The main dish of any holiday is cake. It is especially important for children's events. Pastries can be ordered from a pastry chef or prepared at home. The main thing is that the basic recommendations for the safety of products for babies are followed. A cake for 1 year for a girl or boy needs to be prepared exclusively from natural ingredients. There are also a lot of decoration options, so everyone can choose the most suitable one.
Birthday cake recipes for one year old children
The main criterion for children's cakes is safety. It is necessary to take into account the age of the birthday person and use only natural ingredients for cooking. At the same time, it is necessary to remember about the possibility of allergies to some foods and exclude them from the recipe. It is better to choose another version of the confectionery, but the birthday man and his guests should not risk their health.
Nuts in 1 year are allowed to be used for decoration by rubbing them on a fine grater. But there should be few of them so as not to cause an unwanted reaction in the baby. It is permissible to add honey and fruits only if the child is not allergic to them.
In any case, remember that the cake is a festive dish that the child is allowed to eat in small quantities. It is unacceptable to add sweetness to the baby's daily menu.
What kind of cake can you make a child for 1 year with your own hands:
- The best dough base is a biscuit. Soft, non-crumbling structure, lightness and airiness will surely appeal to children.
- You can make cakes from shortcrust pastry, waffles or meringues.
- There are many recipes based on baby cookies. This allows the use of products that are extremely safe for the child for cooking, and also significantly reduces the time for preparing the cake. The cookie pieces can be directly mixed with the cream or layered like real cakes. The result is a very delicate, well-soaked cake.
- It is advisable to prepare the cream yoghurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, custard, creamy (based on natural cream).
- Use biscuit crumbs, fruits, berries, grated chocolate, sugar or chocolate icing, cookies, gingerbread cookies, meringues as decoration.
- It is permissible to decorate a confectionery product for a child aged 1 year with mastic. The main thing is that it is prepared exclusively from natural ingredients.
- The cake can be round, square, rectangular, curly. Recently, the production of one-year-old birthday cakes for one-year-old babies has been especially popular.
Sponge cake recipe
For the test:
- chicken eggs - 6 pcs.;
- sugar - 1 incomplete glass;
- wheat flour - 1 incomplete glass;
- lemon juice - a few drops (optional component, affects the structure of the finished biscuit);
- vanillin - 1 sachet (optional component, gives a specific flavor).
For the cream:
- cream with a fat content of 33% - 400 g;
- yogurt (homogeneous, fatty, thick, without fruit pieces) - 200 g;
- thickener for cream - 1 sachet (optional and undesirable component in baby food, but improves the organoleptic characteristics of the finished cream);
- icing sugar - 100 g.
Performing work step by step:
- Beat eggs with sugar until fluffy, homogeneous, adding the rest of the ingredients at the end of beating. Add sifted flour last in small portions and beat the dough without stopping.
- Cover the baking dish with pastry paper, lightly grease the bottom and sides with butter.
Choose the form depending on the amount of dough received.The biscuit needs to be tall so that it can be cut into 2-3 or more cakes. Also, keep in mind that a properly prepared dough can increase in volume several times during baking.
- Pour the dough into a mold, place in an oven preheated to 180-200 ° C. Bake for about 30-40 minutes, while the first 20 minutes do not even open the oven door.
- Beat the cream with powdered sugar and thickener until a mass that retains its shape on a spoon is obtained, at the end, gently add yogurt and mix.
- The biscuit, cooled down and standing for at least a couple of hours, is cut into cakes. Give the structure the desired shape by slightly trimming the edges or cutting out the details according to the scheme.
- Liberally grease the cakes with cream, then grease the sides and top.
- Decorate as desired.
- Refrigerate for a couple of hours.
Between the layers, you can lay out pieces of fruit, then cover them with a layer of cream. For decoration, it is better to use the remaining scraps of the biscuit. To do this, you need to dry them slightly in a dry frying pan and grind them into crumbs with your hands. Process the sides of the cake with the resulting sprinkling. Put fruits and berries on top, put a candle in the form of the number 1.
