Cake is a favorite treat for both adults and children. Each of us dreams of a beautiful and original dessert for our 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 to 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 shortcrust pastry and shortbread when preparing a cake for children under 3 years of age is undesirable, 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

To decorate a birthday cake there is great amount various technologies - 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 sophisticated 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

On his birthday, the birthday person wants not only gifts, but also a beautifully and deliciously decorated table, the center of which should be a luxurious cake. Well, not so much that it’s a masterpiece, but it’s beautiful, tasty and unusual. To immediately feel the birthday, and to take a photo, and to keep it as a memory. Birthday cakes are made to order and sold in stores, but a homemade sweet miracle, without dangerous additives, will be much tastier and more soulful.

In fact, even if you have never baked cakes yourself, it is not difficult at all. Of course, a beginner may not be able to create some kind of complex structure with all sorts of mastic elements and figurines of heroes. But it’s quite possible to make a simple, beautifully decorated cake with a personalized inscription. To do this, look at recipes for birthday cakes, get inspired, and delight your loved ones with homemade masterpieces.

Cakes for a man's birthday can be different in shape and content. The main thing is to please the man’s hobby or favorite preferences. For example, you can make a cake in the shape of a mug of beer, decorating it with lush foam and an appropriate inscription. For this, an ordinary sponge cake, butter cream, a little melted chocolate will do - and a wonderful cake is ready, a man who likes to knock back a mug of foamy drink with friends will definitely be delighted with it.

A separate topic: cool cakes for your husband’s birthday - you can look at the photo and choose what would be so interesting to surprise your husband, make him laugh, and lift the birthday boy’s spirits. For example, it would be funny to have a cake in the shape of a head of cabbage, in which lies a tiny person and the inscription - in this cabbage you were ours 20 (30) years ago. Or this option, if the husband is an avid fisherman: decorate the cake in the form of greenery with fondant, lay a tent on top, and next to it, using a pastry syringe, build a fishing rod and a bucket for the catch.

If your child is planning a birthday party, look at the birthday cakes for girls with photos. With a little imagination, you can create such beauty yourself at home. After all, what a child needs is something tasty, bright and colorful. The child does not need complex structures that are scary to touch, lest they fall apart. Girls will love cakes in the shape of a basket of flowers, a sweet duckling, or a cartoon character. It’s not easy to make such a cake, but you can even try hard for a child. See recipes with photos, our ideas will help you.

To prepare a delicious cake For a birthday with your own hands, you definitely need to take a closer look at the recipes, choose the one you can afford, buy the products, and then get started. Of course, a cake is a troublesome task, but there’s already a lot of cooking to do. Therefore, it is better to bake it in advance the day before and hide it in the refrigerator. Then it won’t turn out that after preparing the rest of the dishes it didn’t come to dessert.

To bake a delicious birthday cake at home, you don’t need much - look at the recipe with photos, choose what ingredients you can afford, what you know how to bake, and get started. For housewives who know how to bake biscuits or shortbread, it is not at all difficult to make such a dessert. The main thing is to bake the base, that is, the cakes, and only then look in our section for ideas for creams for layering and various decorations.

You can create a delicious cake for your child’s birthday with his or her participation. Kids love to feel like adults, to help with important tasks in the kitchen, and they will happily take part in decorating the birthday cake for themselves or their brother/sister. A little imagination, a couple of hours of time, and the result will be simply a masterpiece. And the baby will brag to the guests that he helped in this creative process.

25.03.2019

Cake "Snowflake"

Ingredients: cream cheese, cream, chocolate, sour cream, powdered sugar, coconut flakes, salt, baking powder, butter, egg, flour

Those who love tender, airy cakes will love this recipe for “Snowflake” cake. It turns out very white, very beautiful, appetizing and tasty.

Ingredients:
For the test:
- 330 grams of wheat flour;
- 3 eggs;
- 180 grams of sugar;
- 45 gr butter;
- 1.5 tsp. baking powder;
- 1 pinch of salt.

