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!

 

Funfetti Cake!

 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!

 

Raw Cake about to be frosted with #32 tip.

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.

Pillsbury Funfetti Cake decorated with #32 Tip

 

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.

Frosting dollops on top of a yellow cake. Cake has a surprise inside!

 The inside was something different all together!

I decided to make it a surprise inside cake, because who doesn’t love a good surprise???

Surprise Inside Funfetti Cake from iambaker.net

 

Can you tell what the surprise is?

A candle!

Candle Surprise Inside Cake from iambaker.net

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?

Candle Surprise Inside Funfetti Cake!

 

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!

Audrey enjoying a Surprise Inside Birthday cake!

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!

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Meet Amanda Rettke

Amanda Rettke is the creator of I Am Baker, and the bestselling author of Surprise Inside Cakes: Amazing Cakes for Every Occasion – With a Little Something Extra Inside.Over the course of her 15+ year blogging adventure, she has been featured in and collaborated with the Food Network, New York Times, LA Times, Country Living Magazine, People Magazine, Epicurious, Brides, Romantic Homes, life:beautiful, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Mail, Star Tribune, The Globe and Mail, DailyCandy, YumSugar, The Knot, The Kitchn, and Parade, to name a few.

Reader Comments

  1. I don’t eat cake so I don’t have any for my birthday but I make sure to bake my son one every year for his birthday.

  2. Absolutely!! We love cake! I always make a themed cake of my kids’ choice for their birthday. They love it and can remember what I’ve done every year from BumbleBee transformer to Jake and the Neverland pirates… and really it’s fun for me too!

  3. Yes. I always find out what flavored cake and theme my kids and family members want for their birthdays and try to make them a very special cake.

  4. It just wouldn’t be a birthday without cake! I really enjoy making homemade cake, I think it tastes so much better than store bought. I’ve enjoyed your blog, which gives me lots of new ideas for making birthday cakes and other wonderful things!

  5. We always have cake for birthdays. I’m the person that gets the honor of baking the cakes. Even my own! Not just for family but friends as well. Almost all the males in my life want carrot cake for birthdays. Females want chocolate or white or coconut or lemon. Cake is my favorite dessert.

  6. Uhh… hello? Isn’t that a given!? What’s a birthday without a cake!! I love a good old vanilla cake with light whipped cream frosting with blueberry preserves yum. Or chiffon cakes:)

  7. I always celebrate with cake! Although I have to admit my favorite is ice cream cake. As a child I’d always get the ones from DQ (no-cake cakes), but the ones from TCBY are very good as well, because they’re half cake and half ice cream. Yum.

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