Hannah Montana Birthday Cake

Birthday Parties are fun! Birthday is a special occasion, and kids love to have a blast on their special day. For my daughter’s 9th birthday, she wanted to have a Hannah Montana cake. Hannah Montana cakes’ popularity is on the rise. Hannah Montana is very popular amongst pre-teen girls. My daughter is a great fan of Hannah Montana, so she wanted to surprise her friends with a Hannah Montana cake. She also wanted to have a homemade cake. On my culinary journey, this was a challenge for me.

I decided to be very creative and prepare a cake with the best things I could. I spent hours in stores, looking for creative colourful chocolates, and also paid a great amount of attention to the various available candy shapes. It’s a super easy cake, though it looks complicated. When the final thing came out, it was truly an amazing looking cake, and all the friends of my daughter envied her and praised the preparation.
I’ve used ready made frosting and ice-cream cones for the decoration. Guitar shaped chocolate has also been used, as Hannah Montana is a great singer.


INGREDIENTS:


Sponge Cake – 1 rectangle
White Butter – 250 gms
Icing Sugar – 250 gms
Vanilla essence – 4-5 drops
Ready made frosting – ½ tin – chocolate flavour
Ready made frosting – ½ tin vanilla flavour
Little heart biscuits – 1 packet
Ice cream cones – 2
Lollipops – various shapes - 3 to 4
Sprinklers coloured – as required
Jelly cubes – 1 packet.
Tinned Cherries – 1 cup
Cocoa Powder – 2 tblspn
Birthday Candles – As required

METHOD

Prepare icing by combining icing sugar, white butter, cocoa powder and vanilla essence.

Keep in the fridge for an hour.
Cut the sponge cake into two halves.

Soak each part with the cherry syrup.

Place pitted cherries on the first part of the cake.

Spread a layer of the prepared icing on each cake half.

Cover the first half of the cake with the second half, making layers.

Now cover the entire cake with the icing prepared above.
Level the icing with a broad knife dipped in cold water.
Make a border with the ready made frosting using icing gun.
Decorate the border of the cake with the little heart biscuits.

Decorate the candies, jelly cubes and ice cream cones.

Make ice cream on the ice cream cones with the prepared icing.
Sprinkle the sprinkler on the empty space.
Place the candles on the cake.
Keep in fridge till the party time.

Note: I have used ready-made sponge cake in this recipe for the Hannah Montana cake. But you can also use plain homemade sponge cake instead.

Laddoo Joker

Are you organising a birthday party? Thinking hard to have a different menu from the rest. Well here's the solution, Try and prepare these jokers made out of Laddoo, the traditional Indian sweet available in every sweet shop of India. I've used ready made laddoos from the market, if you desire you can make laddoos at home too. I've used ready made ice-cream cones to prepare the base and the cap of the jokers. Cadbury Gems to make the eyes. You can make your imagination run wild and use other decorations for decorating the cap . Put your creativity to its best and get going to organise a real cool birthday party for your adorable sweetie pie. Kids would love the new version of laddoos.

INGREDIENTS

Boondi Laddoo - 10

Ice cream cones - 10

Cadbury Gems - 20

Icing Sugar to paste the gems.

METHOD -

Cut the ice-cream cones for the base and the cap.

Arrange the base in the serving tray.

Keep each laddoo on each base.

Glue gems for eyes with the help of icing sugar.

Place the second half of the cone as caps.

Ready to be served.

NOTE- For the mouth I've used the laddoo garnish (Pista) which was already placed on the laddoo. If u're using plain laddoo u can glue a piece of pista for mouth.

Yummy Rainbow Treat

Kids party and it kind of starts making me cook up plans to do the best of cusines as possible, something innovative and something gorgeous which gives an eye appeal and is absolutely stunning and fascinating. I love experimenting with the ingredients available on my kitchen shelf. It was my daughter's idea to have jellies for the birthday party as she was confident that its the kids weakness. I felt I should play with colours and there it was, really fabulously looking gorgeous glasses filled with the chiiled dessert. Here I've used three flavours of jelly and two flavours of custard to give that beautiful look which would definately leave the kids mouth watering.

