Beach cake – the ultimate summer cake

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Beach and sea, what more could you want? The quick-baked beach cake is the ultimate summer cake for the little ones - both visually and in terms of taste! The fluffy Fanta cake is a hit with young and old alike.

Summer, sun, sunshine – summer is finally here and with it the long-awaited summer party at kindergarten! In keeping with the theme, my minis and I baked the ultimate summer cake for the party: our beach cake! The Fanta cake with summery, sweet decorations will make all summer fans smile!

Do you already know? Our summery Shake cakes in a waffle cup & our no bake cakes in a jar look delicious on a summer cake buffet!

Our recipe for the Caribbean beach cake

The all-in-one recipe is not only child's play, but can be in the oven in less than 10 minutes! Both the preparation of the Fanta cake and the summer decoration are quickly completed. True to the motto: "Lots of wow with little ouch!" 😉

Ingredients for one tray

All-in dough

• 350 g (spelled) flour
• 1 packet of baking powder (15 g)
• 200 g sugar
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar (15g)
• 1 pinch of salt
• 4 eggs (size L)
• 200 ml Fanta (or another orange limonade)
• 140 ml neutral cooking oil (e.g. sunflower oil)
• blue food coloring (liquid)* (we use the colors from Goodbake)
• butter or margarine to grease the baking tray

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Decoration

• 200 g powdered sugar
• 6-8 tablespoons Fanta (or lemon juice)
• blue food coloring* (we like to use the liquid colors from Goodbake)
• "Gold Bears" by Haribo*
• "Pasta Frutta" by Haribo*
• decorative cocktail umbrellas*

Mini-Tip: Instead of Fanta, you can also use the juice of a lemon for the icing. We find the icing more refreshing this way, especially in summer.

Baking accessories

Kitchen scales, measuring cup, mixing bowl, hand mixer, dough scraper, baking sheet or rectangular springform pan*, fork, tablespoon, kitchen knife, cooling rack*, small bowl, pastry brush,

Preparation

Before you can decorate your summer beach cake, bake a fluffy Fanta cake as a base for the easy-to-make themed cake.

Fanta cake as the basis for our ultimate summer cake

• First, grease the baking tray or rectangular springform pan and preheat the oven to 175°C top/bottom heat.
• Now all the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, sugar, vanilla sugar) are put into the mixing bowl and mixed with a tablespoon. Then the remaining ingredients for the all-in-one dough are added and mixed with the hand mixer until a smooth dough is formed.
• Then the dough is poured onto the greased baking tray or into the greased springform pan.
• To create the "wave look", spread 7-10 drops of the liquid blue food coloring on the surface of the dough (see instructions in pictures). The blue wave structure is created by drawing loops over the surface of the dough with a fork.
• The Fanta cake is now baked at 175°C top/bottom heat for about 20 minutes. As always, use the toothpick test to make sure that the cake is baked through on the inside. (Here you can find out how to perform a swab test.)
• Once the Fanta cake is baked through, allow it to cool on a cooling rack or on the baking sheet.

How to decorate a Caribbean beach cake

• The first step is to divide the beach for the beach cake. To do this, cut the cake horizontally about 1 cm below the surface and separate the upper part of the cake corner (see instructions in pictures). Crumble the cut cake into cake crumbs and then put them back on the cake corner as "sand".
• Next, mix the icing for the sea with powdered sugar, orange soda (or lemon juice if you prefer) and a drop of liquid blue food coloring. Your little ones can easily brush the icing over the sea of ​​the beach cake using a pastry brush.
• As long as the icing hasn't dried yet, you can decorate the beach cake as you like. We chose gummy bears as beach visitors. Some lie in the shade of a cocktail umbrella on the beach and others glide over the water on delicious, "sour" air mattresses.

Mini tip: If you use the icing as “glue”, you can also attach the decoration to the “crumb beach” easily.

Preparation in pictures

And your ultimate summer cake is ready and can really get you in the summer mood!

My kids & I wish you & your kids lots of fun baking, decorating & especially snacking! 😉

Yours, Lia

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