OK - so long story short we are having family over for a birthday party tomorrow on my daughter's 6th brithday. No need for a true kid party . . . but I love to make birthday cakes - I usually plan them out and take a lot of time. I still want to make a cake for her, but have to do it tonight. I've done the barbie cake (where the cake is the skirt) and she loved it - is it tacky to do it again? I've thought about princess and the pea - pile sheet cakes and lay a polly pocket on top with green m&m on side for the pea - but not sure if that'll be more than I'm bargaining for. Do you have any other easy cake ideas that a 6 yr old girly, girl would love?
I was thinking about it and I bought her Kinani (the Hawaiin American Girl Doll with the matching dress). SO we just did a Hawaiin party, she got a "new" party dress and was estaic when it matched the doll!! I made a Pineapple upside down cake - with 6 full pineapple rings and put the candles inside each ring - she loved it. Thanks for all your ideas!!
My SIL came up with this idea for her 4 year old on her last birthday and it was something my 5 year old (going to be 6 this year also) loved. So I could see a 6 year old loving it as well if she is really girly.
She had a pink cake, then decorated it with candy jewelry(necklace, bracelet, ring and lipstick - all the candy kind). I think she also put a tiara on top. It was really cute!
What about a sheet cake and add some decorations to it like her favorite characters and favorite colors....that is what I do with my daughter's cakes.
For her first birthday she really liked "Johnny and The Sprites" so I printed pictures off the internet, laminated them, then layed them on the cake. For her second, we did Mickey & Minnie so I put small figurines on the cake...did the same for Little Einsteins for her 3rd. Then for her fourth, we used Disney Princesses w/ pink and purple icing.
I googled "easy girl cake" and they had a cute one, like the Barbie cake, but had Barbie in a bikini and the cake was her grass skirt. Also they had a sheet cake cut into a butterfly, ice cream cone cupcakes, a cake decorated to look like a pizza, a number 6 shaped cake, ect... Check it out!
What about a girlie version of a king cake. I guess I have Mardi Gras on the brain. But you could bake the polly pocket into the cake and whoever gets that piece is the queen - just make sure she gets that piece!! Make it strawberry with pink icing and put a plastic tiara on it. That leaves you room to write happy birthday and put candles.
We did a cute princess castle cake that was very easy. We frosted the whole thing pink, cut out a little piece from each corner and put the flat bottom ice cream cones sitting on their bottoms. Then we turned sugar cones upside down on top of them. Decorated everything with purple and white frosting and it was very cute.
Here's a great website for cake ideas and it tells you how to make them. http://www.coolest-birthday-cakes.com/castle-cake.html There's types of designs listed on the side.
My daughter who is now 8 comes up with some, let's say, challenging birthday cake ideas and I have mastered them all! I told her it will be interesting when she actually stumps me as to how to make it! LOL! Anyway, here are a few ideas (some not as easy, but it might help):
Candyland game board cake
polka dot cake (I used Necco waffer candy for the dots)
vanilla, chocolate, strawberry cake (she wanted it to look like the ice cream in the container)
banana split cake (yes, like a real banana split, but NO bananas)
Doggy Bone shaped cake
For my daughter's first birthday I did different size cupcakes decorated like flowers. I set them on a tiered (wedding) type stand with cut out petals that covered the plates.
I have also made for one of my husband's employee, a birthday cake that looked like two presents wrapped together. The ribbon was fruit by the foot.
Hope this helps!
I think you can do a Barbie cake again. You can always decorate it in a new way and use candy to make patterns on the skirt too. I like your idea of the Princess and the Pea cake...so cute! I think you could do it pretty easily. You could cut the sheet cakes in half so that you're getting two layers from each cake, just frost them different colors to look like different mattresses. It probably would be a bit more work than the doll cake, but not a lot. You could also do a hamburger cake, although I guess it isn't very girly! Make the top bun in a bowl (like the doll skirt) and then do two round cakes to form the bottom bun and the patty. You can use frosting to make tomato and lettuce hanging out.