INGREDIENTS

Ready made Jelly - Three Flavours (Pineapple, Apple and Strawberry)

Custard - Vanilla Flavour

Tooty Fruity

Transparent party disposable glasses

METHOD-

Prepare custard and jelly as per packet instructions.

Chill the custard and jelly seperately.

Arrange glasses in a tray.

Put a scoop of apple jelly in all the glasses.

Top it with custard.

Tip in the strawberry flavoured jelly such a way that part of custard is visible.

Give a sprinkling of the tooty-fruity green coloured for the final touch.

It's done. Chill well in the refrigerator before serving.

An absolutely yummy treat is ready for the kids in minutes.

Choclate Cup Cakes

It was my son's 5th Birthday and I wanted something special for his birthday so I prepared these cup cakes and used different coloured jam and also alphabet candies to decorate the topping. Each child chose the alphabet his or her name started with, this gave the kids a feeling of getting a specal treatment for the party he or she was invited to. With Easter round the corner, you can try this quick and innovative dessert recipe which is ready in minutes. Can be served as an evening snack to the kids or as a dessert as even the adults would relish it. These alphabet choclates are easily available in the confectionary shops present in the malls. 

Ingredients -

Bournbourn biscuits - 2 packets

Baking Soda - a pinch

Milk - about 3-4 tblspn

Butter cups - as required

Jam - different colours

Alphabet Choclates - as required

Ready made Vanilla Icing.

Method -

1. 
   
   Crush the biscuits in the food processor finely.
2. 
   
   Transfer in into a deep bowl.
3. 
   
   Add a pinch of soda.
4. 
   
   Add milk and mix well with the help of electronic hand mixer.
5. 
   
   Consistency required is dropping consistency like for cake.
6. 
   
   Pour into butter cups kept in muffin tray.
7. 
   
   Microwave HIGH for 3 minutes. (Power 100%)
8. 
   
   Test with a toothpick, should come out clean when inserted in the cup cake.
9. 
   
   If not done again microwave HIGH for a few seconds more.
10. 
    
    Standing time is 5 mins means leave the cup cake in the microwave for 5 mins when done.
11. 
    
    Cool completely before icing.
12. 
    
    Fill a piping bag with ready made icing. (available in the stores.)
13. 
    
    Decorate the cup cakes with the icing as shown and dot it with jam or decorate it with alphabet choclate.
14. 
    
    Serve.

                                                                                                                        

The Train Cake

Today is my first blog ever. I must Thank my friends especially Ratna  to show me the way to blogging.

It was my son's 5th birthday party and he wanted it to celebrate it at home. Firstly I was apprehensive then for the little one I thought I should invest all my imaginations and creativity to bake a cake. Several options were there like the character cakes, Alphabet or Number Shapes cakes. Or should I say a simple round, square or a rectangle cake. Finally a thought came to my mind to use my best imaginations and to make it look really beautiful and presentable I would make the cake in the shape of the train.
I baked 4 large choclate cakes in the shape of rectangle. One cake was made in the jelly bowl, one cake was made in the choclate tin - round shape.I did the icing then I fixed the round shape cake to the jelly shape cake and attached a piece of large cake to it. Used the other part as the base. Fixed it up tightly with the long size toothpicks so that the cake is fastened securely.

Decorated it with Oreo biscuits as wheels as pink icing filled in the nozzle. To show the steam I used white polo and for a colorful effect I used gems. As a glue I used choclate spread. This was the most difficult part then I used the rest of the cake pieces to make the train. I covered the entire cake with the icing and used different flavoured Oreo biscuits to make the wheels. Decorated the entire train with different coloured icing from the piping bag using different nozzles. Used the munchini to make a small boundary in one of the compartment and assembled the entire train on a piece of cardboard which was covered with the silver foil. Used dessicated coconut mixed with green color as grass , rectangle biscuits for the boundary and red heart shape lollipop as signal and used marzipan for the rest of the decorations. Would tell you how to do the icing in my next blog, until then bye hope you enjoyed reading it as I did writing it.