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!
It seems there is always no time to bake for myself, but I always bake for my family 😉
Birthday cake is never about eating it in my house (although it’s a nice bonus)! My family and I all get together and make a delicious cake together (usually red velvet or peanut butter and chocolate) and decorate it beautifully. The most fun we have together is in the kitchen baking something fabulous.
Everybody has their favorite baked from scratch cake at my house…..since I also sell custom baked goods from home, the list is long so they usually switch it up each year. Except for my youngest daughter with a February birthday…..it’s Red Velvet Cake every time.
Always made a special homemade cake for every family member. When I remarried 2 weeks before my birthday my new in-laws were excited to share the day with me. MIL offered to “pick up the cake.” See, the whirlwind romance hadn’t overlapped our birthdays, so my new hubby and family did not yet know that bought cakes were forbidden in my house! He got the message because our newly blended family of kids made me a cake and we also (for that year only) had MIL’s cake.
So, yes, we celebrate with cake!!!!!
The surprise inside of the cake is a candle with funfetti.
I think that this is a very unique concept. I bake a lot and especially
during the school year. I like this page so many tips and ideas. And I like having a place for the
average mom to come to and share thoughts and ideas.
Usually, although when I ran a home-daycare, cake was not counted as a “credible” food, so I would often press a batch of rice krispy treats into a gallon ice cream pail lined with plastic wrap (for easy removal) & sprinkled with non-pareils. Candles were simple with large marshmallows cut in 1/2 put sticky-side down.
Since I was a little girl, and that was a long time ago, I have always had a cherry nut cake for my birthday. I’m assuming that my mother had to come up with something different because my sister’s and brother’s birthday is just one week before mine. They always had chocolate cake.
When I grew up and left home I made my birthday cake every year and now that I am older my daughter makes it for me. It just would not be my birthday without it.
Of course, who doesn’t?! I bake the cakes myself, except for my birthday where I get an ice cream cake.
What was the candle surprise made out of?
Was it placed in there before baking?
What were the funfetti pieces?
Thank You this is a lovely cake
We always have cake for birthdays here. My oldest son and I both want my homemade form scratch carrot cake and my youngest usually wants something chocolate. I have a yummy devil’s food cake that I make with cherries, nuts, chocolate chips and marshmallow cream that he loves.