Wizard of Oz birthday cakes  When my daughter had her 4th birthday, we used lots of ideas from this website for her Wizard of Oz party. The one thing I did on my own were the cakes, so I'd like to pass on those ideas.  We had a lot of guests, so I made two cakes. GLINDA CAKE: One cake was a doll cake of Glinda the Good Witch, which I made using a Glinda Barbie doll and a Wilton doll cake pan.  The frosting was pink rolled fondant with silver drages all over it for Glinda's stars, and I made buttercream frosting (www.wilton.com)for the undercoating the fondant sticks to. The www.wilton.com website has all the doll cake directions you'd need, and you can buy the pan there, too.  Be sure to check the discussion boards for hints on the doll cake pan and how to make a doll cake with a Barbie.  For example, I found I needed to bake almost two boxes of mix in the pan for a good, full cake. One thing no one told me until later was to cut the fondant skirt in a circle--like a huge doughnut with a small hole in the middle for the body--and slip it over Barbie's head onto the cake. Be sure to wrap the Glinda Barbie in plastic wrap to protect her before putting her in the cake and frosting her so she can still talk after she's been in a cake!  Glinda should be available on ebay if she's not in the stores still.   YELLOW BRICK ROAD CAKE: The other cake I made was a sheet cake with the yellow brick road, Dorothy and a rainbow.  It was very easy but looked spectacular.  First, I used a special Wilton cake pan to bake a rectangular cake with perfectly square corners.  Then, I made the huge rainbow out of very thick sugar cookie dough (I like the packaged Betty Crocker mix) and baked it.  I made it extra long so that it could stick into the cake for three inches on each side at the bottom and still look large and well-shaped above the cake. Next, I mixed two kinds of frosting, buttercream and Royal (both recipes on www.wilton.com). The Royal Icing I divided into five parts and colored bright pink, yellow, green, blue and purple. (Red food coloring tastes terrible and I hate orange.) Coloring the frostings was what took the most time.  All the colors were Wilton paste colors, because I think they give the most deep, vibrant colors.  I used a knife to carefully frost the sugar cookie in the rainbow colors in the order listed above.  If I knew then what I know now, I would have used decorator's tubes to outline and then fill in the stripes of color.  You could also use edible marking pens (Wilton, again) to measure and draw lines on the cookie before you frost, if you want it to be really perfect.  I did not frost the last three inches of the bottom on each side of the cookie, where it would stick into the cake.  This cookie needs to dry overnight to harden the frosting.  The buttercream frosting I colored two colors, a little yellow for the road and a border around the bottome of the cake and a lot of green for grass. I frosted a smooth yellow road wandering down the middle of the cake and over the front edge to the bottom of the cake.  It was narrower at the back and wider at the front to give an illusion of depth. Immediately sprinkle it with yellow edible glitter so the glitter will stick. I then frosted the rest of the front and sides a smooth dark green. The rest of the cake top on both sides of the road I frosted green with a decorater bag and a cake frosting tip used especially to make grass. This was one of my first cakes ever, but I found the long grass super easy to make with only a few minutes' practice.  Finally, I used a star tip to put a yellow border around the bottom of the cake.  I didn't know what I was doing, but it still looked pretty good! The cake was then finished except for a few last touches. A small plastic Dorothy (by Enesco--found on line) went on the road, and I stuck in little red flowers from the wedding section of our local craft store all over the grass, so it became the poppy field.  At the last minute before the party (so it wouldn't get soggy) I stuck the giant rainbow cookie in the back of the cake so it arched over the yellow brick road.  I hope you are inventive and can figure out a better way to get the rainbow in or on the cake, but that it how I did it--just shoved it in.  Be sure to use skewers or dowels angled against the back of the cookie to help hold it up. You don't want it to fall over backwards and break off the back of your cake.  When serving the cake, we took out the cookie and with a sharp knife cut a slice of it for each child (cut across the colors so each plate has a complete rainbow-colored slice). The plates looked so pretty with their cake, ice cream and rainbow cookie slice.  I hope you have fun with your Wizard of Oz party. We sure did!