DIY cake for a child’s birthday: girl, boy. Delicious recipes with photos for 1, 2, 3 years, how to decorate, make an inscription from sweets, which one to bake, sponge cake, from ready-made cakes

Simple biscuit

Example of a simple sponge cake recipe

Ingredients for sponge cakes:

sugar (sand) – ¾ cup;
eggs – 4 pcs.;
salt;
flour – 160 gr.;
vanillin.

Ingredients for cottage cheese cream and filling:

cottage cheese – 0.5 kg;
vanilla;
sour cream – 0.6 kg;
powdered sugar – 0.4 kg;
quick dissolving gelatin – 40 g;
cold water (boiled) – 70 g;
fruits.

Sequence of preparation steps:

Grind only the yolks with ½ cup of sand, add the prepared vanillin.
In another bowl, beat the whites (until white foam forms) with salt, add the rest of the sugar to the resulting mixture in small portions.
Pour 2/3 of the whipped whites into the yolks, mix, add flour and remaining whites.
Line a baking sheet with parchment and pour the resulting dough onto it.
Heat the oven to 180 degrees, place the baking sheet with the dough in it for 30 minutes.
Cool the finished baked cake, divide it lengthwise into 2 halves.
Make an impregnation for the cakes - boil sugar syrup, add 2 drops of fruit juice.
Make cream. To do this, you need to pour cold water into the gelatin and leave it to swell. Pass the cottage cheese through a sieve, pour in sour cream, powder, beat thoroughly, add vanillin. Heat the gelatin until it completely melts, transfer it to the resulting mixture. Mix everything well.
Place one part of the sponge cake on a dish, soak it in syrup, arrange the fruit cut into slices, pour over the cream (½ serving). Place a second cake layer on it, pour in the impregnation, arrange the fruit and cottage cheese mixture.
Place in the refrigerator for 6 hours.
Decorate.

Chocolate

A do-it-yourself chocolate cake for a child’s birthday stands out because the taste and aroma of chocolate gives this product its specialness and sophistication.

Compound:

margarine (can be replaced with butter) – 150 g;
sugar (not refined sugar) – 2/3 cup;
1 tsp (with a slide) baking powder;
any thick, non-sweet jam;
eggs – 5 pcs.;
chocolate – 250 gr.;
flour - ¾ cup.

Glaze composition:

100 gr. chocolates;
3.5 (without a slide) tbsp. cocoa;
a packet of vanillin;
6 tbsp. milk;
50 gr. oils;
1 cup of powder (sugar);
1 (no slide) tbsp. starch.

Actions:

Soften the butter, beat it with sand, gradually add the yolks.
The chocolate must be melted and cooled slightly (it should begin to thicken), pour it into the butter mixture.
Pour in flour, baking powder, knead, pour in the whites (pre-whipped until foamy).
Place the resulting mixture into the mold, smooth it out, and cover the top with foil.
Bake at 200 degrees for 45 minutes.
Cool without removing from the oven.
Divide the cake into 2 halves, spread one part of the cake with a thick layer of jam (as it should be absorbed), and connect the cakes together.
Spread jam on top and pour glaze.

With fruits

Light-colored biscuit composition:

3 pcs. eggs;
1 (no slide) tsp. baking powder;
4 tbsp. sugar (not refined sugar);
4 tbsp. flour.

Dark biscuit composition:

1 tsp baking powder (without slide);
3 pcs. testicles;
4 tbsp. sugar (not refined sugar);
1 tbsp. cocoa;
4 tbsp. flour.

Cream pudding composition:

300 ml. milk;
6 tbsp. starch;
1 cup unrefined sugar;
0.4 kg. oils

You will also need:

jelly – 2 standard packs of 100 g each. (you can take cherry and peach flavors);
grapes 0.5 kg;
nectarines – 4 pcs.;
prunes – 9 pcs.;
apples - 3 pcs.

Sequence of preparation steps:

1. Baking light cake:

Whisk the eggs, then gradually add sugar;
add flour along with baking powder, shake until smooth;
the oven should be heated to 180 degrees. Line the pan with parchment paper and grease with butter. Fold the dough into a mold and put it in the oven. Bake 30 min. Check readiness with a toothpick (must remain dry).

