Sometimes you need to make a birthday cake. For the birthday of your child whom you love. Country Crock recently released the results of a survey of 1,000 parents. It turned out that 55% of them eat a birthday cake before their child’s actual birthday. I invite all parents to improve and learn original but simple ways to decorate birthday cakes for children.
1. Decorate the cake (it can even be store-bought) with a number made from confectionery sprinkles
2. Buy two round cupcakes from the store or bake them yourself, and cut them so that you can put the number 3. Cover the cake with icing and candies.
3. Cupcakes can be turned into pandas using chocolate sprinkles and candies.
4. Cut the sponge cake into rectangles, place marshmallows on top, cover with icing, and the Lego cake is ready!
5. Decorate the cake with M&Ms and Kit Kat bars
6. Fish Cake: Super cute and totally doable!
7. And you don’t have to bake a cake made from puffed rice at all.
8. Bake the cake, cover it with chocolate glaze and decorate with candies
9. Decorate half of the cake with M&Ms, arrange the candies by color to make a rainbow
10. Bake cakes of different colors by adding food coloring to the dough
11. Ice cream cakes are delicious and don’t require baking. Just buy ice cream and cookies.
Well, are you ready to imagine the boy's birthday? And immediately a picture familiar to many emerges - a company of a dozen tomboyish boys with an appetite eating all kinds of goodies and looking forward to wild and active fun. Can you imagine a birthday cake with flowers and butterflies for this birthday? Of course, this is difficult to imagine.
A boy's birthday, like a birthday cake, has its own characteristics.
In this article, the News Portal "site" has prepared several tips for decorating a birthday cake for a boy, which should definitely be useful for caring mothers and grandmothers who are trying their best to make a truly unforgettable holiday for their child.
Of course, there is an option to order a birthday cake from professional confectioners, but this pleasure is not the cheapest, and the ingredients used to prepare a custom-made cake may not always be to your liking.
It’s much better to prepare a delicious homemade birthday cake for your beloved son or grandson, which will be the culmination of his birthday.
So let's get started...
Cake Lightning McQueen (car)
DIY Lego cake
All modern boys love to build something from Lego. So why not decorate your birthday cake with the theme of your favorite toy?
Bake the cakes according to your signature recipe in the shape of a rectangle. Then coat the cakes with cream. The cream that you will use to decorate the cake will need to be given a little color; this can be done using food coloring. Or you can make the cake snow-white.
The protruding parts on the Lego piece can be made from cut out cake circles, or you can use ready-made cookies or cakes.
You can also use mastic to decorate the cake.
Did you like the Lego theme? Then try building an edible Lego man. You can decorate the Lego man using multi-colored cake creams or mastic. To draw details, use liquid chocolate glaze.
DIY ball cake
If a boy is interested in sports, then a ball can be an excellent option for decorating a birthday cake. The ball can be anything: football, or volleyball, basketball or tennis.
Bake the cakes according to your signature recipe, coat them with cream, and then give the cake a round shape. Cover the cake with fondant and add the texture of the ball using any straw.
If it is not possible to make mastic, you can decorate the cake with sweets and toffees.
DIY Winnie the Pooh cake
DIY cake machine
A very simple way to decorate a homemade birthday cake is to use ready-made multi-colored candies. You can put any number, inscription on the cake with candies, decorate the sides or the entire cake.
For the laziest, a “camping” version of a birthday cake is suitable. Attach a variety of packaged candies, candy bars, and gum to the foam molds.
Cake is a favorite treat for both adults and children. Each of us dreams of a beautiful and original dessert for his birthday, and, naturally, every mother dreams of being able to create an unforgettable holiday for her child. The best option for a children's cake is classic sponge cakes, Genoese or butter sponge cake.
Cake ideas
Thoughtful and coordinated celebration programs, fun competitions and prizes are an integral part of any children's party, and what birthday would be complete without a cake? No one!
Literally 10 years ago, the whole variety of cakes was represented by all the usual “Napoleon”, “Anthill”, “Biscuit with cream”, “Sher-Ami”, “Smetannik” and a couple of other cakes that our mothers baked or bought in pastry shops . And the standard decoration for a birthday cake were candles - straight, twisted, multi-colored, sometimes it was possible to purchase a number candle.
Gradually, the confectionery market expanded and offered more and more new products decorated with cream roses, stumps, leaves and chocolate chips, which are still a favorite treat for most of us today.
