Taking Cake to Kinder need ideas of do's & don'ts ??

[smiles4u]

Hi all,

I'm making a birthday cake tomorrow night for DD to take to 3years old Kinder this Monday morning (as her 4th birthday is this coming Thurs) ...

I rang the Kindergarten this past Friday but the teacher/director was in the middle of a group session so i got the assistant on the phone but she didn't sound confident in her answers to my questions of any do's and don'ts of what to bring or not bring in the form of a birthday cake

I told her it would be just a plain round shaped vanilla cake that i will decorate with bright coloured icing (i'm thinking bright orange icing) and decorate it with smarties (good brand not compound chocolate) ... and stick a number ' 4 ' candle that has coloured spots all over it in the middle of the cake ... I might even pipe little iced bright yellow colour dots in between the smarties.

............................. What do you ladies here on BB think of that ?? .....................................


The Kinder assistant said it sounds like a FUN cake (just what i intended )

The Kinder assistant said as long as there are no nuts, fresh cream & no cooked eggs (??) ... Does that sound right ladies ? Anything as else i should know ?? ... im not out to make the perfect cake as i suck at cakes but didn't wanna take the ' Wrong ' cake so that my DD would be disappointed !!

TIA for any suggestions xoxox

[Kazbah]

Sounds great Smiles

When you take it in, include the recipe and if you're using lollies, just put in the lolly packets as well (with the list of ingredients). M&Ms are made on lines with nuts, so avoid that with your smarties etc.

[smiles4u]

OMG thanks heaps Kaz cause i was considering decorating it with those itty bitty MM's you can get in the plastic tube ... well, it's Smarties for sure then

[luna moth]

OK, you'll hate this, but here's what I want from a cake that comes to kindy/childcare:

* No bright colours. In fact, I prefer no colours at all.
* If it's decorated, do it with dried fruit and maybe glace cherries. Prefer no lollies.
* Definitely no nuts. Prefer no egg as well.
* As natural and sugar-free as possible
* Large cake that is to be cut so that teachers control the portion size. Enormous cupcakes are a nightmare for us.

Sorry!

[Tinks]

Smiles I think it sounds great. You can't please everyone. If the assistant didn't point out any of the kids had allergies then what you're doing should be fine.

DD's kinder had cake rules so I just took bags of lollies in for the kids in the end and they were distributed at the end of the session.

[smiles4u]

OMG now i feel stressed about this cause the assistant i have never met as she clearly works different days to when my DD is there and i just wish i had of spoken with the teacher/director then at least i would feel more confident about her information and answers now but i couldn't ring back as i rang later in day and the assistant could have answered again ... and i have no idea what she meant by ' cooked eggs ' ?? cause at first she said " ah no nuts, no fresh cream and no eggs (then there was a pause from her) oh i mean NO cooked eggs " ... What the heck does she mean ? I was thinking she might have meant like Greeks putting a boil egg in shell sitting in the middle of a cake

It would break my heart that i take the cake to Kinder on Monday morning at 9am and find out the assistant that doesn't work there on a Monday stuffed up with her info, cause it would be so upsetting for my lovely DD who is so looking forward to taking a birthday cake !!

Maybe i could take a cake that is made with no eggs, with icing made from cocoa and put dried fruit on it (glaze cherries even i couldn't eat). But just a normal size round cake tin.

no worries Audax i appreciate your advice do you have a recipe for NO egg cake for a normal size round cake tin ?? ... and what sort of dried fruit ?? Do you mean cut into itty bitty pieces ?? ... (Thanks !!)