What to cook for your child's birthday

What to cook for a child’s birthday is a question facing every mother on the eve of a small home party for her child and his friends. The menu for a children's party has special requirements: appropriate for the age of the children, taste preferences, especially regarding sweet desserts, and of course tasty, healthy and beautiful dishes.

Homemade turtle cake with sour cream

Interesting appearance and delicate taste make homemade Turtle cake with sour cream a popular and sought-after dessert on children's holiday tables. It is easy to prepare, but takes time. The base of the cake is small sponge cakes, which are perfectly soaked in sour cream, and the decoration of the baked goods requires the creativity of the housewife and the help of the children. The cake needs at least 12 hours to soak.

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   Break the eggs into a separate bowl, add sugar and beat them with a mixer at high speed until the volume doubles.
2. 
   Sift the flour into a sieve. Without turning off the mixer, pour the flour into the beaten eggs in portions and knead the dough until smooth. Turn on the oven to 180°C.
3. 
   Quench the soda with vinegar, add to the dough and mix it again. The kneaded dough should have a creamy texture.
4. 
   Cover the baking sheet with paper. Using a large spoon, place the kneaded dough onto a baking sheet in the form of identical round cakes and at a distance from each other.
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   Bake the cakes for 8-10 minutes until golden brown, just be careful not to dry them out. Then transfer them from the baking sheet to any surface and cool.
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   For the cream, place cold sour cream in a mixer bowl, add sugar and, gradually increasing the speed, beat them into a thick, fluffy mass.
7. 
   To assemble the “Turtle”, grease a large dish with sour cream and place 4 cake layers, which will be “legs”.
8. 
   Place the cakes in layers and decreasing quantities on a dish, generously greasing each layer with cream.
9. 
   Thus, shape the cake in the shape of a turtle shell. Leave one cake for the “head”.
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    Grease the entire surface of the cake with the remaining cream. Place the cake in the refrigerator overnight to soak the cakes in cream.
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    After this time, prepare the glaze for the “Turtle”. Place the butter in a saucepan, add sugar and melt the butter over low heat while stirring.
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    Add sour cream and cocoa to this mass, mix well until smooth, remove from heat and cool.
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    Apply the cooled glaze in an even thin layer to the surface of the “Turtle”.
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    Then put the cake in the refrigerator again for a while so that the glaze hardens. Decorate the prepared cake to your liking and can serve it on the festive table. Delicious and successful baking!

Puff pastry Napoleon cake

Napoleon cake made from puff pastry, despite its ease of preparation, is welcome on any table, and no exception at a children's party. Ready-made puff pastry allows the housewife to quickly prepare the cake, and the custard gives it a special taste. In this recipe we take puff pastry without yeast, and prepare the cream based on milk, yolks, butter and sugar. The soaking time for the cake is 8-24 hours.

Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Servings: 10.

Ingredients:

• Yeast-free puff pastry – 1 kg.

For cream:

• Milk – 1 l.
• Flour – 90 gr.
• Sugar – 300 gr.
• Yolk – 3 pcs.
• Vanilla sugar – 1 sachet.
• Butter – 150 gr.

For decoration:

• Fruits - to taste.
• Jelly for the cake - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. First of all, prepare all the ingredients for the cake according to the recipe.

Step 2. Thaw the puff pastry in advance and at room temperature. Turn on the oven at 200°C. Divide the dough into longitudinal pieces and roll out a little with a rolling pin in one direction, but this is not necessary. Place the dough sheets one at a time, as the size of your oven allows, on a baking sheet lined with paper.

Step 3. Knead the dough for 15-25 minutes, no more, until lightly browned. Cool the baked dough sheets.

Step 4. For the custard, place the yolks in a separate bowl, add regular sugar and vanilla and beat them with a whisk until white. Then add flour, pour a glass of milk and mix well.

Step 5.Pour the rest of the milk into a thick-bottomed saucepan and heat well over medium heat.