And only after broadcasting a series of programs about the king-pastry chef Buddy from New Jersey, we learned that a variety of technologies and ingredients are used to decorate cakes and create confectionery products, making it possible to create an exclusive cake for a child’s birthday, the idea of which will emphasize the child’s individuality and will suit holiday format.
No time - better order
The use of marzipan and mastic allowed our masters to create confectionery masterpieces that delight not only the eye, but also the stomach. Modern confectionery shops offer their customers a huge selection of birthday cake options for children, the weight, shape and decoration of which completely depends on the customer’s wishes.
In most cases, making such a cake will take at least 2-3 days and requires advance ordering (usually 2-3 weeks before the celebration).
You should not choose a confectionery shop at random. Don’t be lazy and don’t regret 10-15 minutes spent searching for reviews and recommendations from clients of a particular confectionery shop, and also first familiarize yourself with the recipes for cakes and cream used. Remember, the picture in the catalog of a confectionery shop can be very different from reality. A good option would be a catalog of color photographs that have not undergone typographical or design processing. Most websites of confectionery shops or private artisans contain real photographs and reviews, which will greatly facilitate your search.
Do it yourself
“I don’t know what’s in that cake that’s made to order,” “I like to bake cakes myself,” “My family doesn’t eat store-bought cakes” - these and many other phrases can be heard when the conversation turns to store-bought confectionery. If you belong to this category of people, you may find the information below interesting.
Modern needlewomen not only know how to bake delicious cakes, but also decorate them no worse than professionals. In most cases, very complex and labor-intensive cakes at first glance are not prepared at home, which is wrong; from the outside, any beautifully decorated cake seems like a work of art.
A cake for a child's birthday is an idea that can be nurtured for months, or even years, and, in the end, the mother awakens the desire to make a gift with her own hands.
The first rule to remember when preparing a cake is the correct dough for the cakes. Using recipes for shortcrust pastry and shortbread when preparing a cake for children under 3 years of age is not advisable, since such dough is quite brittle and hard and can cause one of the children to choke or choke. You should also be careful when preparing your favorite honey cake, as one of your guests may be allergic to honey. It is unacceptable to use alcoholic beverages when preparing cakes and especially cream.
Using sponge dough makes it possible to experiment with the color of the cake layers and the shape of the future cake.
Particular attention should be paid to the cream. Recently, yogurt cream has become popular, which children love very much. The advantage of this cream is its low fat content and ease of preparation. Heavy butter creams and whipped cream can negatively affect our children’s digestive system and ruin the holiday.
Simple baby cake decorating ideas
There are a huge number of different technologies for decorating a birthday cake - it can be custard protein cream, butter cream, icing, mastic or marzipan, the recipe for which can be found on the Internet or bought ready-made ingredients in specialized stores. If this is your first time deciding to use new decorating technologies, practice for a few days to get the hang of it. Working with mastic is greatly facilitated by special tools, cutting tools and rolling pins.
The main thing is not to be afraid to experiment! Go for it and you will succeed!
Cakes for girls - themes
- Flower
- Butterfly
- Dinosaur
- White exquisite with sparklers
- Cake with colored sprinkles or beads
- Pinata cake with surprise candies inside like M&M's
- Animals
- Fairies and princesses
- Moana
- Elsa and Anna
- Unicorn
- Mermaid
- Locks
- Cake decorated with candies
- Cake decorated with berries
Cakes for boys - themes
- Age figure
- Multicolored cake inside
- Forest animals
- Cars, trains, planes and other equipment
- Lego figures and parts
- Spidermen and other superheroes
- Minecraft and other computer games
- Planets and space
- Aliens, minions, monsters
- Rubik's Cube
- Shark cake
- Volcano with sparklers
Cake is a favorite treat for both adults and children. Each of us dreams of a beautiful and original dessert for his birthday, and, naturally, every mother dreams of being able to create an unforgettable holiday for her child. The best option for a children's cake is classic sponge cakes, Genoese or butter sponge cake.
Cake ideas
Thoughtful and coordinated celebration programs, fun competitions and prizes are an integral part of any children's party, and what birthday would be complete without a cake? No one!
Literally 10 years ago, the whole variety of cakes was represented by all the usual “Napoleon”, “Anthill”, “Biscuit with cream”, “Sher-Ami”, “Smetannik” and a couple of other cakes that our mothers baked or bought in pastry shops . And the standard decoration for a birthday cake were candles - straight, twisted, multi-colored, sometimes it was possible to purchase a number candle.
