In particular, such a family holiday would be appreciated by the youngest schoolchildren - first graders. For them, the first trip to school would definitely turn into a real holiday.
What is the most important thing at any holiday? Of course, a delicious birthday cake.
In this article, the News portal “Vtemu.by” has prepared several easy-to-implement ideas for decorating a festive homemade cake for September 1, especially for the most caring parents. All the options below for decorating sweet treats are themed, which means they will be appreciated by the main heroes of the occasion - schoolchildren.
Cake for Knowledge Day
Treating students with a sweet treat before class starts is appropriate at any age. But more often the cake for September 1 is prepared for first graders. This could be a treat for the whole class or a gift for a specific student. You can also give a sweet surprise to a teacher or lecturer.
Kindergartens also often organize holidays on Knowledge Day. If your preschool allows you to bring treats, then the kids will be very happy about the festive table.
What to pay attention to first when choosing and preparing a cake for Knowledge Day:
- Safety. All ingredients must be natural and fresh. Products that can cause an allergic reaction should be excluded.
- Size. A cake for a first-grader can weigh only 1 kg or even less. But when choosing a delicacy for a whole class or a teacher and his colleagues, the weight of the culinary product should be recalculated depending on the approximate number of people.
- Decor. A themed decoration would look ideal on this day - a school bell, a class magazine, a globe, a chalkboard, books, autumn leaves.
If you decide to cook or order a holiday treat for your class, you can give a cake to the teacher and make small cupcakes for each student. In this case, the treats must be made in the same theme.
How to prepare a cake base for September 1st?
The simplest and most economical options are biscuit and shortbread dough. For such cakes, sponge cake is often used. The baked goods are light, airy and tender.
It is better to use custard cream, since protein and cream may be prohibited in children's educational institutions as perishable products. You can choose the simplest one to prepare, for example, sour cream. If you are preparing or ordering a cake for your child and family, then you should focus on your own preferences.
You can place a fruit layer between the cakes and the cream layers. Universal options - bananas, oranges, pineapples, kiwi.
Ingredients
To prepare the cake base for September 1, you will need the following products:
- chicken egg – 6 pcs.;
- granulated sugar – 150 g;
- baking powder – 5 g;
- cocoa powder (optional component, you can make all the cakes white) – 40 g;
- wheat flour – 180 g;
- butter - for greasing the mold.
Ingredients for impregnation:
- juice from canned pineapple - for soaking the cakes.
Soaking the biscuit is optional. If you make the cakes thin enough and put layers of sour cream between them, the cake will turn out very tasty and juicy even without soaking. Especially if the sour cream has only 15-20% fat content, and the cream will turn out to be quite liquid.
Ingredients for cream:
- sour cream – 350 g;
- granulated sugar – 300 g.
Additional Ingredients:
- canned pineapple – 250 g;
- banana – 300 g;
- walnuts – 100 g.
Sequencing
How to prepare the cake:
- To make the sponge cake, beat the eggs with sugar until smooth and fluffy.
- Sift flour and baking powder and mix with egg mixture.
- Pour half of the dough into a greased mold with a diameter of up to 18 cm.
- Bake until done in the oven at 200 degrees.
- Add cocoa powder to the second half of the dough and mix.
- Bake in the same way as the first sponge cake.
- Leave the biscuits for an hour.
- For the cream, beat the sour cream with sugar and put it in the refrigerator.
- Cut the bananas into slices, pour the pineapple pieces into a sieve to remove the juice.
- Dry the nuts a little in a dry frying pan and chop with a knife.
- Remove the biscuits from the molds and cut them lengthwise into 2 pieces.
- Soak the cakes a little with pineapple juice, except for one white one.
- Grease the chocolate cake with cream, add bananas.
- Place white cake on top, spread with cream, sprinkle with nuts.
- Chocolate again - a layer of cream and pineapples.
- Place the fourth white cake layer on top, do not grease it with anything, unless you plan to decorate it with the same sour cream.
