Easy Baseball Cake
August 7, 2009 by Karen Weideman
Filed under Cooking
Last week was Cuddlebug’s 4th birthday. Although we already had a party for him, I wanted to make a cake for his actual birthday. I wanted something that he would like, but that wouldn’t take a long time. And I needed a cake that was fairly easy, since I’m not a cake decorator.
A few months ago, I let you all know about the cute cupcakes from Bright Ideas. In their ideas were some baseball cupcakes. These looked very simple. I took their idea and modified it into a cake.
I simply made a regular box of cake mix (any flavor will do) and I halved the mix into two round cake pans. I iced the top of the first layer, put on the second layer, and then iced the rest of the cake. I could have used canned vanilla frosting, but I made my own icing. Then I had a tube of gel red frosting that I used to make the lines in the cake. It was really that simple. I wish I had remembered to use my round cake holder. Oh well.
As you can see below, Cuddlebug was very pleased with his cake. lol
What kinds of easy cake ideas have you found?
images (c) Karen Weideman
That turned out really cute! We did baseball cupcakes for my son’s birthday a couple years ago (the same idea but smaller). I love easy:-)
I made a ladybug cake for my daughter’s first birthday. I used a round pyrex bowl (big for the body, small for the head) and adjusted the cooking time to accommodate the different sized cakes. Honestly, I just took out the little one more quickly than I did the bigger one, and just checked it feverishly until it was just right. Then, I let it cool, and frosted it with red frosting (I had made it….I found out after that there’s a food coloring dye, which I’d recommend…it was a bit runny, but worked). I used pre-made black frosting with a tip and made the line down the middle and took the tip off to make bigger dots on the bug’s shell. I used googly eyes for the eyes, and black pipe craft pipe cleaners for the antennae. It came out sooo cute. If you look on my blog under Feb 2009, you’ll see it.