@Unlucky wants me to use the medium of polls to help make a decision, as is the style around here.
I have narrowed down the choice for R’s 2nd birthday cake to three designs, below, with various pros and cons to each:
Option 1: Giant Donut
+thanks to Steve Antony’s brilliant Mr Panda series of books, R really likes donuts (despite only having had a couple to eat) so the visual of this will be good - I will make it with chocolate icing and the correct colour sprinkles to make it look like the giant donut which features in I’ll Wait, Mr Panda
+pretty quick to decorate
-it will make way too much cake because I only have a large sized ring pan and will have to make two cakes for it, which means…
-it is a bit of faff having to bake two cakes
-will need to buy a few different colours to do the giant sprinkles.
Option 2: Building Site
+R is really into construction stuff at the moment (loves wearing the high vis vest and hard hat my dad got him, always picking out books with construction themes at the library)
+both the cake and decorating it will be very quick to do.
+this will be the easiest design to make look good
-I will need to find some cheap, appropriately sized vehicles and/or builders to put on it.
Option 3: Fire Engine
+another thing that R is super into right now
+produces an appropriate amount of cake
-will take quite a lot of time to decorate as the cake will need shaping, red icing will take two coats, sugarpaste will need colouring/rolling/shaping/texturing.
-definitely the largest potential to look awful if I get it wrong.
-need to get the most different things for decorating.
Which one would you choose if you were a two-year-old?
- Option 1: Giant Donut
- Option 2: Building Site
- Option 3: Fire Engine
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Which one would you choose if you were the one making the cake?
- Option 1: Giant Donut
- Option 2: Building Site
- Option 3: Fire Engine
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Questions and chat encouraged, including general birthday cake chat.