birthday cake ideas
Because moms are so clever and resourceful, we asked you to submit your best birthday cake pictures and ideas to us. Here is what we have so far, keep sending them in.
Pool Party Cake
Sasha says "My daughter Emily had a pool party in chilly Mooi River and this was her cake - made by kind local cake lady - not me!"
Princess Party Cake
Yvonne from Durban says "I made this oh-so-easy birthday cake for my daughter’s Princess Party. It is fit for royalty and garnered many ‘ooh’s and ‘aah’s from all the attending princesses! Simply bake two round cakes (one large and one slightly smaller) and cover the tops and sides with icing. Place the smaller cake on top of the larger one and decorate as desired. Carefully place a Tiara on top and add candles, plastic icing flowers, sweets or anything you want."
Beer Box Cake
Claron from Durban shares this recipe and says 'This is an ideal cake to make for sending along to school/preschool or when having a lot of children around for a birthday party"
Cook together and allow to cool:
500 ml water
150 ml oil
6 - 8 teaspoons of cocoa (heaped high)
3 teaspoons of vanilla essence
Beat together until nearly white:
8 eggs
4 cups of castor sugar
Fold in:
3 and half cups cake flour (sifted)
3 teaspoons baking powder (heaped high)
Add the cooled off chocolate mixutre and egg mixter together and then fold in flour mixture. Cover the inside of a beer box from canned beers (available at any bottle store) with tin foil and bake at 180 degrees celcius for 35 minutes. Check with scewer if done. If not allow another 10 minutes until done. Cool and ice as desirerd.
Hint: Ideal for tracing shapes and decorating according to picture.
Julia from Durban adds "Especially for younger children who don’t really EAT the jolly cake: SPAR does a “beerbox” chocolate or vanilla sponge cake for around R20. For the first 7 years, I invested in these and let the creative juices flow when it came to icing, loving the challenges of Mickey & Minny Mouse; the beach and the sea and the treasure chest and the dolphins and the mermaid on a rock (you might want to place some limitations on their ideas!!) etc. And the best discovery was drawing the picture of Tinkerbell / Mickey etc into rice paper, cutting that out and “colouring it in” with icing."
Castle Cake
Kim from Durban says "Most mom’s would rather buy a cake than make a cake for their children and I think it is mostly because they think it must be too difficult to do. When my kids were little I had no choice as I could not afford the perfect cakes so I would copy cakes from children’s cake books and my kids loved it. Now being a granny I love making cakes for my grandchildren and other kids. For easy Birthday Cakes for children I would recommend the Women’s Value Stork Party Magic Book. This book not only gives you 25 different cakes you can make but theme’s the party for you as well and allows your creative side to come out as well. I have just made my granddaughter Tyler who is turning 7 yrs old a Castle Cake from this book but took it a few steps further by adding in her little personality into the cake. When decorating your cake look at the toy section for things to go on the cake. If you look at the cake I made you will notice all the bling on it. That bling comes from a cheap tiara which I took apart and added onto the cake. I used mini tennis biscuits for the windows and add icing around it to look like window frames. If you not good at icing I would suggest a Prestige biscuit gun as it has nozzles that allow you to do icing with it and your cakes come out looking like you have been doing this for years. Money well spent. Buy a rotating cake stand it makes icing your cakes easier. No stopping just spinning. Hope this helps all the moms."
Chocolate Bowl Cake
Fiona from Durban says "Kids never seem to eat the cake at parties and my sister does a hollow chocolate upside down Chocolate "bowl" that's filled with sweets. The outside of the chocolate is decorated and she put's candles on it. The birthday girl/boy uses a hammer to smash/break open the chocolate bowl to get to the sweets inside. The mom then uses the hammer and breaks the chocolate into smaller pieces which is left on the tray with the sweets for the kids to help themselves. The hardest part about putting together this "cake" is melting the chocolate and linning a glass bowl with the melted chocolate so that the top is an even thickness to the bottom. It's important to grease/line the bowl so that the chocolate bowl is turned out in one piece. Just decorate as you would a normal cake. Tip- place the Chocolate "cake" on a tray because the pieces and sweets inside spread a little when it's being hammered open by an enthusiastic child."
Ruth's Creative Cakes
Ruth shares pictures of all the creative cakes she has made over the years.
Printed Cake
Alison from Pietermaritzburg says "Milky Lane at Midlands Liberty Mall have dozens of pictures that they can print onto rice paper, so all you have to do is bake a plain cake and then buy the print to place in the middle.MUCH more reasonable than buying a theme cake from a bakery."
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