Parents of babies with special awe await their child’s first birthday. But to please the birthday boy with a full-fledged cake is quite problematic, since many products are still contraindicated to him. However, there are a number of recipes that allow you to make a cake for a year old boy, which you can give him without fear.

Cake without mastic for 1 year old boy

On the first birthday, many parents are not without reason afraid of giving the birthday cake a shop, although there are a huge number of children's options.

Often they use dyes and preservatives, the origin and safety of which cannot be verified. At home, it’s easy to make a cake that will be 100% safe for the birthday person.

Ingredients Composition:

  • 400 g of children's cookies;
  • 250 g of cottage cheese (ideal option - dairy products);
  • ½ cup sugar;
  • 150 g sour cream.

Cooking method:

  1. Beat cottage cheese with sour cream and sugar. It will be the equivalent of a cream.
  2. Spread a piece of biscuit with an even layer and coat with curd.
  3. You can put banana circles on top.
  4. On top of the curd, place a second layer of cookies and cover with cream with fruit again.
  5. Spread dessert in layers until the desired height is reached.

If desired, the cake can be given any shape even at the stage of laying the first layer. As a decor, it is convenient to use cookie crumbs, slices of allowed fruit crumbs or candied fruit.

With gingerbread cookies

Any children's cake can be decorated with decorations made on a gingerbread basis.

If necessary, they can easily be removed and give the birthday boy a piece of cake without decor.

Ingredients Composition:

  • wooden skewers 30 cm long;
  • Toothpicks
  • 0.5 kg of flour;
  • 160 g of powdered sugar plus 100 g of sugar itself;
  • 2 eggs,
  • 170 g of honey;
  • 130 g butter;
  • gel dyes;
  • lemon juice;
  • 1.5 tsp soda;
  • protein of 1 egg;
  • set of spices: ginger powder, cinnamon, coriander.

Cooking method:

  1. Mix softened butter with sweet ingredients (except powder) and eggs.
  2. Sift the flour and put the batter in the cold for 20 minutes.
  3. Form a 1.5 cm thick layer from it and cut out the shapes of the desired shape.
  4. Bake gingerbread cookies in the oven. Baking parameters: 10 minutes and 180 degrees.
  5. While the figures are still hot, put them on skewers and pierce each gingerbread in several places - this measure will avoid the spread of glaze.
  6. The components for the glaze (protein, powder and a couple of drops of lemon juice) are whipped with a mixer. To draw contours, you need to use a white base. The rest of the glaze can be divided into several parts by adding the desired color to each dye. To apply using a confectionery syringe or a plastic bag with a cut corner.

In the absence of artistic skills, you can apply a stencil and draw an outline around the image. Once the outline of the picture hardens, you can proceed to the color decor. After this, it remains only to let the finished products dry and use them for their intended purpose.

The most beautiful children's dessert with mastic

If the parents believe that the child is still small to try the cake, and its main purpose is to please the older audience, then you can bake the dessert yourself. A do-it-yourself cake guarantees the quality and freshness of the products used.

Ingredients Composition:

  • natural food coloring
  • 4 eggs;
  • 500 g of powdered sugar plus 200 g of sugar itself;
  • peaches (suitable both fresh and from a jar);
  • oil packaging;
  • 150 g of flour;
  • 200 g marshmallows;
  • 500 ml cream;
  • 1 can of condensed milk.

Cooking method:

  1. From eggs, sugar and flour, prepare a biscuit and bake it in the oven at 180 degrees 25 minutes.
  2. Cut the sponge cake into cakes and cover them with peach slices.
  3. Beat cream with powder (250g) and spread them on top of the fruit.
  4. Then beat the condensed milk with butter and generously cover the cake with the resulting mass on all sides.
  5. Melt the marshmallows with a couple of spoons of butter in the microwave. If you need colored figures, then marshmallows with butter should be divided into portions, adding to each desired dye. It will take 10 seconds. Then it remains only to mix the resulting composition with powder.
  6. From one portion of mastic form the basis for coating the cake. From the rest, mold colored figures, moisten them with water and attach to the base covering the product.

Uniform Cake

A favorite option for parents of a one-year-old boy is a unit-shaped cake. It is this type of dessert that will symbolize that the birthday person celebrates his first birthday.

