Making cakes has become a pastry art that wins sweetheart hearts with incredible ideas every day. A delicious and beautiful cake will delight any hero of the occasion, and even more so if it is a child. What could be more pleasant for children than to receive as a gift a bright cake with the image of your favorite cartoon characters, for example, the cake "Toddlers".

Children's cake "Toddlers" from mastic

You can make any filling of the cake "Malyshariki", the main thing is that it is easily absorbed by the growing body of the child. Ideal cake layers for mastic cake - honey and biscuit.

We share one of the most successful recipes for kids' birthday cake "Kids". We will need:

For shortcakes:

  • eggs - 5 pcs.;
  • sugar - 180 g;
  • flour - 150 g;
  • vanilla.

For cream:

  • fat cream - 0.4 kg;
  • icing sugar - 180 g

For filler:

  • colored marmalade - 200 g;

For mastic:

  • powdered sugar - 1 kg;
  • gelatin - 20 g;
  • water is a glass;
  • citric acid - at the tip of a knife;
  • food colorings.

How to make a cake base:

  1. Separate the proteins and yolks, whisk separately with sugar and then combine.
  2. Add flour, mix well. The dough should be semi-liquid. Pour onto a baking sheet and bake at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes.
  3. Cool the finished baked goods.
  4. Cakes divided into several layers.
  5. Beat the powder with cream until splendid.
  6. Grease each cake with butter cream and put the sliced ​​marmalade.

Important! The cake should not be too wet. High humidity can ruin the skin of mastic.

Cooking mastic:

  1. First of all, prepare sugar mastic.To do this, gelatin should be soaked in cool water and allowed to swell for 1.5 hours.
  2. Dissolve the swollen product in a water bath, add citric acid, cool.
  3. Sugar powder should be sifted, add gelatin to it, mix the mass until a homogeneous consistency.
  4. Cover the prepared mastic with cling film and roll.
  5. Divide the mastic dough into several parts, add food coloring of the required color to each of them. Knead the mass until a uniform color is obtained. Put in the refrigerator for half an hour.
  6. Use part of the mastic for the figures, and part - to close the cake.
  7. From the mastic cut and form the necessary shapes for the little ones (head, hands, eyes, etc.).
  8. Blind cartoon characters by wetting the mounting parts with water.
  9. Allow the pieces to dry.
  10. Roll out the second part and tighten the cake with it.
  11. Decorate with cartoon characters from mastic.

If there is no desire to use artificial food colors, you can make natural ones from cocoa, beetroot, carrot juice, etc. As for the mastic, it should lie down for some time in the refrigerator for greater elasticity. Powdered sugar must always be sieved.

Cooking with Gingerbread Cookies

Cake for children "Malyshariki" turns out to be no less spectacular and tasty, if cooked without mastic. Malysharikov can be made in the form of bright curly gingerbread cookies and decorate a cake with them. The admiration of the child is guaranteed.

What you need to make gingerbread:

  • fatty butter - 200 g;
  • water - 1 tbsp .;
  • sugar - 0.5 kg;
  • salt and soda - 1 tsp;
  • yolk - 1 pc.;
  • flour - 0.8 kg;
  • ginger (powder) and nutmeg - 1 tsp each;
  • cloves, cardamom, white pepper - 0.5 tsp;
  • cinnamon (powder) - 1.5 tsp.

For glaze:

  • icing sugar - 0.5 kg;
  • protein - 100 g;
  • lemon juice - a few drops.

Gingerbread Cooking Stages:

  1. Melt the sugar so that it turns into caramel. Gradually pour 1 cup boiling water, constantly stirring the caramel. Next add spices, butter and salt.
  2. The oil should melt completely, then add soda to the mixture and remove from the stove.
  3. When the mixture has cooled, add flour and yolk.
  4. Knead the dough so that the mass remains a little sticky, but lends itself to modeling.
  5. Wrap the dough in foil and put in the refrigerator for several hours.
  6. Roll out the chilled dough with a thickness of no more than half a centimeter.
  7. From the test cut out the figures of the little ones and send to the oven for 6 minutes (temperature - 180 degrees).

Thanks to spices, the gingerbreads are very tasty and fragrant.

How to make icing:

  1. Beat all ingredients with a mixer for 5 minutes. This glaze is used to form parts, draw contours. To fill the gingerbread in the prepared mass, add a little water.
  2. Divide the glaze into parts, add the necessary dyes.
  3. To paint gingerbread cookies in the form of babies, let it dry.

Keep frosting outside the refrigerator only under a damp cloth. It dries quickly in the air. In the refrigerator, pure glaze is stored for 2 days, with dye - 1 day, in the freezer - for about a month.

Cream birthday dessert

Children's birthday party table is mostly sweet. Therefore, cream desserts for young guests and the birthday will be very handy.

