How to Make Kids' Birthday Cakes

Transcript We’ve take our second part of our castle cake out of the refrigerator also, and what we want to do is just repeat the same thing that we’ve done with our bottom portion. And we’re going to cover it and smoothen the sides. Again, you’ll put a nice portion on the top so you …

Transcript Now that our cake has been rodded, I’m gonna add one more rod, and this is just gonna keep our whole cake in place. We’re just gonna take one of the other halves of the rods that we’ve used. It’s about good in height, and by the time I’ve sharpened it, it’ll come down …

Transcript “How to Make a Princess Castle Etwin Gordon So we’ve iced both of our cakes for our castle cake and the next step you want to do is rod you’re cake. This is a that will prevent you’re top cake from falling or sinking into you’re bottom cake. What you’re going to need is …

Transcript We’ve decorated our dress, we’ve given her a nice bow, and some ribbons. And we’ve given her some earrings. The next thing we want to do is we want to give her a nice little bow for her hair. So I’m just going to take a piece of white fonda and I’m just going …

Transcript Today we’re going to make a castle cake. And for that we’re going to actually need two cakes of different sizes. I’ve chosen to use an 8-inch square and a 6-inch square and we’re going to tare our cake, which means we’re going to stack the larger one on the bottom and then we’re …

Transcript “We’ve taken our purse cake from out of the refrigerator and we just want to add just a little bit of buttercream. It’s already cold so you don’t need to put it back in the fridge, but we just want to just smoothen it out just a little more so we’ll add just a …

Transcript “How to Make a Princess Castle Cake/Prepping the Fondant We’ve gotten our castle cake all put together and we’re ready to decorate, so here are a couple of options in decorating our castle cake. These are some little towers that we’re going to use and we’re just going to stick these on the sides …

Transcript “We’re already to decorate our cake now and we have everything ready. What we’re going to do is just try to place everything exactly where we want it – so your door you’re just going to pick wherever you want the front of the cake to be. You’re just going to find the center …

Transcript We’ve put our castle together and we’ve added a couple of cool decorations to it and now what we wanna do is we wanna add some grass. So I’ve made some green, uh, butter cream and we’re just gonna go around the bottom and this portion of our cake and we’re gonna make some …

Transcript “We’ve added our grass to our cake and now I just want to add some vines along the sides of our cake. So you’ll just change the tip. You can use a #5 tip, which you can also purchase from any craft store. And now, you can put the vines anywhere you’d like on …

Transcript “Now that we’ve completed most of our castle cake and it’s almost done, gonna just add some flowers to our vines. What we wanna do to get that done is just take a little piece of fondant — I’ve chosen pink since we’ve already used pink for some of our decorations — and we’re …

Transcript Hi, my name is Etwin, I’m the owner of Essential Cakes, Inc, in Brooklyn. I’ve been here at Essential Cakes for about two years. I got into cake decorating, I wanna say maybe about six years ago. I love turning a simple cake into something that you wouldn’t even believe it’s cake. And I …

Transcript So today we’re going to be making a baseball cap cake. And for that you can use just about any size cake that you like. For this I’m going to use a 7 inch cake and were going to use 3 layers. So I’m gonna set it on my board and just to make …

Transcript We’re going to make our baseball cap cake and for this I’ve already pre-layered a cake and it’s been in the refrigerator cooling so we can carve it out. I’m gonna round it out just a little bit on the top. You wanna go in maybe a half an inch or so and just …

Transcript “We’re in the process of covering our baseball cap cake and this is the fondant that I previously covered, you can check that video out on How To Color Fondant. And this should be enough to color our fondant. We’re going to put some corn starch and sugar on our table and we’re going …

Transcript Now we cover a baseball cap with some icing. Finish off by giving it some decorations. You can decorate a baseball cap any way you like. I’m gonna make some lines across the baseball cap. So I’m gonna strike at the center and go straight across. And I’m gonna use this tool. I’m trying …

Transcript “How to Make a Ladybug Cake/Assembly Today we’re going to make a Ladybug cake and for that I have made 2 eight inch round cakes and a very small cake, but you can use a ball pan and it gives you a nice little round perfect ball. So we’ll take our first eight inch …

