This In the Night Garden Birthday Cake was a cake that I was asked to do for a friend. I’m no professional, but I said I’d have a go, as she couldn’t find one anywhere and didn’t want to pay the £70 quoted by a cake shop in our town. I must admit, I’m rubbish … Read more
I am a mum of 2 little In The Night Garden fans so it was an easy choice to make an Igglepiggle Birthday Cake. It really is easy to do ~ start by making a few basic sponge cakes! I used 3. Recipes on blog: http://somethingcakey.wordpress.com/ Then its just a case of cutting out the … Read more
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 made my cakes a week before and froze. The icing is the marshmallow icing that you melt the marshmallows in the microwave for 40 seconds until they are puffy. You can add your color now or after you add the icing sugar. Add equal parts of mellows to icing sugar. Kneed as you would … Read more
I baked 2 8-inch cakes for this In the Night Garden Gazebo Cake. I cut the dome from one of them and placed it on top of the other one to make the top bit more “pointy”. I used marshmallow fondant to cover the cakes. The middle bit is a toilet roll wrapped by foil … Read more
I made this Iggle Piggle Birthday Cake for my son’s first birthday, he loves watching Iggle Piggle on DVD, so it seemed a logical choice. My friend Megan helped me make this, thank you so much! The sponge is white chocolate, icing is butter cream and face and blanket are made from fondant. Took hours … 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 Iggle Piggle cake for my daughter’s first birthday. She loves In the Night Garden and immediately knew who it was when she saw her cake on her birthday. I made a Victoria sponge for the cake and froze it. When it was semi frozen I cut it in half to put jam … Read more
This n the Night Garden Birthday Cake took a lot of time and effort. It consists of 2 sponge cakes, one on top of the other covered separately in green fondant. The characters are all made of coloured fondant icing, as are the daisies. I made the characters a week before the cake ensuring enough … Read more
I made this Homemade Iggle Piggle Birthday Cake for my son’s 3rd birthday, he was absolutely obsessed with In The Night Garden at that time so I knew it would be a hit. I made a large slab cake using 2 packets of Betty Crocker’s Devils Food cake mix. I enlarged a picture of Iggle … Read more
My son loves In the Night Garden and his favorite character is Makka Pakka. So I thought I’d give it a go. I used 2 different cakes, banana cake for the body and sponge for the head, limbs and sponge. In hindsight though sponge was not the best idea, although easy to shape it doesn’t … Read more
Ever since Julia was 4 months old she has been mesmerized by the cute characters of “In the Night Garden”. And so who else but Iggle Piggle would do for her first birthday cake? I scoured the internet searching for ideas on a Homemade Iggle Piggle Birthday Cake, but all seemed too involved with cutting … Read more