The first birthday celebration is a very important event in the life of every family. And children, of course, should not eat too junk food, including desserts, on this holiday. The options for cakes for a girl for 1 year, which we will offer in this article, are quite safe. Well, sometimes a little sugar is possible, because the holiday is the same.
Sponge base
The easiest to work, as well as one that will appeal to everyone, is the biscuit base. To prepare sponge cake cakes for a girl for 1 year, we need the following products:
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- flour - 70 g;
- sugar - 70 g.
In order to make the cake larger, the products need to be proportionally added.
As you can see, there is nothing superfluous, and a cake based on these ingredients is just right for the smallest.
Bake cakes:
- Beat eggs with sugar using a mixer. This is done for about 2 minutes, until the mass turns into a lush, uniform foam.
- Flour (it is best to take the highest grade) must be sieved through a sieve. And then pour it into the whipped mass and continue to whisk. To make the cake for the girl for 1 year old more airy, a pinch of soda can be added to the flour before starting to beat the dough. So, we bring all this with a mixer to a state resembling store sour cream.
- While the oven heats up to 200 degrees Celsius, grease a small baking dish. This is the case if the dough is kneaded from the amount of ingredients we set. A diameter of 20-25 cm in this case is quite suitable. Get 1 thin cake.
- Since the base of the cake is completely thick, it takes only about 10 minutes to bake. We check the readiness with a match or a toothpick.
That’s how such a cake base is prepared for a girl for 1 year. You do not need to cut it. If there is more dough, then, naturally, the base will need to be cut into 2 or 3 parts. And you can bake a few thin cakes. This is usually done by professional confectioners.
Souffle and compote stuffing
Stuffing can be prepared from a not too common compote. To prepare it you will need:
- lemon - 0.5 pcs.;
- apples - 500 g;
- sugar - 50 g;
- gelatin - 15 g;
- water - a little for the swelling of gelatin.
Dilute gelatin in a small amount of water and leave to swell. We clear the apples from the cores and peels, cut them into small cubes and fill them with sugar. Then pour lemon juice.
Now you need to boil the apples until cooked over low heat under a lid, and then drain all the liquid using a colander. No need to drain the liquid into the sink. Leave it to soak the cake, if you use compote for the layer.
Gelatin is added to pureed apples and mixed as thoroughly as possible.
By the time the applesauce is cooked, the sponge cake has cooled down and can be pulled out of the mold. Water remaining after cooking apples, soak the biscuit.
The mold in which the future cake was baked should be covered with cling film and pour in the compote. And on top very carefully put the cake. We also close the surface with cling film and send the semi-finished cake for 2 hours to the freezer.
To all this, you just need to add a light curd and banana souffle, which is included in the cake recipe for a 1 year old girl. And 1.5 hours after the cake is pulled out of the freezer, you can begin to prepare it. For souffle you will need:
- cottage cheese - 0.5 kg (uniform, without lumps);
- bananas - 4 pcs.;
- cream - 500 ml (fat content should be at least 33%);
- sugar - 200 g;
- gelatin - 20 g;
- water - in order to dilute gelatin.
Cooking:
- Bananas need to be peeled, broken into several pieces each and covered with sugar. Turn them into mashed potatoes with a blender. Add cottage cheese there, turning everything into a homogeneous mass. Now you need to whip the cream. It is better to cool them before this. And one more thing: do not whip the cream for too long to avoid turning this product into oil.
- Add cream to the cottage cheese and banana puree. Melt gelatin in a water bath and immediately add to the curd mass. All this needs to be mixed as quickly as possible.
- Now you need to take a slightly larger shape than we used to bake a biscuit, lay it with cling film and expose the plastic sides. We dump the souffle into this form, take the biscuit with stewed fruit out of the freeze and literally sink it in the souffle. The biscuit should be on the surface.
- We send the cake for at least 6 hours in the freezer. This treat, useful for a small child, will then need to be decorated in a suitable way.
Banana and Peach Filling
The filling can be prepared easier, but then you will need to bake at least 2 biscuit cakes. So, for the second version of the layer, you will need these products:
- bananas - 4 pcs.;
- canned peaches - 1 can;
- fat cream - 500 ml;
- sugar to taste.
Bananas need to be cut, and peach syrup drained into a bowl. Lubricate the cakes with this syrup so that they are saturated, and the cake is more tender.
Beat cream with sugar with a mixer (do not overdo it so as not to get sweet butter).
Lubricate the resulting cream with the lower soaked cake, and on top lay the bananas and peaches. Cover the filling on top with another biscuit cake. You can start decorating goodies.
Note: both types of cakes will need to be coated on top with either butter cream or butter. That is, one that holds its shape well, and then proceed to decorate.
How can I decorate a cake?
There are several ways to decorate a home-baked cake. We will discuss them.
- Decoration with mastic can be of several options. You can cover the whole cake with it, as well as fashion figures that can make up the whole composition or just mean something to the baby. Mastic can be prepared in several ways: from marshmallows, chocolate, or milk. If you do not want to bother, then it is sold in stores and in pastry shops. In addition, you can order or buy ready-made figures for decorating a birthday cake. A photo of the cake for a girl for 1 year, decorated with mastic, is presented in the article.
- Butter cream is a traditional way to decorate a cake. And with the help of a pastry syringe, you can make a very beautiful decoration, for example, in the form of flowers or various patterns. Such a cream does not flow and keeps its shape perfectly.
- Fruits and fruit jelly are the best choice for children, because you can choose the components for which the baby is not allergic. It looks cake drenched in jelly, very worthy. If you add imagination, then from jelly you can make the whole picture.
- Meringues, prepared independently, can be made specially of different shapes, if you think about the sketch of the cake in advance. Here is an original and simple solution for decorating children's holiday treats.
- Whipped cream is even better for baby stomachs than butter cream. But they keep their shape no worse. So a beautiful and delicate girl’s cake can be decorated with such a cream.
- Sugar glaze painted in various colors is a beautiful decoration for any cake. Even from it you can create figures no worse than from chocolate. You can limit yourself to patterns from ice.
- Printing on a wafer basis is, of course, a custom decoration, but on the other hand, your favorite characters from the tales of our birthday girl or even her own portrait can be depicted there.
Here are such ideas for a holiday cake for a girl who is one year old.