Cake for 6 months boy: recipe with photo, ingredients, sweet additives, calories, tips and tricks for decorating

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

In the life of every mother, there is a moment when a little treasure turns its first six months. Few people celebrate this date, because the child at this moment is still completely unaware of anything, and the holiday will not become some kind of memorable event for him. So this day acts more as an occasion to cook something tasty and set the table.

However, cooking, especially if it is understood that the baby will eat it, should be approached very carefully. In general, a mother should hardly feed her baby a birthday cake or something like that at 6 months, he is not yet developed enough to absorb solid food. Most parents at this point are just starting to introduce unleavened vegetable puree to their baby.

So, when making a cake for a boy, you need to focus not on the child, but on the invited guests, as well as the wishes of the mother herself. This article presentsa few recipes and a photo of a cake for a boy for 6 months.

Congratulations for 6 months

It is considered correct to put some significant inscription on the cake, like "6 months!". However, the baby will not even notice these efforts. Again, when thinking about some congratulations for a child, it is better to pay more attention to him, to play with him than to come up with some complicated words that he cannot yet read or understand.

Order or make your own?

Currently, there are many both patisseries and people working alone at home. All of them make cakes to order from the options selected by the buyer. If you have free funds, and you don’t feel like cooking yourself or you don’t have time, a cake for a 6-month-old boy to order would be the best option. It is important to find a good confectioner who will accept any wishes. You can find out exactly who to contact from your friends and relatives, for sure, one of them applied for the services of preparing goodies, or you can search on the Internet.

However, if you want to make a cake for a 6-month-old boy with your own hands, or you don’t have money to buy from a confectioner, then below are some suggestions for this.

Cake options

Children's cake - an option that you can feed a little to a child due to its hypoallergenicity. The proposed volume of products implies its small size - about 15 cm in diameter, so this option can be made together with something else, just toto please the baby.

Cake with chocolate biscuit and cottage cheese cream - a fairly simple dish to prepare. You can decorate it on top with whipped cream, mastic, icing. Despite the large amount of sugar, the calorie content is not particularly high: 100 g of the product contains approximately 270 kcal.

Honey cake - a cake consisting of honey cakes and sour cream. Ideal for those who want to make a boy a cake for 6 months without mastic and icing. The downside of this cake is its high calorie content: 470 kcal per 100 g of product.

Ingredients

Children's cake:

• Children's Cookies (e.g. "Hippo Bondi") - 1 large pack.
• Milk (preferably baby, for example, "Agusha") - 1 l.
• Kefir - 2-3 tablespoons
• Banana - 1-2 pieces
• Butter - 2 tsp (not margarine!).

Curd Sponge Cake:

• Flour - 90 gr.
• Chicken eggs - 5 pcs
• Kaya-powder - 90 gr.
• Sugar - 350 gr.
• Cottage cheese - 800 gr.
• Cream - 100 ml.
• Vanilla sugar - 10 gr.
• Cherry syrup - 80 ml (impregnation).

Honey cake:

• Eggs - 3 pcs
• Butter - 50g
• Sugar - 600g
• Liquid honey - 150 ml.
• Soda - 1 tsp
• Flour - 500g
• Sour cream - 500g

Children's cake

Cookies should be placed in a bowl and thoroughly broken. Add about 100 ml of milk and wait for the cookies to soften. Next, mix everything togethermass. Melt butter and add to batter, mix well. Now take the form (you can use some kind of bowl), cover the inside with cling film and put half the mass there. Flatten and refrigerate for half an hour.

In a saucepan, bring 800 ml of milk to a boil, add kefir and cook for another 10-15 minutes until the whey separates. Strain the mass, wait until all the whey comes down and stir, you get a tender curd. Mash banana and mix with cottage cheese.

Remove the form from the refrigerator and put the cottage cheese and the rest of the dough there, remove it again. After an hour and a half, you can take out the form, take out the cake from there and decorate.

Curd Sponge Cake

Get all ingredients out. The oil must be heated to room temperature, and the eggs should be divided into proteins and yolks. Beat the whites, then add sugar (about 120 g) and continue to beat until stable peaks. Add sugar (30 g) to the yolks and beat until white. Then combine the yolks with 1/3 of the whites and mix. Add flour and cocoa powder to the mass, mix gently. Put the rest of the proteins and stir everything into a homogeneous mass. Next, you need to pour it into a mold and put it in an oven heated to 180 degrees for about 40 minutes (depending on the oven).

While the biscuit is baking, rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, add sugar (200 g) and beat until smooth. Separately, whip the cream with vanilla sugar into an air mass and add to the curd, mix everything thoroughly and put it in the refrigerator.

Cut the biscuit into three cakes, soak them with syrup. Next, you need to put in layers: cake-cream-cake-cream-cake. Now it can be topped with icing or ganache (cream of chocolate and cream) and refrigerate for 2 hours. After this time, it can be decorated and served.

Honey cake

In a bowl / saucepan, mix eggs with sugar (300 g) and beat until foamy. Add butter at room temperature, honey and soda to the mass. Place the bowl/saucepan in a water bath (for example, on another saucepan filled with boiling water) and stir the mass for 10-15 minutes. It should double in size and become airy. Add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of flour and stir until the lumps are completely dissolved. Remove the saucepan from the heat and let the mixture cool down. When it becomes warm/cold, add the remaining flour and knead the dough. It should be soft and plastic. The dough should be divided into 6-8 pieces (1 piece per 1 cake) and put in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Then roll each piece into a thin crust, put on a baking sheet and bake for 5 minutes at 180 degrees. Carefully cut the cakes and cool, the trimmings can be crumbled for decoration.

Beat sour cream and sugar (300 gr) with a mixer until sugar is not felt. Assemble the cake in the order cake-cream-cake …. From above, you can sprinkle the honey cake with crumbs from the scraps of the cakes.

The cake should be put in the room for about 2 hours so that the cream soaks the cakes, and then put in the refrigerator for 7-8 hours. It is recommended to leave it there overnight.

The result is tender and sweeta cake that explodes instantly.

Decorating Tips

Traditionally, the color of boys is blue. However, there is nothing wrong with using any other colors and shades. Mastic is one of the best ways to decorate a birthday cake.

However, if you want to make your boy a cake for 6 months without mastic, then you can use icing, powdered sugar, various sprinkles, fudge or crushed nuts as decoration. An original idea would be to decorate the cake with various protruding decorations. For example, lay out the number six with berries. Or make a 6-month-old cake for a boy with gingerbread folded like a decoration and sealed with icing.