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How sweet is this super cute half year birthday cake – perfect for a 6 month birthday cake for a baby girl. You could make a similar drip cake in blue for a boy. You don’t need to have a baby to celebrate a half birthday. Half birthdays celebrations are popular for all ages from babies to adults. So why not celebrate with a cake? After all, a birthday without a cake is just another day! Have you heard of a half birthday? It’s not just for 6-month-old babies (although we definitely have ideas for them too) – Half birthday celebrations are also for kids and adults of all ages. Half birthdays are a fun way to celebrate you! We have a handly online HALF BIRTHDAY CALCULATOR below so if you were wondering when is my half birthday…it will tell you! In hindsight I wish I’d chosen flavours that looked more obviously different than these! The chocolate and banana layers are almost the same colours as the chocolate and vanilla marble. Then cover up the frosted side of the cake with parchment paper. Spread frosting onto the other half of the cake. Optionally, you can chill the cake before you do this. If you don't, when you peel the parchment off you’ll leave some texture behind on the frosting. Since it’s just the crumb coat (which will be covered up) it doesn’t matter.

After our son Jake was born we started the tradition of celebrating his half birthday every year. When we reach the halfway point between one birthday and the next, we celebrate with half of a birthday cake. Here is another super cute cake idea. You can use fondant and cookie cutters to cut out the letters of the birthday boy or girl’s name and you have an easy and cute half birthday cake. This cake could easily be made in pink or blue or any favorite color. Spread or pipe two dots of frosting onto a cake board. Push half a cake layer into one dot to attach it to the board. Then spread or pipe frosting along the cut edge and press another half of cake into it. It will attach to the cake and to the other dot of frosting on the cake board.Read on for some intriguing information about half birthdays and why you will want to incorporate this as fun family birthday traditions. Spoiler alert: you don’t need presents for this type of celebration. A half and half cake is a great way to use up extra layers. Y ou might be wondering, "why would I have extra cake layers?" Maybe your batter didn’t make enough to make the size of cake you were planning on. M aybe it made too much so you have one too many cake layers for your cake. In my case, I bake in bulk so I have loads of layers in the freezer to pull out whenever I want to make a cake. Sometimes I’ll end up with one lonely banana or chocolate layer, like these. They're perfect for a half and half cake! The perfect way to remember all of the little things that make your six-month-old who they are. And a great comparison for their first birthday. (image via: Once Upon A Stencil) Cake smash Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Lightly grease a 7 or 8” round pan and cut a sheet of parchment paper to sit inside the bottom of the pan. Set aside. In a large mixing bowl, sift in cake flour, sugar, baking soda, cream of tartar and salt. Stir to combine.

I hope you find the perfect half birthday sign to use again and again for those smaller but still fun family and friend celebrations. Life’s too short, so let’s celebrate everything! We hope you start celebrating your half birthday as well as your normal birthday and that this article has given you some fun half birthday ideas. It’s definitely a fun excuse for a celebration. Wishing you a very happy half birthday celebration…whenever it falls have a great one! Whatever you plan on doing on your half birthday make it as fun, silly and enjoyable as you possibly can. Half birthdays are for people who want to enjoy as many days as they possibly can so make sure you have a great time! Gently fold ⅓ of the meringue into the milk-flour mixture to get it moving. Once incorporated, fold in the rest of the meringue. Do not stir. Use batter immediately.Make a half birthday cake by popping half a candle onto half a cake or have a whole birthday cake with two sides decorated differently. Making a cake yourself? Why not do the two layers in different colors. Gather some props and your happy bub and snap some adorable pics to mark the special occasion. Milestone board If your fillings are runnier than buttercream you'll need what’s called a buttercream dam. This is a wall around each cake layer to hold in the filling. It prevents the filling from oozing out from between the cake layers. On the chocolate and banana layers I spooned dulce de leche into the dam. Nutella made the perfect filling on the Easy Marble Cake half.

Hip, hip hooray – happy half-birthday! Six months ago the world got a whole lot cuter when your bub came along, and it’s a milestone worth marking. We can calculate it accurately by adding 182.5 or 183 days to a birthdate. This is because there are 365 or 366 days in a year. These half birthday celebrations don’t need to be another overwhelming occasion – as long as you have cake you are sorted!All you need to do is input the date of your birth and they’ll work it out for you, for me this is definitely the easiest way rather than trying to work out the math with a calendar. Half Birthday Ideas for Adults You can also have a themed cake like the pretty flamingo cake below. Just because it’s not a full cake doesn’t mean that you can’t style it to the birthday girl or boys favorite thing of the moment. Life can get busy and weeks and months fly by, so this seemed like the perfect way for our family to stop and reflect on one of the little moments of his childhood. We recently celebrated Jake’s half birthday. He is now two and a half! I find an offset spatula helps to get the edges clean when frosting corners, but I’ll go ahead and warn you that frosting this shape of cake is not for the faint of heart. I spent a good bit of time to achieve the tidy edges and even frosting. Just be patient in the process. Once you have the flat edge frosted as the inside of you faux cake and the remainder of the sides frosted as well, use a piping bag fitted with a #3 tip to pipe a little wavy line for the center of the cake. I used a 1M tip to pipe the decorated edge around the perimeter of the cake in yellow, but you can decorate as you desire. This half birthday cake looks festive with or without the extra touches.

Divide the rest of your frosting into two bowls and add any frosting left in your piping bag, too. Tint each half with a different colour or use different flavour ingredients for each bowl. I’ve tried using both Age Ninja and Calculator Online to work out my half birthday and as well as telling you the dates they also tell you the number of days there are until your next half birthday. Helpful if you want to plan some celebrations!

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Mark those special milestones in the family with our celebration cakes or set the stage for your little one’s birthday party with a kid's birthday cake—we’ve got lots of from indulgent chocolate cake to classic birthday cake with jam, vanilla frosting and sprinkles. It's always a good idea to apply a crumb coat of frosting first. This will trap any crumbs that come off the cake so they don't get into your final layer of frosting. It’s messy but that’s fine because it will be covered up in a minute. Refrigerate mixing bowl and beaters in the fridge for a minimum of 15 minutes. This will help cream whip better. Then push both flavours down to the piping tip. This is a 1M star tip. These swirls or rosettes hide the join of the two flavours of frosting, and also add some pretty details. If you don’t want to blend the flavours of the two halves, pipe with plain vanilla buttercream in different colours. Why make a half and half cake?