2. Preparing dark sponge cake:

beat chicken eggs with a whisk, gradually add sand;
add flour, baking powder, and cocoa, beat until smooth;
oven similar to light.

3. Let the prepared cakes cool, then remove the parchment.

4. Preparing cream pudding:

mix sand and starch in a bowl;
add half a portion of milk, mix well;
In another bowl, heat the rest of the milk; when it boils, reduce the heat. Pour in the starch-sugar mixture, stirring continuously with a whisk. Cook for 3 minutes.
The resulting mixture thickens very quickly and becomes viscous. Leave to cool.

5. Soften the butter, beat with a mixer, add the prepared cream pudding. Beat until smooth and refrigerate.

6. Cut the berries into halves, remove the seeds. Cut the nectarine into quarters.

7. Be sure to cook nectarines and prunes in boiled sugar syrup (this is done to get rid of the acid and make the nectarine soft and sweet). To prepare sugar syrup, boil 1 glass of water, pour 1 tbsp into it. l. sand, add prunes, nectarines, cook for 5 minutes. Next, drain the water and leave the fruit to cool.

8. Making cherry jelly. Pour half a liter of water over the contents of the bag, stir, set aside for 10 minutes, then, stirring, bring to a boil (the gelatin should dissolve). To cool the jelly faster, place the plate with the jelly in very cold water.

9. Divide the cream pudding equally into 3 parts. Spread the light sponge cake with the first part.

10. Using a glass of dark cake, cut out 5 circles. Place these mugs on a light cake coated with pudding.

11. Fill the gaps formed between the dark circles with prunes and grapes cut in half. If the circles are tall, then you can arrange the grapes in 2 layers. Next, cover the entire surface of the cake with the cooled cherry aspic; pour it over the berries (otherwise the cream pudding may drip off).

12. Refrigerate for 40 minutes.

13. After the cherry jelly has hardened, carefully spread another portion of cream pudding on top.

14. Place a dark cake layer with holes on top (from which the circles were cut out). Place pieces of nectarine tightly into the holes formed. Spread with remaining cream pudding.

15. Make peach jelly (similar to cherry jelly).

16. Prepare fruits to decorate the cake (you can simply cut them into slices), place them from the center to the edges.

17. Pour over cooled peach jelly, adjust the fruit, as... they can move.

18. Refrigerate until the jelly has completely hardened (preferably overnight).

Fruits and berries, in accordance with the child’s preferences, can be replaced with others according to the season (in winter, for example, use canned ones).

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.

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.

Icing inscription

Icing is an egg-sugar mixture that quickly hardens and forms beautiful snow-white patterns. Using icing, you can congratulate a teenager on his birthday in an original way, or make beautiful patterns on a cake intended for the baby’s 1st birthday.

The process is quite simple:

Beat one egg white. Before doing this, it must be cooled thoroughly. The dishes must be dry and clean.
Gradually add 200 grams of finely ground powdered sugar to the foam.
Add one teaspoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice.
Quickly transfer the mixture into a piping bag fitted with a narrow tip. You need to work with icing very quickly, as it hardens instantly.
The actual inscription can be made directly on the surface of the cake, but it must be mastic or completely hardened glaze. You can also make an inscription separately on a stencil; use parchment or polyethylene as a stencil. In this case, after the pattern, and in our case, the congratulatory inscription, has hardened, carefully remove the backing and transfer the inscription to the surface of the cake, greased with a special gel or thick syrup.

A product decorated with icing is stored for a long time, so you can practice in advance, even make an inscription a few days before serving the cake. The only negative is that it is not advisable to store icing in the refrigerator, so it is optimal to decorate the cake immediately before serving.

With cream

Components:

eggs – 3 pcs.;
flour (wheat) – 360 gr.;
sah. sand – 210 gr.;
baking powder - 1 tsp;
sour cream – 200 gr.;
vanillin – 1 small pinch;
soda - a quarter tsp;
any canned fruit.

For the cream take:

heavy cream (not less than 30%) – 0.5 l.;
sah. powder (can be replaced with fine sugar) – 130 gr.

