40th birthday cake ideas???

parrolet313 · #1 (**permalink**) May1st, 2008

OK - my lil' sis just asked me to make a cake for her 40th - I need some GOOD IDEAS!!! Not TOO cruel tho..........anyone????

elizw · #2 (**permalink**) May1st, 2008

what is her personality? hobbies? style? favorite colors?

parrolet313 · #3 (**permalink**) May1st, 2008

She's a civil engineer......thats about it - no real hobbies or interests, come to think of it. She likes light colors tho - whites, pinks, lt blues - etc.

mssweetie24 · #4 (**permalink**) May1st, 2008

How about something that is cheerful stack cake with stripes of the light colors with maybe flowers butterflies and bows and have them to coordinate with those colors

parrolet313 · #5 (**permalink**) May1st, 2008

I wanted to do a kind of "40th" dig at her - but not too cruel..........

2sdae · #6 (**permalink**) May2nd, 2008

you could do a hill scene with a lady in gumpaste resembling your sis going up that hill but not quite making it with a saying something like, ALMOST UP THAT HILL, OR NOT QUITE OVER THE HILL BUT DEFF UP ON IT LADY!

Amanda · #7 (**permalink**) May2nd, 2008

That's too cute 2sdae! I vote for that one!!

elizw · #8 (**permalink**) May2nd, 2008

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Originally Posted by Amanda

That's too cute 2sdae! I vote for that one!!

me too....funny but not harsh!

cake chick in MS · #9 (**permalink**) May2nd, 2008

I saw one last weekend that had a tombstone at a grave and the stone said "Here lies Lana's Youth".
For my 40th last November, my lovely girlfriends made one shaped like a tombstone complete with RIP on it.
For my 39th birthday I had my then cake lady make one for me to take to a meeting that said "39 and holding" but she upped it and made a hole in the cake and made a frosting person trying to climb out of the hole and it said "39 and STILL holding". LOL

2sdae · #10 (**permalink**) May3rd, 2008

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Originally Posted by cake chick in MS

I saw one last weekend that had a tombstone at a grave and the stone said "Here lies Lana's Youth".
For my 40th last November, my lovely girlfriends made one shaped like a tombstone complete with RIP on it.
For my 39th birthday I had my then cake lady make one for me to take to a meeting that said "39 and holding" but she upped it and made a hole in the cake and made a frosting person trying to climb out of the hole and it said "39 and STILL holding". LOL

that's too cute!