Make Your Child’s Birthday Party Special With a Whimsy, Homemade Birthday Cake
Making your child’s birthday party special and personalized with a whimsy, homemade birthday cake is a growing trend among mothers. This rise is partly due to the cost savings, since many bakery cakes cost as much as three times what it costs to actually make them. The growing hobby involved in baking and decorating lavish cakes is another reason that more and more of us are giving this a try.
I have recently started to join this growing movement… I made a Lightening McQueen Car for my son’s fourth birthday, a candy land cake for his fifth birthday, and a butterfly cake for my daughter recently.
My kids really enjoyed watching the cake come together and helping to pick out the colors and the smaller details that we added to each of the cakes. I think it made their birthdays a little more special for both of us.
♦ Keep in mind when you are considering making a novelty cake that it all starts with the right batter. If you are trying to use a soft, flaky cake mix or recipe… good luck, you will probably need it. Pro bakers seem united these cakes - whether a cake with decorations on top, a 2D cake that is cut to look like a shape, or a 3D cake that is made from a special mold - are all best made with a firmer cake mix that is laden with butter, like a pound cake.
♦ Make sure that you really grease your pan that you are going to use, to avoid major accidents when half of the cake stays in the pan. I did that on my first one.
♦ When you are ready to bake, set your filled cake pans on a cookie sheet before putting in the oven to avoid spills in the bottom of your oven.
♦ Cooling your cake completely before removing it from your pan is critical! Let it cool overnight before trying to remove it from the mold or pan and you will have better luck.
♦ Keep in mind that pound cakes are good at room temperatures for about 5 days… so you can bake and decorate a couple of days before the big day to cut down on stress and rushing around the day of your child’s party.
♦ If your child has a special theme in mind here are a couple of useful websites that I have used: Coolest Birthday Cakes will give you categories of cakes and pictures of what other bakers have made along with directions for how they cut and assembled the cakes. I used this one to get my butterfly recipe. The other one is Sugarcraft which is a great source of 2D and 3D pans for cake baking.
I hope that some of these tips will help you make your child’s next birthday cake a special and unique creation that you both will be proud of. I already have a request from my six year old that for his birthday in March he wants a monkey in a tree cake… so I am already trying to figure out how to do that one!
Happy baking moms, I would love to hear your stories about how your homemade cake made your child’s birthday fun and special.
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