For cream:

- 300 gr cream cheese;
- 450 ml heavy cream (33%);
- 150 grams of white chocolate;
- 240 grams of sour cream;
- 150 grams of coconut flakes;
- 3-4 tbsp. powdered sugar.

25.03.2019

Brownie cake

Ingredients: flour, soda, salt, cocoa, sugar, vanillin, egg, butter, milk, vinegar, cheese, cream, chocolate, condensed milk,

This recipe will appeal primarily to ardent fans of chocolate: there really is a lot of it in this cake called “Brownie!”
Ingredients:
For the biscuit:
- 120 grams of wheat flour;
- 5 grams of soda;
- 1 pinch of salt;
- 2-3 tbsp. with a heap of cocoa powder;
- 150 grams of sugar;
- 1 g vanillin;
- 1 egg;
- 30 grams of butter;
- 30 grams of vegetable oil;
- 130 ml milk;
- 1 tsp. bite 6% (wine or apple).
For cream:
- 250 grams of mascarpone cheese;
- 200-250 ml of whipping cream;
- 100 grams of powdered sugar;
- 150 - 200 grams of dark chocolate.
For impregnation:
- 5-6 tbsp. boiled condensed milk;
- 4-5 tbsp. cow's milk.
For the glaze:
- 80 grams of dark chocolate;
- 50 grams of butter;
- 50 ml milk;
- 1-2 tbsp. .l powdered sugar.
For decoration:
- chocolate bars, balls, cookies - at your discretion.

25.03.2019

Strawberry sponge cake

Ingredients: strawberries, sugar, water, thickener, sour cream, egg, flour

Strawberry and biscuit lovers will definitely love this cake. In addition to the air test and delicious berries it's also very gentle sour cream, as well as sweet strawberry syrup... It turns out just great.
Ingredients:
For the test:
- 4 eggs;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 1 glass of flour.
For cream:
- 450 ml sour cream (20% fat);
- 3\4 cups sugar;
- 5-12 grams of thickener.
For the syrup:
- 50 grams of frozen strawberries;
- 2 tbsp. Sahara;
- 150 ml of water.
For filling:
- 400 grams of frozen strawberries.

24.03.2019

The most super fast cake

Ingredients: flour, baking powder, vanillin, cocoa, egg, sugar, milk, butter, salt, sour cream

A delicious cake can be prepared in just 15 minutes if you have this recipe for a delicious and beautiful dessert on hand. This is a great option for meeting unexpected friends!
Ingredients:
- 150 grams of flour;
- 25 grams of potato starch;
- 20 grams of baking powder;
- 2 grams of vanillin;
- 25 grams of cocoa;
- 2 eggs;
- 80 grams of sugar;
- 150 g of milk 3.2%;
- 7 tbsp. vegetable oil;
- salt to taste.

Cream:
- 250 ml sour cream 25%;
- 3 tbsp. powdered sugar.

20.03.2019

Cake "Esterhazy"

Ingredients: egg, sugar, vanillin, butter, rum, jam, chocolate, almonds, flour, cinnamon, salt

Cake "Esterházy" is extraordinary delicious dessert, which everyone can prepare at home on their own. This cake can be prepared for a holiday.

Ingredients:

- 270 grams of almond flour,
- 1 tsp. cinnamon,
- 270 grams of egg whites,
- 330 grams of powdered sugar,
- a pinch of salt,
- 130 grams of egg yolks,
- 500 ml. milk,
- 40 grams of starch,
- 120 grams of sugar,
- 10 grams of vanilla sugar,
- 280 grams of butter,
- 1 tbsp. rum (cognac, kirsch),
- 60 grams of apricot jam,
- 120 grams of white chocolate,
- 30 grams of dark chocolate,
- 60-80 grams of almond petals.

07.03.2019

Strawberry cake without baking

Ingredients: cream, strawberries, sugar, gelatin, water, vanillin, sour cream, butter, cognac, cheese, cookies

I love making no-bake cakes. My favorite is the strawberry cake. The recipe is very simple, so be sure to try it.

