Birthday cake ideas (shape and decoration)

Help.
I want to make a nice cake for my dd's birthday. I already have a very easy choc cake recipe, so that's not the problem. I just need some good ideas on how to make it a bit nicer, without going crazy. Like cutting it into a fun shape and using easy, fun icing.
Does anyone have any ideas or maybe sites they can refer me to?
Thanks!
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Posted: Wed, Nov 11 2009, 7:23 am Post subject:

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When my son was turning four he was very into his plastic Bob the Builder toys. I made a cake in a 9x13 pan and frosted it plain. Then I washed the plastic toys well, and placed them on top of the cake for a custom Bob the Builder cake. I probably wrote Happy Birthday on it as well, but I can't remember.

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I used to make some easy cakes for birthdays in school that didn't require much time. I found the website - www.coolestbirthdaycakes.com - that has a LOT of simple stuff. There's some more complicated ones too, but maybe you can find something you like.
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Posted: Wed, Nov 11 2009, 9:12 pm Post subject:

A easy one is to cut the cake into the shape of the number & then decorate.

If you have experience decorating, check out the sites mentioned above. Otherwize, be prepared for a few hours of work.

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go to youtube they have 1000s of videos how to make diff. funky cakes from juicy pocketbooks to a barbiedoll to a teddy bear

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I used marzipan once and it was really easy. I iced the cake green with icing that I made (you can probably buy ready made) and made marzipan trains and tracks. you could adapt this to almost any theme.

for a girl you can make a round half ball shaped cake (bake in a metal bowl) ice white or pink and put the top half of a barbie type doll in the middle.