Racing cake

 Demetra Sandenbergh - Hartswater

Cars cake

Carrot cake I made for my boys 2nd "Cars" party. Cream cheese icing tastes great but not the easiest to work with.

Pippa Doyle

Figure 8 - Car Cake

Sharon Wall - Cape Town
Princess Grace Cakes

Race track

Nasrene Sheik

Cars - 3 years

For my youngest son’s 3rd birthday, he wanted a Cars birthday.

Using ice-cream cones, Marie biscuits and orange icing I was able to make “road cones”. We had Checkered flag biscuits on the table as well as chips, chomps and jelly “racing car” sweets to nibble.

As a party favour, each child got some Cars play-dough. I bought small plastic containers from the Plastics-shop, and Cars stickers. I then made a bulk amount of red play-dough and filled the containers. I found a recipe for play dough a few years ago in the “Growing up with a Smile” book by Liz Senior & Karen Hopkins. To make your own play-dough you will need:

· 2 cups of flour
· 1 cup of salt
· 4 tablespoons cream of tartar
· 2 cups of water
· 2 tablespoons oil
· Food colouring
Mix dry ingredients, add water and oil. Mix to make a dough. Place in a saucepan on a low heat. Add two drops of food colouring. Stir until the dough pulls away from the pan. Knead to spread the colour. Store in an airtight container.

Bernadine - CAPE TOWN

Hot Wheels Racing Party - 4 years

Boys & Cars!

My son used to carry as many cars as possible in his two little hands. There was even a time that the cars would go to bed with him, and he didn’t seem to mind rolling over them in the middle of the night! When he reached the age of 4, the car madness was at its peak and so a Racing Party was the obvious choice! In keeping with the theme, we used some of my son’s bigger cars as “centre-pieces” for the snacks.

We have tried over the years to have the parties close to lunch time, so that we can have “proper” food to eat. We decided to braai various kinds of sausage to suite almost all diets. The “boerewors rolls” were a hit and we have done this almost every year since then. The cake was a yellow racing car (my son’s favourite colour), and as much as I’d like to take credit for the cake I can’t, as I’ve always been too scared to make my children's cakes – thank goodness for cake businesses!

Bernadine - CAPE TOWN