Step 6. When the milk begins to boil in a thin stream and with constant stirring with a whisk, pour the yolk mixture into it. Cook the cream, also while stirring, for 10 minutes until a thick texture is obtained.

Step 7. Cool the cooked cream for 10-15 minutes, add the butter cut into pieces and mix well until it is completely dissolved.

Step 8. To assemble the Napoleon, divide the baked dough sheets in half if the dough was not rolled out before baking.

Step 9. Place the prepared sheets on a cutting board or a dry baking sheet, because they can crumble, and the crumbs will be needed for sprinkling.

Step 10. Place two sheets of baked dough in layers on a large platter.

Step 11: Spread the custard evenly over each layer. After the last layer, compact the layers a little with a cutting board.

Step 12. Thus, form the entire “Napoleon”, leaving one sheet for the crumbs. The top layer should be cream and grease the sides of the cake well with it.

Step 13. Crush the sheet of dough into crumbs and add the crumbs from the baking sheet. Gently sprinkle the entire cake with this crumb, leaving the middle free. Place the formed “Napoleon” for a day, or less, in the refrigerator to soak the sheets with cream.

Step 14. After this time, decorate the cake with jelly and fresh ripe fruit.

Step 15. The prepared Napoleon cake made from puff pastry can be served at the festive table. Delicious and successful baking!

Classic honey cake at home

A classic honey cake, made at home with your own hands and from quality ingredients, will be an excellent dessert for a children's party.It perfectly combines the delicate taste of honey cakes and smooth sour cream and butter cream. The ingredients and their proportions in this recipe are presented according to the classic version of honey cake. It is proposed to make two types of cream, but you can leave only sour cream.

Cooking time: 11 hours.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• Flour – 500 gr.
• Honey – 70 gr.
• Egg – 3 pcs.
• Soda – 1.5 tsp.
• Sugar – 300 gr.
• Sour cream 25% – 250 gr.
• Condensed milk – 180 gr.
• Butter – 200 gr.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Let's start with the test. In a bowl, beat three eggs with a whisk.

Step 2. Pour 200 g into a pan with thick walls. sugar, add honey and ½ the specified amount of butter. Over low heat and stirring, melt these ingredients and completely dissolve the sugar. Then pour in the beaten eggs and cook the mixture for 5-7 minutes.

Step 3. Pour soda into the boiling mixture, mix well and turn off the heat after a minute. The mass will become fluffy and double in volume. Pour it into a bowl for kneading dough, add the sifted flour and knead everything until smooth. Roll the kneaded dough into a ball and leave to cool slightly.

Step 4. Divide the cooled honey dough into 8 equal parts, and roll each piece into a ball. Turn on the oven at 200°C.

Step 5. Roll out each ball of dough on the paper with a rolling pin into a thin crust and prick with a fork to prevent it from becoming deformed. Place the cakes one at a time in the preheated oven and bake for 3 minutes, no more. Immediately shape the baked cakes into a circle or square with smooth edges.

Step 6. Grind the cake scraps into fine crumbs using a blender.

Step 7For the cream, in a separate bowl with a mixer, beat the fat sour cream with sugar, beat for at least 10 minutes.

Step 8. For another cream, in another bowl, beat the condensed milk with the rest of the butter to make a thick, smooth cream.

Step 9. To assemble the Honey Cake, place the baked cakes one by one on a large plate and generously coat with cream, alternating sour cream and butter.

Step 10. The top layer should be cream and spread it well on the sides of the cake. Then sprinkle the cake evenly with crumbs. Place the cake in the refrigerator for 10 hours to soak the cakes in cream.

Step 11. The classic Honey cake prepared at home can be served at a children's holiday table. Happy and delicious baking!

Ant Hill Cake

An alternative to modern cheesecakes, brownies and tiramisu can be an “Anthill” cake, and children will appreciate this dessert for its good taste and appearance. In this recipe we prepare the cake according to the famous Soviet classics - with shortbread dough and boiled condensed milk, and add walnuts to the taste. Preparing Anthill is not difficult, but it takes time. You can shape the cake in any way, because its mass is plastic and easy to mold.

