DIY children's birthday cake

Today, a child’s birthday cannot be complete without such an obligatory component of a children’s feast as a beautiful children’s birthday cake.

An original children's birthday cake or for any other children's holiday is not only a delicious dessert for children invited to such an important event, but also a very beautiful sweet gift for the little birthday boy and girl.

Fairytale children's cakes for boys and magical children's cakes for girls today can be compared with a real work of art, because if you order a children's birthday cake from a pastry chef, believe me, you will receive a gorgeous children's cake.

Professionally made children's birthday cakes will not only delight children with their taste, such an incredible festive dessert, made by real masters of their craft, will amaze both children and adults with its stunning appearance.

Yes, undoubtedly, professionally prepared sweets are very beautiful desserts, but it is much more interesting when a mother bakes such an expected children's birthday cake at home, and decorates a children's cake for a boy or a children's cake for a girl no worse than a pastry chef.

Knowing this, the News In Time team decided to help mothers find ideas for our dear mothers who, on the eve of their baby’s name day or any other children’s holiday, are looking for tips and photo tips on how to decorate children’s cakes themselves, creating an unusually beautiful themed children’s cake that is sure to Both the child and the guests will like it.

Choosing children's cakes: decor, ideas, tips on how to decorate a children's cake

When it comes to a festive feast, the question of how to decorate a children's cake at home is primarily of concern to mothers.

Since children's cakes are usually served at the end of the holiday, they should make a special impression on everyone present.

A children's birthday cake should not only be beautiful and tasty. It must be made from high-quality products, preferably without preservatives and all kinds of chemicals that are so often used in cooking.

Since we cook in our kitchen, we will calmly decorate the children's cake at home using the best and highest quality products and ingredients.

From cookies

Cake ingredients:

cookies (sugar) – 310 gr.;
chocolate (preferably bitter) – 2 bars;
butter (butter) – 210 gr.;
vanilla sugar - a small pinch;
For decoration, you can take multi-colored dragees.

Sequencing:

Break the chocolate into small bars. Melt in a water bath, adding soft butter and vanilla sugar in the process.
Mix into a homogeneous mass and place in the refrigerator until the cream thickens.
Line a tall pan and the sides with foil.
Spoon the resulting chocolate mixture onto the bottom of the mold, place the cookies on top, then spread the cream again, place the cookies, etc. alternate layers as long as the height of the sides of the mold is enough, but the top layer should definitely be chocolate.
Place the cake in the refrigerator until it is completely frozen.
Decorate the cake.

How to prepare and decorate a child's birthday cake

It is impossible to imagine any significant event without a birthday cake. At the same time, not only kids, but also adults are happy about dessert. A beautiful cake can transform from a traditional treat into the highlight of a child's birthday party. In addition, one of the most memorable magical traditions is associated with the cake: blowing out candles and making a cherished wish.

Which cake to choose for a child's birthday

For a boy, you can decorate a cake according to the following ideas:

characters from computer games or cartoons. They can be made using mastic (they will be voluminous) or a waffle picture printed on a special printer. If you have the gift of an artist, then you can depict the main character of the birthday cake yourself, using icing, melted chocolate and multi-colored jelly. Thick colored mastic is also used to sculpt characters;
The most popular motives for future defenders are cars. To do this, bake a sponge cake, which, after cooling, is cut to the shape of a car, coated with cream, and covered with mastic on top. Wheels can be made from any round shaped cookie.

A birthday cake for a girl is not just a delicacy, but a real work of art. What does a lady like best? Jewelry, Barbie dolls and lots of pink. Therefore, cake design options for a girl can be:

lace and openwork patterns made of icing, sugar icing and a large chocolate bow;
for older ladies, it is necessary to use mastic figures as decoration: perfumes, lipsticks, shoes and jewelry;
and, of course, the most popular design option is the “Barbie Doll” cake, where a plastic toy is placed in the center of the cake, and a sponge cake that plays the role of a dress is decorated with bows, lace and beads.