Gradually, the confectionery market expanded and offered more and more new products decorated with cream roses, stumps, leaves and chocolate chips, which are still a favorite treat for most of us today.
And only after broadcasting a series of programs about the king-pastry chef Buddy from New Jersey, we learned that a variety of technologies and ingredients are used to decorate cakes and create confectionery products, making it possible to create an exclusive cake for a child’s birthday, the idea of which will emphasize the child’s individuality and will suit holiday format.
No time - better order
The use of marzipan and mastic allowed our masters to create confectionery masterpieces that delight not only the eye, but also the stomach. Modern confectionery shops offer their customers a huge selection of birthday cake options for children, the weight, shape and decoration of which completely depends on the customer’s wishes.
In most cases, making such a cake will take at least 2-3 days and requires advance ordering (usually 2-3 weeks before the celebration).
You should not choose a confectionery shop at random. Don’t be lazy and don’t regret 10-15 minutes spent searching for reviews and recommendations from clients of a particular confectionery shop, and also first familiarize yourself with the recipes for cakes and cream used. Remember, the picture in the catalog of a confectionery shop can be very different from reality. A good option would be a catalog of color photographs that have not undergone typographical or design processing. Most websites of confectionery shops or private artisans contain real photographs and reviews, which will greatly facilitate your search.
Do it yourself
“I don’t know what’s in that cake that’s made to order,” “I like to bake cakes myself,” “My family doesn’t eat store-bought cakes” - these and many other phrases can be heard when the conversation turns to store-bought confectionery. If you belong to this category of people, you may find the information below interesting.
Modern needlewomen not only know how to bake delicious cakes, but also decorate them no worse than professionals. In most cases, very complex and labor-intensive cakes at first glance are not prepared at home, which is wrong; from the outside, any beautifully decorated cake seems like a work of art.
A cake for a child's birthday is an idea that can be nurtured for months, or even years, and, in the end, the mother awakens the desire to make a gift with her own hands.
The first rule to remember when preparing a cake is the correct dough for the cakes. Using recipes for shortcrust pastry and shortbread when preparing a cake for children under 3 years of age is not advisable, since such dough is quite brittle and hard and can cause one of the children to choke or choke. You should also be careful when preparing your favorite honey cake, as one of your guests may be allergic to honey. It is unacceptable to use alcoholic beverages when preparing cakes and especially cream.
Using sponge dough makes it possible to experiment with the color of the cake layers and the shape of the future cake.
Particular attention should be paid to the cream. Recently, yogurt cream has become popular, which children love very much. The advantage of this cream is its low fat content and ease of preparation. Heavy butter creams and whipped cream can negatively affect our children’s digestive system and ruin the holiday.
Simple baby cake decorating ideas
There are a huge number of different technologies for decorating a birthday cake - it can be custard protein cream, butter cream, icing, mastic or marzipan, the recipe for which can be found on the Internet or bought ready-made ingredients in specialized stores. If this is your first time deciding to use new decorating technologies, practice for a few days to get the hang of it. Working with mastic is greatly facilitated by special tools, cutting tools and rolling pins.
The main thing is not to be afraid to experiment! Go for it and you will succeed!
Cakes for girls - themes
- Flower
- Butterfly
- Dinosaur
- White exquisite with sparklers
- Cake with colored sprinkles or beads
- Pinata cake with surprise candies inside like M&M's
- Animals
- Fairies and princesses
- Moana
- Elsa and Anna
- Unicorn
- Mermaid
- Locks
- Cake decorated with candies
- Cake decorated with berries
Cakes for boys - themes
- Age figure
- Multicolored cake inside
- Forest animals
- Cars, trains, planes and other equipment
- Lego figures and parts
- Spidermen and other superheroes
- Minecraft and other computer games
- Planets and space
- Aliens, minions, monsters
- Rubik's Cube
- Shark cake
- Volcano with sparklers
A delicious and beautiful cake is the main character of a children's party. It is impossible to imagine a child's birthday without it. It is the appearance of the cake on the table that the little guests, and the birthday boy himself, look forward to. Therefore, the main sweet of the holiday should be appropriately decorated so that the children would be interested not only in trying it, but also in examining it. Dessert decoration plays a very important role for children. They are more willing to try a cake in the shape of their favorite cartoon character than a regular round cake with roses.