Cooking time: 2 hours.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Butter – 60 gr.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Sugar – 2 tbsp.
• Milk – 2 tbsp.
• Flour – 2 tbsp.
• Walnuts – 50 gr.
• Boiled condensed milk – 180 gr.
• Black chocolate – 50 gr.
• Cream – 25 ml.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Break one chicken egg into a bowl for kneading dough, pour in sugar, pour in milk and add melted and cooled butter. Using a mixer, beat these ingredients into a homogeneous mass.

Step 2.Pour the sifted flour into this liquid base and knead the dough.

Step 3. Roll it into a bun, wrap it in film and put it in the freezer for 20 minutes.

Step 4. Turn on the oven at 200°C. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Grind the cooled dough directly onto a baking sheet using a coarse grater, periodically sprinkling the grated crumbs with flour to prevent them from sticking together. Spread the grated mixture in an even layer. Bake the crumble for 15 minutes until lightly browned.

Step 5. Cool the baked shortbread crumbs a little, crumble them with your hands, and pour them into a separate bowl. Then add walnuts chopped in any way with boiled condensed milk.

Step 6. Mix these ingredients well with your hand so that the condensed milk completely covers all the crumbs.

Step 7. To form the “Anthill”, take a round deep plate and cover it with a piece of film. Place the kneaded mixture compactly into a plate. Place the cake in the freezer for 15 minutes.

Step 8. After this time, carefully turn the cake onto a plate and remove the film.

Step 9. Melt dark chocolate, mix with cream and pour it over the cake, forming any pattern.

Step 10. The prepared Anthill cake does not need time for soaking and can be immediately served at a children's holiday table. Delicious and successful baking!

Homemade pizza in the oven

Homemade pizza in the oven for a children's holiday menu has some features in the choice of ingredients. The dough for it is taken without yeast. The filling and sauce should not be spicy or greasy. In this recipe we prepare a large pizza for several servings and on puff pastry without yeast.For the filling we use two types of sausage with tomatoes and high-quality cheese, and we make the sauce from ketchup and mayonnaise.

Cooking time: 40 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• Puff pastry without yeast – 500 gr.
• Ketchup – 1.5 tbsp.
• Mayonnaise – 1 tbsp.
• Boiled sausage – 100 gr.
• Boiled-smoked sausage – 100 gr.
• Tomatoes – 2 pcs.
• Parmesan cheese – 100 gr.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Defrost the puff pastry at room temperature in advance. Roll it out a little, place it on a baking sheet greased with butter and fasten the sheets together tightly.

Step 2. Mix mayonnaise and ketchup in a cup and spread the sauce in a thin layer on the surface of the dough.

Step 3. Cut two types of sausage into thin slices and spread evenly over the surface of the dough.

Step 4. Cut the tomatoes into thin semicircles and place them on top of the sausage slices.

Step 5. Grind a piece of Parmesan on a coarse grater and sprinkle it evenly over the entire pizza.

Step 6. Turn on the oven at 180°C. Bake the pizza for 30 minutes until the cheese is completely melted. Cut homemade pizza prepared in the oven into small portions and serve immediately hot for your children's holiday table. Bon appetit!

Chicken rolls with filling in the oven

A good option for a hot dish and an alternative to nuggets and strips for a children's holiday table would be chicken rolls with filling in the oven. In this recipe we prepare them from chicken breast fillet, and for the filling we take a mixture of dried fruits, which will add sweet notes to the dish. We will add cheese and herbs to the filling and bake the rolls in sour cream sauce, which will make the meat very juicy. Let's add a little seasoning, just for flavor.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• Chilled chicken fillet – 900 gr.
• Dried apricots – 100 gr.
• Prunes – 100 gr.
• Hard cheese – 100 gr.
• Greens - to taste.
• Garlic - to taste.
• Sour cream – 100 gr.
• Tomato paste – 1 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Rinse the chilled chicken fillet under cold water and dry well with a napkin. Cut each fillet into two longitudinal slices.

