It's no secret that on the birthday of a child, whether it be a girl or a boy, the most important dish and decoration of the table is cake. Many mothers who decide to prepare a treat for the holiday of their beloved child with their own hands, make a lot of effort for this, showing remarkable imagination and considerable culinary talent. How to make a birthday cake for a boy in 3 years? About this in our article.
Cake for a boy for 3 years: how to decorate?
It’s not at all difficult to make a birthday cake for a boy. It is much more difficult to arrange this treat so that its unusual appearance would be liked and remembered for a long time by both the hero of the occasion and his guests. Loving mothers who decide to play the role of a confectioner will have to show truly miracles of ingenuity, because a cake for a boy for 3 years should turn out not only very tasty and healthy - refreshments must certainly meet all the needs of a little man.
Bake biscuit, waffle or honey cakes, oil them with cream, and decorate them with roses and a congratulatory inscription on top - this option is not considered by loving parents today. How to decorate a birthday cake for a boy for 3 years? Modern confectioners offer several interesting and original solutions.
Options for decorating a baby cake for 3 years for a boy
The easiest and most winning option is to design a dessert in the style of one of your favorite superheroes. For example, a cake with the Batman emblem created from white and chocolate mastic looks beautiful. Using red, yellow and blue mastic, you can make a cake in the style of Superman. Dessert may take the form of any of the cartoon characters beloved by the birthday person. You can bake refreshments in the form of a racing car, a funny minion or a ship ready for intergalactic flight.
Cake for a boy for 3 years can be made with a surprise in the form of a handful of sweets. To do this, when collecting dessert (biscuit) in the lower cakes somewhere in the center, you need to make a small hole and put sweets without wrappers there. You can use sweet chocolate figures or even a gift. Then with a top cake the niche with a surprise is closed, like a lid. It is necessary to warn the birthday man so that he cuts the cake, being careful.
A dessert with a plain glaze and multi-colored biscuit will look very stylish in the context. But if you want the cake to impress the birthday man and his guests immediately, and not after they have cut it, you can write icing greetings over the icing on the dessert or, using a stencil, draw figures, for example, karatekas.
With the help of the cake, you can tell a whole fascinating story - draw it on a treat with cream or icing. Sometimes a treat is made in the form of some kind of toy and is complemented with marzipan or mastic decorations. You can make a cake in the form of a machine, which is seasoned at a sugar dressing, or a minion engaged in eating a cake. Pastry masters also offer to prepare a multi-tiered biscuit-cream cake, on which there is a battle between two sugar armies. This option is a complex, but very effective solution for decorating a birthday cake.
What materials can be used for decoration?
To decorate a cake for a boy for 3 years (the photo in the article presents different options for decorating treats) use:
- Fruit jelly. A plate is made from it in a form that is laid out on the upper cake.
- Meringue. From this material, you can create many small "domes" and decorate the upper part of the cake with them or make a border along the edge of its surface. You can also coat the whole cake with raw meringue, and then send it for two minutes in the oven.
- Whipped cream. This product is a classic birthday cake decoration. With a thick layer of whipped cream of the desired color, you can decorate the cake with a pastry syringe over its entire area in accordance with the design idea.
- Wafer pictures with photo printing. Any image is transferred to them. The material allows you to decorate the birthday cake with a portrait of the hero of the occasion or an interesting graphic scene from your favorite cartoon, in which the characters congratulate the boy on his birthday.
- Marzipan and mastic figures. This is one of the great options for decorating a festive dessert. Figures can be made in the form of toys loved by boys: an airplane, a robot or a car.
- Aising (icing sugar). A sugar syringe is used to paint this material. This solution is not only elegant, but also very original. Such a painting can be useful for decorating the entire cake with inscriptions in honor of a small birthday or creating a pattern in the form of an intricate web.
To decorate the cake, use any of these options or several at the same time.
Parent Tips
The biscuit cake will have a particularly interesting appearance and taste if each of the cakes in it is of a different color and with a different flavor. According to experienced pastry chefs, chocolate, poppy and classic biscuits are best combined.
When choosing a cream for a birthday cake for a boy, you should give preference to yogurt. This cream is characterized by splendor, lightness and is much more useful than a cream from traditional whipped cream.
Cream will beat much better if you cool not only the product itself, but also the dishes in which it will be whipped.
