Princess and the Pea cake and birthday party games (or Prince, as the case may be)

My "Princess and the Pea" cake (or, actually, Prince and the Pea) was not nearly as fancy as some of the others I saw on the internet, but was both fancier & easier than I'd expected. This is to encourage some of you other less-than-professional cake makers out there! I used 2 cakes made in 4 loaf pans; 2 containers of frosting; melted chocolate chips for the headboard & footboard; marshmallow fondant for the pillow, blanket, & crown; and a Nilla Wafer for the prince's head.

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Melting Chocolate Chips

Here is my final product, which was easier than it looks.

a cake shaped like a bed on top of a table next to a person sitting down

Wire Coat Hangers

Over The Bed

Tin Foil

Wish I had a better picture of this part, but my husband rigged up the piece de resistance: a chandelier hanging over the bed for the birthday candles! This was made of a wire coat hanger and two cardboard disks covered with tin foil. (The candles went through holes in the top disk and were melted onto the bottom disk. One end of the hanger was folded and taped under the bottom disk; the other end of the hanger is folded into a triangle underneath the cutting board.)

a birthday cake sitting on top of a table

Who doesn't dig floating fire?

By the way, this was for my son's 7th birthday party at a local theater showing "Princess and the Pea." Boys & girls both loved it - not a single snicker about princesses. We had two themed games. Here, the unfortunately named "Pin the Pea Under the Mattress." (Everybody else tried to put green stickers under the bed; my son put a photo of himself as prince on top.) Green Stickers, Green Sticker, Kid Activities, 7th Birthday

By the way, this was for my son's 7th birthday party at a local theater showing "Princess and the Pea." Boys & girls both loved it - not a single snicker about princesses. We had two themed games. Here, the unfortunately named "Pin the Pea Under the Mattress." (Everybody else tried to put green stickers under the bed; my son put a photo of himself as prince on top.)

two women standing over some white paper bags on the floor with other people around them

In the kids' favorite game -- invented by my son -- we hid a green ball under one of two stacks of pillows. Each child got to sit on both stacks and try to guess which had the pea. If the child guessed right, we added another pillow to each stack. Some kids got up to five pillows before they guessed wrong.

a cake shaped like a crib on a plate with polka dot tablecloths

Recipes | Disney Family

So, here come the inspirations. I borrowed bits and pieces of ideas from various web sites. The head board and foot board, which look so hard, were actually not hard at all using the templates this kind cake-maker posted.