This is cheap and easy way to get a cake of what your child wants. THe instructions were clear and there were a lot of them. Make sure you have the right size cake tin (mine was slightly small) so you don't have to trim off too much. I Iced (roll out icing..easy) the whole cake to start, then added the topper as per the instructions. The topper is not as fragile as you may think, its quite sturdy and does not rip that easily. I had to trim a bit off the bottom of mine as used wrong size tin, did not look disfigured and the all important words where still at the top! Arrived really quickly which was a relief as ordered nearly last minute and saved a whole stack of cash than ordering a fireman sam cake off a bakers!!!