Sequencing:

Beat (foam) eggs with sand and vanilla.
Pour in sour cream and beat again.
Add flour sifted with baking powder and soda. Knead the dough.
Pour the dough into the oiled pan.
Place the pan with the dough in a heated oven (180 degrees) - 40 minutes.
Cool the baked cake, divide it lengthwise into 2 halves.
Whip cream with sand.
Place the first baked cake on a plate and soak it in syrup from canned fruit.
Place the cream in a thick layer, spread evenly and place the chopped fruit.
Brush the fruit with cream and place the 2nd part of the cake on top.
Soak in syrup as well.
Cover the entire cake with cream.
Decorate the cake and refrigerate for 2 hours.

Boy's christening cake

Those invited to the christening will be delighted and surprised by a culinary delicacy decorated with fruit and topped with cream.

Cake "Surprise"

Products for biscuit:

eggs – 15 pcs.;
wheat flour – 450-500 g;
granulated sugar – 450-500 g.

For cream:

fat sour cream – 700-800 g;
sugar – 300 g.

It is prepared quickly, decorated with fruits, nuts, mastic, dragees.

Cool the whites and beat with half the sugar.
Beat the sugar and yolks until the mass triples in size and lightens, combine with the protein mass.
The cake is baked for at least half an hour at a temperature of 170 degrees. Do not open the door in the first 20 minutes so that the biscuit does not settle.
To prepare the cream, beat sour cream with sugar.
Cut the cake into 2 halves, coat with cream, add chopped fruit: banana and kiwi. Seasonal berries and fruits are suitable.

Decorate with cream, glaze or mastic. If you have the skills to sculpt from mastic, make figurines of a baby, a stork, or a cradle.

From baby formula

Components:

1.5 medium glasses of unrefined sugar;
half tsp soda;
3 pcs. testicles;
¾ cup 25% sour cream;
1 large glass of flour;
dry mixture - 1.5 regular glasses;
2.5 (without slide) tbsp. l. cocoa.

To make the cream, you need to take:

1 small glass of powdered sugar;
80 gr. oils;
1 medium glass of 25% sour cream;
baby formula - half a glass.

Sequencing:

Using a blender, beat the sand with the eggs.
Pour sour cream into the resulting sugar-egg mixture and stir well.
Mix flour and baby formula until smooth.
Combine all ingredients and add baking soda.
Disconnect 1/3 of the dough and bake the cake at 200 degrees.
Pour cocoa into the remaining dough, mix until smooth and bake 2 more cakes.
To prepare the cream, you need to shake the sour cream with powdered sugar. Add softened butter to them and mix well.
Spread the cream on the cakes.

A DIY cake for a child’s birthday, made from a mixture for children, will turn out not only very tasty, but also healthy, because... The mixtures contain various microelements and vitamins.

Children's treat for 5 years

At the age of five, boys begin to choose more serious hobbies for themselves. A classic cake is quite appropriate, as well as popular cheesecakes, pancakes, and mastic sweets.

Cake "Gift"

Ingredients:

flour – 350 g;
baking powder – 15 g;
butter – 300 g;
brown sugar - sand - 300 g;
eggs – 3 pcs.;
instant coffee – 20 g;
walnuts without shell – 300 g;
powdered sugar – 350 g;
lemon juice – 10 g;
egg white – 2;
fat cottage cheese – 350-400 g.

Prepared in stages.

Beat eggs with 150 g of softened butter.
The peeled nut kernels are chopped with a knife (coarsely) and fried.
Dissolve the coffee.
Pour baking powder into the flour and sift.
Combine with the egg-butter mixture and half the coffee.
Bake for at least half an hour in the oven at 180 degrees.
The remaining butter is whipped with cottage cheese
Add the remaining coffee, half the powdered sugar, and nuts.
The cake is cooled, cut into 2-3 parts, coated with cream.
The glaze is made from lemon juice, powdered sugar and egg white.
The surface is covered with glaze and leveled with wet hands.

You can form it directly into the shape of a car, a book, a ball, or write a name. Make numbers in the form, emphasizing that the boy is 5 years old.

Layer cake with nuts

Cake ingredients:

eggs – 3 pcs.;
unrefined sugar – 0.5 kg;
wheat flour – 380 gr.;
sour cream – 780 gr.;
nuts – 130 gr.;
slaked soda – 3 tsp;
poppy seed – 125 gr.;
raisins – 130 gr.