Honey

Components:

a glass of unrefined sugar;
1 (heaped) tsp. soda (baking soda);
100 gr. oils;
0.5 kg. sifted flour;
2 pcs. testicles;
2 tbsp. honey
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Cream composition:

2 medium glasses of 25% milk;
2 (with a slide) tbsp. l. flour;
1.5 medium glasses of unrefined sugar;
2 tbsp. l. starch;
160 gr. oils;
1 testicle.

Actions:

Place honey and baking soda in a saucepan, heat and stir. Add sand and oil little by little. Boil in a water bath, stirring continuously.
Remove from heat and cool slightly. Beat in the eggs and mix well.
Place the resulting mass in a bowl and add flour.
Knead the dough and leave in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. (so that it hardens).
Remove the dough from the refrigerator, divide it into 6 parts, and put it back in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
Roll out all the pieces of dough at once onto a baking sheet (oiled), bake in a preheated oven (200 degrees) for 10 minutes. Also bake all the cakes.
To make the cream, you need to mix all the ingredients (except oil) and beat. Place over low heat and heat until thickened. Next, add butter, beat, and cool.
Spread the cream on the cakes and place them on top of each other.
Leave the cake in the refrigerator overnight.

DIY Birthday Cake

We offer several recipes for different age categories.

Ingredients	Quantity
baby cookies –	400 g
cottage cheese -	240 g
sour cream -	150 g
milk -	300 g
sugar -	100 g
Cooking time: 20 minutes	Calorie content per 100 grams: 287 Kcal

Soak the cookies in milk and place them tightly on the bottom of the pan;
Prepare cream from sugar, cottage cheese and sour cream. Coat a layer of cookies;

Using this technology, make several layers until the cream runs out. You can add chopped fruit to the layer. Sprinkle cookie crumbs on top of the baby cake.

Cake "Rainbow" (from 2 years and older)

Required components for cakes:

flour – 300 g;
baking powder – 2 tsp;
salt - a pinch;
softened butter – 110 g;
vanilla extract – 1 tsp;
milk – 190 ml;
sugar – 2 g;
protein – 3 pcs.

List of ingredients for the cream:

protein – 4 pcs;
sugar – 200 g;
softened butter – 200 g;
juice of half a lemon or lime.

Cooking time: up to 2 hours.

Calorie content: 370 kcal.

Preheat the oven to 180C. In a dry bowl, mix baking powder with flour;
In a deep bowl, beat softened butter with sugar. While continuing to beat, pour in the vanilla extract and add the whites one at a time;
Next, add flour in parts. Mix;
Pour in milk and stir until smooth;
Divide the finished dough into 7 parts and paint each one a bright rainbow color;
Bake each cake separately;
While the colored cakes are cooling, start preparing the cream: pour the whites into a saucepan, add sugar and beat over low heat until the sweet crystals dissolve;
Pour the heated whites into a container with high sides. Beat the mass at high speed until it cools completely and obtains an elastic and dense mass;
Next, set the mixer to medium speed and continue to beat gradually, add the oil;
When the mixture becomes homogeneous, increase the speed again and beat for another 10 minutes until the mixture becomes very dense. Pour in lime juice;
Use the resulting cream to coat the cakes, as well as the top and sides of the cake.

It is advisable to decorate the holiday treat with brightly colored Emma's candies. Place in the refrigerator for 4 hours to soak and harden the cakes.

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Barbie Doll Cake

To prepare this festive delicacy, you can use the recipe for the previous cake, but the design will be completely different.

Doll skirt assembly technology:

Wrap the legs of the toy in foil and put them aside;
Take a candy vase (small size), cover it with a plastic bag and start assembling the skirt;
Grind the cookies or cake into crumbs and mix with the cream. Fill the vase with the resulting mixture, compact it tightly, level the surface and put it in the refrigerator for an hour to harden;
Then turn the vase over and carefully lay out the future skirt;
Place the doll in the center of the skirt and carefully transfer it to the surface of the main cake;
Before decorating the dress, it is necessary to cover it with cream so that the decor does not fall off and is securely fixed;
You can decorate the doll's outfit with different attachments. For example, with “shell”, “star” or “petal” attachments;
As additional decor, you can use edible beads, chocolate patterns, bows, and butterflies. In general, use everything that your imagination tells you. You can also use the cream to make a necklace on the doll’s neck. The finished cake should only be stored in the refrigerator, so that at the crucial moment the doll does not fall and spoil the little birthday girl’s holiday.