Another biscuit cake recipe on video
Pour cake without baking
Ingredients:
- sour cream - 800 g;
- condensed milk - 1 can;
- baby cookies, cake or biscuit - 200 g;
- fruits (you can add banana, kiwi, orange) - to taste;
- gelatin - 20 g.
How to cook step by step:
- Prepare gelatin in accordance with the recommendations on the package.
- Beat sour cream with condensed milk until fluffy homogeneous mass.
- Break the biscuits or biscuit with your hands into small pieces or cut, put on the bottom of a split form.
- Cool the swollen and heated gelatin on the stove a little, strain, mix with the sour cream, beat.
- Pour the cream into the mold, put the fruit pieces on top so that they are completely immersed in the sour cream mass.
- Refrigerate until solid.
- Remove the detachable part of the form, decorate it if desired.
According to this recipe, you can make the cake a little differently. Cookies and fruits can be simply mixed with cream. The result is an interesting drawing. Decorating the cake without baking is optional. But if you wish, you can pour a jelly layer on top.
How to decorate a cake for a child for 1 year old?
The most common option lately is mastic. Real masterpieces are created on cakes. It can be a composition of flowers, toys, dolls, cars. Often they decorate a cake on the theme of the kid's favorite cartoon. The main thing is that only natural ingredients are used in the manufacture of mastic. Dyes are allowed exclusively for food. Also keep in mind that the mass turns out to be quite sweet, so the child is allowed in a limited amount.
You can make a cake without mastic. Then the edges are sprinkled with biscuit crumbs, and the top is decorated with fruits. If there is no allergic reaction to chocolate, then you can sprinkle it or cover the confection with chocolate icing. It is undesirable to give coconut shavings to a child a year. Honey, nuts are allowed in limited quantities. Fruits and berries should not cause allergies.
Recently, the design of cakes for children with gingerbread dough has been popular. With the help of molds, you can bake them in different shapes, and templates and stencils will help you apply an image of any complexity. It is permissible to make drawings on gingerbread with white sugar icing. If desired, it is allowed to add dyes, but you should also remember about their naturalness.
The cream decor has also not lost its relevance. The elements squeezed out of the confectionery syringe hold their shape worse than mastic, but they turn out to be much tastier and more tender. You can also fill the top of the cake with fruit jelly, make cream sides on the sides, and put a festive candle in the center.
Number 1 can be drawn or laid out on the cake.You can also make a one from mastic, gingerbread dough, pour a figurine from chocolate or caramel. The easiest way to decorate a pastry with the number 1 is to light a candle.
Templates and stencils for mastic and gingerbread dough decor
Beautiful elements can be made using ready-made templates and stencils. Choose any picture, download with the right mouse button to your computer. Then the drawing must be printed in the required size and used for its intended purpose.
Photo of cakes for 1 year old for a girl
For interesting ideas for decorating children's cakes for a 1 year old girl, see the selection of photos below. Pay attention to the products used, the colors, and the shape of the finished products.
Photo of birthday cakes for a boy
There are several ways to decorate a confection for a boy. Interesting ideas for decorating a cake for 1 year are presented in the photo:
Master classes on making and decorating cakes on video
The step-by-step preparation of children's cakes is clearly and very clear in the videos. Adopt recipes, as well as design ideas.
How to make mastic:
Modeling of decorations for a cake made of mastic:
How to make meringues for cake decorating:
How to give the cake the shape of a one:
Video for making and decorating gingerbread cake:
Master classes for making a children's cake for a girl:
Video for making a cake for 1 year old for a boy:
A cake for a 1 year old child is an integral part of the first children's birthday. Harmonious taste, beautiful and interesting design, as well as the safety of all components are the main things that you should pay attention to when preparing it. Decorating a confection should take into account whether you have a boy or a girl, what products have already been introduced into the baby's diet. Delight your beloved baby and yourself, prepare or order the best cake.
