I was asked to create a cake in the style of Iggle Piggle or a Pinky Ponk for my friend’s grandson on his 3rd birthday. I have been attending an evening class for cake decorating techniques for the last 6 months so thought I would give it a go. Alex is partially sighted so thought … Read more
For this homemade in the night garden first birthday cake – I started off by making a square cake using a packet mix, and cut it into pieces to make a number one. I covered the cake all over in green buttercream icing, and piped some grass using a grass tip around the edges (you … Read more
This In The Night Garden Birthday Cake was for my daughter’s 1st birthday. We were unable to find a cake we liked so decided to give it a go ourselves. We made the sponge cake with jam and cream and used green icing round the cake to make the grass. We then draw the character … Read more
I made this In the Night Garden Birthday Cake Idea for my daughter’s second birthday and she loved it!! Her last year’s one was a disaster!! It’s a chocolate cake with white chocolate butter icing. I got the recipe off the net. I iced the cake using a palette knife but it was really bumpy. … Read more
This First Birthday Iggle Piggle Cake was made by me for my great grandson who was one year old and loved to watch In the Night Garden. I saw a cake like this on the internet and thought it was just perfect for Tyler. Firstly I bake a chocolate flavoured slab cake in a 12″ … Read more
I made this homemade Iggle Piggle birthday cake by using a basic sponge recipe. I used 5 eggs, 315g self raising flour, caster sugar and margarine and 155g plain flour and using a 12″ by 8″ cake tin. I drew a picture of Iggle Piggle on to paper and cut out the different body shapes … Read more
I decided to make my son’s first birthday cake after reading other ideas on this page. I baked a basic sponge cake and cut it into a number one. I then used a package icing coloured it with green food colouring then rolled it out thin. I found this was the hardest to master… after … Read more
I made this Makka Pakka Birthday Cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. He absolutely loved it. I made four 9″ round cakes (white velvet). One was used to carve the head (I did all of the carving by eye, no template used), two cakes were carved into the body (I also placed a wedge of … 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 delicious Makka Pakka Cake for my darling son’s first birthday, everyone said I should post it so others could see how creative I was and the end result was just brilliant. I hired a oval tin for his head and a rectangle tin for the body, hands and legs. I decided on … Read more
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
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