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Printable Recipes
Birthday Angel Food Cake
Birthday Chiffon Cake
Birthday Jello Salad

Chocolate Zucchini Birthday Cake
Easy Birthday Name Cake
Easy White Birthday Cake
Microwave Ice Cream Cone Cakes

Favorite Birthday Cake Recipes
Favorite Birthday Punch Recipes

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Birthday Cake Recipes

Chocolate Birthday Cake
1 (4 oz.) pkg. sweet cooking chocolate
1/2 c. boiling water
2 c. granulated sugar
2-1/2 c. cake flour, sifted
1 c. buttermilk
1 c. butter
4 eggs, separated
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. vanilla

Melt chocolate in the boiling water. Cool. Cream the butter and add the sugar and cream until light and fluffy. Add the egg yolks, one at a time, beating after each additional egg. Add the vanilla and melted chocolate and mix until well blended. Sift the flour with the soda and salt. Add the sifted dry ingredients alternately with the buttermilk to the butter mixture beating after each addition until the batter is smooth. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites and pour the batter into 9 inch greased layer pans lined on the bottom with waxed paper. Bake 35 to 40 minutes at 350 degrees.

Chocolate Chip Birthday Cake
1 box yellow cake mix
1 box instant vanilla pudding
1 c. water
1/2 c. vegetable oil
4 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
6 oz. chocolate chips
1 bar chocolate bar, grated

Could use cake mix with pudding in it. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Pour cake mix and pudding into a bowl. Add water, oil and eggs; beat for 5 minutes. Fold in vanilla and chocolate chips. 5. Fold in chocolate bar. 6. Grease a 13"x9"x2" pan. 7. Pour cake into pan. 7. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 to 50 minutes. Cool when done. Sprinkle with 10X sugar. A favorite way to serve for parties for kids is to place batter (1 tablespoonful) into a custard cup ice cream cone. Place in muffin tins and bake 15 minutes.

Birthday Cake Icing
2 lb. bag confectioners' sugar
1/2 c. warm water
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. vanilla extract
3/4 c. Crisco shortening

Sift sugar in large bowl. Add salt, shortening, vanilla and small amount of water. Beat on high, adding more water as you beat. Continue beating for 7 to 10 minutes. If icing appears too stiff, add a small amount of water and continue beating. This icing freezes very well, if any is left over

Strawberry Birthday Cake
1 box white cake mix
2 tbsp. flour
1 (3 oz.) pkg. strawberry Jell-O
1/2 sm. pkg. frozen strawberries,
thawed
1 c. salad oil
4 eggs
1/2 c. cold water

FROSTING
2 tbsp. butter
2 or 3 tbsp. strawberry liquid
1 c. powdered sugar

Mix cake mix, flour and Jell-O. Add oil. Beat in eggs. Add water and strawberries. Mix well. Bake in two loaf pans greased and floured, or one greased pan, 13 x 9 inches for 40 to 50 minutes in 350 degree oven. For frosting: melt butter, add strawberry liquid. Mix in powdered sugar until spreading consistency.

Birthday Pound Cake
2 sticks margarine
2 c. sugar
4 eggs
2 c. flour
2/3 c. Carnation evaporated milk
2/3 tsp. lemon
Pinch salt

Cream margarine and sugar in large bowl. Add next three ingredients a little at a time. Beat cake mixture until grainy sugar taste is gone. Pour into tube pan and bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees. Ice as desired when warm.

Birthday Pudding Cake
1 Duncan Hines chocolate fudge cake mix
3 eggs
1/3 c. oil
1 pkg. instant chocolate pudding

Mix together and bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.

Sponge Birthday Cake
6 egg yolks
1-1/2 c. sugar
1-1/2 c. cake flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/3 c. cold water
2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. lemon extract
1 tsp. grated lemon peel
6 egg whites
1/2 tsp. cream of tartar
Sweetened fresh fruit or thawed
frozen fruit
Whipped cream (sweetened)

Heat oven to 325 degrees. In small bowl beat egg yolks until thick and lemon colored, 5 minutes. Pour yolks into large bowl; gradually beat in sugar. On low speed mix in flour, baking powder and salt alternately with water, flavoring and lemon peel. In another large bowl, beat egg whites and cream of tartar until stiff. Gradually fold egg yolk mixture into egg whites. Pour into ungreased tube pan, 10"x4". Bake 60 minutes or until dry. Invert pan until cake is cool. Remove cake. Slice cake into three layers. Spoon layers with custard or pudding and sweetened fresh fruit or thawed frozen fruit. Ice with sweetened whipped cream.

Favorite Birthday Cake
1 white cake mix
1 lg. vanilla pudding (instant)
1 (8 oz.) cream cheese, soft
1 lg. can crushed pineapple, drained
1 1/2 c. milk
3 sliced bananas
1 lg. Cool Whip
1 jar maraschino cherries

Mix cake and cook on cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Beat pudding, cream cheese and milk until thick. Spread on cool cake. Sprinkle on pineapple, then sliced bananas. Cover with Cool Whip. Top with cherries.

Old Fashioned Birthday Cake
2 c. all purpose flour
1-1/2 c. sugar
3-1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1/2 c. butter
1 c. milk
1 tsp. almond extract
3 eggs

Soften butter (can use margarine, but butter is delicious). Mix in sugar, add eggs, almond extract, then dry ingredients alternating with milk. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes. Grease and flour 8 or 9 inch round pans (x 2) or 13 x 9 x 2 inch pan.

Birthday Punch Recipes

Easy Birthday Punch
1 lg. can sweet pineapple juice
1 pkg. strawberry Kool Aid
1 c. sugar

Combine all ingredients in a 1-gallon container. Place in freezer and let ice crystals form in punch. No ice is needed for punch.

Sherbet Punch Recipes
1 pt. rainbow sherbet
2 liter 7-Up
1 sm. frozen orange juice
1 sm. frozen lemon juice
1 can fruit juice, any flavor
1 jar cherries

Mix all of the ingredients in a large punch bowl, adding sherbet last. Put cherry in each cup. Pour and enjoy.

Birthday Punch
1 pkg. Kool-Aid, color wanted
1 (6 oz.) can frozen lemonade
1 (6 oz.) can frozen orange juice
1 (6 oz.) can frozen pineapple juice
15-20 oz. ginger ale

Mix Kool-Aid as directed, but use only 1/2 cup sugar. Add other ingredients. Add water to make 1 gallon.

 

 
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