Cake recipe for children using baby formula Malyutka and Malysh

Components:

Dry baby formula - 500 g
Flour - 250 g
Milk – 150 g
Eggs - 2 pcs
Baking powder
Fat sour cream - 450 ml
Raspberry syrup to taste

Preparation:

Beat sour cream with egg
Mix flour, dry mixture and baking powder
Combine all ingredients together and knead the dough
Place it in the oven for 25-35 minutes
Cool the finished cake and cut it in half.
Whisk the sour cream, dry mixture and syrup, and spread the resulting cream onto the cakes.

How and how to decorate cakes for children

Before you find out what details and sweets to decorate the cake with, you need to understand the composition of the holiday treat. The recipe directly depends on the age of the birthday person.

For example, on the first anniversary you need to choose those foods that the baby can eat. The cake should have a moderate amount of sugar and eggs.

In this case, curd puree (filling) and crushed cookies (base) would be a suitable option. Experienced mothers prepare manna, and to give it a festive look, decorate it with fruits and top it with yogurt.

For children over two years old, you can prepare a cake based on the taste preferences of the birthday boy. For example, curd, chocolate, fruit or vanilla.

As for the cakes, you can choose sour cream, biscuit, honey, with the addition of fruit or chocolate chips. Yogurt, butter or custard is suitable as a layer.

There are many technologies for decorating the main dessert of a children's party - it can be custard cream, protein cream, mastic, icing, marzipan, jelly. However, the most popular and, as it turns out, simplest way to decorate a cake are fruits, candies, dragees and small chocolate bars.

Children especially love it when the festive dessert is decorated with multi-colored “emendams”. These small chocolates are attached to icing or added to cream.

Decor made from fresh fruits and berries will also look original. For a glossy surface, they are usually coated with jelly, or they can simply be candied. No less interesting for children are leaves and flowers made from cream, butter or protein cream.

If you decide to decorate a children's cake with chocolate, you will only benefit. It is impossible to spoil any delicacy with this ingredient. Chocolate can be used to make patterns, lettering, swirls, icing, flowers, leaves and various designs.

Cream cake recipe for children

Cake ingredients:

Flour - 3 tbsp
Sugar - 3 tbsp
Zest of one orange
Egg - 1 pc.
Milk – 200 ml
Powdered sugar - 100 g
Cream - 300 ml
Baking powder

Preparation:

Beat the egg with milk
Mix flour with baking powder and combine everything with egg-milk mixture
Remove the zest from the orange and add it to the dough
Bake the crust in the oven at 190 degrees
Whip the cream with powdered sugar and set everything aside
Cut the cake into several parts, spread everything with cream and decorate with fresh berries or multi-colored marmalade

How to beautifully decorate a children's cake: features of decorating baked goods for children (with photos)

One of my friends, who is also the mother of an 8-year-old tomboy with a sweet tooth, loves to bake various delicacies for him and treat them to guests and familiar children. In addition to incredibly delicious baked goods, she has a real talent as an artist and designer; she knows exactly how to decorate a children's cake at home so that it becomes a real masterpiece and a source of joy for children. Taking this opportunity, I want to share with you my friend’s secrets and ideas on how to decorate a children’s cake to please little sweet tooths.

Chocolate

Using this recipe you will get a very tasty cake.

You will need:

250 g flour;
one and a half teaspoons of soda;
three hundred ml of milk;
three hundred grams of granulated sugar;
fifty grams of cocoa;
two eggs;
sixty grams sl. oils;
vanilla sugar;
Art. spoon of wine vinegar.

Pour flour, sugar, soda and cocoa into the prepared container.
Beat in the eggs, add pre-melted butter, vanilla sugar, wine vinegar and milk. Mix everything thoroughly until a homogeneous dough is obtained.
Place the finished mixture on a baking sheet and bake in the oven for about an hour. When the cake has cooled, pour any cream over it.

List of the best options for decorating children's cakes

As my friend’s experience shows, decorating a children’s cake is not at all difficult, you just need to involve your imagination in the process, knowledge of the preferences of your child and his guests, as well as some culinary features of this or that dessert, which I will now tell you about.

