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Father’s Day is that occasion when you’d specially like to do things to make your dad happy and express the fact that he’s indeed important for you. Not only can you offer cards and gifts to your dad, but also prepare his favorite recipes on this special day. Impress your dad with delightful Father’s day cake recipes and show how much you love him. Let the Father’s Day cakes you prepare add sweetness to your relation with your dear father.
Father’s Day Cakes – Recipes and Decorating Ideas
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Below you can check out cake recipes and Father’s Day cake decorating ideas so as to get a delicious cake ready for your dad on the Father’s Day.
Father’s Day Barbecue Grill Cake:
The ingredients required for this cake recipe are as follows.
14 oz. bag of candy melts
Candy or icing colors
1/3 cup of light corn syrup
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Directions: To prepare this cake, you should melt candy and add corn syrup. Blend the mixture and shape it onto a 1-inch square of waxed paper. Keep the mixture at room temperature till it dries up entirely. Now, you need to wrap the mixture and store it at room temperature. Next, add candy and icing or food coloring. Add corn starch to the mixture to avoid it from getting sticky. The candy you can now roll out shouldn’t be more than 1/8-inch thick. Use buttercream icing to add flavor to your Father’s Day cake.
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Basketball cupcakes:
These Father’s Day cakes can be used to offer a delightful treat to your dad. The ingredients for this kind of cake are given below.
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Mini white cupcakes
Orange decorators’ gel
Sugar cookies
Mini basketball shaped chocolates
White frosting
Directions: Use the edges of a wrapper to trim the cupcake. Then frost the cupcake and apply the decorators’ gel around the edges of the cake. Now, you need to create a backboard as well. For this, you should frost half part of a cookie and add decorators’ gel. Now, place the cookie in a flat position and press the cupcake against the cookie after applying the frosting. Use frosting again to press a chocolate ball against the cookie. Let the cookie and the cupcake settle down for some time and then serve this recipe to your dear father.
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Special cake for the Father’s Day:
You can try preparing a unique cake for your dad on the Father’s Day. You can actually bake a homemade cake, decorate it and add flavors to prepare a completely new cake item. Now, if you’d want the cake to look like a shirt, you’ll need the following ingredients.
9-by-12-by-2-inch homemade cake
Cardboard shirt box lined with waxed paper (available with drycleaners)
Pastel icing
Colorful frosting for your tie
White paper to create a shirt collar and cuffs
Directions: Bake a cake in a 9-by-12-inch cake pan. Remove it from the pan and let it cool. Then place the cake on waxed paper. Take a 9-by-12-inch cardboard shirt box and try lining it with tissue paper. Cover the box with waxed paper and then place the cake on the paper; let the cake fit inside the box. Now frost the cake with pastel-shirt colored icing. Cut pieces out of the white paper to create the collar and cuffs. Use candies to create the cufflinks. Add colorful frosting tie, the collar and cuffs to make the cake look adorable. Then remove the waxed paper before you serve the cake to your dad and family members. This is how you can decorate your Father’s Day cake and make your dad feel really special.
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Golf cupcakes:
A golf-shaped cupcake is one of the cutest Father’s Day cakes you can bake for your dad so that he enjoys savoring it. You will need cupcakes made at home or bought from a store. In addition, you should have homemade buttercream. Other ingredients required for decorating this Father’s Day cake are given below:
Cracker crumbs
Green food coloring
White sucker sticks
Scrapbook paper to cut small pieces of triangles
White bubblegum balls
Hot glue gun
Directions: Take the bowl of buttercream and tint 3/4th part of it with dark green color. Apply green frosting on the cupcake, but leave a small hole at the center of the frosting. Add white frosting into the hole. Now, sprinkle a few cracker crumbs over the white frosting. Glue the triangle-shaped pieces around the white sucker stick. Then place the flag at the center of the cake. Put a white gumball close to the flag. Your Father’s Day cake decoration is just complete, and the cake is now ready to be served!
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A cake with vanilla extract:
This is one of the most exciting Father’s Day cakes you can serve to your dad and add sweetness to your relation with him. The ingredients required for this cake are mentioned below:
1/2 cup of butter
1 cup of milk
2 eggs
1 cup of sugar
1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract
2 oz. of melted and unsweetened chocolate
1 and 1/2 teaspoonful of baking soda
1/2 teaspoonful of salt
1 and 3/4th cups of flour
Directions: Heat the oven up to 350 degrees. Grease a circular cake pan and a square-shaped cake pan. Pour the butter and sugar in a large bowl to form a creamy mixture. Put the eggs one by one into the mixture and pour milk and vanilla into it. Add melted chocolate into the mixture. Pour flour, baking soda and salt into another bowl and stir the mixture. Add this mixture into the cake pans and bake for half an hour. Let the cake cool and use a knife to engrave the words, “Happy Father’s Day” on the cake. Use decorator’s icing having bright colors to outline the letters you have written.
This is how you can prepare and/or decorate Father’s Day cakes, so that your dad finds them tempting and delicious to savor.
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