Creamy raspberry cream dessert

Ingredients:

  • cottage cheese - 200 g;
  • fat cream - 1 tbsp .;
  • fresh raspberries - 0.3 kg;
  • walnut - 3 tbsp. l .;
  • powdered sugar - 3 tbsp. l .;
  • vanilla to taste.

Cooking step by step:

  1. Grind some raspberries in a blender, leave some for decoration.
  2. Chop nuts as well.
  3. Beat cold cream with powder and vanilla. Beat until fluffy and firmness of the mass.
  4. Place cottage cheese in a bowl, combine with whipped cream, mix with light movements.
  5. Lay out the dessert in the bowls in layers: cream, walnuts, cream, chopped raspberries, cream, whole raspberries.
  6. Keep in the refrigerator for at least an hour.

This dessert is not only tasty, but also healthy.

Two-tier cake "Kids"

When a lot of little guests are invited to a birthday, it’s better to make or order a voluminous cake. For example, a cake with babies for 2 years to a girl, make two-tier. Firstly, the cake will pleasantly surprise everyone. Secondly, such a confectionery product will delight guests.

The two-tier cake “Malyshariki” can be made according to your favorite recipe, but it is better to cover it with mastic and also make the figures from mastic. It is prepared on the basis of marshmallows; it lays down and sculpts better. The base of the cake should be strong, not watery. To prepare such a treat, a biscuit base is suitable.

To prepare the two-tier cake "Kids", you will need the following products:

For biscuit cakes:

  • flour - 400 g;
  • eggs - 8 pcs.;
  • butter - 150 g;
  • cocoa - 80 g;
  • yolks - 8 pcs.;
  • sugar - 450 g;
  • vanillin;
  • salt.

For cream:

  • fat cream - 1 l;
  • condensed milk - 0.5 kg;
  • Cocoa - 50 g.

For mastic:

  • marshmallows - 250 g;
  • lemon juice - 10 ml;
  • butter (butter) - 20 g;
  • powder (sugar) - 200 g;
  • corn starch - 90 g.

Making a biscuit:

  1. Combine flour and cocoa.
  2. Mix eggs, yolks, sugar.
  3. Put the egg mass in a water bath, warm a little, stirring regularly.
  4. Remove the mixture from the stove and beat well with a mixer. Add spices.
  5. Gradually pour cocoa with flour. Gently mix the dough.
  6. Melt the butter and pour into the dough.
  7. Line the baking dish with parchment and grease it, pour the dough into it.
  8. Preheat the oven. Bake a biscuit for about half an hour.
  9. Cut cooled biscuit cakes into several layers. Grease each cake with cream, but not copiously, so that the cake turns out to be moderately wet.

For cream you need:

  1. Condensed milk, cold cream, mix cocoa.
  2. Beat the mixture with a mixer to a lush consistency.

Mastic:

  1. Marshmallows, softened butter, lemon juice to combine. Melt the mixture.
  2. Add starch and powder to the melted mass.
  3. Knead the mastic to plasticity. It is better to withstand it for a day in the refrigerator.
  4. Part of the mastic should be used for tightening, and part for the modeling of babies.

Make the lower tier of the cake wider, the upper - smaller in diameter. Therefore, you need to bake cakes in different forms.

With edible picture

An edible cake is another favorite dessert of small sweet tooth.

A treat can be decorated with a picture of any content:

  • personal, family, friendly photo;
  • fragment or characters of a film / cartoon, television show;
  • pets;
  • dolls, cars.

Edible pictures are made of wafer or sugar paper, on which any print of edible dyes is applied. Typically, such a seal is ordered in special departments and the finished picture is applied to a self-made cake.

How to do it:

  • To prepare the surface of the cake, it should be perfectly smooth. It is better to cover the cake with mastic. If you don’t like mastic, you can put a picture on the cake itself. But its surface should be flat.
  • If the shape and size of the cake does not match the finished picture, then it must be cut to the size of the cake with a clerical knife.
  • Next, you need food gel (shaved or decor). Put it on the back of the picture and attach it to the cake, smoothing the surface with your hands.

The cake with the edible picture “Toddlers” will be an excellent gift for the little birthday boy.

How to decorate a cake for a girl, a boy

The appearance of the cake is very important for children. The bright, interestingly decorated dessert is especially eye-catching. Little birthday people will be very happy if the cake is decorated with characters from favorite fairy tales and cartoons.

 

For both boys and girls, mastic jewelry will be very popular. From it you can sculpt various shapes, add any dye.

In addition to mastic, a children's cake can be decorated with fruits, berries, marmalade, chocolate balls or chips, supplement with jelly, chopped nuts, and culinary sprinkles.

It is not advisable to use artificial colors, flavors in large quantities, exclude syrups, and fillings containing alcohol.

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