Decorate a Children’s Birthday Cake With Toys
When I was a child, birthday cakes were decorated with simple decorations: frosting, candles, and possibly the guest of honor handwritten in red # 3 food coloring. But times have changed. These days, it seems like no children’s party is complete without a sugar masterpiece in the form of a glittery unicorn head or a Lightning McQueen race car. While this trend may be good for Instagram photos, it’s bad news for parental budgets.
Do you know what makes a great birthday cake decor? Random little toys that your child already has. Case in point: this is the creation of a mom named Beth Linzell. She took a chocolate cake from the store and then searched her three-year-old’s room to put trinkets on top of it. She found tractors and coins from Paw Patrol, and threw in some chocolate and sparklers. “The kid thought it was the best thing that ever existed,” my mother wrote on Facebook.
My colleague Beth told me she did something similar when her child asked for a cake with a very specific scene with the characters from Cars . “We just ordered an empty cake and put the toys on top,” she says. Any toys that are easy to wipe down will do – dinosaurs, Lego minifigures, plastic fairy dolls, teacups, trains. Get creative. If you feel the need, make a whole diorama. Simply remove them before serving and rinse off before carefully placing them back in your child’s toy chest.