Recommended decorations for baby cake

It is often difficult to decide how to decorate a children's cake with your own hands at home in such a way as to please the child and feed him a tasty and healthy delicacy. And at the initial stage of choosing a method for how to beautifully decorate a children’s cake, you should focus on the compatibility of the ingredients with the cake layers.

Win-win decoration options would be: chocolate glaze, buttercream and cream for sponge cakes, fruits and berries for curd cakes, buttercream and boiled condensed milk for shortbread and puff cakes, marshmallows and mastic for honey cakes. However, this is not the only correct option for resolving the issue of decorating a children’s cake, since each person’s taste preferences, as well as the concept of the beauty of a dessert, are different.

Taking into account the fact that the decorated cake is intended for treating children, it is recommended to decorate it with mastic, marshmallows, cream, cream, chocolate, fruits and jelly, since they will look good on the finished cake and are harmless to children's health.

What's the best way to not decorate a cake for children?

Since the cake is intended for children, you should choose the ingredients for decorating it as meticulously as possible - these should only be fresh products.

It is not recommended to decorate a cake for children:

artificial colors, they should be replaced with natural freshly squeezed juice from vegetables and fruits;
creams that are flavored with alcohol - liqueur, rum or cognac; if necessary, they can be replaced with citrus zest or juice or vanilla;
sugar syrup for soaking cakes, since excess sugar is of no use to a child’s body;
small candies or inedible solids that could cause a child to choke.

Cake with fondant

Mastic is an unusual means for decorating a cake that will surprise everyone. Sugar mastic is plastic, you can sculpt from it just like plasticine.

The basis of a cake with mastic can be any cake layer - both ready-made and prepared in-house according to any recipe you like.

Mastic composition:

water (cold) – 50 ml;
powdered sugar – 260 gr.;
gelatin – 2 tsp;
liquid glucose – 1.5 tsp.

Sequencing:

Place gelatin in a glass and add water. Stir, set aside for 10 minutes.
Melt gelatin in a prepared water bath, add glucose to the resulting mixture, and stir.
Stirring all the time, add 1 spoon of powder to the mixture. The result is a thick mixture.
Pour the powder onto the surface and place the prepared mixture on it. Knead the mass like dough and add powder little by little. The mastic is considered ready when it becomes slightly sticky.
Place the mastic in a plastic container (sealed) and place it in a cool, dark place for 5 hours.

This kind of fondant can be used to completely wrap the entire cake or make decorations, such as flowers.

How to properly decorate a children's cake: tips and tricks

In my opinion, the most beautiful decoration for a cake is mastic, although it is a little more difficult to make compared to other types of decorations. You can use mastic to form any figure – a cartoon character, a doll or a car, or the letters of a child’s name, and the decoration itself will cause genuine delight for the children. Let's look at how to decorate a children's cake with mastic.

To prepare mastic you need the following products:

Powdered sugar	0.5 kg
Gelatin	10 g
Lemon acid	3 g
Water	70 ml

1. Gelatin is dissolved in water, stirring continuously, and left for about 30 minutes to swell, then add citric acid.

2. Pour the sifted powdered sugar into a deep bowl, pour in the gelatin mixture, stir with a spoon in the bowl until the consistency is homogeneous, then stir the sweet mass a little until it becomes dense and elastic.

3. Well-mixed mastic should be rolled out into a layer approximately 4-6 mm thick and placed on the surface of the finished cake and on the side. When covering the cake with mastic, you should smooth it out, avoiding the appearance of wrinkles. The excess should be carefully trimmed along the bottom edge of the cake with a sharp knife.

It is very easy to sculpt any figurine of an animal, person or toy from plastic mastic, which is placed on the smooth surface of the cake or along its side.

By wrapping the finished mastic in polyethylene, it can be stored in the freezer for up to 60 days, taken out as needed to create the next confectionery masterpiece.

Let's consider options on how you can beautifully decorate a children's cake without mastic. The wondrous beauty of mastic can be recreated from marshmallow, which is much easier to process.

