DIY birthday cake for “Dear Mom”

Cake "Prague"

Cake “Prague” This cake is made from a large number of eggs, with just a little flour added to the dough.
This biscuit practically dissolves in the cream. For the biscuit:

• Eggs 6 pcs.
• Flour 100 g
• Sugar 150 g
• Butter 50 g
• Cocoa 50 g

For impregnation:

• Jam 70 g

For cream:

• Butter 200 g
• Condensed milk 120 g
• Water 20 g
• Egg (yolk) 1 pc.
• Vanilla sugar 1 pack
• Cocoa 15 g

For the glaze:

• Dark chocolate 1 bar
• Butter 50 g

First of all, prepare the biscuit. Melt the butter. In a bowl, beat the eggs with the sugar. Add some sifted flour, then pour in the oil. In this case, the mass must be stirred continuously. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Transfer the dough into a springform pan with a diameter of 20 centimeters. Bake the cake for about half an hour. Carefully remove the biscuit from the mold and cool. Cut lengthwise into three parts.

Prepare the cream. Leave the butter on the counter at room temperature until it becomes soft. Grind the yolk with vanilla sugar, add condensed milk and water. Put on fire and cook until the mixture thickens. Don't forget to stir. Then remove from heat, cool, add butter, cocoa and beat.

Melt the jam and soak the cakes with it. Grease two cake layers with cream, assemble the cake and put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

After the time has passed, prepare the glaze. Melt butter with 100 grams of chocolate. Stir until smooth. Spread the glaze evenly over the cake and let it sit in a cool place for a few hours. You can decorate the cake with chocolate shavings and whole pieces.

Birthday cake for a man

I want to cover the cake with fondant. Yes, you can decorate such a cake with cream, but it will be more impressive with mastic. So, under the mastic you need a special cream. That is, it must be dense and stable. The ideal option would be ganache. There are many recipes for this cream. Today I will present my version of ganache for mastic cakes.

1. I love working with this cream. What needs to be done? The first thing you need to do is melt the chocolate. I do this in the microwave, in bursts. I mix well so that there are no unmelted pieces left and, when the chocolate has cooled a little, add plums a piece at a time. oil. It should be at room temperature.

2. I immediately start working with the mixer. I beat chocolate and butter. When I add all the butter into the chocolate, the ganache turns out this dark. You can stop at this result.

3. And, if you continue whipping, the ganache will lighten and become more fluffy. I like him this way)))

4. Ganache is ready. Next we cover our workpiece, which has been left overnight in the refrigerator. The inner world of the cake can be anything, cook it to your taste. I have here chocolate sponge cakes, homemade salted caramel, sour cream with mascarpone, chocolate layer, cherry confiture and roasted peanuts.

I assembled the cake using the mixer.

5. Cover the dough with ganache and place it in the refrigerator for several hours.

6. Roll out the mastic into a large layer, the size of your cake.

7. Then cover the cooled workpiece.

8. We need to create folds like this. The rougher they turn out, the more realistic our cake will be)))

9. I cut off the excess mastic and put it in a bag.

10. We send the cake in this form to the refrigerator.

11. Now we’ll make the top of the bag. For him, I will roll out the mastic into a strip like this. Length 30 cm and width 5 cm.

12. My mastic is soft and it won’t stick on its own. So I'll make a frame for it. I'm making this ring out of foil.

13. I lay out the mastic ribbon in folds. I leave it to dry overnight. Perhaps your mastic is more modeling and you won’t need this frame!

14. To decorate the cake, I will need another piece of white fondant. Roll it out into a rope, not very thick, and fold it in half.

15. Then we will intertwine them together. This will be a rope.

16. We attach our dried blank to the top of the cake. I do this using decor gel, but you can just lubricate the joint with water and that’s it.

17. Lightly press and fix. It turns out like this. Yes, I also made a tag like this from a piece of white mastic. The writing on the bag is black food coloring or you can use a food marker.

18. We tie the bag with a mastic rope and use scissors to make tassels at the ends of the rope.

19. I will fill this “Bag” cake with mastic coins, which I colored with kandurin. And I also printed out food money. This is wafer paper. We attach gel to water or decor.

By the way, you can buy edible coins in the store! I just didn't have time for it. I had to make them from mastic)))

Friends, this is such a simple but effective decoration! The man's birthday cake is ready!

You might find this decoration option useful. If the recipe was useful for you, I would be glad to see your comments!