Ingredients:

- 400 grams of shortbread cookies;
- 150 grams of butter;
- 50 ml. cognac;
- 400 grams of Ricotta cheese;
- 100 grams of sour cream;
- 250 grams of sugar;
- 1 tsp. vanilla sugar;
- 2 tbsp. gelatin;
- 50 ml. water;
- 400 grams of strawberries;
- whipped cream.

07.03.2019

Cake "A Busy Woman's Dream"

Ingredients: sour cream, powdered sugar, tangerine, lemon juice, soda, cocoa, butter, egg, condensed milk, flour

It’s not for nothing that this cake was named that way. It is very simple and quite quick to prepare. The taste of the cake will please absolutely everyone.

Ingredients:

- 1 glass of flour;
- 1 can of condensed milk;
- 2 eggs;
- 180 grams of butter;
- 3 tbsp. cocoa;
- half tsp soda;
- 1 tbsp. lemon juice;
- 400 grams of sour cream;
- 100 grams of powdered sugar;
- 2 tangerines.

07.03.2019

Cake "Dream of Life" with sour cream

Ingredients: sour cream, sugar, vanillin, milk, egg, butter, flour, cocoa, baking powder

You will spend less than an hour preparing this delicious “Dream of Life” cake. The cake is soaked in cream and assembled hot until the cakes have cooled. The dessert is easy to prepare and incredibly tasty.

Ingredients:

- 1 can of condensed milk;
- 2 eggs;
- 150 grams of butter;
- 155 grams of wheat flour;
- 6 grams of baking powder;
- 35 grams of cocoa powder;
- 400 grams of sour cream;
- 120 grams of sugar;
- Vanillin on the tip of the knife.

06.03.2019

Mousse cake with mirror glaze

Ingredients: egg, sugar, flour, salt, vanillin, persimmon, gelatin, pear puree, cream, chocolate, milk, cocoa, water

Mousse cake with mirror glaze is very tasty, but making it is not so easy. Don’t worry, my detailed recipe with photos will help you prepare this cake without any hitches.

Ingredients:

- 2 chicken eggs,
- 360 grams of sugar,
- 70 grams of wheat flour,
- a pinch of salt,
- vanilla sugar to taste,
- 200 grams of persimmon,
- 24 grams of gelatin,
- 150 grams of pear puree,
- 720 ml. heavy cream,
- 50 grams of white chocolate,
- 75 ml. milk,
- 60 grams of cocoa,
- 150 ml. water.

30.11.2018

Cake "Rotten stump" with jam

Ingredients: butter, cocoa, sugar, milk, meringue, sour cream, vanillin, crackers, flour, jam, egg, kefir, soda, salt

I make this delicious and beautiful cake for almost every holiday. Of course you'll have to work hard in the kitchen, but it's worth it. Absolutely every housewife can prepare this cake.

Ingredients:

- 300 grams of flour,
- 1 cup + 2 tbsp. Sahara,
- a cup of seedless jam,
- 2 eggs,
- a cup of kefir or sour milk,
- one and a half tsp. soda,
- a pinch of salt,
- 500 ml. sour cream,
- 2 tbsp. powdered sugar,
- vanillin on the tip of a knife,
- 2 tbsp. breadcrumbs,
- 50 grams of butter,
- 2 tbsp. cocoa powder,
- 50 ml. milk,
- 3 meringues.

23.10.2018

Black Forest Cake

Ingredients: sugar, egg, flour, cocoa, salt, cream, cherry, liqueur, chocolate, butter

Black Forest cake can be prepared for a festive table. The recipe is quite simple and quite quick.

Ingredients:

- 200 grams of sugar,
- 5 eggs,
- 95 grams of flour,
- 30 grams of cocoa,
- a pinch of salt,
- 550-600 ml. cream,
- 2-4 tbsp. powdered sugar,
- 450 grams of canned cherries,
- 150 ml. cherry juice
- 3 tbsp. cherry liqueur or liqueur,
- 70-80 grams of dark chocolate,
- butter.

23.10.2018

Cake pigeon's milk"

Ingredients: sugar, flour, egg, butter, vanillin, baking powder, agar-agar, water, lemon juice, condensed milk, chocolate

Usually Bird's Milk cake is prepared with gelatin, but today we will prepare a simply magnificent cake with agar-agar. Making this cake is not difficult at all.

