Small Birthday Cake Recipe
Sometimes you just want a small birthday cake and that’s what this recipe is – a lovely birthday cake with enough servings for 6-8 people. Made with moist vanilla cake, sweet buttercream frosting and lots of sprinkles, it’s everything a birthday cake should be – but in mini size! We are a family of 5 and we always have a low key birthday celebration at home. Sure, the kids sometimes have their playground or play place birthday parties with their friends, but no matter what, we always have a family only birthday party at home too. Part of that celebration is always me making them a special birthday cake! Update: We’re still using this recipe and this year I used it to make a dinosaur birthday cake! Love sprinkle recipes? Me too. Also try my Sprinkle Birthday Cake Muffins, Sprinkle Sugar Cookie Bites, Homemade Granola Bars with Cake Batter, Confetti Cake Batter Brownies and Milk Bar Birthday Cake.
6 Inch Birthday Cake Supplies
Besides basic cake ingredients, there’s 2 important things you need for this cake, pans and sprinkles! Sprinkles: Sprinkles are optional, but come on, it’s a birthday cake. I recently started using Supernatural Rainbow Sprinkles which is now my favorite sprinkles to use! They’re very bright in color, don’t melt in batter and colors are made naturally from veggies and spices. Plus they’re really really cute! Bonus: Food Coloring: Even though the cake is vanilla, I am always looking for ways to make things more colorful so I like adding a couple drops of food dye to the cake batter to color it. For this cake, I added a couple drops of purple food coloring to it. This is completely optional but wanted to call it out.
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
The vanilla buttercream frosting recipe is incredibly decadent, fluffy, and everything that a birthday cake deserves. It’s my favorite vanilla frosting recipe and I use it for many of my cake and cupcake recipes. I recommend making this frosting right before you’re ready to frost the cakes and not letting it sit or it’ll stiffen up.
Storing Leftover Birthday Cake
You can store leftover birthday cake on the counter at room temperature if you are going to eat it within 2-3 days. Make sure to cover it with plastic wrap or just put a large bowl on top of it. For longer term storage, you can freeze cake for 2-3 months. Wrap slices in plastic wrap, place in freezer bag and freeze. Pin for later:
