Everybody likes to have their birthday celebrated. However, when they are young, children really don’t know about birthdays. It is only by celebrating their young birthdays and seeing other birthday celebrations that they learn about birthdays being celebrated.
However, it is quite important for parents to celebrated the first birthday of a child. This is usually known as baby’s first birthday. It is an important time in the history of that person’s life.
Parents will want to make baby’s first birthday quite special. One of the traditions of baby’s first birthday is seeing the reaction to the birthday cake. Some babies will dive right into the cake, getting their hands really messy. Others will ignore the cake or push it away.
Whatever the situations, parents will want to make the event special. Babies can recognize their favorite items and characters at a young age. Thus parents can make a birthday cake with those and make the theme of the party match the cake. This will allow for memorable videos and pictures to be taken at baby’s first birthday.
Sometimes when babies are still that young, parents do not want them eating chocolate or a lot of sweets yet. There are plenty of recipes online for cakes that do not have any chocolate and either have no or very lower sugar and egg content. The last two are because many parents want their young children to eat healthier ingredients until they are older. A variety of these recipes can be found at Wholesome Baby Food.
If the healthy cake is made for baby’s first birthday and there are older children that are going to attend the party, often another cake is made or cupcakes are made. This way they can enjoy a sweeter cake and baby can dig into the cake and there is no worry about serving a good cake.
Of course, an animal theme for baby’s first birthday is always cute. Cupcakes are very easy to make into animals. The round top surface is perfect for decorating like a face.
It is easy to make cupcakes into cats for baby’s first birthday, especially if the family has a cat or the child likes cats. Once the cupcakes are baked and removed from the pan, they can be frosted. The eyes are made by two candies and the whiskers are made by using licorice.
A beehive can be made by using different sizes of of round cake pans. Once the cakes are baked, they are stacked from the largest on the bottom to the smallest on the top. The cake can be frosted with a yellow or brown frosting. Then a dark door can be made with black frosting. Bees can be made from marzipan that is dyed with food coloring.
A lady bug cake can be made with two round bottom pans, one slightly bigger than the other. The body is made with the bigger cake and the head is made with the smaller cake. They are simply placed together and then frosted. The body is frosted with red frosting and decorated with black spots. The head is frosted black and the eyes are made with white frosting and black frosting. Antennae can be made from black licorice.
Favorite characters can be frosted onto a rectangular or circular cake for baby’s first birthday. There are usually many figurines and candles for such shows as Blues Clues, Dora the Explorer, Looney Tunes, and The Backyardigans. These are usually sold in the cake decorations of the grocery store. All the above cake ideas are good for both boys and girls.
Little boys often like cars and trucks. It is easy to simply frost a cake and then put toy cars and trucks on top of the cake. The rest of the party can be decorated with toy cars and trucks and balloons that match them.
Little girls often like things like princesses and bows. It is very easy to decorate with princess toys and decorations now because of the Disney Princesses. Again, also use these decorations off of the cake to keep the theme throughout the party.
Then, there’s always using specially shaped cake pans. Wilton has a few. However, Cooking.com has many more. Just searching “pans” yields many results. The bakeware category has hundreds of results. There are Looney Tunes pans that include Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Tweety Bird. Then there are shapes such as a rubber ducky or a teddy bear. There are cookie pans that are shaped like the alphabet and animals. There is even a baby buggy pan (though, admittedly, this may be better for a baby shower).
It is always just important to make baby’s first birthday special so it is a memorable event. Having a special theme baby’s first birthday cake will make for great pictures. They are wonderful keepsakes and fun for that person to see later in life.
