The birthday cakes you used to make your kids

Back in the 1980s, before children’s birthday parties went all showy and prizes were given to every child at the party for pass the parcel so that no one’s feelings were hurt, the only thing your children really cared about was the look of their birthday cake.

Mothers from everywhere would thoughtfully flick through the pages of the Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake book, looking for the perfect cake for their child’s party.

There were your standard numbers, but there were also choo choo trains, Leonard the Lion, Little Miss Muffet, The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, and Hickory Dickory Watch.

We took a poll around the Starts at 60 office and came up with 10 of our favourites; you probably made them for your children.

Did you make your children’s birthday cakes? What was their favourite?