The best part of birthdays?? 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. Just because the technique is easy doesn’t mean you are sacrificing beauty!
For this cake I used a #32 tip. Simply hold the tip at the base of the cake, apply light pressure, and move up to the top. 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. 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. Are family and friends going to be gathered around? Is there enough cake for everyone? Then that is all you need.
I know, I know… we all want our children to have the most special day. But truly… feeling loved is the greatest gift we can give them!
Yes! Of Course! My favorite is a lovely Persian Love cake with Organic Flowers and raw Pistachios. Also I love to use Mascapone cheese for my frosting! So delish you dont even need a cake! lol
Since I am the family baker I usually get a bakery cake for my birthday. This year my husband surprised me with a German Chocolate cake. Yummy!
Yes, we do! Just last week I made two little cakes for the double birthday party for two of my kids…my son got an ankylosaurus on his and my daughter’s was a monkey. I even used a Funfetti mix for one of them. 🙂 After getting very frustrated with trying to find and have success with a good from scratch recipe, I think I have finally decided to just stick with box mixes for birthdays. With three little kids and another on the way, I’m usually stressed out enough. 😛
This is such a fun cake and seems so doable. The inside is absolutely delightful. Thank you for all of your great ideas! While kids would definitely love it, I’m going to make this for our monthly work birthday celebration. Thanks!
Every year my daughters asked me to bake their birthday cake. They would only want Pillsbury Funfetti flavor. Sometimes I would conceal the cake with another colored frosting and they were always so delightfully surprised when i’d cut into the cake revealing the colorful sprinkles. Now they are in college and they still want this cake. I even made some mini cupcakes for my grandson’s 1st Birthday, my daughter was so pleased. Our most creative use of the box mix was yesterday when we made funfetti cookies with the Star Wars cookie cutters for “May the Fourth be with you” theme. This will continue to be a tradition in our family. Thank you for always being a wonderfully colorful part of our lives!
Birthdays aren’t birthdays without cake or pie…This looks so fun and doable…..anyway – thanks – I love the surprise cakes…:)
Definitely! Cake is the best part of any birthday celebration in my opinion 🙂
Of course! It’s either a super-decadent one that I bake myself, or an ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins.
I am the odd man out here, I love pie for my birthday. Everyone else in the house is all about cakes.
There is always cake for our birthdays and I always try something new each year. I tried the towel strips for a cake I’m baked for my friend’s son and the cake came out beautifully! I will be sure to take pics and post them as well. I know they will love it!! Thank you for your awesome tips!!