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