Required ingredients:

200 g chewing marshmallows;
500 g powdered sugar;
200 g starch;
10 g butter;
2 tbsp. l. water.

1. Melt chewing marshmallows in the microwave for 30 seconds, add butter and water to the mixture and put it in the microwave for 10 seconds to completely dissolve the ingredients.

2. In a deep container you need to mix starch and powdered sugar, then gradually add melted marshmallows to the dry mixture, stirring thoroughly. After combining the dry mixture with melted marshmallows, the resulting mass must be mixed vigorously for 5 minutes and left to rest for about half an hour in a plastic bag.

3. The finished marshmallow is rolled out into a thin layer, which covers the entire surface of the cake, and any fancy decorations can be fashioned from this elastic mass. Examples of how to decorate a children's birthday cake using marshmallows can be found on the Internet.

A children's cake can be decorated in an original way using cream. A cake decorated with cream is a classic children's dessert.

Required ingredients:

100 g butter;
6 tbsp. l. condensed milk

1. The butter, slightly melted at room temperature, needs to be whipped with a mixer until a foamy mass forms.

2. Add condensed milk one spoon at a time to the butter foam, beating the mass with a mixer until a fluffy, homogeneous cream is obtained.

3. To decorate the cake with butter cream, you need a pastry syringe with various attachments; if you don’t have one, you can use a thick plastic bag with a corner cut off. Using a syringe or cone filled with cream, you can “draw” the desired cartoon plot, numbers or letters on the cake, create flowers and three-dimensional figures, and make the child’s wishes come true.

Cream can also be used to decorate the cake.

Required ingredients:

200 ml cream with fat content from 35%;
50 g powdered sugar.

1. Beat the chilled cream with a mixer until peaks form.

2. Powdered sugar is gradually added to the whipped cream, while the process of whipping with a mixer does not stop until the mixture forms hard peaks as it drips from the whisk.

3. Decorate confectionery products with whipped cream, similar to butter cream, using a special syringe. Children's cakes decorated with cream are not only tasty, but also healthy due to the nutritious cream rich in calcium.

The most common option for decorating children's desserts is fruit. Fresh, canned or frozen fruits and berries look very beautiful on dessert and children love to eat them. Before decorating a children's cake with fruits, they need to be properly prepared.

Berries can be used whole; large fruits must first be cut, frozen ones must be thawed, and canned fruits must be dried with a paper towel. For the beauty and safety of fruit decoration, it should be covered with a layer of jelly, since without it, fruits and berries quickly dry out and lose their appearance.

Required ingredients for jelly:

1 tbsp. l. powdered sugar;
2 tsp. gelatin;
1 glass of orange juice.

1. Dissolve gelatin in 50 ml of juice; to speed up the process, the mixture can be slightly heated in the microwave.

2. Add the entire volume of juice and powdered sugar into the gelatin mixture, mix thoroughly until completely dissolved and a homogeneous viscous mass is obtained.

3. To decorate the dessert, you need to beautifully arrange the berries and fruits on the surface of the cake, fill them well with jelly and put the cake in the refrigerator for several hours to harden.

Cakes decorated with cream, mastic, whipped cream and fruit will decorate many children's parties, bring joy to children and look great in photos, reminding of a wonderful celebration of a particular event.

Children's soufflé cake: recipe

Products:

Ready-made biscuit - 300 g
Fruits – 250 g
Gelatin – 10 g
Sour cream – 700 ml
Sugar - 1 tbsp

Preparation:

Soak the gelatin in water and let it swell
When this happens, place it in a steam bath and dissolve completely
Cut the biscuit and fruit into pieces and place everything in a mold lined with cling film
Add sugar to sour cream and beat until thick
Add gelatin in a thin stream while continuing to beat.
Pour the mixture onto the sponge cake with fruit and place it in the refrigerator to harden.
After the mixture has set well, you will need to turn the cake upside down, remove the film from it and serve it to the guests in this form.

Decorating cakes for children: ideas and photos

Photos of the culinary masterpieces of my brilliant friend, who kindly shared her secrets of confectionery skills, will help provide inspiration and an interesting idea on how to decorate a children’s cake.