Actions:

Shake 1 egg with half a glass of sand.
Continuing to beat, add sour cream (half a glass).
Pour 1 tsp. soda and flour (half a glass).
Knead the dough (not too thick).
Add poppy seeds (half a glass).
Line the pan with baking paper, place the dough in it, and place in the oven for 25 minutes. (180 degrees).
Knead the next two cakes in the same way, but instead of poppy seeds, pour nuts into one cake and raisins into the other.
To prepare the cream, do not beat 400 gr. sour cream and half a glass of sand. Place in the refrigerator until the cakes are ready.
Spread each of the cakes with cream and place one on top of the other.
Decorate.

How to decorate a baby cake for a boy, step by step with photos

Any boy simply loves cars and everything connected with them. If you can make such a cake for your birthday boy, he will be happy. We bring to your attention instructions on how to make a cake machine:

First, we traditionally bake sponge cakes and prepare buttercream. We coat each cake with cream and put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours so that the cream sets and the cakes do not crumble.
Form the machine: to do this, you need to cut off 2 rounded parts and place them on top of the cake as shown in the picture:

All voids that are formed as a result must be sprinkled with the remaining parts of the cakes and cream:

Lubricate the entire area of the resulting car with butter cream and place it in the refrigerator for 1 hour so that the cream hardens:

Roll out 1 sheet of blue mastic. We chose this color because it suits a boy well, but you can choose any other color that your child likes:

Carefully place the fondant onto the cake. Use white and yellow mastic to make the remaining parts that should be on the car. These are windows, a bumper, and eyes for the car. The figure shows what parts must be included:

To make wheels for a cake machine, use these chocolate-covered cookies:

Inside these cookies you should insert the following discs of yellow mastic:

Attach toothpicks from the back to the wheels so that you can attach them to the main part of the cake in this way:

As a result, your cake machine will look like this:

When you decorate a cake for your child, be sure to take into account his taste preferences. Make cartoon characters that he likes, use sweets that he likes. We are sure that this is the only way to please the little birthday boy on his holiday.

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

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.

Homemade ice cream cake

The favorite treat of both children and adults is ice cream. It’s quite possible to make it yourself, shaping it into a cake for effect.

Ingredients:

heavy cream – 400-500 ml;
milk – 250 g;
berries – 600-800 g (strawberries, raspberries, currants);
sugar – 150-200 g;
egg yolks – 6 pcs.

Cooking method:

Boil milk and cream until thickened.
Beat the yolks with 120 g of sugar until the mass increases, combine with the milk and cream mixture.
Place the bowl in the microwave to heat. Make sure that the mixture does not boil. Cool in the refrigerator.
Sprinkle the berries with sugar and add to the ice cream.
Place in a cake pan, compact and place in the freezer for 4-6 hours.

Grated chocolate and coconut flakes will help add piquancy and taste.

Jelly

Cake ingredients:

sour cream – 400 gr.;
gelatin – 1 small packet (10 g);
canned pineapples – 200 gr.;
jelly – 2 bags (for example, take peach and strawberry);
cracker – 100 gr.;
granulated sugar - to taste.

How to cook:

To prepare strawberry jelly, you need to boil water (250 ml.). Pour hot boiled water into a plate with jelly and stir thoroughly until the jelly is completely dissolved.
Place in the refrigerator (to set) for 3 hours.
Similar to making peach jelly.
Pour water (100 ml) into gelatin and set aside for 10 minutes. for swelling. Place the container with gelatin on low heat, heat to 60 degrees. Stir until the gelatin is completely dissolved, cool.
While the gelatin cools, beat the sand together with sour cream.
Pour the gelatin mixture into the whipped sour cream, continuing to shake.
Place each plate of frozen jelly in a shallow bowl of hot water for 35 seconds, then turn the plate over. Carefully remove the jelly and cut into pieces.
Place chopped pineapple slices, pieces of jelly, crackers into the mixture (sugar-sour cream), stir lightly with a spoon.
The cracker should be on top (since it is the bottom of the cake). Place in the refrigerator for 5 hours.
The dish with the cake needs 35 seconds. put in boiling water. Cover the top with a flat wide plate and turn over.

Birthday cake for a boy

Many foods are not recommended for children of this age. The priority is light cakes and pancakes with fruit or mastic. A cake for a 1 year old boy will most likely attract the baby with its colorful design.