Good luck, peace, good mood to everyone and look forward to new recipes on our delicious and homemade!

Chocolate Hazelnut Cake

Chocolate Walnut Cake
Another chocolate cake recipe. For a birthday, the glaze can be replaced with gloss. This coating paste will give your cake a delightful mirror shine.

• Flour 0.5 cups
• Cocoa 0.5 cups
• Dark chocolate 3.5 bars
• Peanuts 1 cup
• Peanut butter 120 g
• Heavy cream 1 cup
• Butter 2 tbsp.
• Sugar 2 tbsp.
• Brown sugar 0.5 cups
• Eggs 6 pcs.
• Vanillin 1 pack
• Salt 2 pinches

For glaze:

• Sugar 180 g
• Heavy cream 130 ml
• Water 140 ml
• Cocoa 60 g
• Gelatin 2 tsp.

Grind the roasted peanuts in a blender. Add sugar, sifted flour, cocoa and a pinch of salt. Stir everything. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs and rub them with brown sugar. Combine both masses and mix well. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Place parchment paper on the bottom of the springform pan, pour the dough into the pan and bake until the cake in the middle is soft and elastic at the same time. Baking will take about 20 minutes. While preparing the biscuit, the oven door must not be opened, otherwise the biscuit will settle.

Pry the edges of the cake with a knife and carefully open the pan. Transfer the crust to a wire rack. It's best to leave it overnight. Then when cutting it will not crumble.

To prepare the cream, break the chocolate and place in a water bath. Pour cream into it and stir well. Beat butter at room temperature with a blender, add peanut butter, salt, then chocolate mixture and vanilla, while continuing to beat. Cool the cream in the refrigerator.

Cut the cake lengthwise into 4 parts; it is most convenient to do this with regular thread. Grease the cut of each resulting cake with cream and assemble the cake. Start preparing the glaze.

While the cake is freezing, prepare the frosting. Combine everything except gelatin in a saucepan. Cook over low heat for 10 minutes. Take a few more tablespoons of water and pour gelatin into it in a separate bowl. After 10 minutes, remove the pan from the stove and add the swollen gelatin. Stir until it is completely dissolved. Pour frosting over the cake on all sides and refrigerate for several hours.

Cakes for men: photos

We offer you several ideas that you can use when preparing a cake for your man:

Birthday cake recipe for a man

If you don’t have the time and opportunity to prepare a masterpiece from mastic, you can make a simple and delicious cake for a loved one in the shape of a heart.

Cooking stages.

Beat the eggs with a mixer. Without stopping the mixer, slowly add the sugar. It is necessary to beat until the mixture becomes thick;

Mix cocoa with baking powder, add them to the eggs;

Grind flour and margarine (butter) to crumbs in a separate container;

Combine the contents of both containers. Mix well;

Prepare a baking dish and lay out the resulting thick dough. Place in the oven (200˚) for half an hour;

Remove the finished cake from the oven, place it on a plate and cut it to cool faster;

While the cake base is cooling, start preparing the cream;

Combine butter (soft) with condensed milk. Beat until you get a soft and homogeneous cream;

Break the cooled cake into small pieces with your hands;

Grind walnuts. Set aside ¼ of the cake for decorating the cake;

Place the cake pieces, cream and walnuts into a large bowl. To stir thoroughly;

Form the shape of a heart from the resulting mass;

To prepare the glaze, combine butter, sugar, cocoa and milk in a saucepan. While heating over the fire, bring to a boil;

Pour glaze over heart;

Sprinkle walnuts on top;

Place the cake in the refrigerator for several hours.

Ordinary ingredients and original design make this cake an excellent gift for loved ones (loved one, husband, son, father).

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Juliet Cake

This cake can be prepared for a young girl’s birthday.

For the cakes:

• Flour 2 cups
• Eggs 3 pcs.
• Sugar 1 cup
• Condensed milk 0.5 cans
• Sour cream 1 cup
• Soda 0.5 tsp.

For cream:

• Condensed milk 0.5 cans
• Butter 150 g
• For impregnation:
• Sugar 1 cup
• Water 1 glass
• Cognac 1 tbsp.
• Citric acid 1 pinch

For decoration:

• Chocolate 50 g
• cranberries

Grind eggs with sugar. Add sour cream, condensed milk, soda, sift the flour and knead the dough. Divide the dough into four parts, roll out 4 identical cake layers. Bake each in the oven for 15 minutes at 180 degrees.

