There are many recipes for delicious cakes. However, culinary craftswomen do not stop and now replenish their diversity with interesting ideas. Especially inventive in this regard are young mothers who want to please children with original creations. "Little Kids" - a cake, which is another culinary masterpiece, designed to give children joy and delight.
Birthday cake for a child
A must-have attribute of a children's birthday is a beautiful cake. His mother can bake on her own if she has a culinary talent. When this is not available, the
confectionery is purchased at the store or made to order. The latter option is extremely relevant today, as young women are often too busy to do enough experiments in the kitchen.
"Toddlers" - a cake that became popular not so long ago. Its main element is the funny characters from the cartoon "Smeshariki". Many children fell in love with them, so children will be very pleased to see them on a festive cake. Surely there is a character who likes the little one the most. It is worth using as a decoration. You can also make several colorful figures at once. The main thing is that they look like real cartoon characters.
Stuffing and Dough Options
"Toddlers" - a cake that does not have a specific recipe. The ingredients in it may be different. It all depends on the available components and preferences of the child. If the child is less than three years old, then it is not recommended to cook shortcrust pastry. It is quite hard and brittle, so the crumbs can choke on them. Also, you can’t use alcohol, even in small quantities, and honey, as some of the guests may be allergic to it.
It is recommended to cook an oily, Genoese or classic biscuit. Its shape and color can be very diverse. The following components will be required: flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, lemon juice or vinegar. Sometimes cocoa powder, starch, vanillin and butter are added to the dough. It all depends on the chosen type of biscuit.
As the filling, berries, cottage cheese, jam, condensed milk, chocolate, yogurt, cream, pieces of fruit, peanuts, cream soufflé and so on are used.
How to decorate a birthday cake
Whipped cream and butter cream are rarely used, because then the cake "Toddlers" can cause a child's digestive problems. A common option is mastic. It is purchased in a store or made at home according to a simple recipe. To do this, gelatin is poured with water, and after a while it is mixed with powdered sugar.
Mastic is an excellent tool for decorating any confectionery. This special paste is good in that it allows you to make aesthetic and neat inscriptions on cakes, stunning flowers, beautiful figures.
Mastic happens:
The floral look is used to make flowers and elegant decorations. Cookies, cakes and gingerbread are usually covered with sugar paste. Only simple figures are obtained from it. You can sculpt real masterpieces from Mexican mastic. It allows you to perform long and delicate work.
Cake "Malyshariki", the photo of which is presented in this article, turns out to be beautiful and mouth-watering. Favorite heroes created from mastic will not leave a single child indifferent.
Mastic babies
Modeling paste is not always prepared from water, sugar and gelatin. Sometimes you may need marshmallows, butter, starch, lemon juice. Some housewives prefer to use chewing marshmallows.
For the figures to be colorful, dyes are required. They are added to the mass carefully so as not to spoil the paste. Sovunya, Pin, Pandy, Krosh, Nyusha, Hedgehog, Barash, Kopatych - these cheerful and kind heroes will cause the tenderness of any child who loves to watch cartoons about them. They need to decorate the cake "Kids". It’s very easy to make beautiful figures from mastic.
To make the characters neat, you should remember the rules for working with pasta:
- Always sift icing sugar.
- Periodically give the mass a "rest" in the refrigerator.
- First, you can practice modeling plasticine figures ,
- During the preparation of mastic, it is important not to miss the moment when the mixture stops sticking, otherwise it will lose its plasticity.
Thus, "Malyshariki" is a cake that is ideal for children's parties. You can make it from different ingredients. The main thing is to place the heroes from Smeshariki on top. Positive impressions will remain with the crumbs for a long time.