School is starting soon and almost all school children are excited about it. School starters in particular are looking forward to the upcoming start of school and are preparing for the school enrollment ceremony. An important point is the dessert. You can either prepare a cake or a cake for school, or replace it with appropriately decorated cookies or tarts.
Cleaning up children's rooms and replacing toys with school supplies only means one thing - starting school! And the perfect back-to-school party needs a perfect oneTortewith appropriate motifs. You can convert any cake into a suitable dessert for the occasion by printing a school bus, some books and writing materials out of paper and sticking them on sticks. You can then place the decoration in the middle of the cake. This way you get a beautiful cake for your first day of school without wasting a lot of time preparing it.
Creative ideas
For parents who want to make not only the day, but also the dessert unforgettable, canCakes with fondanttransform into any school supplies. For the start of school, for example, cakes that look like a large school bag with school supplies are suitable. The details are the most important in order to get a good end result. If you are not an expert at working with fondant, we recommend that you order the cake for training instead of baking it yourself.
Surprise the school child with a large school enrollment cake
The cake for those starting school is almost as important as the school cone. That's why parents and relatives can surprise the schoolchild with a larger cake with several tiers and make his eyes light up. However, you should adjust the size of the cake to the number of invited guests so that there isn't too much left over.
Sheet cake with matching lettering
Labels with sugar writing are often used on motif cakes. Congratulations, the child's name, school and class are a common decoration for the school entry cake or cake. If, on the other hand, the cake is given to the teacher, you can write some nice things for them in sugar writing.
Fondant cake for back to school with the child's name
Fondant cakes definitely offer the largest selection of ideas and designs for every occasion. Large edible letters that write the child's name and fondant figures such as school buses are very popular with children at the start of school.
Decorate with congratulations
A nice design idea for the back-to-school cake would be to decorate it with a fondant school board and write a short congratulation. Choose a shorter sentence, such as: “Congratulations on starting school!” or “Happy starting school!”. Longer poems andBack to school sayingsbelong more to greeting cards.
Colorful cakes
Colorful cakes that look fun are recommended for starting school. Designing a cake using crayons or colored pencils is an original idea that combines all the colors of the rainbow. If you make the back-to-school cake yourself, you will need food coloring to create the colorful effect.
Bake your own cake
You can easily make your own back-to-school cake or cake in the form of a school cone or a pen. Next we would like to show how to design the cake as a pencil. The preparation is super easy and doesn't take too much time. You will need the ingredients for a simple sheet cake, a baking sheet, buttercream, food coloring and a piping bag.
Pencil Cake – Instructions
First bake a vanilla or chocolate sheet cake in a tray and let it cool. Then use a sharp knife to cut the cake into the shape of a pencil. Next, spread it with white buttercream and make markers for the different colors. Then spray the different parts with the appropriate color until the pencil cake is ready for school.
You can find further instructions for cutting a school cake including templatesin this article.
Matching cake decorations and most popular back-to-school motifs
There are many suitable decorations for the cake for school enrollment. You can either use just one motif like the pencil and crayons cake, or combine different cake decorations. School cones, writing materials, rulers, erasers, blackboards and fondant chalk pens are very popular. Lettering with letters and simple calculations also go well with a cake or cake for starting school.
Making a popular cake
When celebrating starting school, you shouldn't necessarily prepare or order a themed cake. If your child has a favorite cake, you can have it prepared for the occasion. Below we present the recipe for a simple back-to-school cake with chocolate chips and colorful sugar sprinkles.
Simple recipe idea for school cakes
For a cake that tastes exactly like a chocolate chip cookie, you will need:
– 170 g melted butter
– 250g brown sugar
– 125 g fine sugar
– 1 large egg + 1 egg yolk
– 2 TL Vanilleextrakt
– 500 g Flour
– 3/4 TL Backnatron
– 1/2 tsp sea salt
– 250 g chocolate drops
– 80 g colored sugar sprinkles.
The finished mixture is baked in a baking tray at 175 degrees for 25 minutes. You can serve the cake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and enjoy it either cold or warm.
Make your own cake decorations for the start of school
With colored fondant you can create beautifulMake your own cake decorations for school enrollmentand use it to decorate the cake, cake or other dessert. For the alphabet you can use cookie cutters so that all the letters have a good shape and look the same.
Cupcakes instead of cakes
Instead of a cake or cake for school, you can prepare cupcakes or muffins and decorate them with homemade cake decorations. Finally, you can also sprinkle with sugar sprinkles and treat friends and relatives to the start of school.
Bake cookies
Home-baked cookies are an alternative dessert. Like the tarts and cakes, they can be decorated as desired and are a crunchy surprise for the school child.
Make a back-to-school cake with school supplies
Are you looking for creative ideas for starting school that will impress your newbie and at the same time be used in school? You can make a cake yourself out of school supplies for the start of school and give it to the child as a gift when they start school.
Cake made from school supplies - instructions
To make the school supplies multi-tiered, you can use several boxes of different sizes and glue them together. You will also need various school materials such as crayons, felt-tip pens, scissors, glue and similar utensils that are needed at school.
Make your own as a gift
Follow the instructions in the pictures to make this original back-to-school cake yourself. With a small pennant chain with a lettering at the top you can congratulate the school child and wish them a happy new school year. You can find more ideas with instructions for a back-to-school pencil cakein this article.