Prepare a simple cream: beat butter with condensed milk. Place in the refrigerator.

For cake impregnation, dissolve sugar in water, put on the stove and boil. Add cognac and a pinch of citric acid. Mix everything.

Grease the cakes with impregnation. To prevent the cake from getting soggy, do not put a lot of syrup on it. To control the amount of syrup, it is best to apply the impregnation using a silicone brush. Then generously coat the cakes with cream. Grate the chocolate on a fine grater. Decorate the cake with chocolate and berries.

"Napoleon" in a frying pan

The cook spends a lot of time preparing dishes for a home birthday party. Napoleon is a complex cake and can take several hours to prepare. To make the process go faster, the cakes can be fried in a frying pan.

For the cakes:

• Flour 3 cups
• Condensed milk 1 can
• Egg 1 pc.
• Soda 1 tsp.
• Vinegar

For cream:

• Milk 0.5 l
• Eggs 2 pcs.
• Flour 3 tbsp.
• Sugar 1 cup
• Vanilla sugar 1 pack

To prepare the dough, break an egg into a bowl and stir it with condensed milk. Quench the soda with vinegar, add to the bowl and sift the flour into it, constantly stirring the dough. When the dough in the bowl mixes with difficulty, put it on a table sprinkled with flour and knead until finished. The dough should be soft. Divide it into 8 equal parts. Roll each into a round layer, pierce it several times and quickly fry on both sides in a dry frying pan until the cake is browned.

This will take no more than 2 minutes. An important condition: each cake must be fried in a clean frying pan. Adjust the finished cakes to one size. They can be trimmed using the lid from a small frying pan or saucepan. Do not throw away the trimmings.

Prepare the cream. Pour milk into a small saucepan, beat in eggs, add sugar and sift flour. Whisk everything, bring to a boil and cook until the mixture thickens. Remove the pan from the stove and add butter. The butter should be warm, but there is no need to specifically melt it, otherwise the cream will turn out liquid. Beat everything with a blender.

Coat each cake with warm cream so that the cake is better soaked. It should take about 4 tablespoons of cream to grease one cake. It should be noted that at the end the cream will also be needed to coat the sides of the cake. Assemble the cake. Chop the remaining cake scraps and sprinkle them on all sides of the cake, pressing with your hands. Leave overnight in the refrigerator.

Cake "Machine"

A birthday cake can be a great gift for a child. Especially if it is made in the shape of a doll or car.

• Ready-made sponge cake 3 layers

For cream:

• Butter 450 g
• Eggs 3 pcs.
• Eggs (yolks) 4 pcs.
• Sugar 270 g
• Vanilla sugar 1.5 tsp.

For mastic:

• Powdered sugar 400 g
• Marshmallow 300 g
• Sunflower oil 1 tbsp.
• Lemon juice 1 tsp.
• Gelatin 1 tsp.
• Water 5 tbsp.
• Food colorings

You can make a cake machine from any sponge cake and butter cream. For the cream, grind 3 eggs and 4 yolks with regular and vanilla sugar. Melt the butter in a water bath and combine with the rest of the mixture. Mix well and let cool. Assemble the cake, coating the layers with cream. Let soak for several hours.

Give the cakes a machine shape. To do this, cut off a quarter of the cake from both edges. There should be a rectangle left from the middle with curves at the front and back. This is the basis of the car, its body. It can be given a more rounded shape. Cut a semicircle from one cut part; its length in diameter should be half the size of the machine itself. Do the same with the second cut piece. Connect the resulting parts and spread cream between them. This is the cabin. Install it closer to the rear “bumper”, also lubricate the joint with cream. Make four wheels from the remaining sponge cake.

Soak the gelatin in cold water for half an hour. Then heat it in a water bath. Place marshmallows in a microwave-safe bowl, add butter and lemon juice. Place the dishes in the microwave for 3 minutes. Add powdered sugar and gelatin to the melted marshmallows. Mix everything and put it in a plastic bag. Tie the bag tightly and place it in a container. It is important that air does not get into the prepared mass. Set aside at room temperature for 4 hours. The result is soft and plastic mastic.

Pinch off a large piece of mastic and mix it with blue or red dye. Roll out into a thin layer and cover the machine with it, pressing and leveling it in shape on all sides. Paint another piece of mastic white, roll it out and decorate the car windows and headlights. Cover the wheels with brown mastic and attach them to the body with a toothpick. You can use round cookies as wheels. You can also make additional decorations for the machine. Serve immediately.