Ingredients:

- 415 grams of sugar,
- 125 grams of flour,
- 5 yolks,
- 250 grams of butter,
- 7 grams of vanilla sugar,
- 2/3 tsp. baking powder,
- 5 egg whites,
- 8 grams of agar-agar,
- 125 ml. water,
- a couple of drops of lemon juice,
- 60 grams of condensed milk with sugar,
- 70 grams of dark chocolate.

23.10.2018

Homemade cake "Prague"

Ingredients: egg, sugar, flour, cocoa, butter, water, condensed milk, vanillin, jam, chocolate

Prague cake is known to many. It's not difficult to prepare. The classic Soviet recipe is presented in this article. Prepare this amazing cake for the holiday, it will be swept away very quickly.

Ingredients:

- 7 eggs,
- 190 grams of sugar,
- 150 grams of flour,
- 45 grams of cocoa,
- 300 grams of butter,
- 1 yolk,
- 25 ml. water,
- 150 grams of condensed milk,
- vanilla,
- 70 grams of apricot jam,
- 100 grams of dark chocolate,
- White chocolate.

26.08.2018

Homemade delicious cake "Kyiv"

Ingredients: sugar, egg, milk, butter, cocoa, cognac, flour, nut

At home you can prepare a very tasty Kiev cake. Preparing it is not difficult and quite simple.

Ingredients:

- 150 grams of proteins,
- 325 grams of sugar,
- 10 grams of vanilla sugar,
- 35 grams of flour,
- 110 grams of chopped nuts,
- 1 egg,
- 120 ml. milk,
- 200 grams of butter,
- vanilla extract,
- 1 tbsp. cocoa,
- cognac.

Any housewife can make a delicious birthday cake. The main thing is to show creative imagination and strictly follow all the requirements of the recipe.

In this article we will present several options on how to make an unusual and tasty dessert for the holiday table.

Homemade Birthday Cakes Recipes

There are many options on how to prepare a tasty and tender delicacy for a children's party. Many housewives believe that they cannot do without colorful mastic. Indeed, using this confectionery material you can get a rather original cake for a girl or boy. But, unfortunately, not all housewives know how to prepare such a product. In this regard, we suggest you make a simple, but very tasty and tender sponge cake, which does not require a lot of time and many components.

So, to prepare the dessert we will need the following products:

Making biscuit dough

Children's cakes should not only be very beautiful, but also tasty and healthy. Before you start forming such a dessert, you should knead the biscuit dough. To do this, place the whites and yolks in different bowls, and then add 125 g of granulated sugar to them. The yolks are thoroughly kneaded with a spoon, and the whites are beaten vigorously using a blender (until very stiff peaks). After this, both products are combined and mixed thoroughly.

By adding slaked soda and snow-white flour to the fluffy and airy mass, you get a viscous but thin dough.

Bake the cake crust in the oven

To prepare unusual children's cakes, you need to form them correctly. To do this you need to bake a sponge cake.

After greasing a deep pan with oil, place the airy and tender dough into it. After this, the base is placed in a preheated oven and baked for 50-58 minutes.

As soon as the sponge cake becomes rosy and fluffy, take it out and place it on a cake pan. After waiting for the product to cool completely, it is cut into two layers. The one on top is chaotically broken by hand, and the bottom sponge cake is left intact.

Making sour cream

Homemade cake recipes may involve the use of different creams. For a children's party, we decided to use sour cream. To prepare it, edible gelatin is poured with water and left aside for 20 minutes. After time, it is heated and cooled slightly.

As for thick and fatty sour cream, place it completely in a blender bowl and beat at the highest speed. Granulated sugar is gradually added to it. After this, ¼ of the cream is set aside, and gelatin is added to the rest and beaten well.

Forming and decorating process

A delicious birthday cake is quite simple to create. First, coat a whole sponge cake with gelatin-free cream. After this, pieces of cake are placed on it, which are first dipped into another sweet milk mass.

As soon as you get a tall cake in the form of a slide, you should pour the remaining cream over it and immediately put it in the refrigerator.

