Big Book of Kids Birthday Cakes Review & Giveaway
Nothing is more exciting to a child than their birthday party, and what better way to celebrate than with an unforgettable, handmade cake made especially for them?
Pamela Clark’s Big Book of Kids’ Birthday Cakes (Sterling, April 2014) offers a variety of creative and delicious birthday cake designs. Parents and children alike will be able to choose the perfect cake from topics that range from fantasy and adventure to animals and playtime. A section of numbers also enables parents to truly celebrate their child’s special day by blending their new age with appropriate themes, like a race track in the shape of a four and a friendly giraffe that doubles as the number two.
Boys and girls will delight in pouring through the many colorful and playful options as they attempt to choose their favorite. But with so many wonderful ideas—like fairytale characters, elaborate spacecrafts, and enchanting castles—choosing just one is no easy task.
As a child my mom had this birthday cake book full of big colourful, glossy pictures of really cute and great looking unique cakes. I loved flipping through it and looking at the pictures. When this book arrived I fell instantly in love. It was like I was back in my moms kitchen flipping through that book. Except this one is much, much bigger.
I got a kick out of finding “Little Piggy”, a cake my sister and I had made for my dads birthday years ago. I wasn’t able to find a good picture of the cake. Just a tiny phone pic my sister had taken which is unfortunate because she really turned out well. It just illustrates how easy these cake decoration ideas can be for an amateur to execute.
My favourite cake in the book has to be the “Buzzy Beehive” though, how adorable is this?
Other birthday cake designs include:
• Comical clowns
• Stunning scenes
• Not-so-boring board games
• And many, many more!
About the Author:
Pamela Clark has a passion for food that is reflected in her role as head of a world-famous test kitchen. The team develops and tastes recipes for magazines and cookbooks. She lives in Sydney, Australia.
Win it:
One Frugal Mom Eh reader will win their own copy of the Big Book of Kids Birthday Cakes! Giveaway is open to residents of the USA only and ends on May 18th at 11:59 pm EST. See Giveaway Tools form for Entry and T&C.
Disclosure: I received the above mentioned product in order to facilitate this review. All thoughts and opinions are honest and my own.
My friend did a spongebob cake for my daughters bday party a few years ago and it was awesome!
I made a Thomas cake for my son that was really neat!
saw a little ponies one today and it was just adorable 🙂
A haunted house cake is the most memorable I have seen it had so many great edible details on it
A friend of the family made an amazing Minion cake this year. Thank you
The most memorable cake i saw was a barbie cake I made for my baby girl.
I remember a beautiful white cake where it was died in shades of purple and flowers cascading all over the cake with diamonds. It was gorgeous!!
PAC MAN BDAY CAKE WAS THE BEST,E VEN WITH LITTLE CUPCAKE GHOSTS
I seen A greet tiered wedding cake about 8 tiers.
When my nephew was leaving for the Air Force we had a going away party for him and I made an airplane cake out of a cross cake pan and shaped it into an Air Force detailed plane. I was really proud of that one.
we once bought our daughter a bert and ernie cake which was so adorable
It was probably the most pathetic cake I ever made. It was heart shaped and I made “ME” out of Smarties. Bad break up and I ate most of it myself. 🙂
i would have to say my wedding cake that my mother in law made us
I made alligator cake for daughters birthday last sunday. It was cute.
A memorable cake was our daughter’s wedding cake.
My sister-in-law made my nephew a superhero cake that was pretty awesome!
looked like spilled beer
It was a Wild West Cake from my childhood. Cowboys, Indians, forts amd teepees. It was cool.
An upright panda bear cake.
I had a special Monster High cake made for my daughter last year and it is the most memorable cake Ive seen so far!
My wedding cake.
The most memorial cake for me is a cake I tried to make for my son. He liked trains so I thought I would bake him a cake and decorate it like a train. Well….. In the end, It did not even resemble a train lol!
i had a pink cheetah / zebra cake for my graduation party that was my favorite cake ever
I saw a lego cake once, it was so cool.
A beautiful dragon cake.
My daughters 3rd birthday, my mom and I made her a Cinderella cake. Complete with the castle and the prince. It took all day and night to finish but it was amazing!
