Wish somebody special a happy birthday by making your own sprinkles from scratch with this fun, festive recipe ... coconut, cookbook author Hetal Vasavada's slim, tall layer cake captivates ...

but it replicates the effects better than I ever could have imagined before testing recipes for this book. Use this cake as the basis for everything from birthday cakes to strawberry shortcake.

And, for many of us, the recipes and those seductive photos ... As Tim borrowed his mother's Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book, now wrapped in plastic to protect its ageing ...