Birthday Cakes

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup butter
2/3 cup honey
1/2 cup greated jaggery
3 cups greated carrots

Make a Carrot Cake - Instructions

1. in a pan melt butter, honey & jaggery
2. Milk the flour with baking powder & cinnamon
3. Pour the butter mixture, flour mixture & grated carrots into greased baking pan
4. Bake at 180 degree for 40 minutes. Cool it for 10 minutes

Use the following methods to make that perfect Apple cake for your birthday kid!

Ingredients

3 Eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
2 1/2 cups white sugar
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
5 cups diced apple without peel

Method

1. Beat the eggs with vegetable oil, to get a smooth foamy tescture
2. Pour sugar, flour,cinnamon powder, baking soda, and vanilla extract
3. Blend all the ingredients well.
4. Then add the sliced apples to the mixture
5. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 175 degrees for about 35-40 minutes.
6. Cool the cake for 10 minutes and serve

Your apple cake is ready to be devoured!

Banana cake is a very delicious cake for everyone to stir everyones taste buds

Ingredients for Banana Cake

1 cup Sugar

1/2 cup unsalted Butter

1 Egg

1 1/2 cup of Flour

1 tsp Vanilla Extract

5 tsp Buttermilk

1 tsp Baking soda

4 mashed Bananas

1 1/2 cup choped nutts

1 pinch salt

Method

1. Grease the cake pan with butter and flour.

2. Mix flour,baking soda and salt in a bowl

3. Separate the eggs

4. Beat butter and sugar

5. Add egg yolks & vanilla essence

6. Mix it with mashed banana

7. Add flour mixture with buttermilk to the beated creamed butter

8. Mix ingredients well with nutts

9. Beat the egg whites and fold the creamed mixture in the egg whites

10. pour it into the pan

11. Bake at 350 degree for 25 - 30 minutes

12. Remove it from oven and keep it cool

Spongebob Birthday Cakes are pretty popular with the kids birthday party and recipes of Spongebob cakes will be put on this site soon. Here are som really beautiful spongebob cakes found on the internet.

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This icing is perfect for those cakes for birthdays and weddings for use as borders and they are excellent!

Ingredients:

• 5 tablespoons water
• 1/2 cup vegetable shortening, high ratio shortening
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 1/4 tsp butter flavouring
• 1/2 tsp almond flavouring
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 pound confectioner’s sugar, shifted

Combine all ingredients and and beat on high speed until well blended, about 20 minutes. Blend additional 5 minutes on low speed.

This cake never fails to impress kids and adults alike because the cake actually forms the dress of a fashion doll. You may find other versions of this recipe that call for shaving the cake in a certain way to form the dress or baking a cake in a round bowl (which I find makes for a hard cake to cut!) to get the right shape.

I’ve found that a Bundt pan and two 9-inch round pans work beautifully to give me the shape I need. Other than the doll, you don’t need any other accoutrements to make this cake special —just lots of frosting. And be prepared to go through lots of it! Because it takes a bit of time to create all the rows of frosting that decorate the dress, this recipe calls for stiff buttercream frosting. After all, you don’t want the dress pattern to droop while you work! This cake is shown on the first page of the color section.

Tools: Two 9-inch round cake pans, 12-cup traditional Bundt pan, #30 icing tip, #35 icing
tip, plastic wrap, long serrated knife
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Baking time: 45 minutes plus 2 hours for cooling
Decoration time: 2 hours plus 2 hours for refrigeration
Yield: 32 servings
For the cake:
2 batches Delicious Yellow Cake batter
For the frosting:
4 batches Stiff Decorator Frosting
For the decorations:
11-inch tall fashion doll
Deep pink food coloring gel
Orange food coloring gel

