Birthday cake recipe - BBC Food

This easy birthday cake recipe requires less effort than most, but still looks fun and impressive. Just pile on your favourite biscuits, sweets or chocs.
A homemade birthday cake is treat that will be remembered for the love and effort you put in. This easy birthday cake recipe requires less effort than most, but still looks fun and impressive.
How to grease a round cake tin and line it with baking parchment.
A fool-proof way to fold in flour, keeping your bakes light and airy.
Mary Berry demonstrates how a cake is ready when it's golden-brown and coming away from the edge of the tin. -Press it gently to check – it should be springy to the touch. -Set the cakes aside to cool in their tins for five minutes.
emoving a cake from a tin can be a tricky task. Mary Berry shows you how. -Run a palette or rounded butter knife around the inside edge of the cake tin and carefully turn the cake out onto a cooling rack. -To remove the cakes without leaving a wire rack mark on the top, put a clean tea towel over the tin, put your hand onto the tea towel and turn the tin upside-down. -The cake should come out onto your hand and the tea towel, then remove the greaseproof paper and turn it from your hand onto the wire rack.