Anyone Baking?

[kartish]

Is anyone baking their LO'S birthday cake? Anyone have any tasty recipes? If I ever get better, I'd kinda like to bake his cake from scratch, but I've never made a cake before.

[taberbtb]

Sorry no help here! I love baking but won't be making DD's cake since I figure I have enough stuff to worry about.

I have a couple of good recipes but mostly they aren't ones our LO's would love. Hummingbird cakes and such.

[kartish]

Jan 26, 2016 12:07:41 GMT -5 taberbtb said:

Sorry no help here! I love baking but won't be making DD's cake since I figure I have enough stuff to worry about.

I have a couple of good recipes but mostly they aren't ones our LO's would love. Hummingbird cakes and such.

What's a Hummingbird cake?

[kaydee0402]

I'm baking cupcakes for the party. Probably Mickey Mouse ones with Oreos for ears. And then I'll get him a smash cake from the store.

[taberbtb]

Jan 26, 2016 12:12:26 GMT -5 kartish said:

Jan 26, 2016 12:07:41 GMT -5 taberbtb said:

Sorry no help here! I love baking but won't be making DD's cake since I figure I have enough stuff to worry about.

I have a couple of good recipes but mostly they aren't ones our LO's would love. Hummingbird cakes and such.

What's a Hummingbird cake?

It's a pineapple coconut cake with cream cheese frosting. Delicious but probably not what you are looking for in a first birthday cake.

[kartish]

taberbtb that does sound delicious! But probably not the right idea for smash cake.

kaydee0402 love the mickey mouse cupcakes idea!

[mishka29]

Here are the cupcakes I made. Clearly I made the mistake of not having red food colouring...



Recipe.... Open box. Follow directions on back of box. Lol


Eta: they are supposed to be ladybugs

[dreemkin]

I'm ordering a half sheet cake from Sams Club (with whipped cream frosting - me no likey buttercream frosting). I'll have to have enough for about 40 people.

But I did make a sour cream chocolate chip cake for my DD1'S birthday cake. It was really easy and yummy. My family liked it. I'm sure there are a bunch of recipes online. The one I followed was from Penzeys. FYI: I added a cream cheese frosting to the top to give it more of a birthday cakey feel.

[tortor4]

I ordered Celia's cake from SAMs club too. I'm no great baker but I have used a trick I found on Pinterest to make box cake taste even better. I think you add one or two extra eggs, replace the oil with melted butter and double it. I might be missing something but I've used it a couple times and they really do turn out way better!

Eta: oh! You use milk instead of water. That's what I was missing.

[aggiebug]

Jan 25, 2016 13:07:25 GMT -5 dmorgendorffer said:

aggiebug Happy Birthday to your babybug! Glad to hear she is feeling better and I hope she has a great day!

Once when we were snowed in for DH's birthday I ended up making him this cake from scratch because we had all the ingredients on hand. It was super easy and actually really good. I made a flour based frosting for the top - it was something like this, again picked because I had all those ingredients already on hand. That actually was the best frosting I've ever made.

And after looking at these recipes I'm thinking maybe we'll have a cake in honor of your DD's birthday today.

kartish here is a post dmorgendorffer shared yesterday with links to tasty cakes. They sound easy and yummy.

[dmorgendorffer]

mishka29, no clarification needed - they are obviously lady bugs and they look awesome! And also tasty.

[modernfairytale8709]

I'm making DD's cake, and the cupcakes. I used to work in a bakery, so I've got mad skills I actually made my own wedding cake.

But I'm buying literally all the other food. I could do it, but the cake's enough. DD doesn't sleep and I'm tired. We're having an Alice In Wonderland themed tea party, so I have so many ideas, but I literally can't even manage supper on a good night, so...DH made me promise to order everything.

[krispy83]

I made DDs cake - it's my mom's recipe but it's a pretty basic but delicious white cake. I made a cream cheese frosting to jazz it up a little.