Cake made from children's cookies and cottage cheese without baking

This recipe is suitable even for people who do not have special skills.

Ingredients:

500 g baby cookies;
300 g low-fat cottage cheese;
250 g low-fat sour cream;
150 g granulated sugar;
fruits.

A suitable form is selected for formation or

To make the mass tender and homogeneous, you need to thoroughly beat the cottage cheese with sour cream and sugar.
Each cookie is moistened with milk, laid out in an even layer in a mold, and coated with curd mass.
Fruits are cut into slices. You can take peaches, bananas, kiwi or peeled citrus slices.
Fruit slices are laid out on the curd cream, layers alternate. No-bake cakes are a unique opportunity to prepare a delicious dessert in a short time, without effort. Sprinkle with cookie crumbs, decorate with fruit, place a candle, number 1 or inscription with a name.

Fast banana

Cake ingredients:

2 pcs. testicles;
condensed milk – 1 can;
a pack (250 g) of margarine;
1/3 (without a slide) tsp. soda;
2 large glasses of flour (sifted);
any syrup;
1 tbsp. l. honey

Cream ingredients:

800 gr. 25% sour cream;
Unrefined sugar - half a glass;
bananas – 8 pcs. (overripe).

Actions:

Melt the margarine. While it cools, beat the eggs and pour in the condensed milk. Next, pour in the melted margarine.
Quench soda with honey (melted).
Add flour and stir everything.
Divide the resulting dough into 2 halves and bake 2 cakes (at 180 degrees for 30 minutes, check the readiness of the cake with a match);
To prepare the cream, you need to thoroughly beat the sand together with sour cream.
Soak the cakes with syrup, spread the resulting cream, place bananas cut into thin slices between the cakes (and on top of the top cake).

You can mix the cream with banana puree (it’s better to mix it with your hands and not with a mixer). This decision will not harm the taste. However, sliced bananas look much better and more interesting, so this is a preferable option for a child’s birthday.
You can also additionally decorate with other fruits.
Place in the refrigerator overnight.

A DIY banana cake for a child’s birthday will not be very high in calories, because... The cream is prepared without oil, and it turns out rich and rich.

Dessert with mastic cars

Cars are a popular way for boys to decorate desserts. Some people like a cake in the shape of a car, others choose a few details for decoration. Mastic, as a plastic and easy-to-work material, is used for decoration.

Milk mastic

Ingredients:

powdered milk – 300 g
powdered sugar – 300 g;
condensed milk – 300 g;
lemon juice – 10 g.

It is necessary to mix powdered sugar and milk powder, pour in condensed milk and knead. You can add dyes or tint the mastic with natural juices from fruits and vegetables.

They sculpt cars from mastic at their own discretion, experimenting with color, shape, size.

Cake "Machine"

Ingredients:

eggs – 12 pcs.;
sugar – 500 g;
baking powder – 15 g;
vanillin;
condensed milk - 2 cans;
marshmallows – 1.5 kg;
powdered sugar – 1 kg;
lemon juice – 20 g;
milk chocolate – 2 bars;
food colorings.

The process is divided into several stages.

Beat half the sugar into a stiff foam with the whites.
Add the remaining half of the sugar to the yolks, beat until the mass increases 3 times in size and changes color.
Mix both mixtures carefully, from bottom to top.
Add flour in small portions and knead until smooth.
Bake at 180 degrees for at least half an hour.
Soak the cakes with berry juice or fruit syrup, if desired.
To prepare the cream, leave the butter at room temperature for 3-4 hours, beat with condensed milk.

Cars are a common way to prepare an original surprise for kids.

How to make from ready-made cakes

It is best to take sponge cakes, because... they are soft and absorb any cream or syrup well. While waffle or puff pastries are crispy and dry.

Components:

packaging of cakes;
cream - 300 ml;
powdered sugar – 100 gr.;
strawberries – 2 cups;
pear – 1 pc.;
water – 100 gr.

