In The Night Garden Birthday Cake
by Nikki
(Denham, UK)
I made this cake for my daughter who was turning 2.
I used the Betty Crocker devils food cake mix and bought a tub of chocolate fudge icing for the filling in the middle.
I used 2 square 10" cake tins and put them together.
I then bought a tub of vanilla frosting and used green food colouring to dye it green which gave it a grass effect.
I then used an easy cook icing pen, with the thick tip on it to go round the outside in red. I then put edible silver balls all around the outside.
For the characters, I went on eBay and bought an 'in the night garden' character pack and used them to decorate accordingly.
The three characters I had put in the cake do fall down as they are not too sturdy so you will need to make a small hole in the cake and then fill it with more icing to make them stand upright. This can be quite a pain.
I then bought the daisies from eBay, (edible) and wrote her name in pink icing pen across the top.
The cake was delicious (even though i cheated by using a mix) and the slices were quite thick.
