Want to Learn How to Make a Cake for a Birthday? 10 Great Birthday Cake Recipes That Will Delight Your Loved Ones (2020)

Ingredients Required:

• 250 gm glucose biscuits (You can choose any other biscuit instead of glucose biscuits - Marie, digestive, or sweet crackers)
• 80 gm chocolate
• ½ tbsp instant coffee
• ½ cup milk
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder

How to Make:

• Use a medium sized cake pan. Line it with a parchment paper or butter paper.
• Warm ⅓ cup water in a small pan. The water should be slightly hot.
• Transfer it to a bowl. Add the ½ tbsp coffee powder to it. Mix well and keep it aside.
• You can use cocoa powder or drinking chocolate instead of coffee powder.
• Now, take ½ cup milk in a saucepan. The alternatives are soy milk or almond milk.
• Add the cocoa powder to the milk and mix well without lumps.
• Now add sugar to suit your taste.
• On a medium flame, heat the mixture, and keep stirring with a wired whisk till the sugar dissolves.
• Simmer the stove, when the mixture comes to boil, and stir for 2-3 minutes. Switch offer after 3 minutes, and add chopped chocolates to this mixture.
• Take the pan off the stove and mix thoroughly. The chocolates will melt in the heat, and the mixture will turn glossy.
• Keep this aside. Now, dip the biscuits in the coffee solution without breaking them.
• Coat the biscuits with the coffee solution and place them in a single layer.
• Then continue to do the same and place 2 layers.
• Pour ½ of the chocolate icing on the biscuits.
• Make the 3rd layer and the 4th layer. Pour the remaining chocolate mixture over the biscuits.
• Cover the cake with a paper, and refrigerate for 5 hours or overnight.
• Open gently and slice carefully. This layered cake is yummy and is easy to make. Kids would enjoy the flavour.

Ingredients Required:

• ¾ cup all-purpose flour
• 4 eggs
• ¾ cup powdered sugar
• ¾ tsp vanilla essence
• ¾ tsp baking powder
• 1 cup chopped pineapple (you can also use tinned pineapples that come in syrup
• ¼ cup pineapple syrup
• 2 cups cream (whipped and chilled)
• 2 cake tins, 8 inch round and lined with parchment paper

How to Make:

• Preheat the oven to 204°C.
• Grease the tin and coat with flour or granulated sugar.
• Break the eggs in a mixing bowl one by one.
• To this bowl add the vanilla essence, salt, baking powder and sugar.
• Beat the mixture thoroughly till it becomes foamy and light. The right consistency is when you take the blender off the mixture, it should form a trail. The trail should blend with the batter immediately.
• Now, add the all-purpose flour to this mixture. Add 1 tbsp initially with a rubber spatula, with the cutting and folding method. Use the upward, downward and outward strokes.
• Keep adding rest of the flour in the same manner.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
• When done, you should be able to insert a clean knife and when you remove it, the knife should come out clean.
• Cut into layers when cooled. On one layer, sprinkle ½ of the pineapple syrup and spread the whipped cream.
• Then place another layer of cake, and pour the rest of the pineapple syrup, and cover the cake with the whipped cream.
• Decorate with the pineapple slices.
• Chill the cake, and it is going to be an instant hit with the kids and your family. The vanilla flavour and the fresh pineapple is a perfect combo for the cake lovers.

Ingredients Required:

Dry Ingredients:

• ¾ cup all purpose flour
• 6 tbsp cocoa powder
• ½ tsp salt
• ¾ tsp baking powder
• ¾ tsp baking soda
• 1 cup sugar

Wet Ingredients:

• ½ cup milk
• ¼ cup oil
• ½ cup boiling hot water
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg

For Frosting:

• ½ cup unsalted butter
• 4 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1½ tbsp milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1¾ cup powdered sugar

How to Make:

• Preheat the oven at 175°C for 15 minutes, and grease an 8 inch pan and line it.
• In a bowl, add the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt by sieving them together.
• Stir well after adding sugar.
• In the centre of the bowl, make a well, to pour milk, egg and vanilla extract.
• Whisk well and combine all the ingredients without lumps.
• Now, add boiling hot water to make it a runny batter.
• Pour into the cake pans, and tap them to release air.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes.
• Leave the cake in the wire rack for 10 minutes, and invert after it cools. Let it cool completely before frosting.
• Make sure the butter is soft but still cold. Beat for two minutes, to make it creamy and light.
• Add all the ingredients for frosting except the milk. Beat together to make them creamy and light.
• If you find the frosting is thick add milk and beat. If it is runny add powdered sugar.
• Keep in fridge for some time, and then spread over the cake.
• You can use the chocolate cake for a week by refrigerating.
• This lip-smacking cake wouldn’t last that long though, as your kids would surely finish it off much faster.

