Funfetti Vanilla Birthday Cake with Butter Cream Frosting

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This homemade white vanilla funfetti cake with butter cream frosting is the easiest DIY birthday cake that you can make. Rustic, easy and homely.

My son turned one this July and I was pretty clear I wanted to bake him his cake. I have been making eggless dessert cakes for him for all his month birthdays that we celebrated (yeah we celebrated every month on the 28^th). The pediatrician we consulted that time insisted not to have any form of egg (or non-vegetarian item, for that matter) in his food! [I bit weird, I felt]. So this is the first full-fledged real cake that he had. This was also his smash cake. And it was gone in no time!

I am not very good at cake decorating. I haven’t actually made too many birthday cakes – the ones with frosting. But still I wanted to go ahead and do an ombré effect with the frosting. I must also mention at this point I am not quite a fan of fondant cakes. I find them extremely sweet (even though I have a major MAJOR sweet tooth) and dry.

I decided to go ahead with making a vanilla butter-cream frosting with some food colors. Since Bluey was going to have this cake I escaped the chocolate or artificial flavor route. It’s natural vanilla-butter-sugar-egg-flour. That’s it nothing else in the cake – oh yes it has those sugar sprinklies for the added funfetti.

This is the easiest birthday cake you can make at home even if you are a first timer with baking and frosting.

Now you must have already realized, this was not made for the blog, so I have random photos of the cake. I also forgot to click the insides after the cake was cut because we were too busy smashing! So I guess it’s okay if there are little less photos once!

Assembling the cake

I have told you earlier I bake my cakes in a convectional microwave. This birthday cake is a tall cake. I have made cake batter for three tins. The ombre effect looks good on a tall cake. if you have an oven use three baking pans and you can bake all the three at once. But since mine doesn’t have racks, I have baked three pans individually. So it’s a longer process for me. I baked the cakes at night and let them cool over night and frosted in the morning. 

Pro Tip: Always let the cake cool down completely before frosting. Else the butter cream will melt. 

Cake Topper

I made this little banner with my son’s name – Armaan is Bluey’s good name BTW- and tied to two cake pop sticks with some wool. It’s just yellow post-its, sketch pens and some wool. I used a cute little first birthday candle as the cake topper. 

Ombre Frosting

If you are into Pinterest then you might just absolutely get crazy with the amount of inspiration available for cake frosting – royal icing, butter cream, whipped cream – every damn thing. I too got inspired to try some ombre frosting. It’s nothing but introducing colors in smooth transitions. 

The only good gel food color that I have is a dark blue one, so I made 5 shades of blue butter cream frosting, from darker blue to palest blue and some general white vanilla frosting. 

I originally had an idea of creating blue ruffles around the cake but then I realized i didn’t have 5 ruffle piping nozzles! So I simply smeared with a knife to create some rough edges. So it’s nothing very fancy that you would see on Pinterest. But it’s made with lot of love and the little man was very happy.

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