After keeping the dessert in the cold for about 10 minutes, it is doused with chocolate glaze (in a thin stream). To prepare it, place milk chocolate slices in a bowl and add a little milk.

Slowly heating the components, wait until a homogeneous chocolate mass forms in the bowl. It should be used for its intended purpose after slight cooling.

Serving a cake for a children's party

A delicious birthday cake is served only after a long period of time in the refrigerator. This treatment will allow the sponge cake to absorb sour cream and become softer and more tender.

For a children's party, homemade dessert should be served along with a cup of tea.

Simple and delicious buttercream cake

If you need a more high-calorie and filling dessert, we suggest making a chocolate cake with condensed cream. We don’t need a lot of products or time to prepare it. To make sure of this, we suggest looking at the list of ingredients and the step-by-step recipe right now.

So, for chocolate cake we will need the following ingredients:

Knead the base

A simple and delicious chocolate sponge cake is prepared quite quickly. First you need to knead the dough. The yolks are ground with sugar, and the whites are whipped into a stable foam. Then both components are combined and mixed thoroughly. They also add high-fat sour cream, slaked soda, cocoa powder and white flour. All ingredients are mixed and a chocolate dough of viscous consistency is obtained.

Chocolate cake baking process

After preparing the chocolate dough, it is placed in a deep mold, which is greased with any oil (vegetable). Next, the base is sent to the oven and baked for 55-58 minutes.

Once the dough is puffy and fully cooked, remove it and allow to cool. Next, the biscuit is cut into two layers.

Cream preparation process

A delicious birthday cake is made well from condensed cream. To prepare it, you need to put the butter in a blender bowl and beat it vigorously. maximum speed. After this, you need to continue whisking and slowly pour in condensed milk in a thin stream. The process continues until the pomp and uniformity are achieved again.

As a result of the described actions, you should have a fairly stable cream. It should be used for its intended purpose immediately after preparation.

How to properly form a festive chocolate cake?

To create a delicious and beautiful cake, you should use a large cake pan. Place one of the cakes in it and grease it thoroughly with condensed butter cream. In turn, it is covered with a second sponge cake. After this, the entire dessert is completely coated with cream and they begin to decorate it. To do this, use chocolate glaze. It is made as follows: a bar of milk chocolate is broken into slices and placed in a bowl. A few tablespoons of full-fat milk are also poured into it.

By placing the dishes on low heat, slowly heat up the contents. Having received a homogeneous and thick chocolate glaze, it is immediately applied to the surface of the cake and its side parts. After this, the dessert is placed in the refrigerator and kept for 5-8 hours. After this time, the cake should be thoroughly saturated with cream, become softer, juicier and more tender.

How to serve chocolate dessert for a holiday feast?

After the cake has been kept in the refrigerator, it is taken out and cut into portions. If desired, you can first decorate the dessert with candles and let the birthday person blow them out.

Such a delicious and delicate chocolate delicacy should be presented to the table on beautiful saucers along with a small spoon. You also need to serve a cup of hot and strong tea with dessert.

A delicious and beautiful birthday cake can safely be considered the key to a good feast. Despite the large assortment of confectionery products on store shelves, many housewives prefer to create sweet masterpieces with their own hands. And for good reason - there is nothing better for festive table than delicious, cooked according to homemade recipe a cake made of cream or mastic, which is created with love by your own hands.

But you can decorate the product in different ways. Depending on the occasion, a complex two-tier or simple small cake is created, the decoration is selected depending on whether the product is intended for a child or an adult. For girls, bright colors, a lot of decorations, bows and frills made of mastic will be preferable, while boys prefer more modest decoration: automotive themes, characters from computer games and favorite cartoons. For adults, you can choose a recipe in accordance with your hobby or profession. Festive cakes are not that difficult to prepare, so it’s never too late to make them yourself at home, honing your skills year after year

On an anniversary - a round anniversary - it is customary to give a large cake. You can decorate such a confectionery product in the form of a simple number that corresponds to the age of the birthday person (for example, 1 year or 30 years, like ours). This delicious cream cake is easy to prepare, and if you have already learned how to work with a pastry bag and cream, then this recipe is for you.