Step 2. Rinse the dried apricots and prunes well and pour boiling water over them for 15 minutes.

Step 3. Beat the fillet plates a little and through the film on both sides, trying not to break their integrity.

Step 4. Sprinkle the chopped fillet with salt and a small amount of spices, also on both sides, and leave for a couple of minutes.

Step 5. For the filling, grind the hard cheese on a fine grater and transfer to a separate bowl. To it add finely chopped any greens and a little chopped garlic, just for flavor.

Step 6. Dry the soaked dried fruits with a napkin, cut into small cubes, add to the filling, and mix everything well.

Step 7. Place about two tablespoons of filling on each fillet plate and form into rolls.

Step 8. Take a deep baking dish. Place the rolls in it, seam side down, so that they retain their shape during baking and do not lose the filling.

Step 9. In a bowl, mix sour cream with tomato paste and add a little salt and seasonings. Pour this sauce over the rolls.

Step 10. Turn on the oven at 180°C. Bake the rolls for 30 minutes as they cook quickly. If you have time, you can give the dish 20-30 minutes to infuse in the oven turned off. Serve oven-baked chicken rolls with filling hot to the children's table. Bon appetit!

Julienne with chicken and mushrooms in the oven

Julienne with chicken and mushrooms in the oven as a light and tasty dish is also suitable for a children's holiday table, and children usually eat it. Traditionally it is baked in cocotte makers or pots, but for children it is better to cook it in a general baking dish and serve it on portioned plates. We take classic ingredients for julienne. An important part of the dish will be the very fine cutting of chicken, mushrooms and onions.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast – 400 gr.
• Fresh champignons – 350 gr.
• Hard cheese – 150 gr.
• Sour cream – 3 tbsp.
• Flour – 4 tbsp.
• Butter – 50 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Wash the chicken fillet, cut across the grain into longitudinal pieces up to 1 cm thick and boil for 5-7 minutes. Then transfer the pieces to a plate with a slotted spoon, and reserve the broth for the sauce.

Step 2. Peel the onion and champignons, rinse and cut into small cubes. In a frying pan and in a small amount of oil, fry the chopped onion until golden brown. Add chopped champignons to it and fry while stirring until the mushroom juice has completely evaporated.

Step 3. Cut the boiled fillet into the same cubes, add to the mushrooms and simmer for a couple of minutes over low heat.

Step 4. In another frying pan, prepare the sauce for the dish. Melt butter in it, add flour and fry until light brown. Then add sour cream with two glasses of chicken broth, salt and pepper and mix thoroughly until smooth. Cook the sauce over low heat and stirring constantly until thickened.

Step 5.Place the fried ingredients in an even layer in a deep baking dish and pour hot sour cream sauce over them.

Step 6. Sprinkle the dish evenly with grated cheese. Bake julienne with chicken and mushrooms in the oven at 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes. Serve the dish hot. Bon appetit!

Potato casserole with minced meat in the oven

Potato casserole with minced meat in the oven in the form of squares of side dish and meat will be an excellent dish for a children's party. Raw potatoes are usually not used for casseroles and mashed potatoes are used, and minced meat is suitable from any type of meat, you can even grind boiled meat in a meat grinder. The casserole is prepared quickly and easily. In this recipe, fry minced meat with onions.

Cooking time: 1 hour 20 minutes.

Cooking time: 40 minutes.

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• Potatoes – 1 kg.
• Minced meat – 500 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Milk – ½ tbsp.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Salt - to taste.
• Seasonings - to taste.
• Breadcrumbs – 2 tbsp.
• Butter - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. First, peel and rinse the potatoes for mashing. Boil it in water until tender, without adding salt.

Step 2. While the potatoes are boiling, peel the onion, chop very finely and fry until golden brown in hot vegetable oil.

