First Birthday Cake

slice of fruit decorated cake next to a number 1 birthday cake

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4.60 from 40 votes

A quick and easy first birthday cake idea that can be ready to serve to guests in well under an hour.

Prep Time35

Total Time35

Course: Birthday

Cuisine: New Zealand

Keyword: 1st birthday cake, baby birthday cake, first birthday cake, number 1 cake, quick birthday cake

Servings: servings

Calories: 111kcal

Author: Stacey

Ingredients

1 large square cake approx 21cm x 21 cm
300 ml cream
2 tablespoon maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups fresh fruit and berries

Instructions

We will start with preparing the cake

I made my number 1 cake a double layer cake, if you plan on doing this, as well then start with splitting the cake into 2 layers horizontally with a cake leveler or knife
I detail how to create the number 1 shaped cake above. But in a nutshell, you will cut the square cake into 3 even rectangles, and use these to form the number one
I save the excess piece from the top of the number 1 to create a smash cake for the baby

Prepare the fruit

slice the fruit into even-sized pieces. For my cake I used raspberries, blueberries, kiwifruit, clementine/mandarin pear and apple (I include a video tutorial on this page for creating flowers from clementines/mandarins
Whip the cream
Place the cream, vanilla, and maple syrup in a large bowl and whip (a wee tip, chill the bowl and beaters before you start this makes your cream even whippier and fluffier!) (If you would prefer to use an alternative sweetener there are some ideas in my blog post)
If you are making this cake in advance you may want to stabilise your whipped cream, I have linked some techniques for this above. I added 2 teaspoon of cornflour to the mix before beating to stabilise my whipped cream
Fill a piping bag with the whipped cream, I used no tip on my bag, you could also
Put it all together
Lay the base layer of the cake on your cake board, in the shape of the number 1, if you have chosen to add a fruit purée spread this on the cake (see my notes above)
Pipe even round 'blobs' of cream onto the base layer, I found I needed 3 blobs of cream per row to cover the cake
Add the top layer of cake.
Pipe cream right around the edges of the cake
Top the cake with the fruit you have prepared
Chill until ready to serve

Video

Nutrition

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