For this dish you will need:

• a stencil number that can be printed and cut along the contour;
• two rectangular sponge cakes;
• butter cream for layering cakes;
• butter cream;
• butter cream for flowers;
• food colors – pink and green;
• two cake mats;
• pastry bag and nozzles;
• long knife.

Preparing this product takes a little time; decorating the finished cake with cream takes 15 minutes. To serve a truly delicious birthday cake, strictly follow this recipe:

1. Bake two rectangular cakes of the same height, the size of which will correspond to your stencils. If one cake ends up higher than the other, trim off the excess with a knife.
2. Place two or one numbers on top of the cakes, depending on how old the birthday person is, cut along the contour, divide into 2-3 cakes and layer the inside with butter cream. Repeat the procedure with both numbers. You can place pieces of strawberries or other not very juicy fruits directly on the cream.

1. Now you need to level the surface of the product with butter cream. To do this, place it in a pastry bag without a nozzle, spread it in a thin layer over the entire surface of the product, and level it using a spatula or knife.
2. The prepared birthday cake needs to be decorated. We put snow-white buttercream into a pastry bag and put on a medium-sized star tip. Now you need to cover the side surfaces with vertical lines, trying not to leave gaps between them. Before designing the product in the form of the number “0” (as well as 8, 9, where there are internal ovals), you need to place the inner part of the stencil strictly in the center, outline the contours with a toothpick, and then decorate this contour with pink cream.

1. When creating a picture, we use pink cream and a medium-sized shell attachment. You need to make an inner zero on the oval cake, sides along the edges of the surface of the cake and at the base of the product.
2. Now you will need buttercream to create a flowering meadow on your cake. Children especially like these oil flowers; they are completely edible and look beautiful. Place the pink buttercream in a pastry bag with a flat tip, make several dots on a special clove and place them on the flour numbers.
3. Color the remaining buttercream green and pipe a few sharp leaves directly onto the cake.

This cake is ideal for girls, girls and women, and indeed for all children's parties. It is quite simple to create; absolutely any cream and cakes can be used here, and it is not difficult to prepare even at home.

Bright cake for children

Rainbow cake is the best confectionery product for a child’s birthday. It is bright, juicy, easy to create and suitable for children of all ages. In essence, such a cake is a sponge cake whose cake layers are colored with dyes. You can cover it with mastic or use any cream for these purposes. Using our recipe, start creating a rainbow cake:

1. For this product you will need 6 food gel colors (their assortment in stores is now huge). It is necessary to take high-quality dyes, do not skimp on them, so that the color turns out intense. Each dye is diluted in a separate container in a small amount of milk (about 2-3 tablespoons).
2. Now, instead of kneading any biscuit, you can use the simplest recipe based on eggs, sugar and flour. It is advisable to add baking powder and vanillin to make a delicious cake.

1. Divide the dough by 6 equal parts and mix with diluted dye into each part. Bake round flour cakes of the same size.
2. You can layer the cakes with classic butter cream, or you can use a more child-friendly cream based on cream and cream cheese. Cover the cooled cake layers with an even layer of cream and assemble the cake, taking into account the sequence of colors in the rainbow.

1. The sides and top of the cake must be carefully rubbed with snow-white cream.
2. To decorate such a confectionery masterpiece for a birthday, you can use ready-made multi-colored sprinkles, birthday candles for the cake, or crumbs made from dough scraps. In addition, such a cake, even at home, can be covered with mastic or marzipan.

On your table it will attract the attention of all children, because it is bright, very tasty, and prepared according to simple recipe. Children will simply be delighted with this dish. It can be prepared for 1 year, and for an anniversary, and even for New Year and March 8.
We recommend preparing:

Birthday cake

Classic chocolate strawberry cake with snow-white cream is delicious recipe to your table for your birthday. Despite the large assortment of similar cakes in the store, homemade birthday cakes based on chocolate or cocoa powder do not lose popularity from year to year. This confectionery product can be served for children and adults who love the rich chocolate taste.