How to make a cake for a children's birthday with your own hands

I have never been a pastry chef and I don’t want to be one. But it so happened that almost all the cakes for our children’s birthdays were made by me. By “our children” we mean my daughters Alice and Faya, as well as my nephews Sonya and Timofey) So, in this article I will tell you how to make a cake for a children’s birthday with your own hands. I should immediately note that I prepare the children's cake without mastic . Why without mastic? — Firstly, I’ve never worked with her) — Secondly, I’ve tried mastic cakes and I didn’t like the taste of them precisely because of the mastic. — And finally, cakes with mastic are no longer in fashion. They were eclipsed by cakes with streaks of chocolate glaze and ready-made decorations (fresh fruits, berries, a variety of sweets).

This is exactly the kind of cake I usually make for a child’s birthday. And you can repeat it after me too. I will try to describe the recipe in as much detail as possible) Therefore, this article will turn out to be very long. And not because making a homemade cake is some kind of super complicated process. Not at all! And I’m telling you this - I’m still a handyman when it comes to baking and desserts) It’s true. I love to cook and I’m very good at first and second courses, appetizers and salads. But when it comes to baking and desserts, I am, to put it mildly, unlucky) And, yes, I am aware that my homemade cakes are still very far from ideal, especially in terms of decoration. But, I’m still proud of myself, you can’t praise yourself, no one will praise you))) Because for me, who doesn’t know how to bake even simple pies, making the most authentic and delicious homemade cake is a feat. Therefore, do not be afraid to try, even if you are a complete amateur in this matter)

The content of the article:

DIY children's birthday cake: pros and cons

Pros of a homemade cake for a child's birthday:

- Very tasty! A combination of moist sponge cake with delicate curd cream and fruit…. Yum-yum)))) Having tried a homemade cake once, you will already turn your nose up at any purchased cake) - A homemade cake turns out to be large - tall and heavy (more than 2 kg for sure) Which means that such a cake will be enough even for decent company. Enough not only for children, but also for adults) - Made from fresh and high-quality products . You know exactly what your cake is made of. And this is especially important when children eat the cake. — The opportunity to choose those fruits and treats for decorating the cake that you and your child like. Of course, all these beautiful jelly beans are harmful! But on a birthday, I think children can indulge) If you are categorically against decorating a cake with store-bought sweets or your child is allergic, use only fruits and berries that you can. — Benefit compared to buying a custom-made cake from home artisans. If you buy to order, a delicious, high-quality homemade cake will cost you an average of 1,000 rubles. for one kilogram. A cake prepared with your own hands will clearly pull out more than two kg, and its cost will be several times less.

Minuses:

- Still, you will have to spend a little money. Usually, you always have flour, eggs and sugar at home. Therefore, the main expenses will be cream (2 types), kefir, some fruit, chocolate and tasty decorations for the top of the cake. - And tinker. What do you want? A cake for a children's birthday will not appear out of thin air) After all, we will be preparing a real sponge cake with delicious curd cream and fruit, and not some kind of cake made from cookies in 5 minutes. So, let's see what we need to make our own children's birthday cake.

Ingredients for homemade cake

I’ll say right away that the specified amount of ingredients makes a large cake, weighing more than 2 kg. Honestly, I’ve never weighed it, maybe all 3 kg. there) If you need a small cake, take 3 eggs for the sponge cake and reduce all other ingredients by half. In this case, I recommend taking a narrower biscuit pan so that the cake is more or less tall.

INGREDIENTS:

1. Biscuit: - Eggs - 5 pcs. If the eggs are small, then 6 pcs. - 1 glass of sugar to the edges without a slide - 1 glass of flour to the edges without a slide. Makfa brand flour never lets me down.

2. Impregnation: - Syrup from canned fruits. Or syrup from any jam, ready-made purchased syrup, fruit juice.

3. Layer: - Fresh or canned fruit of your choice. I recommend using canned peaches. Among fresh fruits, the same peach, also apricot, grapes, banana, kiwi, and pear have proven themselves well.