[maryxc1]

I make all of my kids' birthday cakes. I don't really like the icing on the grocery store ones and the bakery ones are just so expensive. I will admit that some years it is completely from scratch and some years it is just a boxed cake mix. This year I have to do a vegan cake for the first time. I found a recipie online and will test it out some time this week in case it is really awful.

[seamonster]

I haven't picked a recipe yet. Probably chocolate with vanilla buttercream since I'm coloring the frosting. I may need to make a practice cake if I have trouble finding cake flour.

I'm looking at no added sugar recipes to make cupcakes for the babies that I can carve roughly into a beehive form and cover with yellow tinted whipped cream. Two of the baby guests are under 1 so I want to give their parents that option and I'm going to make him a smash cake with it for the party (he gets a full sugar smash cupcake for his video party with the grandparents).

[agm04]

I'm making DD's. Planning to buy/delegate all the other food so I can focus on the cake. Here are my 2 favorite recipes:

this one is white cake, starts with a boxed mix and adds stuff - makes a ton of cake, but i swear it's fool proof, sturdy, and very good. Tastes totally homemade. you can replace sour cream with greek yogurt. I'd half this unless you're making a giant cake. It still makes a lot. www.food.com/recipe/white-almond-sour-cream-wedding-cake-69630

I posted this on a thread a month or so ago, but it's SO GOOD. Very easy to make dairy free, and my favorite chocolate cake ever. www.makingthymeforhealth.com/2013/12/04/best-ever-chocolate-quinoa-cake-gluten-free/

[agm04]

seamonster you might not want to buy anything, but this would be perfect for beehives and would save you the carving trouble. Wonder mold pan. I used to do party and wedding cakes, and my full sized wonder mold pan has made a wide variety of shapes!

[seamonster]

Jan 28, 2016 10:31:46 GMT -5 agm04 said:

seamonster you might not want to buy anything, but this would be perfect for beehives and would save you the carving trouble. Wonder mold pan. I used to do party and wedding cakes, and my full sized wonder mold pan has made a wide variety of shapes!

I'll have to see if I can get one here. That's a great idea.

[PikoPiko]

We're doing the hungry caterpillar theme. I'm going to bake an egg-free cake and decorate it in the shape of a leaf for his smash cake. Will prob do that the night before.

For adults, I *think* I'm making a giant chocolate cupcake. I have a good cake recipe from the hummingbird book. Not going to attempt to make a caterpillar shaped cake, I'll make the caterpillar out of fruits instead.

[kartish]

Jan 29, 2016 13:45:39 GMT -5 PikoPiko said:

We're doing the hungry caterpillar theme. I'm going to bake an egg-free cake and decorate it in the shape of a leaf for his smash cake. Will prob do that the night before.

For adults, I *think* I'm making a giant chocolate cupcake. I have a good cake recipe from the hummingbird book. Not going to attempt to make a caterpillar shaped cake, I'll make the caterpillar out of fruits instead.

That all sounds super cute!

[seamonster]

PikoPiko My friend made a catapiller out of cupcakes with a round cake for the head. I like the leaf smash cake.

[mommadozer]

I made a box cake for DH's cake and cupcakes for every one else to eat. I could have tried to get fancy with making a cake from scratch but, I don't bake cakes often and didn't want to risk dealing with that the day before.

[seamonster]

I don't think there's anything wrong with using a boxed mix. You're still making it at home and just skipping a few steps. Counts as homemade.

[psychobutthead]

I'm going to be baking Daniels cake this year. I've never baked any of my daughters birthday cakes so I'm wanting to start doing all their cakes every year. Nothing fancy his is just going to be a chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream icing. Then I'm going to take a chunk of of the side of it and put little mini tonka trucks in it to look like its under construction.

[seamonster]

For anyone that wants a no dairy, no egg, no added sugar smash cake:
www.fitmamarealfood.com/babys-first-smash-cake-healthy-no-sugar-banana-cake/

I'll probably add baking powder to make it fluffier.