For a child, a beautifully decorated, delicious birthday cake is almost as important as gifts. Of course, a purchased cake can meet almost all of your criteria, but is it really able to compare with a home-made one, cooked exactly as your baby loves? Sailboats, treasure chests, basketball fields - these are just some ideas for designing the "main sweet" for your boy.
Pick your recipe
You will need
- - marzipan;
- - glaze;
- - biscuit;
- - stencils;
- - edible figurines;
- - plastic figures;
- - chocolate;
- - pastry bag;
- - confectionery sprinkles.
Instruction manual
1
Choose a topic that interests your boy. It can be sports, cars, robots, animals, or cartoon and movie characters. Evaluate your strengths - can you sculpt or draw? If so, then you can make marzipan figures or draw something on the cake with cream. If not, you will have to buy jewelry and print stencils.
2
Make a biscuit. If you have a special curly shape, then bake a cake in it. You just have to cover it with glaze and paint it with cream. Now on sale you can find baking dishes in the form of various animals and cartoon characters. Also, if you know how to sculpt, you can mold a figure from a finished biscuit, like plasticine. Do not be afraid of flaws, they will all be covered with cream or tightened with marzipan.
3
Bake a rectangular cake if you want to turn it into a football, hockey, basketball field or car track. Cover the whole cake with colored cream or glaze - white, green, yellow. Let the glaze harden, smooth the cream and apply contrasting marking from the same material. Place marzipan, chocolate or plastic figures of players, cars on the cake.
4
Cut the cake in half. Partially remove the biscuit from its core and fill it with chocolate medals in the form of money. Cover the cake with cream or icing, turning it into a treasure chest.
5
Use a stencil to cut a machine, a boat, a robot, a rocket or an airplane out of a cake. Cover with cream or glaze and colorize according to the sample downloaded from the Internet. You can also make a whole train with wagons, armed with just a knife and two cliches - a steam locomotive and trailers. It’s no harder than transport to make a pirate hat, a dinosaur, or the beloved hero by many, SpongeBob from a cake.
6
A round cake is easy to turn into a soccer ball by simply coating it with white and brown chocolate icing. You can also make a treasure island out of it. Cut a little biscuit from the cake around the edges. Cover the entire surface with blue glaze or cream. Blind a small island and hoist in the middle of your sea. Apply green icing or cream to it. Red cross mark the place where the treasures should be. Place a plastic or marzipan palm. In the ocean, place a congratulatory inscription.
7
Simply decorate the cake with a pattern of grated chocolate, cocoa or colored sprinkles. It is enough to cover it with icing or cream, cut the stencil and place on the cake, sprinkle evenly and remove the stencil. You can even make a color drawing using a few stencils and painted coconut.
8
If you have ever made gingerbread houses, then you can try to build a castle for your knight boy. This is not much more complicated. For fans of Harry Potter, you can make Hogwarts using gingerbread technology.