Quarantine Birthday cake ideas for beginners

 

I am not a cake maker - I am not specialized in baking – But Covid – 19 pandemic changed everything. I think you also experiencing the same. Yes staying at home, ordering online grocery, maintaining social distancing, no parties, no travel and many more right. I am seeing lot of people posting new talents on social networks so I thought of making something new. Thanks to my Sweet husband for supporting me silently without saying NO for my experiments.

Baking baking baking – This always inspires me and makes me feel proud when I bake something that turns good. 2020 quarantine cake ideas are more running out in the search engines but as a beginner what cake I can make, how best I can make the cake, how can I make homemade birthday cake with brilliant flavors. All these questions are answerable in this blog.

#1 Yes, I started my baking with best Pound cake



A smooth, fluffy and light sweet pound cake is my first challenge during quarantine. Because for making best cake the base is the king then comes the decoration part. So, if you are a beginner then start with simple pound cake or vanilla cake. Checkout for different type of pound cake or sponge vanilla cake recipes that are available in YOUTUBE. Above is the picture of my first quarantine cake that I started with. I used hand mixer for making all the cakes.

#2 Quarantine baking time -  chocolate cake 



This time I am so happy with my first quarantine homemade vanilla cake and want to go a bit higher. So, started looking few videos for making chocolate cake that I wanted to gain a best moist cake to the end. I baked a single 8-inch cake with perfect measurements of ingredients and achieved a nice chocolate cake. Don’t look at my cake decoration its really bad as first time I decorated the cake with chocolate buttercream. But believe me the cake texture and taste is really awesome and I got a huge compliments from my family and friends. This is the right time to order the pipping kit. Don’t order a costly one till you get some experience. I even don’t have all the tools that are required for making birthday cake but I managed with some substitutes.

Tip 1:  Instead of cake scraper I used a card that is not working (gift card) for scrapping the cake sides and top. It worked great why don’t you try.

#3 I made a cupcakes for Quarantine birthday party (Rainbow theme cupcakes)





After eating my chocolate cake one of my friends asked me to make cup cakes for her daughters drive thru birthday party. I made few vanilla cup cakes and few chocolate cupcakes. I used the pipping bags and tips to decorate the cupcakes. Though the decoration is simple but as a beginner I felt that’s good. Have a look to my cup cakes. 

Quarantine birthday parade ideas are really amazing that you can make it special for your loved ones. We decorated the cupcakes along with few other like chocolate fountain, popcorn and snow ice. So kids really enjoyed by maintaining social distancing.

#4 Change the icing and frosting to make the best quarantine cake




Yes all done with your cake base and you are pro now so start playing with frosting and icing. Try whip cream frosting and chocolate drip on the top. Whip cream frosting gives a light sweet taste and looks great. Most of the kids love to eat whip cream frostings. Even my kid loves it! So I tried marble cake this time during quarantine time with whip cream frosting and chocolate drip. Tastes good why don’t you try.

#5 Quarantine homemade strawberry cake from scratch





I love to make the cakes always from scratch because of two reasons – best taste and texture. Yes this time for my dad’s birthday I tried to make his favorite strawberry cake from the ground. I bought a big packet of fresh strawberries and started my reduction. Its always great to cook the reduction with frozen strawberries so best freeze them for two days before making strawberry reduction. Strawberry and chocolate are the best combination so try using chocolate for decorating.

#6 Homemade Neapolitan cake made during quarantine




Now I got a good idea on the flavors of the cake so started mixing them together and forming a nice Neapolitan cake. Chocolate, strawberry and vanilla are the three cake bases I prepared first then I decorated with buttercream with same flavors. I used lot of buttercream for decorating the cake but you can also try just crumb coating the cake with the colors in a light way. I used a spoon and pipping bag with round tip for decorating this.

#7 How about Fondant designs – Its easy walk thru




After making all these cakes I heard about fondant cakes but I took lot of time to start because I thought its difficult but its really simple. I made a marshmallow fondant and colored with different colors to make this cake. Bought marshmallows, powdered sugar and shortening. I used icing colors for practicing but once you are pro you can try best colors. Watch the best marshmallow fondant video from YouTube and start making it accordingly. I made only the decoration with fondant the remaining white cream is nothing but vanilla buttercream. For swirl decoration I used chop sticks.

#8 Best chocolate cake ever – Complete quarantine cake decorating ideas




This is a complete chocolate cake that I made it for my daughter birthday. I thought of making completely chocolate so decorated with chocolate buttercream and baker’s chocolate flakes all around till top. And I used a small white marshmallow fondant piece to wish my three-year-old daughter a Happy birthday. A gold color edible glitter and black color edible marker is used to write the Happy birthday wish on fondant. 

#9 My First attempt to Tier cake – Three tier perfect cake homemade

My daughter’s requirement – Though she is 3-year-old but she is so clear about her wanting’s. She asked me for ABC letter cake with little balloons on top. I thought of making three tier cake because she is 3 years and I want to make little excited by adding Birthday cake M&Ms on the top so that once she cut the cake the M&Ms will pop out from the cake.


As I mentioned above gathering all requirements, I started making the cake bases first. First layer is chocolate, second layer is strawberry and top is Tutti frutti vanilla cake with M&ms. Buttercream frosting and fondant letters and balloons.

Tip: I didn’t use the cake dowels to stack the tier cake instead I used skewers. Check this link for the clear info.

#10 A healthy carrot almond cake for a best quarantine birthday





Quarantine 2020 cake ideas. Its time to make something healthy. So, I prepared a best carrot cake by adding almonds to it. Decorated with orange and green butter and cheese cream frosting. I made few cup cakes along with that by decorating it cutely with little carrots.         

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