Butter icing childrens cake ideas?

I need like recipes for cakes and how to make them for children's birthday. I was wanting really decorative ones, preferably not really really impossibly hard to make, and also with butter icing i think its called not the other stuff that no one eats. thanks :) i was hoping for like shapes like animals and like bouncy castles and things i know its probably quite hard without using the rolling icing. any links? or pictures?

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1. THE BEST BIRTHDAY CAKE, PROMISE! KIDS WILL LOVE THIS! INGREDIENTS 200g plain flour 3 tablespoons Bird’s custard powder 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 4 eggs 225g soft butter 200g caster sugar 2–3 tablespoons milk FOR THE BUTTERCREAM FILLING 125g icing sugar 4 teaspoons Bird’s custard powder 75g soft unsalted butter 11/2 teaspoons boiling water FOR THE CHOCOLATE ICING 60ml water 2 tablespoons golden syrup 125g caster sugar (or use 50g if using milk chocolate) 175g dark chocolate 1 pot hundreds and thousands Serving Size : Makes up to 12 slices, though small ones METHOD 1.Make sure everything you need is at room temperature before you start. Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/180°C, and butter and line two 20cm sandwich tins. 2.Put all of the above ingredients except the milk, into a food processor. Process to a smooth batter, and then add the milk a tablespoon at a time to make a soft dropping consistency. Divide between the two cake tins and bake for 20 minutes. The cakes will have risen and feel spookily puffy; this is because of the cornflour in the custard powder. 3.Let the tins sit on a cooling rack for 5 minutes and then turn them out on to the 4.rack, peeling away the paper. 5.FOR THE BUTTERCREAM ICING - Process the icing sugar and custard powder to get rid of any lumps, and then add the butter, processing again to make the buttercream come together. Feed the boiling water down the funnel with the motor running to make the filling easier to spread. Then sandwich the cooled sponges together with the custardy buttercream. 6.FOR THE CHOCOLATE ICING - Combine the water, syrup and sugar in a saucepan, stirring to dissolve over a low heat. 7.Let it come to the boil and then take it off the heat. 8.Break up the chocolate into small pieces if you are not using chocolate buttons (as I do for cooking, but good quality not confectionary standard), and then add to the pan, swirling it around to cover in the hot liquid. Leave to melt for a few minutes, and then whisk the icing to make it smooth and shiny. Pour over the buttercream filled cake, letting it drip down the sides, and then sprinkle generously with the hundreds and thousands before the icing sets. 9.Prong with candles, light them and sing. :) hope i helped!
2. ok you can take 500grams of icing Sugar 125 grams of butter or margarine and 25 ml of milk mix the butter till creamy add icing sugar and mix well if it gets to dry put the milk in you can also put food colouring in about 1 of 2 drops.mix well if its to sweet you can put n fey drops of lemon juice in to taste . enjoy
3. Plain butter icing is simply butter whipped with icing sugar until it's creamy. I'm not sure of the proportions but it should be easy to find online. It can be flavoured with various things, such as lemon, orange, coffee, chocolate or vanilla. A very basic sponge cake is: 3 eggs and their weight in each of self-raising flour, sugar and butter. Beat the sugar and butter together until creamy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time until fully mixed. Sift the flour and fold it in. Add any flavouring, except chocolate. For chocolate flavour, remove 3 tablespoons of the flour before adding to the butter, sugar and egg mixture and replace with three tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa. For coffee flavour, use Camp Coffee, a brand of liquid coffee. Put the cake mixture in two cake tins and bake. Here's a butter icing recipe I found with a very quick search: http://www.recipes4us.co.uk/Sauces/butter_icing________veg____cd___.htm
4. add icing sugar and strawbberry sauce add selfraising flour
5. For lots of ideas for birthday cakes simply type in in your google search bar .. kid birthday cake photos ... and click on the links many will come up and in full color.. to give you ideas ,also Wlilton.com has many ideas and they have a website for great recipes go to cooks.com and allrecipes,com they are simply the best for recipes just type in cake in the search bar and then buttercream icing for icing there are so many kinds of great icings for cakes Maybe you would like to make a rainbow cake with two different kinds of jello and ice it with 1 package instant pudding, 1 cup cold milk blend together then add 1 tub cool whip so good so easy too you can sprinkle little candies or candy confetti over and can cut this cake into animal shapes or a dragon , add a little food coloring before frosting .. fun and easy too! The rainbow cakes and poke cakes are on these recipe sites also~~~EDIT~~found ..familyfun.com go there and click on partries at the top banner then scroll down on left side to birthday cakes lots of ideas and color pictures and they also have lots of recipes ,you should find exzactly what you are lookinfg for