Looking for a Cute Cut to Shape Type Cake for My Son's 1St Birthday

When my ds turned two we made a car cake I found in a magaazine. All you need is one standard round cake pan, make cake according to directions. Then when its cooled and ready cut the cake in half and turn it on its side so it looks like the body of a vw bug. We iced it, stuck on oreo cookies ofr the wheels, different color icing designed into windows, fruit loops for headlights and taillights. You can use your imagination with different candies for different parts of the car but you get the idea, it was a huge hit and was pretty easy, the best part was that I didn';t have to buy one of the expensive fancy shaped cake pans to make it. YOu could try kaboose.com and familyfun.com for more cake ideas.
Good luck and Happy Birthday to your little one.

A friend of mine did a 3-D bear cake. REALLY cute, but a bit of work to decorate it. I can send you a pic if you want.

Check out Annabel Karmel books.
Here's her website
www.annabelkarmel.com/

i have done this for every birthday in house, so what i do is i decide on a shape or theme, and then look for that specifically, either a cut or shaped pan, or just a design to try drawing on a regular shape (my son had a tractor shaped pan for his first, and we drew a thomas train scene on a rectangular cake for his second, etc) i found this method to be a bit easier than trying to sort through books or countless pics/instructions online of cakes i really had no interest in =) good luck

I have a kids cake book and one of the cake designs is a ckae shaped like the number 1. i used this cake for my sons first birthday. If You would like I could scan the page and email it to you. I can also scan the cake recipe and the frosting recipe if you need them. just send me your email address. to mine which is: ____@____.com I am happy to help. I bought the cake book from my nieces fundraiser and it was the one of the best things I ever bought.

Go to Micheals craft store they have cake designs there