Digger cake
You don’t need to be an engineer to make this impressive construction site chocolate birthday cake, just a few toys, some KitKat bars, sweeties and creative flair!
Bake two chocolate cakes, sandwich them together with icing and ice them all over. Create and excavated area as in the picture, and press Kit-Kat fingers into the icing all the way around the cake. Snap the ends off to follow the edge of the excavated area.
Lastly, have some fun and use your imagination, using toy trucks, cake crumbs and smarties to create an excavation scene on the cake.
Find the full recipe here: www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/digger-cake.
Chocolate owl cake
A fun chocolate birthday cake decorated with buttons, biscuits and marzipan – bound to be a hit with young children!
You will need to bake a square (18cm) and a round (20cm) chocolate cake and make enough chocolate icing to cover both cakes.
To assemble, place the round cake on a large wooden board or tray (the cake will need to be served on this). Place the round cake tin on the square cake about 12cm from one edge and cut around the edge of the tin. Remove the smaller piece and place at one end of the round cake to represent the ears.
Using the remains of the square cake cut almost in half to give an oblong (for the fence) and a semi-circle (for the wings). Place the oblong at the bottom of the owl cake. Slice the semi-circle in half horizontally through the middle. Arrange one piece each side of the round cake to make the wings.
Spread the butter icing all over the cake.
Use Flake bars to create feathers on the wings and chocolate fingers to make the fence. Use icing and chocolate buttons to decorate the owl’s face and body, and yellow marzipan to make the feet and beak.
Full recipe here: www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2303680/chocolate-owl-cake