Step by step steps:

Prepare syrup for impregnation. To do this, you need to rinse the berries thoroughly, fill them completely with water, add sand and cook. When it boils, cook the berries for 5 minutes, remove from the stove.
Grind the berries (ceiling).
Grind through a sieve so that there are no pieces. Leave to cool.
Whip the cream together with powdered sugar. Shake until fluffy foam is obtained.
Remove the skin from the pear, cut into several pieces, and grind in a blender.
Soak the cakes with syrup.
Divide the cream into 3 parts. The first part will be needed when decorating the cake. Place the pear in the remaining two parts.
Coat all the cakes with cream and fold them together. Coat the top cake with the reserved first part of the cream. You can decorate with pieces of strawberries, pears, etc.

Common mistakes

In principle, creating inscriptions is not that difficult from a technical point of view. If you already know how to decorate cakes, writing congratulations on them will be easy. But sometimes confectioners still stubbornly make basic mistakes, which ruins the appearance of the dessert:

The piping bag is not positioned correctly. The spout should be at a height of about 2-3 mm from the surface. If the distance is smaller, the cream or topping will be smeared inaccurately. Raise it higher and the mixture will begin to stretch, creating extra lines.
Temperature. If you are using chocolate or cream, cool it to 15-20°C. If the temperature is lower, the mixture will become thick and difficult to squeeze out. Hot cream can ruin the cake coating.
The details of the inscription are strongly pressed in. If you post the text in small pieces, there is no need to immerse them in the cream. Let them just lie on top, slightly submerged.
The stencil rises high. The lower the template with slots is located, the clearer the picture will be in the end.
No strainer is used. Powdered sugar, cocoa, and cinnamon may contain debris and lumps. It's better if they don't end up on the cake.

In order not to make mistakes, the main thing is not to rush anywhere, even if you feel confident in your abilities. It's easy to make a mistake that you can't always correct. But if you are careful, a beautiful congratulation will definitely bring positive emotions.

How to make a two-tier cake

A two-tier cake looks much more impressive than a single-layer cake, but it also takes more time to prepare. You need to take 2 forms of different sizes.

Cake ingredients:

Bottom cake (large):

eggs – 8 pcs.;
unrefined sugar – 250 gr.;
160 gr. sifted flour;
50 - 60 gr. starch;
50 gr. oils;
soda – 1 tsp;
vanilla – 1 tsp;
Take a lemon on the tip of a knife.

Top cake (make smaller than the bottom):

testicles – 4 pcs.;
4 (without slide) tbsp. l. unrefined sugar;
100 gr. sifted flour;
1 (without slide) tbsp. l. starch;
baking powder - half a tsp;
lemon and vanilla.

Cream composition:

condensed milk - 1 can;
butter – 350 gr.;
vanilla - to taste.

The dough for both cakes is prepared the same way.

Cooking steps:

Separate the yolks from the whites.
While beating the whites, add sand (half of the total amount of sand). A strong foam should form that will not spill out if you turn the bowl over.
Beat the whites with the rest of the sugar and vanilla. The yolk mixture should increase in volume and turn white, then carefully pour it into the whites and whisk with a whisk.
Mix the flour and baking powder, gradually add it to the egg mixture (be careful not to create a foam).
Melt the butter and add it to the dough.
Lay paper (parchment) in the mold, pour the dough into the mold, put it in the oven (must be heated to 180 degrees).
When the top of the sponge cake is baked until golden brown, remove it from the oven, turn the mold over and leave it in this position until the cake cools.
Also bake the top crust.
After the cakes have cooled, cut them into 2 halves.
To make the cream, you need to soften the butter, beat it with a mixer (it should become fluffy, soft and increase in volume). Continuing to shake, pour condensed milk into the oil. Shake for at least 5 minutes. (until the cream becomes homogeneous).
Coat each layer of cakes from the bottom tier with cream, stack them one on top of the other. Also collect separate layers from the top of the cake.
You can coat the top of the cake with chocolate paste and smooth the sides with a warm knife.
To strengthen the cake, you need to place a cocktail straw in its center and cut it to the level of the cake.
Use a spatula to transfer and place the top layer of cake on top of the bottom layer.
Decorate.

Original cake made from sweets and juice

To make such a cake you will need: cardboard, white paper, scissors, corrugated paper, double-sided tape, satin ribbon, candy, juice.

