Cooking a cake for a boy in the form of a ball

Every child on his birthday wants gifts, joyful mood and a lot of goodies. And what a triumph without a sweet table? It must necessarily have an original cake, and it is desirable that it was unusual and bright. Therefore, parents, or rather, mother, should take care of this delicacy in advance and show all their imagination. Of course, the easiest way to order a cake for a boy or girl, which will feature your favorite cartoon characters, but where the delicious and useful home made delicacy made by warm and caring hands of the mother or grandmother.

Depending on the age of the child, you can decorate pastries not only with hedgehogs, mushrooms and flowers, but also create a whole scenario on the cake or mold out of the mastic of some "cool" hero of children's movies that the child likes.

In the process of preparing a culinary delicacy, the child can also participate - turn the cooking into a kind of game that will definitely fascinate the baby. For example, a cake for a boy can be made in the form of a locomotive, a ball or a typewriter; for girls, you can recommend a cake in the form of a doll or a flower.

Such an author's work, prepared with the participation of the birthday boy, will be an excellent addition to the sweet table. In fact, there are a lot of variations for decorating such delicacies, it is worthwhile to show a little imagination or to borrow recipes from cookbooks. From this article you will also learn how to bake baby cakes for boys.

Cake "Ball"

We need:

- 300-400 gr. Butter;

- 500 gr. Sifted flour;

- 8 eggs;

- two glasses of sugar;

- half a glass of milk;

- 50 gr. Cocoa powder;

- 200 gr. Powdered sugar;

- almonds or walnuts not less than 100 gr .;

- canned pineapples or peaches - quantity at discretion;

- round shape for baking;

- parchment paper;

- 100 gr. Marshmallow candies for mastic;

- a tablespoon of water;

- melted chocolate 100 gr.

Prepare such an original cake for the boy is not so difficult, now you will see this.

- Soften a piece of butter, beat it with a glass of sugar. When the mass becomes homogeneous, add eggs, flour and milk, stir again carefully (it is possible in a mixer).

- Shred nuts in a dough and roll a ball out of it. Shape with paper, grease with oil and put a ball of dough on it. Bake for an hour at 170C.

We make a marzipan mass :

- Marshmallow marshmallow candies put in a microwave oven, add a spoonful of water and send for 2 minutes in a microwave oven. As soon as the candies melt and increase in volume, they need to be well kneaded together with the sugar powder. As a result, you should get an elastic mass, which must be divided into two parts.

- In one part, add roasted nuts, chopped in a meat grinder, and in the other - melted chocolate. The marzipan mass should be wrapped in a food film and sent to a refrigerator. You can make any confectionery figures from mastic.

To make the cake for the boy turned out juicy and soft, we'll make a delicious cream:

Mix the cocoa powder with a little water and boil it. Separately beat up butter with sugar powder. The resulting mass mixed with the finished cocoa.

We form the cake "Ball":

- Cut the rounded baked cut into 3 layers, each plentifully smear with creamy chocolate cream, and on top of it lay the canned fruit. The last cake is also lubricated with cream.

- Chilled parts of marzipan mass to roll in a layer, cut into hexagons and gently lay them on the "Ball". Leave it in the cold for a couple of hours.

Such an unusual delicacy will lift your child's mood and become an ornament of any children's table. Now you know how to decorate a cake for a boy, so that the holiday will be remembered for a long time.