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

This Upsy Daisy Birthday Cake is an 8″ vanilla sponge cake filled with vanilla butter cream and strawberry preserve. The cake was coated with vanilla butter cream and iced with vanilla flavoured fondant. I now make my own fondant and fondant gum paste but had to try several different recipes before I found one that … Read more

I make my own cakes, buttercream, cream cheese frosting and marshmallow fondant. It reassures me when I take it to a birthday party I can hand-on-heart tell a parent exactly what is in the cake. All the following measurements are in Australian metric measurements, and Australian products are mentioned. I use Wilton colouring pastes for … Read more

This Upsy Daisy Birthday Cake I made was for a friend’s 2 year old little girl who loves In the Night Garden and her favorite character is Upsy Daisy. First of all I printed a picture of Upsy Daisy from the internet, then cut around it. I then baked one slab cake 12″ x 8″ … Read more

I made this Upsy Daisy Birthday Cake for our son’s 3rd birthday. This is the first cake I have ever made and decorated (I usually do cupcakes). I had my up’s and down’s – mostly my down moments were about trying to replicate the exact colours (specifically orange fondant). Once I realized I would never … Read more

My daughter turned 2 and loves In the Night Garden. I had to make an Upsy Daisy Birthday Cake. I baked two round cakes. The one I used for her face and the second I used for her hair. I had to cut out each strand of individually. I took the picture from a colouring … Read more

I made this Upsy Daisy for my daughter’s 2nd birthday and she loved it! I just photocopied a picture of Upsy Daisy and enlarged it. Then I cut it out and placed it on a basic sponge slab with tooth picks and cut it out. I first iced the sides with pink butter icing and … Read more

My daughter is a huge fan of Upsy Daisy from the children’s show “In the Night Garden”. Even though I had very little decorating experience, I couldn’t be talked out of making her an Upsy Daisy Cake for her second birthday. I enlarged a picture of Daisy to cake size and made 3 copies. Using … Read more

I made this Upsy Daisy Cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I hired a Raggedy Ann Wilton cake tin from my local cake shop, and made two cakes which I sandwiched together with jam and buttercream. I then cut the finished cakes to the shape of Upsy Daisy. I bought coloured Regalice from the shop … Read more