Transcript “We’re going to make our ladybug cake and for this we’re going to need to actually carve it out a little bit so we get a nice round shape. For the moment I’m just going to remove this portion. That’s going to be our ladybug’s face. And you can just basically use a regular …

Transcript While we’re waiting for our ladybug cake to chill a little bit in the refrigerator, I’m gonna prepare my fondant. I’m gonna use red; like red and black, and a little white for our ladybug, and this is gonna be the base for her body. Just gonna take a little sugar and cornstarch, and …

Transcript We have given our lady bug a nice round body and I had to go along with that. Now what you can do is you can decorate your ladybug. Ladybugs come in an assortment of colors, they are decorated differently. For this one I am going to give her a line down the back …

Transcript Today we’re going to make a castle cake. And for that we’re going to actually need two cakes of different sizes. I’ve chosen to use an 8-inch square and a 6-inch square and we’re going to tare our cake, which means we’re going to stack the larger one on the bottom and then we’re …

Transcript “How to Make a Princess Doll Cake: Assembly Today we’re going to be making a princess doll cake, anything a little girl would love to have. For this purpose I have used a mold pan so a large mold shaped pan you can purchase just about anywhere, a cake supply store. You can if …

Transcript We’ve taken our dome cake, which we’re going to use for the bottom of our princess dress, and we’re just going to add a little icing and I’m going to add a nice… a little smooth coat. It doesn’t have to be too thick of icing, just to smooth it out. And right now …

Transcript Now that we have the base of our dress completed and covered in fondant, we are ready to decorate. So you can decorate the base of the dress in any fashion that you like. You can add your doll, you can get these from any craft store, cake decorating store also. What you want …

Transcript Today we’re going to be making a purse cake and for this I’ve decided to just use one layer of cake actually. You can make it just about any size. I’ve chosen to use an 8 inch cake. So what we wanna do is try to get it exactly in the middle and we’re …

Transcript We’ve covered our baseball cap with some blue fondant, we’ve given it some decoration along the side, and we’ve added a nice little button on the top. So now what we wanna do is we wanna give it a ban on the bottom, give it a nice little brim, and then we gonna put …

Transcript We’ve covered our baseball cap with fondant, we’ve given it some decorations, a button and a brim. And now we’re gonna give it a name, this case the birthdays boy’s name is TOM, so we’re gonna cut out some letters. And for that, there is this cool little set of alphabet letters, you can …

Transcript While we’re waiting for our ladybug cake to chill a little bit in the refrigerator, I’m gonna prepare my fondant. I’m gonna use red; like red and black, and a little white for our ladybug, and this is gonna be the base for her body. Just gonna take a little sugar and cornstarch, and …

Transcript While we’re waiting for our ladybug cake to chill a little bit in the refrigerator, I’m gonna prepare my fondant. I’m gonna use red; like red and black, and a little white for our ladybug, and this is gonna be the base for her body. Just gonna take a little sugar and cornstarch, and …

Transcript We’ve added our spots to our ladybug and now we want to give the ladybug some eyes and a little smile. So what we’re gonna do is we’re going to make some eyes for our ladybug and for that we can use the same tip that we used to give her her spots and …

Transcript Today we’re going to make a castle cake. And for that we’re going to actually need two cakes of different sizes. I’ve chosen to use an 8-inch square and a 6-inch square and we’re going to tare our cake, which means we’re going to stack the larger one on the bottom and then we’re …

Transcript I’m going to make her a nice little bow and it’s going to hang down in the back. I’m going to use the same shade of pink, going to reknead my fondant. Now what you want to do to get your bow and your ribbon is you want to try and roll the fondant …

Transcript So now that we have completed the base, which is the dress, and we also gave her a top and we’ve also added a nice little bow to her dress, what you want to do is maybe give her some accessories. I think we’ll put some flowers on here, maybe even make her some …

Transcript We have covered our purse cake in white fondant and I’ve decided to go with the zebra-stripe theme, so I’ve added some zebra stripes. Now what we’re going to do is finish it off with a little zipper and a strap. I like to combine colors, so I’m gonna use pink for our zipper …

