A beloved birthday party is never complete without a cake. But what if it is not allowed to bring such desserts to kindergarten? You can, of course, just get along with cookies or sweets. But a cake made of sweets will look much more spectacular at a children's holiday. To make it, you will need the simplest ingredients, and he will impress the guests the best.
Do-it-yourself cardboard cake from sweets: step-by-step instructions
The first thing that starts with the preparation of the cake is the preparation of the base or frame. To do this, you will need:
- thick cardboard;
- thin tape;
- double-sided tape;
- glue gun;
- wrapping paper (color or gift);
- a simple pencil;
- scissors.
The amount of cardboard and paper will depend on the size of the cake. For a product consisting of three tiers, the material will need more than for a single-tiered dessert.
Step-by-step instructions for making the basis for the cake:
- On cardboard draw 2 circles. Their diameter depends on how large the cake is planned to be made and how many sweets to place on it. Typically, for a product consisting of three tiers, the first of them is made at least 25 centimeters in diameter.
- Cut circles from cardboard.
- Prepare the sidewall for the first tier. Its height should correspond to the size of the candy or juice that will be fixed on it. And along the length of the side strip should be enough to go around the whole circle.
- Cut the sidewall out of cardboard and connect with a thin tape to one of the circles. Then in the same way to connect the resulting workpiece with the second circle. As a result, the bottom tier of the cake should be made of cardboard.
- Cut circles and side strip from brown paper. Fix them on the lower tier of the cake with a glue gun.
- Similarly prepare two more tiers of cake. The middle of them should be 19-20 cm in diameter, the top - 13-14 centimeters.
- Connect all three tiers of the future cake with a glue gun. As a result of the work, a high blank of cardboard wrapped in gift paper should be obtained.
Foam Cake Base
Tiers for the cake can be prepared not only from cardboard, but also from polystyrene. It is very convenient to work with this material, since the foam is sold in different thicknesses, and it can be selected just according to the size of the candy. And this means that it will be enough just to draw and cut 3 circles, and the basis for the cake is almost ready. Then the tiers need to be wrapped with gift paper and fixed between themselves with a glue gun.
The result is a light and durable cake. Also inside each level, you can cut a round hole where small candies or lollipops are hidden.
Now it remains to decorate it and carry a cake of sweets to kindergarten or school. Thanks to the foam, the product will fit even more treats for the children.
Candy cake
Any sweets are suitable for decorating the cake, but if it is made for children, then in this case it is better to take "Kinder" chocolate. Its shape is ideal for any basis: foam or cardboard.
To fix the sweets on the tiers, you can use
double-sided tape or wide office gum (they are also called banking). To prepare a three-level cake of sweets in kindergarten, you will need about 90 pieces of chocolates. Accordingly, for a product of a smaller size, candies will need less.
If desired, a cake of sweets can be decorated. For this, bows, ribbons and other holiday attributes are suitable.
Cake from Barney and juice
In addition to chocolates, you can use other sweets to form a cake, for example, 200-gram sachets of juice and biscuits in individual Barney packages. For a small number of children, the framework proposed above can be taken as a basis. But since there are usually at least 25 children in a kindergarten group, you need to cook more treats.
To make a cake of sweets with your own hands from juice and Barney, you need to cut 3 circles of different sizes from cardboard with a hole inside. Additionally, for the formation of the cake you will need a tube with a diameter of 7-10 centimeters. You can make it out of cardboard. Then the tube must be threaded through the holes in the circles and secured. The basis for the cake is ready. Now you can start decorating it with sweets.
On the lower tier are always placed bags of juice. Since a cake made of sweets is heavy, weighing about 5 kilograms, it should be formed on a large tray or plywood.
The second and third tier are the Barney biscuits. They are attached to the base with double-sided tape. To decorate the cake, each of its tiers can be tied with a beautiful ribbon.
"Kinder" cake of sweets
A great option for decorating a sweet cake with chocolates and Kinder surprise eggs. The basis for it is suitable from cardboard or polystyrene, but the height of each tier should be 2-3 centimeters smaller than the size of the candy. Otherwise, chocolate eggs will roll from their level.
Such a cake from sweets in the garden can be made of any size. It depends on the number of children for whom the treat is being prepared.
Original paper surprise cake
In addition to the proposed options, there is another way to prepare an original cake for kindergarten. In this case, you do not have to decorate the three-tier base with sweets. Treats in the cake are inside each piece of it, made according to the pattern of paper. As sweets, you can offer guests chocolates, candies, kinder surprises and other delicious goodies.
A paper cake may consist of several tiers. It all depends on the number of children at the holiday. On average, for the lower tier you need to prepare 12 pieces of paper, for the middle and lower - 8 and 4 pieces, respectively. Thus, a children's cake made of sweets will be an excellent treat for 24 children of a kindergarten.
Connecting pieces of different levels among themselves is most convenient with double-sided tape. You can use any improvised materials as decoration: ribbons, bows, rhinestones, stickers. Children in kindergarten will definitely like such a cake, because at the celebration every child will receive not just refreshments, but his personal surprise gift.