Manufacturing:

According to the height of the juice packaging, cut out the first tier of the cake from corrugated cardboard (2 circles), glue the sides together using double-sided tape. Cover everything with white paper.
Make the second and third tiers in the same way, but from ordinary cardboard (one tier is smaller than the other).
Using double-sided tape, glue the tiers together.
Arrange the juice in tiers (glue it with tape).
Cut out any decorations from corrugated paper (to cover the base).
Make flowers from corrugated paper, put candy in the middle of the flower, securing with transparent tape. Place the resulting candy flowers between the cake and juices.
The bottom of the cake can be decorated by tying a satin ribbon in a bow.

Children's themed cake, tips and tricks

All children have a sweet tooth, but this does not mean that any sweet can win their hearts and make them eat a piece of cake with appetite, even if you prepared it with your own hands. Still, you need to adhere to certain rules and take into account several features so that the children's cake turns out the way the child needs:

If you use sponge cakes as a basis, then use chocolate icing, cream made with butter or heavy cream as a decoration.
If you decide to make a cottage cheese cake, then you simply won’t find anything better than berries and fruits for decoration.
If the cake layers are shortbread or made from puff pastry, then decorate the delicacy with protein cream or cream made with boiled condensed milk.
If you are preparing a honey cake, then the taste of mastic and maoshmallow, which today are very popular among confectioners who make sweet pastries for children and not only, will go well with it.
Do not use artificial colors to make multi-colored cream or dough. If you want the cake to be bright, then get paints from natural products - get juices, mix them to achieve the desired color.
To ensure that the creams smell nice and have an unusual taste, you should not use any alcohol-based liqueurs. They should be replaced with citrus fruits, vanilla, cinnamon and other foods and spices that are harmless to the child’s body.
Do not soak baby cake layers with syrups that contain excessive amounts of sugar. Too sweet a dessert will not bring any benefit to your child's health.
Do not use any small details for decoration - candies, small cookies that are quite hard and do not melt in your mouth. Otherwise, the child may choke on these elements when eating the cake.
You can use jelly as a decoration, but it must be prepared from natural ingredients, and not based on artificial preparations, which are sold packaged in all grocery stores.

Baby cake cream recipes

A DIY cake for a child’s birthday can be soaked in various creams.

1. Sour cream.

Components:

cold sour cream (30% fat) – 500 g;
sugar (not refined sugar) – 1 cup.

Beat the sour cream and sand with a mixer until the sugar dissolves.

2. Curd.

Components:

cottage cheese (fat content 9%) – 250 gr.;
oils – 50 gr.;
vanilla extract – 1 tsp;
powdered sugar – 200 gr.

Mix all ingredients together (except powder) until the mixture becomes smooth. Sift the powder into the resulting mass on a fine sieve, mix with a spoon, then shake until smooth.

3. From condensed milk.

You need to take:

butter – 250 gr.;
condensed milk – 1 glass;
vanilla sugar - 1/3 packet.

Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance to soften it, then beat. Continuing to beat, add tsp. condensed milk When the mass becomes fluffy, add vanilla sugar.

4. From yogurt.

Components:

any yogurt – 300 gr.;
gelatin – 7 g;
cream (30%) – 300 gr.;
powdered sugar – 100 gr.

Pour 3 tbsp gelatin. water (cold), leave for 20 minutes, send to a water bath until the granules are completely dissolved. Beat the cream with sand with a mixer until a thick foam forms. Pour in yogurt and ½ part gelatin, beat. Pour in the rest of the gelatin and beat again. Add cream, beat until smooth.

What to write – ideas

Of course, with the inscription “Happy Birthday!” no one can be surprised anymore. Therefore, the question of how to sign a cake confuses many people. The person begins to go through various options: “the birthday boy will understand, but the guests will not,” “censorship will not let this pass,” “this will be inappropriate in front of the parents,” “the wife will not understand something.” Don’t worry, you can add just a couple of words to an ordinary and banal signature, and it will become non-standard and hit the nail on the head.

Try to avoid phrases such as: “To my beloved mother from Alyosha” or “To my dear grandmother from my grandchildren.” Best wishes to someone will definitely remind you of the mourning ribbons of wreaths, which can give rise to unpleasant and inappropriate jokes.

It is also important to present the text correctly. Mistakes will cause even more public outrage than the previous unsuccessful slogan.

