Sufficiently that she began to get quite tetchy when other people helped themselves to slices the following day - in the end we had to insist that either she eat the remainder or we did, otherwise it would get stale

Thanks!

Ha! Yes there was some googling to verify it was a realistic ladybird despite the lack of food colouring!

Thanks!

Quite a lot of it went the first day and then G. got upset that other people were eating her cake. So then we had to sit and look at it for a couple of days before issuing an "either you eat the cake or we do" ultimatum.

Absolutely!!!