Cake for a 1 year old girl: filling and decoration options

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

The first birthday celebration is a very important event in the life of every family. And children, of course, should not eat too much unhe althy food on this holiday, including desserts. The options for cakes for a girl for 1 year old, which we will offer in this article, are quite safe. Well, a little sugar is sometimes possible, because the holiday is the same.

Biscuit base

The easiest to work with, and one that everyone will love, is the biscuit base. To prepare biscuit cake layers for a girl for 1 year old, we need the following products:

• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• flour - 70 g;
• sugar - 70 g.

In order for the cake to turn out larger, the products must be proportionally added.

As you can see, nothing superfluous, and a cake based on these ingredients is just right for the smallest.

Baking cakes:

• Eggs with sugar should be beaten with a mixer. This is done for about 2 minutes, until the mass turns into a lush homogeneous foam.
• Flour (betterjust take the highest grade) must be sifted through a sieve. And then pour it into the whipped mass and continue to beat. To make the cake cake for a 1 year old girl more airy, you can add a pinch of soda to the flour before you start beating the dough. So, with the help of a mixer, we bring all this to a state resembling store-bought sour cream.
• While the oven heats up to 200 degrees Celsius, grease a small baking dish. This is the case if the dough is kneaded from the amount of ingredients we specified. A diameter of 20-25 cm in this case is quite suitable. You will get 1 thin cake.
• Because the base of the cake is not thick at all, it only takes about 10 minutes to bake. We check the readiness with a match or a toothpick.

This is how quickly such a cake base is prepared for a 1 year old girl. You don't need to cut it. If there is more dough, then, naturally, the base will need to be cut into 2 or 3 parts. You can also bake a few thin cakes. This is what professional confectioners usually do.

Soufflé and compote filling

The filling can be prepared from compote, which is not so common. For its preparation you will need:

• lemon - 0, 5 pieces;
• apples - 500 g;
• sugar - 50 g;
• gelatin - 15g;
• water - a little to swell the gelatin.

Dilute gelatin in a small amount of water and leave to swell. We clean the apples from the cores and peel, cut into small cubes and cover them with sugar. Then pour lemon juice.

Nowit is necessary to boil the apples until cooked over low heat under the lid, and then drain all the liquid using a colander. No need to drain the liquid down the sink. Leave it to impregnate the cake, if using for a layer of compote.

Gelatin is added to pureed apples and mixed as thoroughly as possible.

By the time the applesauce is done, the sponge cake is cool and can be removed from the mould. We soak the biscuit with the water left after boiling the apples.

The form in which the future cake was baked should be covered with cling film and pour compote into it. And very carefully place the cake on top. We also cover the surface with cling film and send the semi-finished cake for 2 hours to the freezer.

To all this, you just need to add a light cottage cheese and banana soufflé, which is included in the cake recipe for a 1 year old girl. And 1.5 hours after the cake is pulled out of the freezer, you can start cooking it. For the soufflé you will need:

• cottage cheese - 0.5 kg (homogeneous, no lumps);
• bananas - 4 pcs.;
• cream - 500 ml (fat content must be at least 33%);
• sugar - 200 g;
• gelatin - 20g;
• water - to dilute the gelatin.

Cooking:

Bananas need to be peeled, broken into several pieces each and covered with sugar. Turn them into a puree with a blender. Add cottage cheese there, turning everything into a homogeneous mass. Now you need to whip heavy cream. It's best to chill them before doing this. Also, don't whip cream.too long to avoid turning this product into oil

• Adding cream to cottage cheese-banana puree. Melt gelatin in a water bath and immediately add to the curd mass. All this must be mixed as quickly as possible.
• Now you need to take a slightly larger mold than we used to bake the biscuit, lay it with cling film and expose the plastic sides. We dump the soufflé into this form, take out a biscuit with compote from the freeze and literally drown it in the soufflé. Biscuit should be on the surface.
• Send the cake for at least 6 hours in the freezer. This he althy treat for a small child will then need to be decorated in an appropriate way.

Peach and banana filling

The filling can be prepared in a simpler way, but then you will need to bake at least 2 biscuit cakes. So, for the second version of the layer, you will need the following products:

• bananas - 4 pcs.;
• canned peaches - 1 can;
• fat cream - 500 ml;
• sugar - to taste.

Bananas need to be cut, and the peach syrup should be poured into a bowl. Lubricate the cakes with this syrup so that they are soaked, and the cake turns out more tender.

Beat cream with sugar with a mixer (do not overdo it so as not to get sweet butter).

Lubricate the bottom soaked cake with the resulting butter cream, and put bananas and peaches on top. We cover the filling on top with another biscuit cake. You can start decorating the treat.

Note: both typescakes will need to be covered on top with either buttercream or buttercream. That is, one that holds its shape well, and then proceed to decorate.

How can I decorate the cake?

There are several ways to decorate a cake baked at home. Let's discuss them.

• Mastic decoration can be of several options. You can cover the cake with it entirely, as well as fashion figures that can make up a whole composition or just mean something to the baby. Mastic can be prepared in several ways: from marshmallows, chocolate, or milk. If you don’t want to bother, then it is sold both in stores and in pastry shops. In addition, you can order or buy ready-made figurines to decorate a birthday cake. A photo of a cake for a girl for 1 year, decorated with mastic, is presented in the article.



• Buttercream is a traditional way to decorate a cake. And with the help of a pastry syringe, you can make a very beautiful decoration, for example, in the form of flowers or various patterns. This cream does not flow and keeps its shape perfectly.
• Fruit and fruit jelly are the best for children, because you can choose ingredients that the baby is not allergic to. It looks like a cake filled with jelly, very worthy. If you add fantasy, then you can make a whole picture out of jelly.
• Meringues prepared by yourself can be made specially in different shapes if you think over the sketch of the cake in advance. Here is an original and simple solution for decorating a children's holiday treat.
• Whipped cream is even better for baby stomachs than buttercream. But they keep their shape no worse. So a beautiful and delicate girlish cake can be decorated with such a cream.
• Coloured sugar icing is a beautiful decoration for any cake. You can also create figures from it no worse than from chocolate. You can limit yourself to icing patterns.
• A waffle-based print is, of course, a custom-made decoration, but it can include favorite characters from our birthday girl's fairy tales or even her own portrait.

Here are some birthday cake ideas for a one year old girl.