You will need the following set of products for the cakes:

• 200 gr. Sahara;
• 1 cup flour;
• 0.5 glasses of milk;
• 60 gr. cocoa powder;
• 0.5 teaspoon salt;
• 125 ml water;
• a packet of baking powder;
• 1 egg;
• 60 ml refined vegetable oil.

First, prepare the flour cake layers:

1. In a separate container, mix a portion of milk according to the recipe, 1 yolk, vegetable oil.
2. Separately, combine flour, cocoa powder and baking powder so that there are no lumps. Pour the milk-butter mixture into this dry part.
3. Separately, beat one egg white until fluffy and manually fold it into the chocolate mass.
4. Pour the dough into an oiled springform pan and place in the oven for 40 minutes, preheated to 180 degrees.

Cool the finished chocolate cake on a wire rack and prepare the cream: beat a glass of very heavy cream with a small amount of vanilla, while whipping add one heaped tablespoon of powdered sugar. Cover the cakes evenly with this cream - there should be 4 of them.

We will line the sides of the dish with cream made from condensed milk and butter. To prepare it, you will need 200 milliliters of condensed milk, 200 grams of butter, these components must be whipped until smooth. Gently rub the resulting cream onto the side of the dish and the top.

To decorate, melt 60 grams of dark chocolate and 60 milliliters of heavy cream, mix the mixture until smooth, pour the glaze over the surface of the cake so that beautiful smudges form. To do this, you can use a pastry bag with a nozzle; leave the central part of the surface of the cake unfilled. Place large fresh strawberries there.

A delicious birthday cake is ready, its recipe is quite simple, so it won’t be difficult for you to prepare it yourself for children’s or adult parties.

Options for decorating a cake for a holiday

A birthday party for children and adults is not complete without a beautifully decorated main dish - cake. Children's cakes are decorated brightly and used best products, edible pictures and mastic cartoon characters. In addition, the range of ready-made decorations for such cakes is now quite rich. For older children and adults, you can use simpler decorations - cream or chocolate flowers, sprinkles, marzipan figures, ready-made sweets and fruits.

We must not forget about mysticism - its popularity is growing from year to year. Children love funny figures made from this material; adult dishes can be decorated with stylish and sophisticated decorations based on it.

Recipes for decorating a cake in the shape of a chocolate heart with flowers for birthdays and other holidays:

1. Bake a heart-shaped sponge or sour cream cake. To make the dish even more beautiful, we recommend preparing two parts of the dough - white and chocolate, and then laying out its shape according to the Zebra cake principle.
2. Place the finished cake on the table, cut into 2 parts and layer with cream based on condensed milk and butter.
3. Cover the surface with decorgel, jam or syrup, then roll out a layer of white mastic or marzipan, carefully cover the cake, releasing all the air. Today, stores offer an assortment of ready-made mastic, but you can make the sculpting mixture yourself.
4. If you use mastic to decorate your dish, you will need to color it with gel coloring Brown. You can pour melted chocolate into the marzipan. The assortment also includes ready-made chocolate in bags for adding to the modeling mixture.

1. To hide the bottom of the cake where the fondant ends, make a beautiful two-color rope. For it, you will need to roll out 2 strips of equal thickness from white and brown mastic, which you then need to twist crosswise. Place this strip along the entire cake on a plate.
2. The final design for the birthday cake is to place roses in one half of the heart and place chocolate leaves at the base. To prevent the flowers from falling off, grease the bottom part with syrup or drip with melted chocolate.

The assortment of chocolate decorations is quite large - children love a variety of hearts, stars, zigzags, a 1-year-old child can make a decoration in the form of one, and adults prefer exquisite flowers.

Cake– a delicious confectionery product, the basis of which is a rich cake layer, combined with cream or other sweet varieties of filling. They come in various shapes and sizes. In the classic version, the shape of such a dessert is either round or square. The size of the cakes is usually from twenty to thirty-five centimeters. A mandatory attribute of a cake is an original design, which can be made using various sweet products.

