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!
I have to have cake on my birthday, but there is usually some ice cream involved as well. Pretty cake! I love how simple yet fun it is.
I love making Birthday cakes for my family! My nieces and nephews can’t wait to see what cake I will bring to help them celebrate their special day! I made two cakes for my niece, Abbey’s 18th birthday. One was a Strawberry red and white cake with cream filling and fresh strawberries and buttercream frosting! The other was a German chocolate surprise cake with a cross in the center! Everybody Loved them!
My birthday, my kids’ birthdays, every day! As long as I can think of somebody with a birthday, I have cake. 😉
A birthday without cake is like no birthday at all!
I always make sure everyone else has a fabulous cake on their birthdays. I get cake from time to time.
I don’t always get a cake on my birthday 🙂 but, I love love love making cakes for others. Especially if it is a birthday cake. Love your candle surprise cake 🙂
Yes, and yesterday I made my daughter an inside out chocolate bundt cake, starting with a mix, for her birthday:).
Not always for mine, but absolutely on my husband’s. I always make a marble fudge cake with milk chocolate icing just like his late Nanny used to make. Great tradition 🙂
My first memories of my birthday cake is a huge rectangular cake with a pretty doll in the middle. The dress was made of icing. It was sooo pretty! I grew up helping my cousins bake birthday cakes, wedding cakes, etc. I was the one in charge of the icing, making sure the stiff peaks form. I LOVE CAKE. I LOVE celebrating birthdays with cake. I love making a wish before I blow the candles off. I just make sure the candles are not as plenty as my age =). My favorite is chocolate cake!
I am most definitely celebrate with cake. I am the one who cooks it for all my friends birthday but for my own, I prefer to receive a surprise one! This one looks really nice and I like that the outside doesnt tell the inside:)
I love fruit flavour cakes.