4 Cake Recipes to Cook with Your Kids during the Lockdown

Byshaheen shaikh

There is a wide range of flavors of cakes available that can be baked during the lockdown.  Cake baking can be fun and savoring the homemade cake during lockdown will bring a bigger smile on your kids’ faces.

Let’s learn how to make different types of cakes at home:

1. Chocolate Cake

A simple chocolate cake is a delicious form of cake that you can enjoy.

Ingredients – cocoa powder, sugar, eggs, baking soda, baking powder, vanilla essence, salt, and oil

Procedure

  •  Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
  • Take a large bowl; mix the ingredients- two eggs, oil, a cup of sugar, and vanilla essence. Mix all these ingredients thoroughly.
  • In another bowl, mix cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
  • Pour the mixture into the oven pan, which should be greased with oil and flour. Bake the mixture at least for forty minutes.

Your warm chocolate cake is ready for serving.

2. Red Velvet Cake

Red velvet cake is famously known as the queen of layer cakes.

Ingredients – Beetroot puree or red food color, flour, baking powder, sugar, cocoa powder, vinegar, milk, butter, cheese, cream, and icing sugar.

Procedure

  • In a bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder, and salt. Sieve it properly so that dry lumps are not formed.
  • In the other bowl, butter and sugar need to be finely mixed along with the egg; whisk the mixture properly. Then add the other ingredients oil, beetroot puree or red food color, vanilla essence, and vinegar.
  • Once all the ingredients are mixed, the batter will be bright red. Then bake this batter for thirty minutes.

Once the layers are baked and cooled, assemble the layers one above other with icing. Your delicious Red Velvet cake is ready to serve.

3. Oreo Cheesecake

Oreo cheesecake is one of the most favorite cakes among children. The main ingredient is Oreo.

Ingredients – Oreo cookies, cornflour, butter, cream cheese, melted chocolate, eggs, sugar, and vanilla essence

Procedure

  • In one bowl, beat the cream, cheese, cornflour, and sugar together. Once the mix becomes creamy, add the eggs to the batter and mix.
  • In the second bowl, add the vanilla essence, melted chocolate, and cream. Once the batter is prepared, pour it in the cake pan and bake it in the oven for two hours.
  • Once the cake is baked, allow it to cool and refrigerate it overnight.

Decorate it with Oreo cookies to make it fun-filled for the kids.

4. Cherry Cheesecake

Cherry Cheesecakes, another popular cake amongst children, can be easily baked at home.

Ingredients – digestive biscuits, butter, lemon juice, vanilla essence, cream, sugar, cherries

Procedure

  • In a blender, mix the digestive biscuits and butter well. Press the mixture in a greased tin container so that the base is formed. Keep the mix in the fridge to set.
  • Take a separate bowl, whisk cream, lemon juice, vanilla essence, icing sugar together.  Fold the cream gently with the cheese mixture.
  • Add a layer of cream cheese mixture over the top of the biscuit base. Put the tin back into the fridge for another six hours and let it set.
  • After the cheesecake is set, garnish it with slices of fresh cherries.

Your cherry cheesecake is all ready to be served.