Child's
Birthday Cake Recipes
and Easy Decorating Ideas
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A great idea for a child's birthday party cake. It is commonly called a Calico Cake, but I can see this recipe used for many ideas like, Fourth of July, or even for a Baby Shower Cake
Calico Cake
1
box white cake mix
food coloring, red, green, blue, yellow
Icing
Prepare the white cake mix and separate the batter into different bowls. Color each bowl of batter a different color. Pour mounds of batter in the cake pans, alternating layers of color. Try not to get the same colors together. Bake according to box. Great for children's birthday parties!
Birthday Cake (recipe from 1927)
1/2
cup Mazola
1 cup sugar
1 egg
4 egg yolks
1 teaspoon orange extract
1/3
teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 cup Argo or Kingsford's
cornstarch
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
Pour the Mazola into a bowl, add the sugar and the egg and egg yolks, beaten creamy. Cream till all the graininess has disappeared, and add the extract and salt. Sift together the flour, cornstarch and baking powder and add alternately to the first mixture, with milk. Beat two or three minutes, transfer to a tube pan lightly oiled with Mazola, and bake forty-five minutes in a moderately hot oven, 350 to 375 F.
Cool, brush off the crumbs and decorate with Ornamental Icing. Fill the "hole" in the center with tiny favors or with fresh flowers. Put the cake on a small tray covered with a paper doily, and wreathe with flowers.
Best 2 Egg Cake ( 1963 cookbook )
Stir
1/2 cup butter, margarine, or shortening to soften. Gradually add 1 1/2 cups sugar,
and cream thoroughly 12 to 15 minutes at high speed with an electric mixer. Add
1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/4 teaspoon lemon extract, and 2 or 3 drops almond extract.
Add 2 eggs, one at a time; beat well after each.
Sift 2 1/4 cups sifted cake flour with 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder and 1 teaspoon of salt. Add to creamed mixture alternately with 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture, and beating after each addition. Bake in 2 paper lined 9 inch x 1 1/2 inch pans at 375 about 23 minutes or until done. Cool 5 minutes; remove from pans.
For a Drum Cake use 1 1/2 times recipe; bake in (3) 9 inch pans. Frost with buttercream frosting. Use candy sugar sticks on the sides and as drumsticks, and up top with sour ball ends. Light a tall red candle
More
Drum Cakes
- a chocolate, yellow drum cake ... chocolate
drum cake
- white, clown, drum cake... white
clown drum cake - how to decorate
Another Birthday Cake decorating idea: Use small marshmallows as candleholders for a birthday cake. They prevent the wax drippings from running into the frosting. To keep ice cream cones from leaking through the bottom of a cone, put a marshmallow in the bottom.
Pictures of Decorated Cakes
These pictures are from some 1960's recipe books, but they may help you come up with some cake decorating ideas. Learn how to decorate a cake
-
boy child's birthday cake... birthday cake
for boy - how to decorate
-
a spaceship cake... spaceship cake ... recipe
-
a clown cake... clown cake with recipe
-
a computer cake... computer cake - cutting
chart
- a sweetheart cake... sweetheart cake
- mock strawberries
- a love
cake... love cake - how
to decorate
- a cake with yellow flowers... cake
with yellow flowers
- a marigold cake... a
marigold cake
- a congratulations cake... congratulations
-
a daisy cake... daisy cake
- a doublering
wedding cake... double ring cake - guide
-
an Easter bunny cake... Easter Bunny Cake
-
a Happy Birthday Dad cake... Happy Birthday
Dad - How to decorate
- a
Funny Face cake... Funny Face cake - how
to decorate
- a hot air balloon cake... hot
air balloon cake
- Jessica's graduation cake... graduation
cake
- a simple wedding cake... wedding
cake - rolled fondant icing
-
a groom's cake... groom's cake
- a Spring
birthday cake... Spring Birthday Cake
- How to decorate
- a ladies
bonnet... spring bonnet with flowers
-
a kitty cat cake... kittycat cake
- a
Halloween cake... Halloween cake - decorating
For Birthday Party tips see Birthday Party Ideas
Related Cake Pages
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Decorating Books
2. Cake Decorating
Tools You Need
3. Basic Tube Design
Types
4. Using Your Decorator bag
5.
Practicing your Decorating
6.
What Color to Make the Cake
7. How
to Make Drop Flowers
8. How to Make Icing
Leaves
9. Make an Easy Wedding
Cake
-Easy Homemade Cake Recipes
-Birthday
Cake Decorating Ideas
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and Frostings
-Chocolate Icings
and Frostings
-Cheese cakes, Fruit
Cakes, Christmas Cakes
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