{"id":1116,"date":"2026-02-19T14:29:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:57:34","slug":"book-themed-birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/02\/19\/book-themed-birthday-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Book &#8211; Themed Birthday Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another year went by which meant my niece turned 11 in January. I asked what kind of cake she wanted and she had not ideas whatsoever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Christmas, she got a lot of books and so I used that to make a &#8220;Book&#8221; themed cake&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"651\" height=\"869\" src=\"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260103_1501153912.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1117\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260103_1501153912.jpg 651w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260103_1501153912-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the usual cake fillng inside &#8211; vanilla sponge, vanilla buttercream and strawberry jam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"651\" height=\"869\" src=\"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260104_141115289.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1118\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260104_141115289.jpg 651w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260104_141115289-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The outside of the cake was decorated using fondant and rice paper to make teh books. The book spines said variants of &#8220;eleven&#8221; (her age), &#8220;Amber&#8221; (her name) and &#8220;Happy Birthday)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"651\" height=\"869\" src=\"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260103_1500411172.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1119\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260103_1500411172.jpg 651w, http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260103_1500411172-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year went by which meant my niece turned 11 in January. I asked what kind of cake she wanted and she had not ideas whatsoever. For Christmas, she got a lot of books and so I used that to make a &#8220;Book&#8221; themed cake&#8230; It was the usual cake fillng inside &#8211; vanilla sponge, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/02\/19\/book-themed-birthday-cake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book &#8211; Themed Birthday Cake&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}