The best part of birthdays?? Â The cake of course!
I would love  to share with you a fun cake idea as well as some tips on how YOU can best enjoy all the birthdays you celebrate!
 Here’s  Tip #1: Use a box of cake mix to ensure a level, beautiful and delicious cake!  Don’t stress about finding the perfect from scratch recipe, especially if you are a busy working parent.  Your child will not know the difference, but they will know that you baked something special just for them!
I am a huge fan of the easy concept. Â Just because the technique is easy doesn’t mean you are sacrificing beauty!
For this cake I used a #32 tip. Â Simply hold the tip at the base of the cake, apply light pressure, and move up to the top. Â Make sure to take the frosting all the way over the top edge of the cake.
For the top, I used a #1M tip and just made little swirled dollops of frosting.
This is a classic technique that I have loved and admired forever. I left the better part of the top of the cake white and really like how clean it looks!
I used THIS perfect buttercream recipe for piping.
 The inside was something different all together!
I decided to make it a surprise inside cake, because who doesn’t love a good surprise???
Can you tell what the surprise is?
A candle!
This tiny candle will be in every single piece of cake.  I just love that everyone who gets a piece will get some of the FUN surprise!
And whats even better is that sweet little candle is surrounded by a bright and festive Funfetti Cake!
Ready for those other two tips on how you can celebrate more?
Tip #2: Make a tradition.  Choose to always bake a cake.  Or make a certain flavor of cake.  Or buy a huge pack of candles on your baby’s first birthday and use the same candles every year.  Or make a personalized Birthday Book!
Tip #3: Relax. Â If you are a parent and trying to plan the perfect party for your most precious little angel, take a moment to sit back and catch your breath. Â Are family and friends going to be gathered around? Â Is there enough cake for everyone? Â Then that is all you need.
I know, I know… we all want our children to have the most special day. Â But truly… feeling loved is the greatest gift we can give them!
Depends on the birthday….my husband LOVES when I make my homemade dulche de leche cheesecake! 🙂
Love the cake! I agree that you need to make the day special. I have always taken a vacation day from work on each of my children’s birthdays. They are greeted with their place at breakfast decorated, gifts and cards waiting for them. Mom gets to drive them to school and pick up after. I bring treats at whatever time the teacher designates. And then we have a big family dinner in the evening to celebrate. I have always thought that having a relaxed Mom who is focused on them for the day was a good gift. It was also a gift for me because I spent the day reminiscing about their life thus far. I have finally stopped taking the day off for my oldest two since they live out of town but sometimes I think I should do it just so I can have “my day” to think of them ALL day!
Oh yes! I love making special cakes for my kids birthdays 🙂 and it’s an awesome excuse to make something totally over the top!
****Always!**** Since I am the cake baker of the family, I always have to make my own cake, but that way I know what I am getting and that it will be wonderful and shared by all. Hope your hubby makes a quick recovery and you stay rested and sane. LOL
I love making my own birthday cake every year. 🙂
How did you ge that candle into the cake? As for birthdays ofc we have cake for what is it w/out cake
We always have a cake for our birthdays! On my kids’ half-birthdays, I make a half-cake for dessert that night (one round, cut in half, stacked and frosted). That is one of my favorite birthday traditions. Easy and fun!
I’m a twins and have always had to share my birthday. No problem, you always had someone to blow your candles out with and someone who doesn’t have an excuse for forgetting your birthday! Luckily my Godmother, a wonderful, generous baker, always made each of us a cake! My favorite was chocolate mint. I always try to do something special for birthdays. That way the gift is really received by me….knowing my Godmother would me proud of me following her tradition.
Ohhh yes…always celebrate with cake on my birthday. Stayed up until 2am the night before my last birthday trying a new decorating technique on my huge cake. Paid for it the next day with a migraine headache! Froze the cake, and had it the day after my birthday…haha..fooled you headache!!
Always! My mother just celebrated birthday 86 with her favorite cake and frosting…..and candles.