easy cake recipe for kids

Holiday baking burnout is no joke! This 7 ingredient cake is so easy to make with kids and you won’t spend hours in the kitchen baking and cleaning up. You can even make a couple and let each kid decorate their own. With 10 minutes of prep time, you’ll have a quick and delicious cake in the oven in minutes. Decorate your Christmas cake with red sprinkles, faux Christmas trees, edible glitter, or colored frosting. The possibilities are endless and this makes for a super fun Christmas break activity. Keep this recipe handy for an easy birthday cake too!

https://youtu.be/-VSLBOlxGx0

This recipe yields one layer of cake.

If you’re looking for an easy vanilla cake recipe, look no further. This is literally the easiest cake you can make outside of a box cake. 10 minutes of prep time and you have a fluffy, vanilla cake that’s great for a quick dessert, birthday cake, or any time of the year.

Prep Time:
10 mins

Cook Time:
30 mins

Total Time:
40 mins

Servings:
12

Yield:
1 9-inch square cake or circle pan

The Easiest Vanilla Cake Ingredients

1 cup white sugar

½ cup unsalted butter

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1 ¾ teaspoons baking powder

½ cup milk

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F / 175 degrees C.

Grease and flour a 9-inch square cake pan or circle pan. You can double this recipe for a 2-layer cake.

Cream butter and sugar together in a mixing bowl. The trick to a light and fluffy cake is a light and fluffy creamed butter and sugar mixture. If it isn’t creamed before adding the eggs, the cake will be dense.

One at a time at each egg. Mix between each egg. Add vanilla.

Combine the flour and baking powder in a separate dry ingredient bowl. Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix well. Add the milk and stir until smooth.

Pour your batter into the cake pan.

Bake in the preheated oven. The top of the cake will spring back when lightly touched. Use a cake tester or toothpick to test it. The bake time will range from 30 to 40 minutes.

Remove from the oven and cool completely.

Easy Buttercream Frosting

Prep Time:
10 mins

Total Time:
10 mins

Servings:
8

Yield:
2 1/2 cups

This recipe is for one layer cake, double for a 2-layer cake)

Ingredients

½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature

4.5 cups confectioners’ sugar, sifted

1 ½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract

2 tablespoons milk

Food coloring, or as needed (Optional)

Directions

Cream butter in the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment. This will make sure your frosting is smooth and fluffy. Gradually add in confectioners’ sugar until fully mixed. Add in vanilla extract.

Add the milk and beat for another 3-4 minutes. Separate frosting for different colors if desired. If you’re only using one color of frosting, mix in 3-5 drops of desired color and mix well.

Easy Vanilla Cake Recipe – Kid Friendly Christmas Cake

The kids and I created a heart-shaped cake for Valentine’s Day! This recipe is easy and tastes delicious. The heart cake is a vanilla cake with buttercream frosting. We used red food coloring to make the cake batter as well as the frosting pink and festive. The best part about this cake is that you don’t have to go out and buy a special heart-shaped pan. You can get the heart shape using one square pan and one circle pan. Try this easy-to-make Valentine’s cake recipe for kids. The kids and adults will love this pretty Valentine’s heart cake recipe. Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at Made by Kids!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzhmhP7x76g

Ingredients

3 and 2/3 cups cake flour (leveled)
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 and 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
2 cups granulated sugar
3 large eggs + 2 additional egg whites, room temperature
1 Tablespoon pure vanilla extract
1 and 1/2 cups buttermilk, at room temperature
Red or pink food coloring (as much as desired)

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
1 and 1/2 cups unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
5 and 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar
1/3 cup whole milk or heavy cream
1 and 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon salt
Red or pink food coloring (as much as desired)
Sprinkles (as much as desired)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C)
Grease (or line with parchment paper) 9×9 (or 8×8 square pan) + a 9-inch circle pan
Whisk the dry ingredients together in one bowl including the cake flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda together. Set this bowl aside.
Using a stand mixer or hand mixer beat the wet ingredients including the butter and sugar together. Add the eggs and egg whites one by one. Add the vanilla until well combined.
Add the buttermilk slowly. The mixture will look like curdled milk. This is OK!
Add red or pink food coloring until you get the color you desire. You’ll need more color than you think to get the cake a dark pink or red!
Pour batter evenly into each pan and bake at 350°F for 23-25 minutes.
Let cakes cool for 30 minutes. Flip cakes over to remove them from the pans and let cool another 15 minutes.
While cakes are cooling, make your frosting.
Once cakes are cooled, you can turn the square cake to the side making a diamond shape. Cut the circle in half. These halves go on the top of your square to form your heart.
Add some frosting in between the shapes to help hold them together. Frost the cake and sprinkle as desired.

Tips Using cake flour helps to keep cake moist and fluffy. Ingredients brought to room temperature will help them combine easier making for a smoother batter.**
Check out the full baking video and episode outtakes below and on our YouTube Channel @ Madebykids!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=859GUj0to0o&t=117s