Pay attention to the following options if a loved one’s anniversary is coming up:

18 years old is good, but 50 years old is cooler!
From the anniversary start to new heights!
20 is forever, the rest is experience!
Even at 50, may your desires coincide with your possibilities!
How are you already 35? Yesterday it was 18!

When a birthday is approaching without a round date, congratulations can be formatted as follows:

Happy birthday, old stick! – for a friend with a sense of humor.
My passport is lying, my mother is 18! - for my beloved mother.
Sveta is 18 years and 348 months old! - for a friend.

A wedding anniversary is a tender event, a memorable date that evokes trepidation in the soul. Receiving a themed cake from your loved one is the best idea for a gift or as an addition to the main surprise. The shock option would be:

The year is over, everything is ahead!
The years are running, the years are flying, we are already 10 years old - hurray!
2 years under one blanket!
17 moments of love!
30 happy years together!

Design ideas for a boy 1, 2, 3 years old

You can decorate a cake for a boy with figures of animals that the child knows (for example, a bunny, a cat, a bear),

cartoon characters (for example, Masha and the Bear, Smesharik), a car, a soccer ball, booties, a pacifier, a boat, or just the number 1, 2 or 3.

How to make figures from mastic

The consistency of mastic is similar to plasticine, so you can make any figures from it.

You can, for example, make a Sovunya from Smeshariki, to do this, roll up a ball of mastic (colored) - this will turn out to be a head, attach triangular-shaped ears. Make circles for the eyes using white mastic. Make a beak and attach it to the head. Attach the pupils to the eyes. Roll out thin sausages and make legs. Attach legs and wings. The owl is ready.

If you make a figurine consisting of a torso and a head, then you need to fasten these parts of the body with a toothpick.

How to make an inscription on a cake

The easiest way to write on a cake with cream is to use a syringe (confectionery syringe). After preparing the cake, the inscription must be applied first, and only then the decorations must be laid out. In order for the inscription to be placed evenly on the cake, you need to draw lines with a toothpick and apply text along them. You can also put the inscription on nuts, colored dragees, and dried fruits.

From all the variety of recipes, you need to choose the cake recipe that your child will surely like. Children are attracted to everything bright and unusual, so a homemade cake for a child’s birthday should be colorful and decorated.

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We select the method depending on the type of cake

First, you need to pay attention to the shape of the dessert. It will be difficult to write anything on top of domed products, cones and irregularly shaped cakes. It is necessary to initially take into account complex geometry. At the same time, the same ganache or topping can simply drip off. In these cases, it is wiser to choose:

solid volumetric letters made of cooled chocolate, marzipan, fondant;
toppers;
options for prefabricated inscriptions from marshmallows and nuts.

You can always add additional decoration to the side. For example, lay out or draw a gold inscription on a chocolate plate and stick it to the surface with cream or glaze.

No less important is the material of the cake coating and its internal consistency. The choice of inscription method largely depends on these characteristics.

On mastic

The mastic coating is dense, dry and does not tolerate water at all. Therefore, aqueous creams and jams cannot be used. Laying a pattern on the surface with sprinkles and fruits is also quite problematic. Likewise, you don’t want to tear the coating with toppers or vertical inscriptions.

The problem is solved with the help of chocolate or sugar glaze, icing. The inscription can also be made with food markers. If you draw contours on the mastic using a needle, you can paint the letters with a brush using gel dyes or an alcohol mixture with kandurin. Or you can simply sculpt letters from the remaining mastic and write on the surface.

On cheesecake and mousse cakes

In this case, the problem is the opposite. The mousse base of the cake is very delicate, it can be easily damaged by carelessly pressing hard inscriptions. It is better to make a coating of chocolate, transparent isomalt glaze on top of the cheesecake or apply a layer of jam or cream, to which the text of the inscription will already be attached. Large volumetric numbers and letters are placed only on plastic skewers resting on the bottom of the cake. Otherwise, they may simply drown.

On Napoleon and honey cake

The main problem with these cakes is the uneven surface due to the crumb coating. The topping or cream will lie unevenly. The impression of the inscription will be blurry. The same applies to dense flat letters. If you lay them horizontally, gaps will appear.

In this case, the most optimal solution is toppers and signs on the side of Napoleon and honey cake. You can also decorate the cake with a panel of glazed nuts or coconut or poppy seed sprinkles.