The Messy Part:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 9-inch pans and the Bundt pan, and set aside.
2. Prepare two batches of Delicious Yellow Cake. Put one batch in the Bundt cake pan, and divide the other batch into the two 9-inch round pans.
3. Bake the two rounds according to the recipe, and bake the Bundt cake for 50 minutes. After the rounds are completely cool, level them. Let the Bundt cake cool completely, but don’t level it.
4. Sandwich the two round layers together with a layer of frosting, and spread a layer of frosting on the top layer. Then place the Bundt cake on top. Apply a crumb coat (thin layer) of frosting to the entire cake, and refrigerate it for at least 1 hour. (If possible, refrigerate the cake overnight for best results.)
5. Using the open circle of the Bundt cake as your guide, cut a circle out of the center of the layered cake below. Pull this cake out (you may need to use a serving spoon). Reserve the scraps.
6. Frost the cake again with a thin layer of frosting, and refrigerate for 1 hour
7. Raise the doll’s arms and wrap plastic around her arms and hair. Place the doll into the center hole of the cake. To keep her centered and in place, insert cut-up scraps from Step 5 in the open space. Frost around the doll to create a smooth, complete surface for your decorating.
8. Divide and tint the remaining frosting as follows: 4 cups deep pink and 4 cups orange.
9. Outfit a pastry bag with a #35 tip and pink frosting. Starting at the front of the doll, pipe three rows of pink stars (see Chapter 11) down the front of the cake dress. I like to pipe the rows at a diagonal to make it look like the dress is swirling, but if it’s easier (or more preferable) for you, you can simply pipe in straight lines down the front of the dress.
10. Outfit a pastry bag with a #30 tip and orange frosting. Pipe three rows of orange stars on either side of the pink stripe. Continue piping three-row stripes around the dress, alternating the frosting color with each row.
11. Using the #30 tip, pipe a band of orange frosting around the doll’s waistline.
12. Using the #35 tip and pink frosting, create the ruffled layers of the dress’s bodice by piping horizontally around the doll, moving the tip up and down as you go. Finish by frosting pink straps over the doll’s shoulders.
13. Remove the plastic wrap from the doll’s head and arms.
14. To finish the dress, pipe a ring of orange stars or waves around the base of the cake.

A kid’s birthday presents one of the most creative, exciting, and fulfilling occasions for designing and making a celebratory cake. A kid’s face — along with those of friends and relatives — is sure to light up with happiness at the sight of a cake dedicated to the big event, his birthday!!!

When you’re faced with creating a cake for a child’s or teen’s birthday, it’s important to remember that your cake becomes more special when it truly takes into account the personality of the birthday boy or girl. If the child is turning 1 or 2, it’s likely that you’re the one deciding the cake’s theme. But an older child usually has a definite idea about the flavor and look of the cake he or she wants you to create.

Kids’ cakes, more than any other themed cakes, challenge you to look at traditional circular and rectangular cake shapes in new and different ways.

This cake is a moist, delicious treat that pairs well with cream cheese frosting. I usually steer clear of self-rising flour, but I actually developed the recipe for this cake when I was in the seventh grade, and old habits die hard. Tools:

1. Two 9-inch round cake pans
2. Preparation time: 20 minutes
3. Baking time: 40 minutes

Yield: 12 servings Ingredients; 2 cups sifted self-rising flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 2 cups granulated white sugar 3 cups grated carrot (about 8 medium carrots) 11⁄2 cups vegetable oil 4 eggs The messy part:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans, or spray a Bundt pan with a nonstick spray that contains flour.
2. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and sugar.
3. Add the carrot, oil, and eggs to the dry ingredients. Mix until well blended, but don’t overmix.
4. Pour the batter into the prepared pans. Bake for 40 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out with some crumbs attached.
5. Cool the cakes in the pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Run a knife around the edges,and then invert the cakes onto wire racks to cool completely.

It is always a great pleasure to see how kids eat their first birthday cakes. here are a few random pictures.

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Last week I had gone for my cousins wedding here downtown. The wedding was a grand event complete with wedding decorations, bands with live music and of course wedding cakes! The best part of the wedding was that the location where we had the wedding reception and celebrations on their own private yatch!

As in all wedding receptions and parties everyone including me, the craziest cake lover in town were waiting for the grand event which of course is the WEDDING CAKE! Phew!!! The wait was well worth is since this one was an amazingly stunning looking birthday cake. Too bad my camera went kaput last month hence I have no wedding pictures of the cakes to share.

The cake was a huge one had 5 levels and would you believe it the flavours of the cake was alternated in each layer?. it was a vanilla flavour alternated with chocolate! It was decorated with gothic designs and the toppings on the wedding cake did not seem familiar to me. Sprinkled on the cake was tiny sweet candy other than the mysterious toppings.

The whole event was a spectacle! Amazingly, the people were all quiet, examining the wedding cake in awe. Not a sound and all you could hear was the wind and the background music. Then came the time to cut the cake and the bride and groom cut it together. Then we were waiting our turn for the cake! It was an amazing experience, the cake and the party! Didn’t I tell you about cakes that look too beautiful to be eaten the other day?