First Birthday Cake - How do I cut a cake into the number 1?!
First Birthday Cake - How do I cut a cake into the number 1?
I have a 9 x 13 pan, and I want the final cake to look like a number one for a baby's first birthday. I had a book with some ideas, but can't find it anywhere.
Answers:
Cut the 13 x 9 cake in half vertically. Use one vertical piece for the main part of the "one".
Then cut the second vertical piece in a 1:2 ratio...one piece is one-third of the vertical piece and the second is two-thirds of the vertical piece. Take the longer piece you just cut and center it up along the bottom of the "one".
Cut a corner diagonally off the smaller piece so it goes from one corner to about one-third down the long side. Snug that diagonal cut up against the left side of the top part of the "one". This should give you a nice "one" shape and give you a small snack at the same time!
Brush the crumbs off and frost as you wish.
Use a knife and just cut it out.
You could make a paper template and then lay it on the cake to use as a guide.
I don't have the exact directions, but my friend made one similiar by cutting the cake in 1/2 vertically. Then cutting one of the vertical pieces in 1/2 again. She used one of these halves for the botton of the one and the other half for the top left part of the one.
maybe u can make the cake into a square/rectangle, and then get a large "1 size" tracer, and put it through the cake.
That way you can have the figure of 1, and leave the extras out.
Hope this helps.
i made what is called a "lolly cake" for the kids birthdays... it is an unbaked cake made of butter, condensed milk, biscuits and chopped fruit puffs. can be moulded into just about any shape. if you want the recepie then just contact me