Cake mastic is best prepared on the basis of starch-free corn syrup. Mastic with starch and honey is better to use for the manufacture of various figures.
Sponge Cake Recipe with Mastic and Whipped Cream
We suggest you familiarize yourself with one of the most popular options for making a cake for a 3-year-old boy's birthday. Use the ingredients:
- 500 ml cream with a fat content of 30%;
- 500 grams of powdered sugar;
- 5 grams of vanilla sugar;
- 5 tsp gelatin;
- 3 tbsp. l water;
- 100 ml of corn syrup or liquid honey.
It will take about 180 minutes to cook. Calorie content 100 grams of product: 642 kcal.
Cooking
To create a dessert, ready-made biscuit cakes are used, the amount of which depends on the planned height and shape of the future treat. Sequencing:
- Gelatin is diluted in water and allowed to swell. Meanwhile, powdered sugar (400-450 g) is sieved with a fine sieve.
- Syrup is poured into gelatin and the solution is placed in a water bath. They simmer in the bath for 10-15 minutes with constant stirring until gelatin and syrup are completely dissolved.
- Then the finished mixture is carefully poured into the powder and immediately begin to mix: first, using a spoon, and then manually. The finished mastic should turn out to have a uniform consistency, be slightly viscous and stick to your hands a little.
- Mastic in a plastic bag is cleaned in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Powdered sugar (50-100 g) is mixed with vanilla, then chilled cream is added to the mixture and slightly whipped with a whisk.
- Then continue whipping the cream with sugar, but already using a mixer. In this case, the cream (remaining) is poured into the mixture in a thin stream.
- Beating is stopped as soon as the cream reaches soft peaks and begins to keep in shape. The cream is now ready for use.
- Ready cakes are oiled with cooked cream. Nothing is applied to the top layer.
- The mastic is taken out of the refrigerator, any food coloring added to it and rolled out with a rolling pin into a thin layer.
- Before you start wrapping the cake, it should be sprinkled with water (sweet) on all sides. This is done so that the mastic goes better.
- Tight start to do the top. The mastic pancake is laid out so that its edges hang as low as possible. Tightening should be done very carefully, while helping with your hands and using an iron. You should drive out all the air from the surface of the cake and lay the mastic as evenly as possible.
- To paint the finished dessert (applying greetings and corresponding wishes to the birthday person on its surface), iceberg or confectionery felt-tip pens are used.
Candy Cake Recipe
You can cook an interesting and tasty cake for 3 years for a boy without mastic. To do this, use:
- 1-2 ready-made biscuit cakes;
- 36-40 pieces of KitKat chocolates (or similar);
- 130-420 grams of M & M's candies (or similar) - (the more they are used, the denser the top layer will be);
- 100 grams of butter;
- 100 grams of cream cheese;
- 4-6 Art. l powdered sugar;
- 25 ml of milk;
- 1 tsp vanillin;
- 200 grams of black or milk chocolate.
It will take about 30-40 minutes to prepare the treat. Calorie content 100 grams of product - 512 kcal.
Cooking steps
According to this recipe, you can cook one of the most delicious cakes for a 3-year-old boy (without mastic). If you use ready-made cakes, then start creating a treat with the preparation of a cream. Otherwise, you should pre-bake some classic biscuit cakes. The cake is prepared after the cakes have cooled, otherwise the candies will begin to melt. Glaze cream is made exclusively from warm ingredients, and the oil is used without fail melted.
Sequencing:
- In a container suitable in size, beat butter (cream) and cheese with a mixer. In this case, it is necessary to gradually add milk, powdered sugar and vanillin to the mass.
- Beating should begin at an average speed of the mixer, closer to the end, the speed must be increased. At the very end of the whipping, chocolate is poured into the mass (melted in a water bath or in the microwave).
- After that, the mixture is stirred until a uniform state is obtained.
- One of the prepared cakes is well lubricated with cream - both on top and on the sides. On top of it, you can lay the second cake, which is also carefully smeared with cream.
- KitKat sticks should be removed from the packaging and carefully “glued” to the sides of the cake around the perimeter, leaving a small distance between them.
- To keep the sticks more reliable, you can tie a ribbon over them, which is removed before cutting the dessert.
- The top of the cake is decorated with glazed sweets.
Ready cake should be kept in the refrigerator for several hours or all night. Bon Appetit!