piece of Cake

Today I am sharing my experience of baking a birthday cake for one year old. Now a days definition of well backed cake is quite different than those which I used to eat in my childhood. As when you are a kid birthdays are the most memorable event of your life.
Whether it’s your birthday or someone else‘s, excitement while looking at a birthday cake is unforgettable. Although times have changed a lot but still whenever I go to a birthday party I get to see the same excitement among kids regarding cake. Vibrant colour icing attracts them so much that they want to get hold of the cake. My childhood memories are full of such moments. When you are young cake’s taste does not matter, all what matters is how beautiful and coolourful it looks.




I still remember during my childhood when I used to see cakes other than round and square, one question which used to appear in my mind was how they have been made? This is the same question I have been asked many times since the day I started baking. Couple of weeks back I got to bake a birthday cake for one year old. Order was placed by his aunt who wanted it to be little different. So i decided to bake a turtle cake which turned out good. Interestingly people asked me in the party “how did you do it” this question took me into past where I tried finding answer to the same question.so here’s the reply.




I made cake mixture with 6 eggs, 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of sugar,1 cup of cooking oil, 1 tea spoon of baking powder and last but not the least few drops of banana flavor. Mixing them all together I place half of the mixture into round baking pan and filled 5 paper cups with rest of the mixture and baked it for 25 minute at 180 degree. For icing I mixed 1 cup of Crisco with 1 cup of unsalted butter, 1 tea spoon of vanilla, and 8 cups of icing sugar. By dividing this icing into two bowls, I coloured one brown while left other half white. By placing round cake in the middle and cupcakes around them I joined them with the help of icing. Kids feel in love with this cute little turtle the minute they saw it. They touching it with their tiny little fingers reminded me of good old days when birthdays were all about cakes, candles and balloons.