I just got a call from a good friend who asked me if I would make her a cake for her birthday party next week. I was thrilled someone liked my cakes enough to ask me so I quickly said yes.

I asked her what she wanted it to look like and she said she didn't care to just make it cute.

So I need help. What would you do? She loves girly things. Pink is her favorite color. The party is going to be at a scrapbooking place and they will be scrapbooking from 11:00am until midnight.

I was thinking of doing something that looked like a scrapbook but then I tossed that idea out as I don't do scrapbooking and have no idea what I would do.

If you guys have any ideas or cute girly looking cakes I would love to see them.

Thanks for your help. Everyone here is the best!
Joanne

well, going with the girly thing, a purse cake, a pretty round cake with circles in different shades of pink (like ashton and demi's cake), flowers, anything like that

going with the scrapbooking thing, a cake carved to look like a xyron cutter (definitely a scrapper thing) would be so cool, you could make it pink. let me look for photos quick.

If I were you, I would re-visit the scrap book "theme" idea, especially if you work with fondant. You can make a sheet or square cake, with all kinds of different colors, and cut out pink flowers, etc....... They use stamps, buttons, and it's all different textures (how do I know? I'm a beginner scrap-booker-lady!) =) I really love going to a craft store & looking at all their paper, and you could make the birthday message so cute. A lot of the books are square in shape, and you could do a 2" high cake, so that's a little easier. Maybe make the main color theme in pink. At the moment, I can't think of a scrapbooking website, but you can try doing a google search.

Or - if you really don't want to attempt it, maybe just make her a lovely pink cake. Maybe a flower, or a ladybug or something that you've always wanted to attempt? My friend asked me to bring a cake to her Summer BBQ so her friends & other parents at her childrens' school could sample my cakes... she meant a sheet cake, but I brought the beehive cake you can see in my gallery.

I just think you should make it a very fun experience for YOU! Maybe a Present cake or something that her guests may not realize is a cake (I love those).

Good luck deciding, it's tough!

http://www.xyron.com/enUS/Products/Xyron_510.html
that's a xyron, make it pink


ooooooooor, i like these kinds of cakes:

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=favpics&cat=0&pos=-26689
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=circles&cat=0&pos=14&search=circles

and here's some purse cakes

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=purse&cat=0&pos=6&search=purse
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=purse&cat=0&pos=14&search=purse

It's so funny how we can't wait to do this and that, but when someone actually gives us the go ahead to do whatever, we are just dumfounded!

I think revisiting the scrapbook theme is definitely a good idea....especially if you have access to edible images! There are some adorable ideas in the gallery and/or searching for scrapbook on the internet will yield a lot of page ideas that you might be able to translate into cake. Good luck....have fun!