Themed Birthday Cake garnish Ideas

Themed Birthday Cake garnish Ideas

Wow!  It's that time of year again.  It's your kid's birthday.  You've got a lot to do to make this year's party good than last year.  As parents we struggle with that every year.  What to do to top the year before.  It gets harder and harder as your child gets older.  Luckily birthday cake decoration doesn't have to be something that's hard to top.  I'm going to make your life easier by listing some great birthday cake decoration themes you can use for your cake.

Pirates and Princess Cake 

Cake Decorating

Every year we take the kids to Disney's Pirates and Princess party.  The entire family gets dressed up for the event, and we have a blast.  So if you have twins or two kids with close birthday's like we do (our kids' birthdays are 6 days apart) then this would be a great cake theme. 

Cheetah Girls Themed Cake 

If you have a microscopic girl chances are she's a fan of the Cheetah Girls.  She'll love this cake, and it will make her a hit with her friends. 

Transformers Cake 

The best thing about Transformers is that they come in all kinds of shapes and sizes.  All you need to do is be a microscopic creative with the writing on the cake, and place some microscopic Transformers on top, and you've got the ideal cake for any microscopic boy.
 
Hansel and Gretel Gingerbread House 

If your child is born colse to Christmas and New Years how about creating a sheet cake and placing a homemade gingerbread house on top.  Use the rest of the cake exterior to create a path to the house.  You can place small animal toys and more to undoubtedly give it a entertaining look and feel.

Harry Potter Cake 

Unless you've been under a rock for the past decade then you know all about Harry Potter.  There are so many things you can do to create a Harry Potter birthday cake.  Don't forget about buying the candles that don't blow out! 

There are a lot of different birthday cake decoration themes that you can do.  They don't just have to be the one's presented at your local grocery store.  Come up with your own ideas too.

Themed Birthday Cake garnish Ideas

Why everybody Should Have an Easy Vanilla Cake formula

Why everybody Should Have an Easy Vanilla Cake formula

An easy vanilla cake recipe is critical for any good cook (or even a not-so-good cook who still needs to bake sometimes!). Whether you need it for a birthday, a baby shower, a graduation, tailgating, or "just because," a basic white cake should be part of any baker's repertoire. It can be served plainly with frosting, or baked into cupcakes; it can be made more extra by stirring in mini chocolate chips or crushed Oreos; or you can even cut it up and turn it into entirely dissimilar desserts, like skewered cake cubes dipped in chocolate. Very itsybitsy in life is as adaptable and cooperative as a white cake!

Now, I commonly originate my own recipes; my hobby is entering cooking contests, so I'm all the time trying to come up with new ideas and devising new concoctions. (And in all honesty, some of those concoctions have been pretty odd in my efforts to be "innovative!") But I have to give reputation where it's due, and my beloved easy vanilla cake recipe is a itsybitsy adaptation of one from Taste of Home magazine:

Cake Recipes

1/2 cup butter, softened
1-1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla passage (double-strength, if you've got it)
2 cups unbleached flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-1/3 cups buttermilk

Preheat oven to 350° F. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar; stir in the eggs and vanilla. Mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add half the dry mixture, and integrate well. Stir in the buttermilk until well mixed, then add the rest of the flour blend and beat until smooth. Divide the batter between two greased and floured 9" baking pans and bake for 30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the town comes out clean. Cool completely.

Even if you don't have a definite chance to bake for, but the craving for cake plainly overtakes you, this easy vanilla cake recipe will calm your desires. Not only is it made very quickly, but it also requires no singular skill; so Whether you're an devotee or a novice, baking this cake will not be at all intimidating. And isn't that the best kind of recipe, one that is a sure thing? This easy vanilla cake recipe warmly invites anyone to enjoy it, even if they've never baked before.

Why everybody Should Have an Easy Vanilla Cake formula