Cake decorated with fondant:

Cake decorated with marshmallows:

Cake decorated with cream:

Cake decorated with fruits:

Invitation to discuss cake decoration and possible modifications

Cake decorating is a creative process that can be implemented according to your preferences, adding food coloring of the desired color and aromatic components and modifying the dessert for a better result in the end.

As a basic recommendation, experienced chefs advise applying decorations not to the cake, but to a thick layer of thick cream, marzipan or glaze - this will give a more uniform coating of the surface of the cake and the durability of decorations and figures. It is better to decorate the dessert immediately before serving, since the decorated cake can absorb moisture and foreign odors when stored in the refrigerator for a long time.

It is recommended to whip cream in a very cold glass container with a chilled whisk - this way the whipping process occurs faster and with better quality. A children's cake decorated with sweets - candies, chocolate and sugar figures, bright sprinkles and dried fruits - looks very impressive and is absolutely not difficult to make.

Since you can very simply decorate a children’s cake with your own hands from available products, you should not be afraid of this, since the most difficult thing is to decide and bake a delicious cake, and the creative process of decorating a dessert for kids will use your unique imagination and captivate the whole family. Share your recipes and decoration options, offer interesting cake design ideas.

Making and decorating a children's birthday cake with your own hands

No holiday is complete without dessert. Depending on the occasion for the celebration and the scale of the holiday, they decide which baked goods are preferable to serve: cookies or cakes, rolls or muffins.

On special occasions, cakes are served and then cut into portions. It’s generally very difficult to imagine a birthday without a cake, especially when it comes to a child’s name day. It is important to choose a children's birthday cake in such a way that the hero of the occasion is overwhelmed with enthusiastic feelings, because he has been waiting for this moment for a whole year!

Original ideas for a children's birthday cake for a girl

You can create an unusual design for the main sweet of the evening yourself, but it is still better to give preference to ready-made products ordered from stores and bakeries. As a rule, girls' dreams are so fantastic that it is very difficult to bring a non-standard idea to life without special skills. It is advisable to rely on the skills of professionals.

Popular: Elsa, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Snow White, Ariel, Barbie, Kitty, Peppa Pig. Doll cakes look interesting. True, the pleasure is not cheap. But is there a price for children's happiness?

There are more modest options for decorating a “girly” dessert. These are all kinds of bows, flowers, lace, frills. You can top the piece with an edible crown or a pair of glass slippers.

There are carriage cakes and castles. It should be noted that they look no worse than princess cakes. And in some cases they turn out even more original and interesting.

In pursuit of original ideas, one must not forget that the delicacy should not only be beautiful in appearance, but also of high quality in terms of internal filling. The baby's mood will be ruined if the colorful cake tastes unfit for consumption.

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Napoleon's simple recipe

You will need:

sl. butter – two hundred and fifty grams;
three glasses of flour;
one hundred ml of water;
eggs - two pcs.;
milk - one liter;
one and a half tbsp. Sahara;
vanilla sugar - two sachets;
two tbsp. spoons of flour.

Sift flour into a bowl and add pieces of butter.
Grind the ingredients until crumbs are obtained, add cold water. Mix everything thoroughly.
Form a ball. Place the dough in the refrigerator for about thirty minutes.
Roll out the sausage and cut into nine pieces of approximately the same size.
Preheat the oven to two hundred degrees. Roll out each ball until the cake is as thin as possible. We put it in the oven, not forgetting to prick it with a fork in several places first so that it does not swell during baking.
One cake takes approximately five minutes. While you are waiting for the first one to bake, roll out the second cake layer. And so on.
Preparing the cream:

pour half of the prepared milk into a container, wait until it warms up;
pour the second half into a separate bowl, add eggs, sugar, vanilla sugar, and flour;
beat everything until smooth;
as soon as the milk on the stove begins to boil, stirring constantly, pour in the prepared mixture;
continue to cook until completely thickened, this may take about six minutes.

The cakes are greased with the prepared cream, and crumbs from the cut sides of the cake are sprinkled on top.
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How to decorate a birthday cake for a boy

The simplest option for decorating a treat for a boy’s birthday is a cake in the shape of a car. Ideas that have become commonplace include the soccer ball, the steam locomotive, the airplane, and the robot.

