When I was a kid, birthday cakes had simple adornments: some frosting, candles and maybe the guest of honor’s name handwritten in red food dye No. 3. But times have changed. Nowadays, it seems that no child’s party is complete without a sugar-filled masterpiece in the form of a shimmery unicorn head or a Lightning McQueen race car. While the trend may be good for Instagram pics, it’s bad news for parents’ budgets.
You know what makes for excellent birthday cake decor? Random little toys that your kid already has. Case in point: This creation by a mom named Beth Linzell. She picked up a chocolate cake from the store, and then raided her three-year-old’s room for trinkets to place on top of it. She found tractors and Paw Patrol coins, and added some chocolate chips and a sparkler candle. “Kid thought it was the best thing ever to exist,” the mom wrote on Facebook.
My colleague Beth told me she did something similar when her kid requested a cake with a very specific scene involving characters from Cars. “We just ordered a blank cake and arranged toys on top,” she says. Any easy-to-wipe toys would work—dinos, Lego minifigures, plastic fairy dolls, teacups, trains. Get creative. Make a whole diorama if you feel compelled. Just remove them before serving and rinse them off before slyly placing them back into your kid’s toy chest.
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