4. Cream: - Cream 33% fat marked “for whipping” - 500 ml. I buy cream in Auchan, their own brand "Auchan". - Powdered sugar - 1 cup. What you need is powder, not regular granulated sugar. — Cottage cheese made from frozen kefir. For cottage cheese you need to buy 2 bottles of kefir, 900-1000 g each. I take kefir in 900 g bottles. brands “Domik v Derevne” or “Prostokvashino” fat content 3.2%. I recommend taking this particular fat content, because kefir with a lower fat content may not produce the cottage cheese we need. YOU NEED TO FREEZE KEFIR IN ADVANCE, AT LEAST 2 DAYS BEFORE YOU NEED TO DEFROST IT.

5. Glaze: - Cream 20% fat - approximately 10-15 tablespoons. Any brand of cream will do. I usually buy this cream at Auchan. I also tried Lenta brand cream, which also worked well. — Alpen gold milk chocolate without additives (this is the one in the blue wrapper) – 1 pc.

6. Decorations: - Fresh fruits and berries of your choice and taste. Look good on the top of the cake: grapes, apricot, orange, kiwi, strawberries, plums, cherries, raspberries, blueberries, currants. - Delicious sweets. Also, your choice. I usually buy chewing marmalade in the desired color and marshmallows by weight. You can decorate dragees with skittles or mmdams.

Children's birthday cake plan

A little text on the topic of how to make a cake for a child’s birthday with your own hands and not run out of steam)

You can go two ways: 1. Relatively quick, but labor-intensive - you can prepare the cake in one day. 2. Slow, but without tension - we stretch the process of making the cake for 2-3 days.

If you choose the first option, be prepared for the fact that you will have to devote the whole day to preparing the cake. As for me, messing around with a cake all day, well... it’s such an activity) I always go the second way and I advise you too. It’s better to stretch out the process of making a cake for 2 or 3 days, but do everything without haste and don’t get overtired)

For example, Alice’s birthday was on Saturday this year. On Thursday I baked a sponge cake and put it in the refrigerator to cool. Also, on the same day I made powdered sugar and took kefir out of the freezer to defrost. On Friday afternoon I cut the biscuit into cake layers, and in the evening I made the cream. And then, having put everyone to bed, she calmly assembled the cake. Finally, on Saturday morning, the birthday itself, I prepared the icing, formed the drips and decorated the cake. I'll write it in a little more detail)

So, the plan for making a cake for a children's birthday:

Day one: - Bake a biscuit. - Make powdered sugar. It can be made by grinding regular granulated sugar in a coffee grinder or in a blender. I use a coffee grinder and it only takes me 10 minutes. If you don’t have a blender or coffee grinder, you can buy ready-made powdered sugar in the store. — Take out the kefir for defrosting onto the cottage cheese. Take 2 bottles of kefir out of the freezer. We pour hot water over them a little, and carefully cut each bottle into 2 parts. We take out the frozen pieces of kefir and leave them to defrost in a colander for a day. Don't forget to periodically drain the whey.

When the kefir is completely defrosted, you will get a very delicate pasty curd, which is what we need for the cream. By the way, this is exactly how I made cottage cheese for children when I first introduced it to complementary foods. True, for this purpose I took baby kefir from the dairy kitchen.

How to make delicious cottage cheese from kefir

Day two: - cut the chilled sponge cake into layers - prepare the cream - assemble the cake

Day three: - make the glaze - make drips - decorate the cake

Preparing the cake

Baking and preparing biscuits

Cake "Strawberry"

Strawberry Cake
If your birthday falls in June, a cake with fresh strawberries will be a delicious and beautiful treat for dessert.

• Sugar 200 g
• Eggs 5 pcs.
• Flour 3 tbsp.
• Starch 3 tbsp.
• Baking powder 1 tsp.
• Butter for greasing
• Almond petals
• Strawberries for decoration

For cream:

• Butter 200 g
• Sugar 1 cup
• Eggs 2 pcs.
• Milk 500 ml
• Flour 1 tbsp.
• Strawberry

Grind eggs with sugar. Add the rest of the dry ingredients and beat. Grease the pan with butter and sprinkle generously with almonds. Pour the dough on top. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees and bake the crust for 40 minutes. Cool.

Place the pan on the fire, pour milk into it, and boil. Add eggs, sugar and flour. Cook until thickened, stirring continuously. Cool the cream. At this time, soften the butter. Wash the strawberries and cut into small pieces. Beat the cream with a blender, adding oil to it. Then add strawberry pieces to it.

Cut the biscuit in half, coat each cake with cream, and combine. Coat the sides with cream as well. Place halved strawberries in a circle on top of the cake.