How To Make The Perfect Birthday Cake

Want to create the best looking birthday cake for your child's next birthday party, There are a number of steps that you can follow to make sure that you create the perfect cake each and every time. Here is a simple cake decorating guide that you can use to create the best looking cake possible for your kid's upcoming party. Baking the cake. This is probably the easiest step of them all because all you have to do is follow the baking instructions that are provided with the cake mix that you purchased. Sometimes cakes can end up being a little dry. If you want to avoid this, consider adding a tiny bit more of some of the wet ingredients that are used in preparing the cake. One great way that you can increase the moistness of your cake is by adding another egg to the recipe. When the cake has finished cooking, allow it to cool overnight. Consider placing the cake in the refrigerator in order to achieve maximum cooling results. Ice the cake. Before you attempt to do any decorating, make sure you ice the cake completely and smooth out any lumps and bumps that might exist.

This initial icing layer should be allowed to cool before you continue with the drawing process. Again, place the cake in the refrigerator in order to let the frosting set up firmly. Prepare your drawing tools. Having a well organized work space with your drawing tools ready and waiting will help make the cake drawing process go much more smoothly. Place all of your drawing accessories and tools in one place, place the cake decorating bags in another, and place the excess colored icing in another. Consider placing your cake decorating bags in tall glass jars, tip end down, to keep them organized and prevent icing messes. Create the easiest decorations first. Draw borders and other large items first since these will be the easiest items to draw. Large bottom borders, top borders, and other large items can be drawn on in order to provide a starting point for other more detailed decorations and drawings. Practice on other surfaces. Before you draw directly on the cake, consider drawing on another surface in order to get the drawing or decoration just right. When you are confident that you have it down, then go ahead and draw on the cake. You can use a cookie sheet or another flat surface as a practice area for your drawings. After each practice attempt, simply scoop up the icing with a spatula and place it back into the cake decorating bag. Use accessories. There are plenty of common kitchen utensils and tools that can be used to make great looking designs. You can use forks, spoons, knives, spatulas, measuring cups, and many other common kitchen items to make creative and original designs for your birthday cake masterpiece. You can also use other items such as candy, nuts, decorating sprinkles, and many other items to create a perfectly decorated cake for your child's birthday party.

Cake mixes make baking easier; they also save you a lot of time. Whenever you are in a hurry and feel a craving for a banana cake recipe, you can simply take out the cake mix from the pantry and your cake batter will be ready in minutes. Here is a simple banana cake recipe with cake mix and a recipe for yellow cake mixture that you can prepare in advance. Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt pan. You can use a standard pan also, but I find Bundt cakes more easy to make. In a mixing bowl, take the yellow cake mix, eggs, vegetable oil and milk and beat them on a low speed using an electric mixer. Peel and mash the bananas. Add the bananas to the cake mix and whisk some more to get a smooth batter. Stir in the chopped pecans. Pour the batter in the greased Bundt pan. Shake the pan a little to smooth out the top. Bake in the preheated oven for about 50-60 minutes, till the top of the cake is firm. Cool in the pan for about 20 minutes and then invert the cake on a wire rack to cool completely. You can store this cake in the freezer for about 2 weeks. In a completely dry and clean bowl, mix all the ingredients. Store in an airtight container. This cake can be stored in the pantry for months. If you are going to use frosting on the cake then freeze the cake for about 20 minutes. This will prevent the crumbs from falling.

One of the most popular novelty birthday cake themes for boys (big and small) is a car cake. Whether they are older, avid car fanatics, or just enjoy pushing toy cars around on the floor, most males will enjoy a car themed cake at some stage of their life. Following are some tips on how to make a car cake that they will love. Will It Be 2D or 3D Car Cake, There are many different ways to approach making this type of cake with the first decision being whether it will be 2D or 3D. Essentially, it will depend on your level of skill and confidence on which way is best. If you are not too confident, a 2D cake will be the best way to go. You'll get a great result and next time you will be ready to tackle something a little more complex. D cakes are for the more experienced, although with careful planning even the novice home cake maker can produce a spectacular 3D cake. For a 2D car cake, you can simply buy or bake a cake slab and decorate it in a variety of ways.

Create a car track (liquorice strips are good for this) and place cars etc around the track. Crush up some plain chocolate biscuits to make 'dirt', and mix desiccated coconut with green colouring to make grass. Select a particular car style or design and find a suitable image. Print the image out and draw an outline straight on to the top of the cake. Use coloured icing, lollies and candy to decorate the design. Make it super easy and buy some toy cars as toppers for the cake. Line them up on a race track or spread them around. There are lots of other great cake toppers and toys that could be used in this way to create the desired theme. While a 2D cake is a great place to start, building a 3D car cake is a lot of fun and well worth the little more effort it takes to build.