There is really nothing better than a homemade cake!
Working on the simplest batter!
Regularly, people ask me about what I make/ bake with the kids during my Cooking Classes for kids! Today, I decided to unveil the story behind one of my last Cooking Class. The two Boys and one Girl who registered for my 2 classes Cooking Session were triplets and since they were turning 7 this week, together, we decided to bake (from scratch) and decorate their own Birthday cake. They were so exited about the idea, they were jumping all over the place and screaming of joy when I announced it!
How often our kids (and ourselves) have the privilege to eat a Birthday cake made with love from a loved one from scratch? Using Organic milk, Free-range eggs, Organic Flour and Sugar? Since I have been living in California, I can’t recall one single Birthday where I ate a Homemade Birthday Cake. No, the ones people get are the ones from the same Supermarket or Grocery store: full of fluorescent colors, heavy frosting, and all the unhealthy stuff you find to keep your cake good for a few days…weeks?
I remember years ago reading an great article in the New York Times Sunday magazine where the Author was pointing out very true facts: here is really nothing better than a homemade cake. Even if the layers are lopsided, the frosting a bit gritty or thickly plastered to camouflage baking sins, homemade cakes are generally moister, denser and dreamier than their bakery brethren.
Further, home-baked cakes strike a blow against the modern industrialization of children’s birthday parties, in which 20, 6-year-old kids are dragooned to a gym, led around tumbling mats by grim-faced instructors for $45 a head, then sent home with goody bags filled with embarrassingly expensive electronic doodads.
Homemade cakes say, “It is perfectly fine to stuff into my smallish home, play pin the tail on the donkey and leave with a loot bag holding edible bracelets and a plastic puzzle that will break in a week.”
Take back childhood, people!
Years late I still remember this article.
I encourage you to read the article in full written by Jennifer Steinhaur The Way we eat: as easy as….
Back to my Cooking Class, I used a French recipe based on simple staples ( that everyone has in their pantry/ fridge) such as flour, white eggs, sugar and baking powder, very, very easy for kids to make on their own. Then the Cake needs only 20 minutes to be baked. Then we worked on the filling. I bought Nutella, Strawberry jam, fresh peaches and mangoes. I asked the kids if they wanted peaches and mangoes in their filling with the Nutella spread. Since one boy did not like mangoes we went for the peaches.
So the filling was a great marriage: a chocolate-hazelnut spread with peaches.
The cake was cut in half .
Filling: Chocolate-Hazelnut spread with fresh peaches
Then I cover the cake with the other plain piece of cake, we needed something to stick the sprinkles! It was a hot day and heavy coating with butter cream or frosting was out of question! So we coated the top of the cake with some Strawberry Jam, then each kids sprinkled the cake with any sprinkles they wanted! For sure it was a colorful cake but beautiful cake!
Voila!
Look how happy the kids are! And yes if you want to know the cake was delicious, D, M and Q ate a big piece of cake then they took back the rest of the cake to share with their family!
Happy Birthday D, M an
d Q!
Close-up for TPSisterhood!
catie
celine!!
i am just now seeing your “close-up for tpsisterhood”!!
très magnifique!
♥ catie