Recipe

We recently celebrated my little love’s 4th Birthday with a party at Four Oaks Farm. Here is the Pony smash cake consisting of a hollow chocolate dome with treats hidden inside, snack size Flakes glued with chocolate all around the cake (as if it needed more chocolate)!! And of course a fondant Pony sitting on […]

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Ice Cream Birthday Cake

 

Ice Cream Birthday Cake
Ice cream is probably my children’s favourite food. So it’s not surprising that we had an ice cream themed 5th Birthday party one year.
This ice cream birthday cake was probably one of the easiest cakes I have made. I saw the idea in a blog post by Hip Hooray and bought the […]

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Green Sheep Themed Birthday Party | Recipe

Green Sheep Themed Birthday Party – Cake Recipe and Party Food Ideas
Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox is my little boy’s favourite book, so when it came to his 3rd birthday it was the perfect theme for the party.  The cake of course features a gorgeous green sheep and the party food compliments […]

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