Best Birthday Blocks Recipes

BUILDING BLOCKS CAKES

Building Blocks Cakes image

Building a birthday cake is fun and easy thanks to cake mix, ready-to-spread frosting and marshmallows.

Provided by Betty Crocker Kitchens

Categories Dessert

Time 4h10m

Yield 12

Number Of Ingredients 6

Ingredients

1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ yellow cake mix
Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
2 containers Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting
Betty Crocker™ red, yellow and blue gel food colors
Tray or cardboard (15x12 inches), covered with wrapping paper and plastic food wrap or foil
12 large marshmallows, cut in half crosswise

Steps:

Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Grease or spray bottom and sides of 13x9-inch pan.
Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 13x9-inch pan. Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove from pan to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Refrigerate or freeze cake about 1 hour or until firm.
Meanwhile, in small bowl for each color, tint 1 cup frosting red, 1 cup frosting yellow and 2/3 cup frosting blue with food colors. Leave remaining frosting white.
Using serrated knife, cut rounded dome from top of cake to make flat surface; place cake cut side down. Cut cake crosswise into thirds. Cut one of the thirds in half crosswise to make 2 squares. Place cake pieces on tray.
To seal in crumbs, frost top and sides of 1 square cake with thin layer of blue frosting and 1 square cake with thin layer of white frosting. Frost 1 rectangular cake with thin layer of yellow frosting and 1 rectangular cake with thin layer of red frosting. Refrigerate or freeze 30 to 60 minutes to set frosting.
Add final coat of frosting to each cake. Frost 4 marshmallow halves with blue frosting; place in square design on blue cake. Frost 4 marshmallow halves with white frosting; place in square design on white cake. Frost 8 marshmallow halves with yellow frosting; place on yellow cake. Frost 8 marshmallow halves with red frosting; place on red cake. Store loosely covered.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 560, Carbohydrate 86 g, Cholesterol 55 mg, Fat 4 1/2, Fiber 0 g, Protein 2 g, SaturatedFat 5 g, ServingSize 1 Serving, Sodium 430 mg, Sugar 61 g, TransFat 4 1/2 g

BABY BLOCK SHOWER OR BIRTHDAY CAKE

Baby Block Shower or Birthday Cake image

This idea for a cake is so sweet! This would be perfect for a baby shower or even your little ones first birthday party!! You use frozen, store-bought or homemade pound cakes cut in half to make "blocks" and then frost with "b-a-b-y" or the baby/child's name that the party is celebrating!! NOTE: the quantity of cakes and frosting depends on how many blocks you need to spell out the name.

Provided by Mom2Rose

Categories Dessert

Time 30m

Yield 8-12 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 3

Ingredients

2 (10 3/4 ounce) frozen poundcake, thawed
white frosting
food coloring

Steps:

Make or buy a minimum of 2 pound cakes (quantity depends on how big of a name you are spelling).
Slice in half width-wise and shave sides and top accordingly to make a cube.
Color appropriate amount of white frosting with food coloring to make pink, blue or whatever colors "blocks" you want.
Frost all sides but the bottom of the blocks with the colored frosting.
Using a frosting gun or a ziploc (with tip cut) filled with remaining white frosting - write the first letter on all sides, including the top of the block.
Repeat with the additional "blocks" by finishing out the name you are using.
Arrange blocks to spell out the name on a beautiful platter and getting ready for the compliments!
NOTE: You could also bake 2 13x9 cakes and cut into cubes and make the "blocks" 2-layers stacked.
You could get even fancier and pipe the contrasting color of frosting onto the edges/trim of the blocks to define them more.
Or you could decorate the blocks with the white frosting and spell the baby's name out with the color-tinted frosting.
The possibilities are endless!