For a child, a beautifully decorated delicious birthday cake is almost as important as gifts. Of course, a store-bought cake can meet almost all of your criteria, but how can it compare to a homemade cake made just the way your little one loves? Sailboats, treasure chests, basketball fields - these are just a few ideas for decorating your boy's "main sweetness".
It is necessary
- - marzipan;
- - glaze;
- - biscuit;
- - stencils;
- - edible figurines;
- - plastic figures;
- - chocolate;
- - pastry bag;
- - confectionery sprinkles.
Instructions
Step 1
Pick a topic that interests your boy. It can be sports, cars, robots, animals, or cartoon and movie characters. Assess your strength - can you sculpt or paint? If so, you can make marzipan figurines or paint something on the cake with cream. If not, you will have to buy decorations and print stencils.
Step 2
Make a biscuit. If you have a special curly shape, then bake the cake in it. You just have to cover it with glaze and paint with cream. Now on sale you can find bakeware in the form of various animals and cartoon characters. Also, if you know how to sculpt, you can mold a figurine from a ready-made biscuit, like from plasticine. Do not be afraid of blemishes, they will all be covered with cream or tightened with marzipan.
Step 3
Bake a rectangular cake if you want to turn it into a football, hockey, basketball, or car track. Cover the whole cake with colored cream or icing - white, green, yellow. Let the glaze harden, smooth out the cream and apply contrasting markings from the same material. Place marzipan, chocolate or plastic figures of players, cars on the cake.
Step 4
Cut the cake in half. Partially remove the biscuit from its core and fill it with chocolate medals, in the form of money. Cover the cake with cream or icing, turning it into a treasure chest.
Step 5
Using a stencil, cut a car, boat, robot, rocket or plane from the cake. Cover with cream or frosting and color according to the sample downloaded from the Internet. You can also make a whole train with carriages, armed with just a knife and two stencils - a locomotive and trailers. It is no more difficult than transport to make a pirate hat, a dinosaur or the beloved by many hero SpongeBob out of a cake.
Step 6
A round cake can be easily turned into a soccer ball by simply covering it with white and brown chocolate icing. You can also make a treasure island out of it. Cut some biscuit from the cake around the edges. Cover the entire surface with blue glaze or cream. Make a small island and set up in the middle of your sea. Apply green frosting or cream to it. Mark the place where the treasure should be with a red cross. Place a plastic or marzipan palm. In the ocean, place a congratulatory lettering.
Step 7
It's easy to decorate the cake with a grated chocolate, cocoa or sprinkle pattern. It is enough to cover it with icing or cream, cut out the stencil and place on the cake, sprinkle evenly and remove the stencil. You can even make a color drawing using a few stencils and dyed coconut flakes.
Step 8
If you have ever made gingerbread houses, then you can try to build an entire castle for your boy who is fond of knights. It's not much more difficult. For fans of Harry Potter, you can make Hogwarts using gingerbread technology.
