Birthday Cakes

What can be healthier than home-made cakes. You can control every ingredient you add to come up with the perfect combination of what is right for you and your family. Whether it is organic flour or all-purpose, brown eggs or eggless, butter or olive oil - you are the conductor of this orchestra. This post contains mostly home-made cake decorations. Cake recipes are soon to follow.. The biggest health advantage of home made cakes is being able to control the sugar level of the icing and what artificial stabilizers are added to the icing.

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Here is a collection of Birthday cakes.

Jungle Safari Cake

Cake Layout - One rectangular cake on the right. The left layered appearance is simply by cutting another rectangular cake and laying it atop the bigger piece.

Icing & Decoration

1) The animals that are upright are food safe toys made for cake decoration.

2) The animals on the cake itself are made from chocolate. (Giraffe, Hippo, Elephant)  Trace your favorite animals on parchment paper and fill with melted chocolate. This can be done with a ziploc shaped like a cone with a hole at the end ,or using decorator bags available in Micheals.

3) The grass is drawn using the three hole tip and green icing.

4) The waterfall is blue sugar sprinkle available in regular grocery stores

                                               Winnie the Pooh Cake

The Pooh is made from a cake mould in the shape of pooh. The house is a rectangular cake and half of a round cake.

The decoration on pooh is mostly regular star tip icing.

Dora Mermaid Cake

Madagascar Cake

Tinker Bell cake

Dora Birthday Cake

Decoration

1) The Dora picture is traced from a fancy tablecloth on parchment paper using piping gel.

2) Then lay your picture (gel side down) on top of the cake and gently press the sheet.

3) Gently peel of the parchement paper and the impression of the picture is formed on the cake. Then use your favorite colors to fill in the picture.

4) The balloons are colored candy. The tree/ strings etc is all regular butter cream icing decoration. 

Mickey Mouse cake

Minnie Mouse Cake

Baby Shower Cakes

Teddy Bear Shower cake pic

Baby Shower Cakes

Making shower cakes at home can be challenging. However, the returns are pretty high, considering that you can control every ingredient. Whether you need a  cake that is rich or light , you make the call. This post contains mostly home-made cake decorations. Cake recipes are soon to follow..  Hope you enjoy the collection and do not forget to leave your valuable comments.

  

Baby Shower Cake Decoration 

                                                                                ~ Lin Thomas

                                                   



How to Make a Teddy Bear Cake
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​Cake layout
​1) Make 2 round cakes and one square cake and 4 cup cakes.
2) The Teddy ears are made by cutting a cup cake into 2 semi circles.
3) The hands and feet are squares cut off from the square cake.
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Icing
4) Icing is butter cream icing. Please click here for a free recipe. (Coming Soon .... )
5)The pink and green square cut outs are ready made fondant. Click here to know more about fondant.(Coming Soon .... )
6) The entire cake is made of simple star shaped icing decoration. I bought a set from the store and merely tried it out.

Decorations
7) The eyes and nose, buttons are M&Ms.
8) The writing is using a plain jel icing tube from the store.
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This cake can be made for showers or birthdays.

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                                             Baby Girl Stork Cake

How to Make a Stork Cake 
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​Cake layout

​1) This is a regular half sheet cake. I made this at home for a shower of one of my colleagues.  Click here for baking tips.  ​(Coming Soon .... )

​Icing
2) Icing is butter cream icing. Use a parchment paper , lay it on the cake and gently peel it to get the smooth surface. 
3)Use icing color to make pink and yellow icing.
4) The stork is drawn free hand with the regular tip.
5) For black icing I prefer to buy it from the store because home made black color is always a shade of grey. 
​6) The balloons are also from the same circle tip.

Decorations
No additional decorations were used on this cake.

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                                          Baby Girl Shower Cake

Green and Yellow Baby Shower cake

Cake layout

​1) This is a regular half sheet cake made very similar to the stork cake above. The star tip has been used for decoration.

Icing - Regular butter cream icing
Decorations
Cupcakes were used to form the booties, and the stroller is drawn free-hand. Stencils were used for the lettering. This cake was made for a baby girl but the colors work well for a baby boy as well.


                                                Baby Boy Shower Cake

Cake Layout and Icing
This Cake was a pineapple layer cake with white buttercream icing.

Decorations
1) The decorations are mostly made of chocolate.
2) First trace out the picture on parchment paper.
3) Melt chocolate in a microwave and fill in a ziploc with a tiny hole in the corner. (Alternatively you can use readymade decoration plastic cones). Draw free hand and then once it dries you can turn it over and make further trimmings in different colors. 
4) The decorations can be made a day in advance and stored in the refrigerator. This cake has a bottle, horse toy, baby, rattle all made with chocolate. The baby blanket is rolled out fondant.


Black Forest Baby Shower Cake

The picture below is of a Black Forest Cake modified to be a Baby Shower Cake. Since black forest is my friend's favorite cake and cherries and chocolate shavings are an integral part of any black forest cake, this one has been made as a combination. The Baby is made from chocolate and so are the captions and rattle.