Donut cake for a child's birthday: delicious recipes

Craving something sweet? A colorful and delicious cake is simply part of a child's birthday. Homemade and lovingly decorated treats for children are guaranteed to create excitement at the children's table. We have therefore put together several recipes for a donut cake for all hobby bakers. The unusual shape and the strong colors make it a real eye-catcher that will cause a sensation among the guests. Get inspired by the ideas described below and maybe you'll find one you'd like to try.

Recipe for delicious 3-layer donut cake with sugar icing

The first recipe is for a donut cake with icing. The three bases are also richly decorated with chocolate sprinkles. The birthday cake has 12 pieces. You can bake them for a child's birthday or as a souvenir to a family celebration. The cake is also the perfect dessert for a garden party. Their cheerful colors will give the festive buffet a fresh touch and create a festive atmosphere at the table. You can either bake them and serve them immediately afterwards, or cover them with plastic wrap and refrigerate them after baking. In order to bake the cake bases, you need a Bundt cake tin.

Here are the ingredients for the cake layers:

• 340 g unsalted butter
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 5 eggs at room temperature
• 1 tbsp vanilla sugar
• 3 cups flour
• 1 THE Natron
• 1/4 tbsp salt
• 1 cup milk at room temperature

And the ingredients for the icing:

• 6 cups sugar
• 3 tbsp vanilla sugar
• 1 cup heavy cream
• Food colors: lime green, blue and pink
• Rainbow colored sugar sprinkles

Preparation: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius without fan circulation. Grease the bundt cake tin. Using the paddle of a stand mixer, beat the butter and sugar until creamy, 4-5 minutes. Gradually add the eggs and mix with the butter mixture. Add the vanilla sugar and stir in.

In another bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt. Mix in portions alternately with the milk and with the butter mixture until a homogeneous mixture is formed. Pour a third of the dough into the greased tin and bake for 25 to 30 minutes. Allow to cool to room temperature, then carefully remove the first cake layer from the pan. Grease the baking pan again and bake the second and third cake layers.

To make the glaze, divide the two cups of sugar into three bowls. Add a tablespoon of vanilla sugar to each bowl. Divide the cream into three and add one part to each bowl. Stir the cream until foamy. Dissolve the food coloring in the water and add the lime green coloring to the first bowl, the pink coloring to the second bowl and the blue coloring to the third bowl and stir.

First, spread the lime green icing on the first cake layer and sprinkle with the sugar sprinkles. Then place the second cake layer on top and spread with the blue icing and sprinkle with sugar sprinkles. Then place the third cake layer on top and decorate with the pink icing and sugar sprinkles. Leave the cake at room temperature for half an hour until the icing sets.

Donut cake with chocolate

The next recipe is for a donutCake with chocolate. The delicious birthday cake is ready quickly and has 12 pieces.

The necessary ingredients for the cake decoration:

• Small round hole cookies
• Icing for cupcakes
• Zuckerstreusel
• Small donuts as cake decorations

The necessary ingredients for the cake base:

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 3/4 cups flour
• 3/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 1/2 THE Natron
• 1 tbsp salt
• 2 Owner
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup sunflower oil
• 2 tbsp vanilla sugar
• 1 cup boiling water

For the glaze:

• 3/4 cup egg whites, pasteurized
• 6 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup salt
• 3 cups butter, unsalted, at room temperature
• 2 tbsp vanilla sugar

Preparation: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius and grease two round cake pans with a diameter of 20 cm. In a large bowl, combine the sugar, flour, baking soda and salt. Add the eggs, milk, sunflower oil and vanilla sugar and stir everything for 2 minutes with the paddle of a stand mixer. Lastly, stir in the boiling water and pour the liquid batter into the baking tins. Bake for thirty minutes, let cool to room temperature for 10 minutes. Then you can bake the round hole cookies. You can use any recipe and at the end you simply have to decorate the cookies with the icing and sugar sprinkles. Then, for the icing, mix the pasteurized egg whites with the powdered sugar and salt and stir until creamy for 5 minutes. Set the mixer to the lowest setting and slowly stir in the softened butter. Then add the vanilla sugar and stir for 8-10 minutes. Spread the cream on the first cake layer and place the second cake layer on top. Spread with the glaze and decorate with the donuts.

Creatively decorate birthday cake

Are you short on time and looking for a quick alternative to donut cake? Then you have the option of arranging donuts on a cake stand like a multi-tiered cake and decorating them as you wish. To make the “cake” taste really delicious, you can prepare your own icing and decorate the donuts with it. Edible flowers, cream and sugar sprinkles can decorate the treats.