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!
Cake on the birthday! Of course we do; and home baked of course! (yours is darling)
I always bake our birthday cakes! Most birthdays I have to bake multiple since we have a daughter with food allergies! Everyone gets to pick their flavors and decorations!
I get mine from a place called Thyme At The Ranch in ranching Santa Fe- COCONUT CAKE! My one special treat. My kids always ask for Funfetti cake and I baked a Funfetti grooms cake for my son when he got married.
Yes cake is essential at birthdays! I always try to make it myself.
Do you have any idea how many frosting “candles” there are on your cake? I need to make a 60th birthday cake this year and like the frosting candles better than eating dripped candle wax.
I celebrate everyone else’s birthday with cake – but I usually don’t have a cake on my birthday. Great cake.
I do make myself a cake every year as well as every else’s cakes in my family. Some request pecan pie & others want cheesecake for their birthdays.
We love funfetti cake and birthday cake!! I’m excited to see this simple design. I think I may use it for my 2 yr. old’s upcoming b’day! Thanks for sharing.
I don’t celebrate my own birthday.
You can’t have a birthday without cake! I love your blog. I have copied many your ideas.