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!
I always bake myself a cake! I usually alternate between double chocolate and Funfetti. I love baking and sharing and celebrating with friends!
We always celebrate with a homemade cake. It’s my way of showing love.
Oh yes! Birthdays involve cake at our house. Or cupcakes. 🙂
I make 2-3 cakes for each of my kids birthdays! I love doing it.
Yes, YEs, YES! Cake please. My son and I both have birthdays in May! He likes ice cream cake and I like cake with lots of buttercream! Would love to win this giveaway!
Yep! I celebrate with cake for just about every occasion I can justify it. 🙂 Cake makes all things better.
I have cake if I’m at my parents’ house visiting for my birthday. I “make” my mother make me chocolate angel food. It’s sooooo good.
My girls always wanted a bakery sheet cake but now they are grown and don’t care what kind of cake it is!
Growing up my Mom always made cakes for my sister and I. When I was probably around 10 or eleven I started helping my Mom decorate my birthday cakes. Around the time I was fourteen I think I actually made the whole cake myself ( which was a doll cake) with the help of my best friend for two or three birthdays in a row. Now that I’m grown up I make cakes for everyone’s birthdays, including my own. It’s something that I’m glad my Mom started doing, and something I’ll do when I have kids 🙂
This year was my first year to NOT have a cake! I have a cottage food cake business, and I was caked out! I had a delicious creme brûlée instead. But normally I have my favorite, the chocolate Texas sheet cake, aka “snoopy cake” in my family. (Because of food allergies, my aunt always made that cake and drew a snoopy on it for my cousin. We always called it snoopy cake because she was the only one who made it. The name stuck, and 30+ years later, it’s still snoopy cake!)