This post is for all my wonderful frugal baking moms (or dads) that dislikes spending lots of money on birthday cakes from the store. :-) This is an EASY, non fondant birthday cake idea.
PRESENT and BOW cake!
My youngest daughter's birthday was yesterday. :-)
She had a blast jumping for HOURS at a bounce house with her friends.
Last year, I was caught off guard by how fast her birthday came up that I didn't bake her a cake but spent nearly $40.00 on a dumb :-) unicorn cake from the store. I told myself I was NEVER going to buy a store bought cake again.
Last years expensive store bought cake. /-:
I am happy to say, that I like this cake a lot better AND it cost me under 10 bucks!
The funny thing is, I let my daughter look on Pinterest with me in attempt to find the perfect birthday cake idea. When we came to this one, I said, "HEY, what do you think of this?!?"
Yes, it's a cake I made for one of my other kids that came up on Pinterest :-) I'll admit, I did talk it up a bit and convinced her it outdid all the crazy hard fondant cakes that were also showing up! I made a partial fondant cake for her FIRST birthday and that was the LAST time - hahahaha!
So my friends,
1.) Bake your standard cake in a 9x 13 pan and after you frost it 2.) add Fruit by the Foot fruit leather as the bow. 3.) Pick whatever fun round candies you want as the polka dots.
I have used Spree candy, M&M's and Smarties. I added a few gummy butterflies to make this girly girl daughter extra happy.
By the way, you can easily turn this into a BOY CAKE by using blue frosting and brown/orange M&M's.
At the end I let her finish off the decorating with mini M&M's. :-)
She LOVED the cake, and I LOVED that it only took me a LITTLE bit of time and a LOT less money!
You can check out my other post on Easy Birthday and Cupcake ideas or my post on fun kid birthday games.
ENJOY my friends!!
As always, I hope to stir your Creative Juices and if possible, do that frugally!