Ingredients Required:

• 40 gm raisins
• 30 gm apricots
• 20 gm cranberries
• 60 gm glazed cherries, all chopped.

Spice Ingredients:

• 1 small piece nutmeg
• 1.5 gm of Ceylon cinnamon
• 8 cloves

For the Fruit Cake:

• 20 gm citrus peels
• ¾ cup hot water
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 tbsp vinegar
• 1 tbsp vanilla extract
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• 120 ml orange juice
• ⅓ cup oil
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1¾ cup wheat flour
• 100 gm chopped nuts

How to Make:

• To make the cake, chop all the nuts and set aside.
• In a mixing bowl, put apricots, raisins, citrus peels and cranberries.
• Boil ¾ cup and 1½ tbsp water, and pour over the dry fruits. Keep aside to cool.
• Make a fine powder of the spices in a processor.
• Preheat the oven to 170°C for 15 minutes.
• Now to the fruit mixture, added melted butter, vanilla, vinegar, orange juice, and sugar. Stir everything together.
• Sieve the flour, spice powder, soda and salt in a bowl together. Mix the flour finely, and make a well in the middle.
• By this time, the oven would have been preheated for 15 minutes. Mix all the flour with the cooled down fruit mixture.
• There should be no streaks of flour, and mix with a spatula. Add the chopped nuts and cherries. Stir gently.
• Transfer the mixture to the cake pan, and tap it against the counter-top twice. If you overdo it, the nuts will settle at the bottom.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 30-45 minutes. In a loaf pan it will take about 50 minutes, and in a 9 inch pan, it will get done in 30 minutes.
• Cool the cake after it is done for 10 minutes.
• Slice after it completely cools down. Dust with powdered sugar. A healthy fruity cake for your kids to get the nourishment, with a mouth-watering recipe.

Ingredients Required:

• 1½ cup all-purpose flour
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 1¼ tsp baking powder
• A pinch of salt
• ½ cup oil
• ¾ cup sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1¼ tbsp vinegar
• 100 gm chocolate (for frosting, optional)

How to Make:

• Use a 7 inch tray and grease it. Line it with a parchment paper and keep it aside.
• In the pressure cooker, spread the salt evenly.
• Cover with a plate, and over it place a ring or hot pot stand.
• Take off the gasket and weight. Heat the cooker after covering it.
• While it gets heated, make the cake butter.
• In a mixing bowl, add the sugar, vanilla, vinegar and milk.
• Stir till the sugar dissolves, and add flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt as you sieve into the bowl. Mix gently to combine the flour mixture.
• Pour to the greased pan, and knock thrice on the counter. For a golden glaze, brush the top with milk.
• Now the tray has to be placed inside the cooker. The cooker would have been heated now, and keep the tray on the ring or stand.
• Cover the cooker and bake for 50-60 minutes over low flame. When done, the top should be dry, and a knife would come out of it clean.
• Let it cool on a wire rack, and slice when cooled fully.
• For the optional frosting, melt the chocolate using the double boiling method.
• When it smoothly melts, cool it. On the cooled cake, pour this melted chocolate.
• Spread it evenly and decorate with chocolate sprinkles, if available. An enchanting feast for the eyes, and a scrumptious cake that delights the kids.

Ingredients Required:

• 1½ cup whole wheat flour
• ½ all-purpose flour
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• ¾ cup sugar
• 1 cup milk (substitute with almond or soy milk for vegan recipe)
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup seedless dates
• ½ cup walnuts
• 2 tsp instant coffee
• 1 tbsp cacao nibs or chocolate chips
• ½ tsp vanilla bean powder or vanilla extract
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• A pinch of salt

How to Make:

• To begin with chop the dates and walnuts, and set aside.
• Grease the cake pan.
• Heat the milk, and add coffee powder to it. Add the dates and stir. They should be in the milk for 15 minutes.
• Sieve the flours, salt, baking soda and baking powder.
• Preheat the oven after sieving at 200°C.
• Add vanilla powder and sugar to the flour.
• Now, mix the sieved flours to the milk mixture in a bowl, along with the oil, walnuts and a cup of water.
• Using an electric beater, mix these completely to form a smooth batter. Fold in the chocolate chips of cocoa nibs.
• Pour the batter into the greased tray. Use a rubber spatula to take the batter from the sides of the bowl.
• Shake the tray from the sides, and place it in the oven. Bake for 45-60 minutes.
• You can store this in the refrigerator, if your kids allow you to take the cake from them.