Happy Birthday Banner for Cake
Since decorative writing on a cake sometimes is not practical, I made a banner tied to skewers to poke into the top of any type of cake. I used printed paper goods cut into two-sided triangles that were glued onto a string or yarn. These particular triangles are a finished size of 1.25" wide by 1.5" long. A strip of paper 3" wide when folded makes the final 1.5" long measurement. The backside also has lettering, so I wrote H-A-P-P-Y B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y on a scrap of paper, turned it around and wrote the same letters under it, so I was assured to get the correct letter behind each one when writing on the triangles.