any good cake recipes?

United States
March 1, 2007 4:24pm CST
I'm looking for cake recipes for a 1st birthday party and a baby shower. I need something that will be cute, and affordable because I want to make the cake myself, and can only spend so much. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated! (=
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@Darkwing (21583)
1 Mar 07
I guess you have a sponge cake or Victorian Sponge recipe, which is quite acceptable and cheap for a basic first birthday or baby shower cake. The first birthday cake could be iced, and perhaps you could make some alphabetical building blocks with the letters of the baby's name on them, i.e. if the baby's name is Ellen, make five building blocks, two with the letter E/e on, two with the letter l, and one with the letter n, then place them on the cake to spell the child's name. You could make some extras, if you wanted to, without letters, or perhaps with a little pic on them, and place them around or on top of the name ones. For a baby shower, bibs, rattles, nappy pins, feeding bottles, could be made out of moulding icing and placed on the cake, with perhaps a line of bibs around the side of the cake. There are endless things you could do, but these are two examples. I hope they help you. Brightest Blessings.
• United States
2 Mar 07
Wow, that sounds like a great idea. I think I'll try that one out next week, just for fun. See what I can do with it.
@Darkwing (21583)
3 Mar 07
Good luck with it. I'm glad you liked the idea. Brightest Blessings.
• India
14 Jan 08
I love germane chocolate cake with the traditional coconut icing. I also love white cake with whipped cream icing and fresh strawberries. Though i like eating many types of cakes, my favorites are blueberry cake and blueberry cheese cake. I am not fussy when it comes to the flavors and type of cakes as i enjoy eating almost all of them. Among others would be plain cheese cake, carrot cake and chocolate cake.
• United States
18 Apr 07
This is a great cake recipe, my family asks for it all the time CLASSIC RED VELVET CAKE Ingredients: ½ cups shortening 1 ½ cups sugar 2 eggs 1 bottle (1 ounce) red food coloring 3 teaspoons white vinegar 1 teaspoons butter flavoring 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1½ cups cake flour ¼ cup baking coca 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon sale 1 cup buttermilk Frosting: 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese (softened ½ cup butter, softened 3¾ confectioners’ sugar 3 teaspoon vanilla extract Directions: Combine shortening and butter until creamy, add eggs and beat well. Beat in food coloring, vinegar, butter flavoring and vanilla. Combine flour, coca, baking soda to creamed mixture and add buttermilk at the end. Pour batter into three greased and floured 9” round baking pans. Bake at 350° for 20-25 mins or until took pick inserted comes out clean. Cool for 10 mins before removing from pans to cool. Combine ingredients for frosting and spread between layers and top and sides of cake.
@neenasatine (2841)
• Philippines
14 Apr 07
welcome to mylot. you can search here http://allrecipes.com/Search/Recipes.aspx?WithTerm=cake