In the life of every mother, a moment occurs when a small treasure is executed the first six months. Few people celebrate this date, because the child at this moment still does not realize anything at all, and the holiday will not become any memorable event for him. So this day appears, rather, as an occasion to cook something tasty and set the table.
However, the preparation of food, especially if it is understood that the baby will eat it, should be approached very carefully. In general, it is hardly worth a mother to feed her baby with a birthday cake or something like that at 6 months old; he is not yet sufficiently developed to absorb solid food. Most parents at this moment are just beginning to introduce baby food from fresh vegetable puree to the baby.
So, making a cake for the boy, you need to focus not on the child, but on the invited guests, as well as the desires of the mother herself. This article presents several recipes and a photo of the cake for a 6 month old boy.
Congratulations for 6 months
It is considered correct to make some significant inscription on the cake, like "<baby name> 6 months!". However, the crumbs of these efforts will not even notice. Again, thinking about some kind of congratulations for the child, it is better to pay him more attention, play with him than to come up with some complicated words that he can neither read nor understand yet.
Order or do it yourself?
Currently, there are many both candy stores and people working alone at home. All of them make cakes to order from the options chosen by the buyer. If you have free money, and you yourself are reluctant to cook or don’t have time, a 6-month-old boy’s cake will be the best option to order. It is important to find a good pastry chef who will take any wishes. You can find out exactly who to contact, from acquaintances and relatives, for sure, one of them has applied for cooking services, or you can search the Internet.
However, if you want to make a boy a cake for 6 months with your own hands, or you do not have money to buy from a pastry chef, then some suggestions on this subject are presented below.
Cake Options
Children's cake is an option that you can feed a child a little due to its hypoallergenicity. The proposed volume of products implies its small size - about 15 cm in diameter, so this option can be done together with some else, just to please the baby.
A cake with chocolate biscuit and curd cream is a fairly simple dish to prepare. You can decorate it on top with whipped cream, mastic, glaze. Despite the large amount of sugar, calorie content is not very high: about 100 kcal is contained in 100 g of product.
Honey cake - a cake consisting of honey cakes and sour cream. Ideal for those who want to make a boy a cake for 6 months without mastic and glaze. The disadvantage of this cake is its high calorie content: 470 kcal per 100 g of product.
Ingredients
Children's cake:
- Children's cookies (for example, "Hippo Bondi") - 1 large pack.
- Milk (preferably baby, for example, "Agusha") - 1 liter.
- Kefir - 2-3 tbsp.
- Banana - 1-2 pcs.
- Butter - 2 tsp (not margarine!).
Curd sponge cake:
- Flour - 90 gr.
- Chicken eggs - 5 pcs.
- What powder - 90 gr.
- Sugar - 350 gr.
- Cottage cheese - 800 gr.
- Cream - 100 ml.
- Vanilla Sugar - 10 g.
- Cherry syrup - 80 ml (impregnation).
Honey cake:
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Butter - 50 g.
- Sugar - 600 g.
- Liquid honey - 150 ml.
- Soda - 1 tsp
- Flour - 500 g.
- Sour cream - 500 g.
Kids cake
Cookies should be put in a bowl and carefully broken. Add approximately 100 ml of milk and wait for the cookies to soak. Next, mix everything into a homogeneous mass. Melt the butter and add to the dough, mix well. Now take the form (you can have a bowl), cover it with cling film from the inside and put half the mass there. Flatten and refrigerate for half an hour.
In a saucepan, bring 800 ml of milk to a boil, add kefir and cook for another 10-15 minutes, until the whey exfoliates. Strain the mass, wait until all the whey comes down and stir, it turns out a gentle cottage cheese. Mash a banana and mix with cottage cheese.
Remove the mold from the refrigerator and put the cottage cheese and the rest of the dough there, remove again. After an hour and a half, you can get out the form, take out the cake from there and decorate.
Curd cake
Remove all ingredients. The oil must be warmed to room temperature, and the eggs divided into proteins and yolks. Beat the whites, then add sugar (about 120 g) and continue to beat until stable peaks. Add sugar (30 g) to the yolks and whisk until white. Then combine the yolks with 1/3 of the proteins and mix. In the mass you need to add flour and cocoa powder, mix gently. Put the remaining protein and mix everything into a homogeneous mass. Next, you need to pour it into a mold and put in an oven heated to 180 degrees for about 40 minutes (depending on the oven).
While the biscuit is baking, wipe the cottage cheese through a sieve, add sugar (200 g) and beat until smooth. Whip the cream separately with vanilla sugar into the air mass and add to the curd, everything needs to be thoroughly mixed and put in the refrigerator.
Cut the biscuit into three cake layers, soak them in syrup. Next, put in layers: cake-cream-cake-cream-cake-cake. Now it can be coated with glaze or ganache on top (chocolate and cream cream) and refrigerated for 2 hours. After this time, it can be decorated and served.
Honey cake
In a bowl / pan, mix the eggs with sugar (300 g) and beat until foam. To the mass, add room temperature butter, honey and soda. Put the bowl / saucepan in a water bath (for example, in another saucepan filled with boiling water) and stir the mass for 10-15 minutes. It should be doubled, and also become airy. Add 1 tbsp. flour and stir until the lumps are completely dissolved. Remove the pan from the heat and let the mixture cool. When it becomes warm / cold, add the remaining flour and knead the dough. It should be soft and ductile. The dough should be divided into 6-8 pieces (1 piece per 1 cake) and put in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Then roll each piece into a thin cake, put on a baking sheet and bake for 5 minutes at 180 degrees. Cut the cakes carefully and cool, the trim can be crumbled for decoration.
Beat with a mixer the sour cream and sugar (300 g) until sugar is not felt. Collect the cake in the order of cake-cream-cake .... On top, you can sprinkle honey cake with crumbs from cake scraps.
For about 2 hours, the cake needs to be placed in the room so that the cream saturates the cakes, and then put it in the refrigerator for 7-8 hours. It is recommended that you leave it there all night.
The result is a gentle and sweet cake that flies instantly.
Decorating tips
Traditionally, the color of the boys is blue. However, there is nothing wrong with using any other colors and shades. Mastic is one of the best ways to decorate a holiday cake.
However, if you want to make your boy a cake for 6 months without mastic, then you can use icing, powdered sugar, various variations of sprinkles, fudge or crushed nuts as decoration. The original idea is to decorate the cake with various protruding decorations. For example, lay out the figure six with berries. Or make a boy a cake for 6 months with gingerbread cookies folded as decoration and fastened with icing.