Kid Birthday Cake Recipe

Cake
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
3/4 cup LAND O LAKES® Butter, softened
4 large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 cup milk

Frosting
3/4 cup LAND O LAKES® Butter, softened
6 cups powdered sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup whipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons light corn syrup

1. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour 2 (9-inch) round baking pans. Set aside.
2. Combine flour, baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt in large bowl. Set aside.
3. Beat 1 1/2 cups sugar and 3/4 cup butter in large mixer bowl at medium speed, scraping bowl occasionally, until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add 1 tablespoon vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition just until mixed.
4. Divide batter evenly between prepared pans. Bake for 29 to 34 minutes or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool on wire racks 10 minutes. Loosen cake by running knife around inside edge of pans. Carefully remove cake from pans; cool completely.
5. Beat 3/4 cup butter in large bowl at medium speed until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar and 1/8 teaspoon salt alternately with whipping cream and 1 teaspoon vanilla, scraping bowl often, until well mixed. Stir in corn syrup.
6. To assemble, place 1 cake layer on serving plate, bottom-side up; frost top. Place remaining cake layer over frosting, bottom-side down; frost top and sides of cake. Decorate as desired.

Frosting Variations:

Chocolate Frosting: Add 2 to 3 squares melted unsweetened baking chocolate.
Lemon or Orange Frosting: Stir in 1 tablespoon grated lemon or orange peel.
Coconut Frosting: Stir in 1 1/2 teaspoons coconut extract or flavoring.

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Dinosaur Birthday Cake (Kid Birthday Cake Recipe)

1 pkg. (2-layer size) cake mix, any flavor
1 tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed
3 or 4 drops each: red and blue food coloring
1 roll ring-shaped hard candy
1/4 cup assorted small candy balls

PREPARE and bake cake mix as directed on package for 13x9-inch baking pan. Cool completely. Transfer cake to a cutting board; cut into pieces as shown in photo and diagram below.
TINT whipped topping with food coloring. Using small amount of whipped topping to hold pieces together, arrange cake on serving tray as directed in tip below.
FROST cake with remaining whipped topping. Decorate with candy.

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Kid Birthday Cake Recipe - Inchworm Birthday Cake

1 package cake mix (any flavor)
Water, oil and eggs called for on cake mix package
8 drops green food color
1-1/2 tubs vanilla ready-to-spread frosting
Tray or cardboard, 19x14 inches, covered
5 candy-coated chocolate candies
2 vanilla wafer cookies
2 small pretzel sticks
24 gumdrops

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 12-cup bundt cake pan. Make cake mix as directed on package, using water, oil and eggs. Pour into pan.

Bake as directed on package or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour.

Cut cake as shown in diagram A. Freeze pieces uncovered 1 hour for easier frosting. Stir food color into frosting. Arrange cake pieces on tray to form inchworm as shown in diagram B. Frost cake, attaching pieces with frosting.

Attach 1 chocolate candy to each vanilla wafer with frosting; attach to end of cake for eyes. Press 3 candies into frosting for mouth. Gently push 1 pretzel stick into flat end of gumdrop; repeat. Insert pretzels stick into cake for antennae. Arrange remaining gumdrops along edge for feet. Great Kid Birthday Cake Recipe.

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