A beautiful, bright and tasty children's cake can be made with your own hands at home without any problems. Moreover, there are a lot of simple recipes, and we have collected for you 5 of the best with step-by-step photos!
1. Children's cake "Bee"
Delicate and airy cake will decorate the children's sweet table, kids will be delighted with the festive "bees" in jelly.
You will need:
Biscuit: 4 eggs, 4 tbsp. l. with an average slide of sifted flour, 4 tbsp. l. sugar, 1 tbsp. l. cocoa.
Custard: 750 milk, 250 g butter, 150 g sugar, 3 tbsp. l. sifted flour, 2 tbsp. l. starch, 2 yolks, 1 bag of vanilla sugar.
Cake decoration: 2 cans of canned apricot halves, 40 g of dark chocolate, 20 g of white chocolate, 1 tbsp. l. with a slide of gelatin, a handful of almond petals.
Preparation:
1. Prepare a biscuit in the usual way: whisk the whites with sugar, then add the yolks one by one, add flour in portions. Divide the finished dough into two equal parts, add cocoa to one. Place both types of dough in pastry bags, place in a baking dish, alternating strips.
2. While baking the base for the cake, rinse the halves of canned apricots under running water, blot well with paper napkins and place them on a large dish, cut side down.
3. Melt white and dark chocolate in the microwave, place in pastry bags and paint the bees. Make eyes out of white chocolate, then apply dark stripes on the apricot halves, make pupils. Insert almond petals into the cuts made with a sharp knife so that they look like the wings of a bee.
4. From milk, sugar, flour, starch, yolks and vanilla, cook the most common custard. Whisk the softened butter separately and stir in the cooled cream, one spoon at a time. Transfer the fluffy creamy mass to the tin on top of the biscuit.
5. Puree the remaining apricots with a blender, dilute with syrup to a volume of 500-600 ml. Pour in the gelatin prepared according to the instructions. Cover the cake with the liquid. Distribute the apricot bees evenly and refrigerate until solidified.
2. Children's cake "Hedgehog"
To create a children's cake in the shape of a hedgehog, special forms and tools are absolutely not needed, only the simplest products, a mixer and a pastry bag.
You will need:
Base for the cake: 6 eggs, 240 g sugar, 40 g cocoa, 160 g flour.
Impregnation: 50 ml of water, 1 tbsp. l. sugar, 1 tbsp. l. confectionery balsam.
Cake cream: 1 tbsp. l. cocoa, 100 g of soft butter, 100 g of condensed milk.
Filling: 100 g of chopped walnuts, 80 g of condensed milk.
Decorating cream: 3 proteins, 220 g sugar, 80 ml water, 0.3 tsp. citric acid.
Preparation:
1. For five minutes, beat the eggs and sugar into a fluffy foam, use a spatula to stir in the rest of the ingredients for the dough. Bake one thin crust on a large baking sheet.
2. Cut out a shape in the form of a slightly elongated drop from thin plastic or thick paper. Place the mold on the cooled cake and cut it out with a sharp knife. Transfer the resulting blank onto a substrate on which you will assemble the cake, and tear the remaining dough scraps into a separate bowl with your hands into small pieces.
3. Whip the softened butter into a fluffy foam, add condensed milk and cocoa. Pour the resulting cream into a bowl with pieces of chocolate biscuit, mix with the ingredients for the filling. To make the nut-biscuit mass softer and more pliable, pour half the impregnation of water, sugar and balsam into it.
4. Grease the blank from the chocolate biscuit with the remaining impregnation, and then cover it, forming a uniform slide, with a nut-biscuit mass. Put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
5. To decorate the cake, add boiling sugar syrup from water, sugar and citric acid in a thin stream to the whipped egg whites.Cover the narrow side of the blank with white cream, then separate three small pieces of the mass and color them in yellow, lilac and green. Mix the rest of the cream with cocoa. With the help of a pastry bag, pick out oblong peaks-needles of brown color, lilac flowers, yellow centers on them, and green leaves next to them. Don't forget to draw the eyes and nose for the hedgehog.
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3. Children's cake "Raspberry ice cream"
Spectacular and tasty biscuit cake with two types of cream and berry layer. It is desirable to decorate the dessert with meringue, caramel and mastic figurines.
You will need:
Base for the cake: 4 ready-made biscuit cakes.
Layer "Plombir": 50 ml milk, 25 ml cream (33%) for chocolate, 25 g white chocolate, 2 raw yolks, 23 g sugar, 4 g corn starch, 3 g gelatin diluted in 18 ml water, 80 ml whipping cream.
