What is the ideal cake for a birthday?!
Answers: For a child, age 8.
a sheet cake with one half chocolate and the other half vanilla, with the childs favorite character. etc on top of the cake.
Ice cream cake with killer decorations on it.
I think the ideal cake would be cupcakes.
Make the cupcakes and then let each kid decorate their own cupcake as a party game. Put out funky colored/flavored icings.....then put out plastic spoons in small bowls of sprinkles, tube icing ...chocolate chips....nuts..mini marshmallows...and small candies.....as a buffet type deal so the kids really want to decorate their cupcakes.
put a 9x11" cake pan on the table for the kids to hold their cupcake over to put their decorations on their cupcakes.
Do a very small cake as the 'Birthday Cake' with a big #8 on it.....just for the birthday kid.........then have all the cupcakes as individual cake servings.
I find a muffin mix works well - definitely chocolate. For an 8th party I would make two round cakes (to make a number 8). I would then cover them in cadburys chocolate and then put sweets on the chocolate as it sets. I have in the past used maltesers, smarties, jelly sweets, fizzy laces, midget gems, and dolly mixtures. Very easy, cheap and always goes down a treat!
lots of frosting with ice cream...u can make it ureself!! or u can go to baskin robbins and just buy and ice cream cake but it kinda expensive..just buy a bucket of any flavor ice cream and make ure own cake,,its cheaper and has more meaning since u made it..heres an awesome chocolate cake recipe with good frosting..actually, u can just go to the store and get chocolate frosting with lots of sprinkles...let them have cake and hot fudge sundaes!!
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup grated semisweet chocolate
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
3/4 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon water
2 cups cake flour
1/2 cup butter, softened
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degree F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9 x 13 inch pan.
Grate the chocolate. In a small saucepan, boil the milk and chocolate until mixture forms a custard.
Cream the butter or margarine and sugar. Add eggs and sour cream to the creamed mixture.
Dissolve the baking soda in water, and add to the creamed mixture. Add the flour, and mix thoroughly. Add the chocolate mixture and beat well. Pour into a greased and floured 9x13 inch pan.
Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 40 minutes to one hour.
oh yah..i have this recipe..its called chocolate dump cake..it is not exactly a cake..its a mixture of chocolate pudding..cool whip..candy bars such as crunch and heath bar..and chocolate cake mix..and oreo cookies...u just make the cake according to the box...then u dump that into a bowl and break it up in to little pieces..then add in the cool whip, pudding, crushed up oreos and crushed up candy bars..just mix together in a big bowl..it delicious!!!
Has to be a chocolate sponge with white chocolate frosting. Anything colourful would be good and an assortment of cup cakes would be easier to eat. If the child has a favorite thing creating a shape e.g. bear or train etc would be stunning!
it depend on if a girl , she may like someone on Disney and he may like the same ,what is his or her favorite thing
What is he/she really into right now? Maybe you could ask the cake decorator (if you are buying it) to put it on the cake as a design if they can. They usually always have a book too with the designs they can put on it, he/she can pick it out. Basically my mom always bought a cake that was half and half (half vanilla and half chocolate) with whipped cream frosting with my picked design on it.
It was always a special treat for me knowing that I got to pick the pretty design that was on my cake!
Hope your child has a wonderful birthday! :)