The most memorable cake I have ever seen was a combination sugar art and cake showpiece with a Native American theme!
I made a lady bug cake using a store bought pound cake and everyone loved it.
Any homemade cake i got was memorable!
I saw a Super Mario Bros. Cake once, it was awesome!
I made a rainbow cake for my friend and it was awesome.
I once saw a cake that was half willy wonka themed and half nightmare before Christmas themed. It was a wedding cake and it was great craftsmanship!
The horse cake my daughter decorated for an assignment in fourth grade.
The cake decorated like Holly Hobby for one of my childhood birthdays.
The most memorable cake I have ever seen was a pink and black handbag shaped cake that my sister made.
i had my son a ice cream bd cake made in the shape of a german shepard dog,he has autiam and loves dogs ,so it was really cool!
The most memorable was a Harry Potter creation
a co worker made an amazing wedding cake last year
my niece wanted a princess cake and it was amazing so life like
A turtle cake, it seems so real I was afraid to eat it! lol
An elephant cake I made for my son’s second birthday. I couldn’t believe the work it took, and it still didn’t look all that great!
I remember a kadipiler birthday cake ~ really about 15 bright colored cupcakes on there sides touching & the first on had the face ~ so darn cute ~ the kids loved picking there favorite color ♥
The most memorable cake would be a Winnie the Pooh 3d cake with his honey pot sitting under the honey tree.
My most memorable cake was my youngest brothers 50th Birthday cake, it turned out really nice and he loved it!
Pretty much anything that was on Ace of Cakes.
A wedding cake completely covered in scroll work.
My most memorable cake was my sons 1st Birthday cake. It was a dinosaur themed party, so he had a dinosaur cake. I wouldn’t say the cake was amazing, but just the fact that it was his 1st cake makes it my most memorable.
I made a beach birthday cake for my grandaughter. I used poly pocket dolls for the people.
our wedding cake 🙂
um, just a question…the giveaway says open to US only..is that correct??
My cousin makes many beautiful cakes and she made my wedding cake as well. It was the most beautiful cake I have seen and that was 38 years ago.
when i was younger i went to my best friends birthday party and her mom made her the prettiest barbie cake i have ever seen. i was so jealous of her cake. til this day i tell myself that i will one day make one just like it for my future daughter.
my friend made a Lego cake for my grandson.
Hmm, I am not sure if this is appropriate for here or not, but I made one of my girl friends a pen*s cake for her birthday one year!
We had a really cute pirate cake with graham cracker for sand, one year.
my daughter had a 3d eeyore cake! She’s in love with it!!
It is hard to choose one as the most memorable. I make 3D fondant/rice cereal cakes myself, so I spend a lot of time looking at photos for inspiration. My favorite cake that I have done was an ocean themed wedding cake with a 3D octopus on top.
A Dora cake for my granddaughter, it was so amazing and colorful!
My cousin’s wife mad one to look like a purse! I was very pretty!
Our renewal wedding cake that our kids had done for us having our orginal wedding picture on the cake.
The most memorable cake I’ve seen was a Super Mario cake that was just adorable
My friend made a Zombie Barbie cake. It was the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
the most memorable cake I have ever seen is on tv – Cake Boss comes to mind
when I was in High school one year my mom had a piano cake made for me. also my wedding cake was memorable
mario galaxy cake
The most memorable cake I’ve seen was at one of my daughter’s friends birthday party. It was in the shape of a My Little Pony — I don’t know how they did it!
my wedding cake was so good
My most memorable cake was a cake in the shape of a Tiffany’s box!
The most memorable cake was a Disney princess castle!
I would have to say my daughters 10th birthday cake 0 even though it wasnt anything near perfect but my husband and I made her a 3 tier cheetah cake on our own. there were many messed up spots but she loved it which made us sooo happy
For me it was the giant 3D cupcake cakes I made for my daughter’s first birthday, that matched the plates, napkins etc. I am not a baker, or decorator, but I make her cake every second year now, and have done some good ones, but that one is my favourite because it started with that one. (2 identical actually, one each for the family party and the friends party). 🙂
hmm, I think that was my wedding cake that I made from scratch, including the marzipan!