Raspberry confit: 250 g raspberries, 50 g sugar, 12 g corn starch.
Butter cream: 350 soft curd cheese, 85 g icing sugar, 350 ml whipping cream.
Preparation:
1. Grind the yolks with sugar and starch, pour in milk, boil in a steam bath until thickened. Pour chocolate melted with cream into the custard base, add gelatin and mix with whipped cream with powdered sugar. Pour the cream into a mold and send it to the freezer for four hours.
2. For confit, mix raspberries with sugar and starch, boil until thick and cool completely.
3. For the buttercream, whip the cream with powdered sugar, stir in the curd cheese in portions.
4. Transfer some of the butter cream into a pastry bag, first evenly grease the biscuit cake, then drain the cream out of the bag in the form of a rim. Fill the middle with raspberry confit and brush with butter. Cover with a second layer of biscuit, grease with cream again and put in a filling layer, cover it with cream. Next, put a biscuit, spread it with butter cream, make a side, fill with the remaining confit, again a layer of cream and a biscuit. Refrigerate overnight.
5. Decorate the children's cake with cream, mastic, various figures that will please the baby and his guests.
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4. Children's cake "Teddy Bear"
A funny teddy bear cake will make kids squeal with delight and desire to taste it. Even a novice hostess can bake such a dessert!
You will need:
Base for the cake: 3 ready-made biscuits (two chocolate and one white).
Cream: 600 g 20% sour cream, 450 g boiled condensed milk, 100 g biscuit cookies, sugar syrup for impregnation, a handful of frozen cherries, 1 glass of nuts.
Decorating cream: 3 proteins, 200 g sugar, 250 g butter, vanilla sugar.
Preparation:
1. For four minutes, beat sour cream and 350 g of boiled condensed milk with a mixer, refrigerate for 15 minutes. The caramel cream for the baby cake is ready!
2. Cut out the torso of the bear, head and legs from the biscuits that have cooled and settled for 24 hours, cut into several layers and soak in syrup.
3. Brush the layers with cream, cover with thawed pitted cherries, sprinkle with crushed nuts mixed with large cookie crumbs. On the layer of nuts and cookies, apply a mesh of boiled condensed milk.
4. Cut the crumbs from the cakes into crumbs, mix with the rest of the cream, this will be a mass for leveling and shaping the cake.
5. Mix whites, sugar and vanilla in a bowl, put on a steam bath, stir until the crystals are completely dissolved. Then remove from the stove and beat with a mixer until fluffy, gradually add softened butter and a few drops of black food coloring.
6. Cover the cake with leveling compound, giving it a crisp bear shape, decorate with cream from a pastry bag. Eyes, nose and ears can be made from mastic.
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5. Children's cake from M & M's and Kinder chocolate
Children just love various sweets from the store, why not decorate a birthday cake with them? This will save you time on decorating your dessert!
You will need:
For biscuit cakes: 1 glass of flour and sugar, 5 eggs, 1.5 tsp. baking powder for dough, 1 bag of vanilla sugar.
For the cream layer: 300 ml whipping cream, 300 ml condensed milk.
Cream ganache for cake: 200 g chocolate, 200 g cream.
To decorate: 5 large packs of Kinder chocolate, 3 packs of M & M’s dragees, satin ribbon.
Preparation:
1. Beat eggs with sugar for exactly 15 minutes, add vanilla and flour, mix thoroughly but gently and bake a sponge cake. Let the cake cool completely and cut lengthwise into several layers. Saturate condensed milk dissolved in cold boiled water.
2. Whip the cream into a stable foam, add the condensed milk in a thin stream, without stopping whipping.
3. Shift the biscuit cakes with butter-milk cream, applying 5-6 tablespoons of whipped sweet mass on each layer. Put the dessert in the refrigerator for 12 hours, only after that you can proceed to decorate.
4. Cream ganache for leveling the top and sides of the cake is prepared as follows: bring the cream to a boil, add pieces of chocolate (any), wait two minutes for the chocolate to melt and mix well. Put the ganache in the refrigerator for five hours.
5. Using a silicone spatula, brush the cake with cream on all sides, and in a circle, glue the chocolates tightly to each other in an upright position. You should get a kind of fence.
6. Cover the top of the cake with colorful M & M’s sweets, tie a beautiful ribbon, it will serve as a bright element of the festive decor and at the same time fix the cake so that the chocolates stick well.
