It has been obvious in my mind for some time what the theme for Jenson’s 2nd birthday party would be. Both boys love watching Raa Raa The Noisy Lion and Jenson in particular is a big fan and would probably watch it all day long alongside his other favourite, Peppa Pig!
Raa Raa The Noisy Lion Birthday Cake
I am not very good at using fondant icing but I decided to bite the bullet and give it a go using some for the Raa Raa cake. I opted for a triple layer chocolate marble cake, sandwiched together and covered in chocolate buttercream and then decorated with icing and orange flavoured chocolate buttons.
Raa Raa The Noisy Lion Birthday Cake And Party Food
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The cake batter filled 3 x 25cm pie pans It served 18 and were good sized portions but smaller slices would have served more guests!
Author: Jenny Paulin
Recipe type: desserts
Serves: 18
Ingredients
- *FOR THE SPONGES*
- 375g unsalted butter
- 375g caster sugar
- 225ml cola
- 300g self raising flour
- 75g cocoa powder
- 6 eggs
- 1 tube of bright orange liquid gel food colouring
- *FOR THE FROSTING & DECORATION*
- 2 tubs Betty Crocker chocolate buttercream
- (the boys cousin cant eat dairy and this is dairy free so just as easy to use it as make my own with dairy free spread and tastes yummy!)
- 2 bags of Tate & Lyle orange buttons
- 1 pink marshmallow
- 1 packet of yellow fondant icing
- 1 packet of orange fondant icing
- 1 packet of black fondant icing
- (I had left overs of all 3)
- 1 large chocolate button
- 4 flaked almonds
- 2 tsp of jam, warmed slightly (I used raspberry)
Instructions
- Pre heat oven to 180oC / 160oC fan
- grease and line your cake tins
- melt the butter and cola in a saucepan over a low heat until melted
- take 2 bowls:
- - in one add the coca powder, half the qty of sugar and 112g of the flour
- - in the other add the remaining sugar and flour
- Beat 3 eggs into each bowl of dry ingredients
- divide the butter and cola mix between the two bowls
- Mix all the ingredients in each bowl
- In the bowl that does not contain the cocoa powder, all the whole tube of orange food colouring and mix again to distribute the colour in the batter
- Pour the batter from each bowl into the cake tins - each bowl needs to be divided between each cake tin as you want to create a marbled effect. Once the tins have been filled with the orange and chocolate batter mixes, swirl the end of a wooden spoon through the batter to create a marbled effect.
- Place in the oven and cook for about 30 minutes until cooked through properly and then
- allow to cool completely
- Once cooled, sandwich each sponge with the buttercream and then cover the cake with the buttercream too.
- Add the orange buttons around the perimeter of the cake
- To make the fondant face and mane, I drew around the cake pan onto grease proof paper. I then drew Raa Raa's face and ears, hair etc.. within the circle and traced all of his features onto the different coloured fondant icings (which had been rolled out) and then cut them out. I stuck them onto the buttercream using the warmed jam. The buttercream was the same colour as Raa Raa's mane so this meant I did not need a brown coloured fondant icing (phew!).
- I then cut a large chocolate button in half to make the eyebrows, broke 4 flaked almonds in half to make his teeth and sliced the end of a pink marshmallow to make his tongue.
That was it – my Raa Raa The Noisy Lion Cake was done – hurrah!
Raa Raa The Noisy Lion Themed Party Food
I like to think of ways of presenting party food to the guests which are a little different and in keeping with the theme. This year to make life easier and not to make far too much food (my mistake with previous parties – I seriously under estimated how little children eat at birthday parties in the past!), I decided to plate up the food for each child just before the party began. The children were aged from 2 to 8 so I tried to do a good mix of food.
I made two plates – a savoury and sweet one and they each contained the following
**The Savoury Plate **
Cubby Buggy Hot Dog
a roll filled with tomato sauce and sausages and wheels were made using grapes and cocktail sticks
Jungle Drum
sausage roll
Flutterfly
a circle of ham, topped with a smaller circle of cheese and topped with a green grape cut in half as wings and a red grape sliced long ways as the head with 2 twiglet halves for antennas
Hufty Hooty Sticks
breadsticks
Zebby Snacks
cheesy puffs and hula hoops
(just puffs for the birthday boy being only 2)
Crocky’s Wobbly Teeth
cucumber sticks
Raa Raa’s Whistle
a party blower (well it was a noisy lion party!)
**The Sweet Plate** 
Topsy’s Musical Stones
2 iced biscuits
Raa Raa’s Favourite Fruity Things
fruit on a stick
Topsy’s Book
mini flapjack
Jingly Jangly Jungle Jelly
orange jelly
Jungle Jiggle Choob
fromage frais in a tube
Flutteflies
2 butterfly sweets
Each child also had an Ooo Ooo banana and strawberry smoothie
It was a successful jingly jangly jungle party for Jenson 🙂
( I was sent some party accessories eg, the blue table cloths the party blowers and party string from Asda which I used at the party which proved very useful)
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Thank you xx
Thank you xx
LOVE that cake! 🙂
I love how inventive you are when it comes to party food. Well done.
Love the photos too. Still can’t believe Jenson is 2! xx
Wow I really love your themed parties. You put so much thought into them. The cake is fantastic and the snacks looks great too. Hope it was a really great day!
Even more inventive birthday party food, you excel yourself! Why do you use cola? And I love that first photo of Jenson looking at his cake.
Fantastic cake. Well done 🙂
Wow, that cake looks fantastic! Hope Jenson had a wonderful birthday 🙂 You are too clever Jenny. I’ll be picking your brains for my birthday parties LOL x
This looks amazing Jenny, you are so creative x
thanks Katie, I try my best x
thank you and please do 🙂 x
thanks Jo x
thank you. Years ago i found a recipe which used cola – it makes the batter light and airy x
thanks Lauren. i cannot believe it too 🙁 wont be long until its Harry’s turn x
Super!!
My nephew would love this – the themed food is super cute xx
The cake looks amazing and all the Raa Raa themed snacks are great. I hope he had a lovely birthday….looks like lots of fun was had 🙂
thank you he did x
thank you 🙂 x
Another absolutely fabulous party. I’m going to have to try adding the cola aren’t I- and I have a soda stream now too.
Thanks for sharing with Motivational Monday
I love the idea of orange flavoured chocolate buttons and Raa Raa looks fabulous 🙂 (I’ve got the theme tune in my head now) Thanks for linking to Celebration Cakes and Bakes x
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