Ingredients Composition:

  • 0.5 kg of baking flour;
  • 250 g of sugar plus 250 g of powder for cream;
  • 12 eggs;
  • pieces of any fruit;
  • 350 ml cream;
  • slaked vinegar.

Cooking method:

  1. Bake biscuit cakes from flour mixed with soda, sugar and eggs
  2. Using the template or "by eye" cut the desired number.
  3. Beat cream with powder and cover them with cakes and cake on all sides, simultaneously laying out fruit layers.
  4. Decorate the finished dessert with mastic and figures prepared on its basis.

As an original but simple decoration, you can use culinary lace.

From baby cookies with cream

In the absence of time and effort to create a culinary masterpiece, you can use a simple recipe for making a cake for the baby. Moreover, it is possible to give such a dessert without fear even to a one-year-old child, since only healthy “children's” products are included in its composition.

Ingredients Composition:

  • a bag of jelly filling mixture;
  • 1 pack of baby biscuits;
  • bananas and pears;
  • 100 ml of children's yogurt without fillers;
  • 200 ml of cottage cheese for children;
  • granulated sugar to taste.

Cooking method:

  1. Give the jelly time to swell in 50 ml of water.
  2. Mix yogurt, cottage cheese and sugar. In the absence of allergies in a child, sugar can be replaced with honey.
  3. Warm the jelly until dissolved and add to the cream.
  4. Form the base of the cake from the cookies and cover it with cream. Send the almost finished dessert to the refrigerator for freezing.
  5. Garnish with fruit slices.

Biscuit treat

Ingredients Composition:

  • about 0.5 kg of flour;
  • 350 g of sugar;
  • 10 eggs;
  • 1 kg of sour cream (out of 850 g of sour cream and granulated sugar);
  • protein cream (from 3 proteins, 200 g of sugar and 1/3 tbsp of water);
  • 12 tbsp. l sugar syrup (in a ratio of sugar / water 7: 5).

Cooking method:

  1. Prepare the base for the biscuit and bake 2 cakes. If they turn out to be tall, then you can cut them into 2 more parts. Then the cake will be 4-layer.
  2. Boil the syrup from water with sugar and cool.
  3. Sour cream should be prepared the day before. Mix sour cream and sugar with a mixer, transfer to a colander, covered with gauze, and put in the refrigerator overnight. After this, beat again.
  4. Coat the cakes and sides of the cream cake.
  5. Beat whites separately for meringue cream. Make sugar syrup and boil it until thick. Beat syrup with whites together. The mixer should not be stopped until the product has cooled down. Garnish the cake with the resulting meringues.

Banana cake for a year old boy

On the prepared biscuit base, you can make an interesting holiday cake with banana filling.

Ingredients Composition:

  • 1 bar of milk chocolate;
  • 4 ripe bananas;
  • 600 ml cream;
  • 250 g of powdered sugar.

Cooking method:

  1. Cut the biscuit into 2 parts and use a spoon to give them the shape of a bowl, being careful not to break the walls.
  2. Pour melted chocolate onto the bottom of the lower crust. On top of it, spread a thin layer of whipped cream with cream.
  3. Place peeled bananas on a creamy “pillow”.
  4. Mix the crumbs of the biscuit with the remaining whipped cream and lay the slide on bananas.
  5. Gently cover with a second layer of biscuit and decorate the cake.

How to decorate a boy’s first birthday cake

The modern culinary industry offers a huge number of ways to decorate children's cakes.

The following are most suitable for the smallest:

  • Chocolate figures. Cooking them at home is easier than ever: chocolate glaze is made and with the help of a pastry syringe, the contours of figures are pressed onto a sheet of paper, which are placed in the cold for solidification.
  • Ready-made cookies and sweets are a great option for those who lack the ability to draw.
  • Fruits. You can decorate the cake with simple slices, or create floral arrangements from them. Additionally, to add shine, they can be coated with jelly or glaze.
  • Decor elements from mastic. Any figure can be fashioned from it, so confectioners most often resort to using such a basis.

As you can see, there is no need to order a cake for the first birthday of a child in a candy store. It can be easily prepared on your own. Plus, you can be sure that the freshness and quality of such treats will be at the highest level.

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