But the male birthday boy also has his favorite cartoon strips, so even an ordinary glazed drawing with the image of his favorite character will become an unusual treat. Among teenage boys, Timon and Pumbaa, The Fixies, Paw Patrol, Spider-Man, Superman, Batman, Hulk, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are popular.

We must not forget about candles for the birthday boy. Yes, it’s probably not worth reminding that they are purchased according to the number of years they have turned. Although lately classic candles have been replaced by number candles and even wax phrases like “Congratulations” or “Happy Holidays”.

We bake a cake for a child’s birthday with our own hands

Of course, buying a ready-made cake for a child’s birthday is much simpler and easier. But the guests and the hero of the occasion will be more pleased with the product prepared by the hands of a loving and caring mother. For successful baking, you need to strictly follow the recipe and take into account all the subtleties and nuances of the technological process:

all dry ingredients (flour, starch, cocoa) are thoroughly sifted;
You should not pour flour into the liquid; it is the liquid that is poured in a thin stream into the sifted flour;
whatever components are chosen for preparing the dough, they all must be at the same temperature;
It is better to quench soda with lemon juice rather than vinegar, this dough turns out more tender;
Some confectioners add 1 tbsp to make the dough more crumbly and airy. l. any strong alcoholic drink; this is strictly prohibited for children’s cakes;
if suddenly you don’t have dough baking powder on hand, you can always prepare it yourself (12 g flour, 3 g citric acid and 5 g baking soda);
dough with added baking powder cannot be mixed intensively, otherwise evaporated carbon dioxide will cause excessive density of the dough, which will negatively affect the quality of the cake;
When baking dough products in the oven, you should strictly monitor the temperature and baking time allotted by the cooking recipe; there is a risk of either drying out the cake or even burning it.

Among other things, the cook must have the time necessary to bake and decorate the cake. Therefore, it is more advisable to prepare the cakes in advance, and to soak, grease and decorate them on the day of the holiday.

You just need to know how to store them correctly. For example, shortbread dough products can be stored for several days in a special metal jar.

They are frozen in the same way as biscuit layers. In this case, each cake should be packaged in a separate transparent cling film. Cake preparations made from choux pastry are stored in the same way (without filling, of course).

Honey cake recipe for a little birthday boy

Both adults and children love honey cake. If none of the guests are allergic to honey, then you can prepare a delicious treat in 1 hour. List of ingredients for cakes:

honey – 1 tbsp. l.;
butter – 1 tbsp. l.;
egg – 2 pcs;
sugar – 1 glass;
soda – 2 tsp;
flour - 4 cups.

For the cream you will need:

milk – 1 glass;
sugar – 1 glass;
flour – 2 tbsp. l.;
butter – 300 g.

For glaze use:

butter – 3 tbsp. l.;
cocoa – 3 tsp.

For the cakes, melt honey and butter in a steam bath. Grind the eggs with sugar and add to the mixture in a steam bath.

After the mixture thickens slightly, add slaked soda to it and stir until the volume of the dough doubles. Then add the puka and mix well. The mass is enough for 5-6 cakes with a calorie content of 424 kcal per 100 g.

To make the cream, you need to boil milk with sugar and pour flour previously diluted in milk into the resulting mixture. After cooling, beat the mixture with butter.

The glaze is prepared as follows: cocoa is mixed with butter and brought to a boil.

Baby food cake mastic: recipe

Mastic for cake from baby food

If you want to make any of the above-mentioned cakes more original, then try decorating it with fondant. We will now tell you how to make this culinary masterpiece as quickly as possible.

Ingredients for making mastic:

Condensed milk - 200 ml
Powdered sugar - 250 g
Dry baby food – 250 g
Lemon juice - 30-50 ml

Preparation:

So, first, mix the dry ingredients together.
Next, add lemon juice and almost all the condensed milk to them
There is no need to add it all at once, as there may be too much of it.
Start kneading the mastic, and when it becomes more or less homogeneous, add a suitable dye to it
Knead the mastic until the dye is evenly distributed throughout the mass.
Wrap the finished mastic in film and place it in the refrigerator for several hours.