For glaze and mastic, neither impregnation nor cream should be on the surface of the sponge cake.
- Place in the refrigerator for an hour.
Cake "Pencil"
What kind of educational process would it be without the most ordinary pencil? Using a pencil, children at school underline and sign, draw and color. In a word, a simple pencil is a very necessary and important stationery item.
Bake the cakes according to your signature recipe. Now coat the cakes with your favorite cream and use a sharp knife to give the cakes a pencil shape. Now the remaining cake cream needs to be colored with food coloring in the desired colors - yellow, cream and pink.
If you don't like the idea of food coloring, you can replace it with melted chocolate, which is sold in different colors (white, pink, milk and dark chocolate).
How to decorate a cake for September 1st?
You can decorate the treat using cream, mastic and waffle pictures. You need to choose a cream that will hold its shape well and for a long time. It is important to prepare mastic without harmful components, as well as multi-colored. A waffle picture can be a real highlight of the cake. It is enough to order it from a confectioner who has a food printer. The image can be a photo of a child against the background of the school, the entire class, or the teacher.
You can also combine these three design options to create your own unique design. In addition, you can use sweets, lollipops, marshmallows, candied fruits, nuts, chocolate or coconut chips, and gingerbread.
Please note that some additives can cause allergies. For example, honey, nuts, chocolate.
Recipe for decorating a cake on September 1st
Below is the recipe for Charlotte cream. Very soft, holds its shape well. Most often, roses and small figured elements are made with this cream.
Ingredients:
- chicken yolks – 5 pcs.;
- powdered sugar – 200 g;
- butter 82.5% fat – 250 g;
- milk – 150 ml.
Cooking sequence:
- Bring the milk and sugar mixture to a boil.
- Beat the yolks with a fork and pour them into the milk in a thin stream while stirring.
- Beat the mixture with a mixer.
- Place over low heat, bring to a boil, remove from heat.
- Cool the cream.
- Beat the butter, melted at room temperature, until fluffy, add to the milk.
- Beat the mixture thoroughly with a mixer.
- Cool slightly and use as intended.
Video recipe for mastic for children's cake
The preparation of mastic is shown in detail in the following video:
How to cover a cake with fondant:
Ingredients:
- sponge cakes - 1 package (3 pieces)
- butter - 200 gr
- condensed milk - 3/4 cans
- prune jam - 4-5 tbsp.
- nuts
- prunes
Preparation
Beat cool but soft butter with condensed milk until creamy.
Add jam to 2/3 of the prepared cream and stir.
Chop the nuts, but not very finely.
Grease the first cake with cream and jam, sprinkle with nuts and cover with the second cake.
The second cake is the same.
Spread the third cake layer with white cream and decorate it to your liking, keeping in line with the holiday theme.
Place the cake in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
Ideas for decorating holiday cakes for Knowledge Day
Depending on who the delicacy is intended for, the most suitable decoration option is selected. Cake ideas for first graders are especially varied. If the confectionery product is intended for a teacher or lecturer, it is better to stick to the classic design.
Cakes for students
The design can be quite simple in the form of a purchased themed wafer sticker:
If possible, you can make real masterpieces from mastic. For example, school supplies:
On Knowledge Day, first-graders and preschoolers can decorate the cake with fairy-tale and cartoon characters:
Comic cakes for September 1 will not only delight children with a wonderful taste, but will also lift their spirits:
Cakes for teachers
The first teacher is most often given cakes in the form of a class magazine, the first bell, or another class theme:
If you wish, you can make an inscription with wishes or congratulations:
You can choose a universal design. For example, with mirror glaze:
School Bus Cake
An amazingly beautiful birthday cake for September 1 can be made in the shape of a school bus. To create such a beautiful holiday cake, bake the cakes according to our signature recipe. Then give the cakes the desired shape, so that you end up with a bus (see photo). Cover the cake with sugar mastic. Draw small details of the bus with chocolate icing. Bus wheels can be made from cookies, gingerbread or cupcakes.
