On the eve of their birthday, all children expect a miracle, a bunch of gifts and, of course, a sweet table. An integral attribute is the original cakes. With your own hands, you can bake an amazing delicacy of absolutely any shape for your child’s birthday. It all depends on the stormy imagination, hobbies of the child and the budget of the parents. Someone will think: "Why bother with a head if professional chefs are ready to do this, ready to accept any order and make an individual dessert?"
Undoubtedly, this is much simpler. But it’s difficult to judge the usefulness and safety of the purchased product. Cakes for a child’s birthday, made with their own hands, can not be compared with custom-made ones. In the homemade delicacy, we put only the freshest products, without the content of artificial additives. From the variety of confectionery products we offer proven recipes.
Napoleon with nuts and strawberries
Many housewives consider this cake one of the most difficult, but only at first glance it seems so. In fact, everything is elementary, the main thing is to adhere to the sequence. For 8 cakes: butter - 250 grams, a glass of sour cream 20% and three hundred grams of flour.
For the cream: a two-gram pack of butter, a can of good quality condensed milk (no vegetable ingredients should be present), fresh or canned strawberries, walnuts (one hundred grams) and icing sugar for decoration.
In a deep and dry bowl, sift the flour, rub the oil very cold there, and then add the sour cream. Knead the dough and put in the refrigerator for half an hour. We take a round baking sheet, cover it with parchment and lay out a layer of thin dough. So bake 8 cakes.
Cream: put the softened butter in the condensed milk and beat with a blender until a thick and uniform consistency. In a separate container we turn the strawberries into mashed potatoes, put a few pieces for decoration. We mix both masses.
We form the product: each cake is generously smeared with cream and strawberry filling, sprinkled with grated nuts. We decorate the top with laid berries and with the help of icing sugar we write "Happy Birthday (name of the child)". Home-made home-made cakes for a child’s birthday are always admired by everyone. And such an amazingly tasty treat will decorate any table.
Puff fruit and cheese cake with meringue
A light, airy and healthy dessert that can be given even to one year old babies. The composition of the dish includes: half a kilogram of cottage cheese, one hundred grams of butter, flour (150 gr.), Semolina (30 gr.), Sour cream (two hundred grams), chicken eggs (5 pcs.), A bag of vanillin, a dessert spoon of baking powder and sugar ( two hundred grams).
Step cooking
Shortcake batter: mix sifted flour with sugar (about 50 grams), melted butter, baking powder, sour cream (half the indicated volume) and one egg. Pour the mass into a baking sheet, level it with a spatula and bake for 10 minutes at 200 ° C.
Curd filling: beat two eggs with a blender along with cottage cheese. Then pour 100 grams of sour cream, add vanillin, semolina and granulated sugar at the discretion. The result is an airy and very gentle mass.
After 10 minutes we take out the cake (still raw), put the filling on it and put it back in the oven for half an hour.
Meringue: from two cold proteins we make a thick foam. Then pour in small portions of fine sugar or powdered sugar and beat until a dense mass. Pour the protein mixture onto greased parchment paper and bake for two hours at 100 degrees.
When the cakes are ready, you can form a cake. The top layer will be meringue. Use grated chocolate, fresh fruit, or whipped cream for decoration. Similar birthday cake recipes are distinguished by their tenderness and incomparable taste.
Sweet treat for the boy
For biscuit cakes: eight eggs, one and a half glasses of sifted flour and granulated sugar (glass). Do not forget about the rectangular baking sheet.
For cream: three hundred grams of sour cream and powdered sugar (50 gr.).
The decor will be multi-colored marmalade and round cookies (sugar).
From the indicated ingredients, bake two identical cakes or one large (then cut). The first cake will be some kind of foundation, it does not need to be cut. From the second we form the cabin, you can add several chopped cakes. Lubricate the resulting structure with plenty of whipped sour cream.
Instead of wheels, put cookies, the headlights will imitate red marmalade, and the windows - yellow. If desired, you can paint with food colors or oil cream. Such an original birthday cake for a boy will be remembered for a long time. If desired, you can experiment with fruits, nuts and condensed milk.
Cakes for a child’s birthday are very easy to make with their own hands, and they are also very tasty. Get your baby involved in the process and have fun!