So last week I showed you how to make a delicious funfetti Daniel Tiger smash cake for a kids first birthday smash session. This week I'm here with the Daniel Tiger birthday cake! Remember how I told you that I had originally planned to throw my daughter a small party, since she was turning one etc etc etc... then that all went out the window. Well it went out the window about 4 months before her birthday when I started searching for first birthday party ideas on Pinterest and decided she should have a Daniel Tiger birthday party since she loves him! I searched and searched for ideas on a Daniel Tiger birthday cake and then I found this website. How perfect is that? It has other food ideas besides the cake and it also has decorating ideas and game ideas for the party! That came in handy because a few of her cousins who are older came and so we had coloring pages and a couple games on hand to entertain them. The recipe here makes one 9 in round cake for you to decorate. I did not include an additional recipe for the cupcakes (I did a different flavor for the ears.) You'll want to remember to save a little bit of icing for the whiskers. I completely forgot and dyed it all orange and then I made PH go buy me a small bag of white icing because I did not feel like cleaning everything I had used just to make a tablespoon of frosting. Use the same frosting recipe here, but use orange food coloring instead. Now I used the full recipe because we had her birthday party on the same day of my brother's birthday (her actual birthday is the day before his) so I used the extra cake for him. If you don't want to make a full batch of cupcakes you could just increase the measurements here slightly (I'd say by 1/4 for two cupcakes) just to make two cupcakes. It really is a matter of how many kids will be at your party, and how much you like leftover cake.
I've also included some of my notes regarding the decorating. I followed the directions at the website to decorate the cake with these few variations I mention at the bottom of the recipe. This cake was delicious, and fun to make except for the eyes. Those Oreos drove me nuts! Be very gentle with them!
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I am still a little overwhelmed/appalled that my baby girl turned one. Also, it happened almost a month ago now, and I'm still pretty offended by that. I fully intended for her first birthday to be a quiet affair because she is little and would not remember and I did not want her to be overwhelmed.... but that definitely did not end up being what happened.
We threw her a Daniel Tiger Themed Birthday Party because she LOVES Daniel Tiger. We did a smash cake photo shoot, and I decided to make the cake. Then I decided to tell you guys how to make it, so you could make it too!
I decided to do a six inch cake because it's not like our tiny tot was going to eat the whole thing anyway. Although she did dig into that frosting pretty well. My husband tried to throw it away afterwards. My reaction was, "heck no! We are eating that cake!" We just scraped off the messy parts that she and enjoyed. It is a little bit of a bummer to see your beautiful creation be annihilated. It was annihilated by my even more beautiful creation though, and she really was so cute doing it. She went right for the cake!
This is a simple recipe for a delicious funfetti cake. Funfetti feels appropriate for Daniel Tiger. The roads in the land of make believe look like funfetti roads. I decided to do the decorative icing in yellow and orange because bright, happy colors is also a Daniel Tiger staple. It is three layers, which may feel like a lot for a baby, but like I said, you can all enjoy the cake afterwards. Just cut away the part where baby really got in there and enjoyed her birthday cake!
This cake brought her a lot of joy, and it can bring you and your little one joy as well! Happy Daniel Tiger cake smashing!
This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. 3 Winks Design does not share your personal information. All views expressed are our own. Thank you for your support! Happy New Year! The holidays are over and I am still depressed about that. I am here to try and cheer us all up with this delicious Chicken Soup Recipe!
Don't you love chicken soup? Chicken soup is like going home. That's why they have all of those Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Because it is good for you! Well, here in Phoenix we had winter last week. It was really ridiculously cold! Also, my little girl was sick, just in time for Christmas and her first birthday. It was a total bummer. So, I went into super mom mode and made some homemade chicken soup to try and heal her (she ended up having an ear infection, so antibiotics also played a role in the process.) Wherever you are in the country right now, you might be experiencing winter. You might be experiencing sickness. You might be experiencing post holiday ennuyeux. No matter what your personal state of being is right now, this soup will help. It is tasty, and easy to make! Make this Chicken Soup, curl up by a fire, and read your favorite copy of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Feel better, because I will soon be sharing with you how to make a gluten free smash cake for a baby's first birthday, and we're going to need to be over our post holiday funk for that!
Lindsey wrote this post back in 2015, right after we first started this blog. She hadn't been home from her mission in France very long and she was excited to talk about the extension of the Christmas holiday that she got to know very well while there. You may have heard of 3 Kings Day, celebrated on January 6-7th. It is a holiday in Europe. In France it is called Epiphany. It has to do with the three wise men coming to see Jesus after he was born. Many people don't realize that the Wise Men didn't arrive to see the Christ child until much later than the shepherds, as they followed the new star that appeared in the heavens on the night of his birth.
So how do Europeans celebrate Epiphany? They bake a cake, with something inside it called a "feve" (because it used to be a fava bean.) After it is baked, someone hides under the table and tells you who to serve the slices to, everyone then eats their slice and the person who finds the feve gets to be king or queen for a day. Basically it is an excuse to eat cake. There are a few different versions of king cake floating around France (and I am sure the rest of Europe, but here at Three Winks we only care about France.Ha Ha) My favorite is the brioche. Don't ask me to describe what the cake tastes like in English, because I can't. It is cake. What more do you need to know? I got this King cake recipe from my favorite French super baker tartelette, and I just made a few adjustments, because I don't generally have orange blossom flower water lying around the house. (I know, I need to be better.) So I made it with a mixture of the pure vanilla extract that my sister in law's mother made and almond extract (to remind you of the other type of king cake, frangipane, that has almond paste in it.) If you are as cool as tartelette, use the orange blossom flower water. The woman is French after all so she knows what she is talking about. Want to see some pictures?
After it was all baked... I went to bed because it was super late. The next day after my oldest niece and nephew got home from school I sliced it up. My niece Shyanne hid under the table and called out who got which piece. My sister in law Korina ended up with the feve and got to be queen for the day. She was happy because she asked if the queen gets a foot massage and I said yes, but not from me.
Good thing she has four kids and a husband to take care of that. So, king cakes. They are a fun little tradition, and you get to eat cake! Check out tartelette's blog for her king cake recipe and try it out! Happy belated Epiphany!
Here are some ideas for favors if you need them!
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