If you order a cake from a pastry chef, he will decorate it according to your wishes, but often mothers decide to bake the cake themselves to be sure of its quality and freshness. But in this case, the mother should think about how to decorate a cake for her child’s birthday at home.
The first thing you need to decide on in the process of creating a confectionery masterpiece is its shape. Will it be a regular round product or in the shape of a heart. Or perhaps you decide to make a dessert with several tiers. It is very easy to give different shapes to sponge cakes. The sponge cake is easy to cut, can be sealed with cream, and is light enough to be layered in two or three layers. You can cut any number or letter from a biscuit using a regular kitchen knife. Here are several options for forming cakes from sponge cakes.
Now let’s look at the simplest and most popular ways to decorate a cake for a child’s birthday.
Familiar to us since childhood. This is what our mothers used to decorate cakes with. But it is also widely used by modern confectioners, because it is easy to prepare, and with its help you can create real masterpieces.
Butter cream recipe:
- ½ stick of butter (100 grams);
- 5 or 6 tablespoons of condensed milk. You can take either regular condensed milk or boiled one.
The butter should be soft. Mix it thoroughly with a mixer with condensed milk until you get a homogeneous mass. In fact, the cream is already ready. If desired, it can be colored with food coloring. Apply the cream using a pastry bag. And if you don’t have one at hand, then a plastic bag with a corner cut off will do.
Here are some buttercream decorating ideas.
Chocolate glaze
It is prepared like this: take cocoa, sugar and milk - all ingredients are 2 tablespoons, and 30 grams of butter. First, mix the dry ingredients, then pour milk into them and dissolve over low heat. When the mixture becomes homogeneous, remove it from the stove and add a piece of butter, mix thoroughly. Use the glaze while it is hot.
You can make different figures from chocolate icing. To do this, we draw figures on parchment and let them harden, after which we remove them from the paper and decorate our product. Chocolate icing makes very delicate butterflies and curls.
Mastic
A favorite material among confectioners for its versatility and ease of preparation. You can sculpt almost any figure from mastic or completely cover cakes with it. There are a lot of mastic recipes. Let's take a look at a simple recipe for marshmallow mastic, which can be used to easily decorate a children's birthday cake at home. For it you will need:
- 250 grams of powdered sugar;
- 100 grams marshmallows;
- 90 grams of potato starch;
- a little lemon juice;
- a teaspoon of butter.
Mix the dry ingredients and sift thoroughly. Melt the marshmallows in a water bath, stirring constantly. Then combine marshmallows with powder and starch, pour in lemon juice. Grease your hands with oil and knead the resulting mass thoroughly. Add dyes to the finished mastic, then mix thoroughly again. After all operations, the mastic should be allowed to lie in the refrigerator for about half an hour.
To cover the cake with mastic, it is first greased with chocolate ganache, otherwise the mastic may float.
To cover the cake, roll out the mastic in a thin layer, place it on top of the cake layers, press down and trim off any excess. After this, you can start decorating with mastic figures. Here everything depends only on your imagination and ability to handle mastic. If you don’t have the skill to sculpt the figures, you can buy ready-made decorations from mastic.
coconut flakes
A decoration that does not require special preparation. The shavings are sold in stores ready for use. It comes in different colors, so you can use it to create different pictures.
This is also a pretty simple way to decorate a cake. To do this, simply grate the chocolate or make shavings using a sharp knife. Let the shavings harden thoroughly in the refrigerator and sprinkle our confectionery masterpiece with it.
A tasty and healthy decoration. Just cut the fruit into thin slices and place it beautifully on the cakes. But to make the fruits look more appetizing and not lose their appearance, there is one little secret - cover them with jelly. Mix gelatin with water and melt it in a water bath. Make sure that the jelly does not turn out too liquid. It is better to take a little less water than required in the instructions. Then we take a brush and cover the fruit with the resulting mixture, let the jelly harden in the refrigerator. Fruits in jelly look very elegant, stay fresh longer and do not fall off the cake when cutting it.
A simple but quite effective way to decorate a dessert. It is suitable for those who have very little time to decorate. First coat the cake with glaze, mastic or buttercream, which we introduced above. After that, put the jelly candies on the cake. Children really like colorful jelly figures, so they will certainly appreciate this cake.
Conclusion
As you can see, there are many ways to decorate a children's cake at home. And many of them are very simple to implement. And your little birthday boy will appreciate your efforts, because it’s so nice when a mother makes such beauty for her own child. Be creative and make children happy!
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