Transcript We’ve completed the lines for our soccer cake and now we just wanna just add some grass around the edges and for that we’re gonna to use a grass tip. You can also get this at a craft store as well. So we can interchange tip. We’re just gonna squeeze out any air bubbles. …

Transcript So, we have our purse cake and we have covered it with fondant. We’ve added some nice zebra stripes to our cake. We’ve given it a little zipper and next we want to add a handle. Now, it’s up to you. You can either add two handles or you can give it one long …

Transcript “We covered our purse cake in fondant and we are now ready to decorate it. Now decorating a purse cake you can take just about any direction you want to. I’m a big fan of zebra stripes so today I think we’re going to do some zebra stripes. For our stripes, which we’re going …

Transcript We’ve taken our soccer ball cake out of the refrigerator, and now we’re ready to cover it with fondant. I’m just gonna take this tape measure so I can measure exactly how much I need. Gonna need about 13 inches or so around in diameter. Just gonna make sure what I’ve rolled out is …

Transcript i am gonna color a little green umm.. butter cream to finish off our soccer cake. i’m gonna use it to make sone grass as well as the lines. To finish off the cake, you can add colouring as much as you want it. ummm u start off generally with just a little bit. …

Transcript “hi, today we will be making a soccer ball cake. And for this I’m going to use two 8-inch cakes. You can use anything about that size. We’re going to take our first layer, I’ve turned it bottom side up, so we’ll have a nice straight even board so we don’t have to cut …

Transcript We’ve taken our soccer ball cake out of the refrigerator and now we’re going to carve it a little to give it a nice round ball shape. So we’re going to just take our knife and you are going to want to go in to the maybe about half an inch or so, and …

Transcript We’ve carved out soccer ball cake into a nice round shape and we put it back into the refrigerator to cool while I prepare the fondant. I’m gonna use a white base to cover our soccer ball. Just gonna put a little sugar and corn starch on the table. And we’re gonna give our …

Transcript We’ve taken our soccer ball cake and we’ve covered it with fondant and now we are ready to decorate it. So a cool little trick that I like is this soccer ball pan. You can actually use this to bake your cake in; however, I don’t really like it much because it takes too …

Transcript I’m going to show you how to crumb coat your cake. So for this we have an eight inch cake. It’s an eight inch square. We crumb coat so that the icing – you can use just about any butter cream recipe for your crumb coat. It’s going to hold all your crumbs together, …

Transcript “How to Color Fondant We’re going to learn how to color fondant so for this you will need a nice size of fondant. Any brand will do. You can also get that from any craft store or cake decorating supply store. I’m going to use some gloves so that I don’t get coloring all …

Transcript “So the basic tools for a cake decorating are, umm especially if you’re gonna use sponge dough of course we need a spin table, and you can use a rolling pin.. umm You can use a rolling pin of any kind. It doesn’t really matter. This is a combination of sponge dough and confectionary …

Transcript “Ideas for Birthday Cake Toppers Some great for your cake toppers for your birthday cakes. Now if you’re doing a cake for a boy and he’s into sports, there’s a whole array of things that you can get and you can pick these up at any of your local craft stores or a cake …

Transcript So usually people will use a cake for their birthday party and decorate that. A great idea instead of a whole cake, you can do cupcakes. So you can maybe bake a dozen or two dozen. You can out it together either in a round shape or a square shape and the what you …

Transcript An easy way to serve your cake and to actually cut it so that you can get the most out of it: average cake size shouldn’t be actually more than maybe two inches wide and maybe about an inch and a half across. So what you want to do is maybe score your cake …

Transcript I love decorating cakes. So my inspiration is always… are usually an invitation, the party decorations… And that usually inspires me to decide exactly what I’m going to do for the cake. So, for example, if there were colors, I may choose to decorate the cake in those particular colors is… if it’s a …

Transcript For the cakes that we’re going to decorate today, you’re going to of course start out with the cake. You can either use a box recipe that you can purchase at any supermarket or if you have that great recipe at home, you can make your cake from scratch. Then of course, you’re going …