A dessert like cake is prepared in almost all countries of the world. At the same time, it is often traditional recipes are modified. By adapting to new realities, they can change dramatically! Thanks to this variety culinary recipes There is more and more information on making cakes every day and even every hour.

Depending on the type of cake, all cakes are divided into the following main types:

• biscuits;
• waffle;
• sand;
• curd;
• puff pastry cakes.

Each of these types of cakes can be prepared at home. Even a person who has never worked with dough and never baked it can make them with their own hands. Beginners in the confectionery business only need to carefully study the recipe recommendations for preparing a particular cake - and strictly follow them! In addition, you can stock up on ready-made cakes or buy frozen dough. This will greatly simplify the task of a novice pastry chef.

Preparing this or that cream at home should also not cause difficulties. Whether it is protein, custard, butter, sour cream, chocolate or any other, it is important to act strictly in accordance with the recipe. Changing the proportions of products and non-compliance with specifications technological process– the main reasons why the cake cream may not turn out well.

Cake elements such as jelly, fondant, sugar mastic, soufflé and some others make the preparation procedure more complex. However, this does not mean that such delicious ingredients will become an obstacle to preparing your favorite dessert at home. Not at all! All these elements can also be prepared by hand. The main thing is to strictly adhere to the prescribed cooking technology.

As for making homemade cakes in general, you should adhere to the following recommendations:

• products for making a cake must be fresh;
• In order for the cake layers to be more tender and airy, the flour for preparing them must be sifted;
• if necessary, food coloring for cakes or cream can be replaced with the juice of some berries and vegetables (this will turn out even healthier);
• when adding nuts to the cake, it is best to pre-roast them, because thanks to this manipulation the nuts better reveal their aroma and taste;
• It will be much easier to whip cream and egg whites if you first cool them in the refrigerator;
• before covering the cake with mastic, it must first be leveled with butter cream (in this case, the cream between the cake layers can be absolutely anything), and the mastic itself should not be rolled out too thin, since in this case it will only emphasize the existing unevenness;
• In addition to mastic, crumbled cake crust, as well as fresh fruits and berries, are excellent for decorating a cake.

No matter how complex the cake you plan to make with your own hands, the main thing is to follow the recommendations of the corresponding recipe - then a delicious result will not keep you waiting!

Desserts for birthdays, anniversaries and other holidays

A birthday, anniversary, wedding, New Year or any other holiday - all these are wonderful occasions to prepare a delicious themed cake. Wherein When creating such desserts, special emphasis is placed on their design..

You can decorate a birthday cake different ways. The classic option is to grease the top and sides of the cake with the same cream with which the cakes are soaked and sprinkle with fine crumbs from the cake, grated chocolate, powdered sugar, and crushed nuts. Using powder you can form inscriptions and original patterns.

A slightly more time-consuming method is decorating the cake with buttercream. It holds its shape well, and therefore is often used for decoration purposes. Using a pastry bag with a shaped nozzle, you can create very original patterns on the surface of a festive dessert.

And if you approach the issue of cake design fundamentally, you can use sugar mastic for decoration. It allows you to create real delicious miracles! With the help of mastic, they not only create additional decorative elements in the form of all kinds of figures, but also turn the cake itself into an edible sculpture. Decorating a dessert using such material requires developed imagination and a lot of patience.

In addition to complementing the cake on the occasion of any holiday decorative elements, the cake can also be given an original shape. For example, for a wedding or on the occasion of a romantic celebration, a dessert can be made in the shape of a heart, and for the New Year - in the shape of a Christmas tree or a snowman.

A lot of interesting options for decorating cakes at home on the occasion of various holidays can be found in step by step photos recipes in this section of the site. Choose the option you like and get creative!

To sum it up...

There is nothing tastier than a homemade cake! You can combine your favorite ingredients and decorate it in a special way. In addition, such a dessert will not be saturated with a lot of harmful food additives, which means it will not cause such harm to health as its “store-bought counterpart.”

You can prepare a delicious homemade cake using one of our step by step recipes with photo. All recipes describe the cooking process in as much detail as possible, and also illustrate it with step-by-step photographs. Even beginners in confectionery can handle it!