Step 3. Then add the minced meat to the onion, mash it with a fork so that there are no lumps, and fry until half cooked. Sprinkle the fried minced meat with salt and any seasoning.

Step 4. Puree the boiled potatoes. Then add salt with hot milk, butter and egg, mix the puree quickly and well.

Step 5.Grease a baking dish with butter and spread half of the mashed potatoes in an even layer.

Step 6. Place minced meat fried with onions in an even layer on top.

Step 7. Cover the minced meat with the rest of the puree.

Step 8: Sprinkle the top layer of puree with breadcrumbs. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Cook the potato casserole with minced meat for 30 minutes until golden brown on top. Cut the prepared casserole into square portions and serve hot for a children's holiday table, topping it with sour cream. Bon appetit!

Tartlets with red fish and curd cheese

A festive table for a child’s birthday should not only be tasty, but also beautiful and bright, and such a dish for him would be tartlets with red fish and curd cheese. Made from high-quality red fish with delicate curd cheese and complemented with fresh cucumber, children eat the tartlets well. We cut the cucumber and fish very thinly, and put the cheese through a pastry bag. Make many servings at once so that there is enough for adults.

Cooking time: 15 minutes.

Cooking time: 15 minutes.

Servings: 9.

Ingredients:

• Lightly salted salmon – 100 gr.
• Tartlets – 9 pcs.
• Fresh cucumber – 1 pc.
• Curd cheese – 100 gr.
• Parsley - for decoration.
• Lemon – 0.5 pcs.

Cooking process:

Step 1. First of all, prepare all the ingredients for the dish. Tartlets for snacks are suitable from any dough, but thin waffle ones are better. Rinse the cucumber, dry it with a napkin and cut into very thin circles, which can be done with a regular vegetable cutter.

Step 2. Place the cucumber slices in tartlets, forming them in the form of “flower petals.”

Step 3. Place rolled thin slices of salmon in the middle of these “flowers”.

Step 4.Place the curd cheese beautifully in the middle of the tartlets through a pastry bag with a special nozzle, and the curd cheese holds its shape well.

Step 5. Decorate the dish with parsley sprigs and thinly sliced ​​lemon slices.

Step 6. Immediately serve the prepared tartlets with red fish and curd cheese to the table on a common platter. Bon appetit!

Salad with chicken, pineapple and cheese

Chicken, Pineapple and Cheese Salad doesn't have many ingredients, but they go together well. It is the pineapple that adds a special note of flavor that children love. In this recipe, we form the salad for a children's party beautifully, in the form of a real pineapple. Boil the chicken fillet in advance. Scald the onion with boiling water to remove its sharpness. Decorate the salad with walnut halves and green onions. The salad needs several hours to steep.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast – 1 pc.
• Egg – 4 pcs.
• Canned pineapples – 1 can.
• Hard cheese – 150 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Mayonnaise - to taste.

For decoration:

• Walnuts (halved) - to taste.
• Green onion – 1 bunch.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Boil the chicken breast in advance until cooked and cool so that you can carefully cut it. Prepare the remaining salad ingredients according to the recipe. Also boil the eggs hard-boiled.

Step 2. To form the salad, take a longitudinal dish. Divide all the ingredients for the salad into two parts so that they are layered twice. Cut the boiled breast into small pieces and place half on the dish as the first layer.

Step 3. Chop the onion very finely, scald with boiling water, cool under cold water and place half of it on top of the breast.

Step 4.Cut the hard-boiled eggs into small cubes and place half of them on top of the onion.

Step 5. Place half of the diced pineapples on the onion, and cover everything with a mayonnaise mesh.

Step 6. Then, using a fine grater, cover the salad with a layer of cheese, without greasing it with mayonnaise. Repeat the layers of ingredients in the same order.

Step 7. To decorate, lightly fry the walnut halves in a dry frying pan and spread them evenly over the surface of the salad. Add green onions. Give the salad with chicken, pineapple and cheese a few hours to infuse in the refrigerator and you can serve it to the children's holiday table. Bon appetit!