Cake Decorating Ideas

Cake decoration flowers either artificial or real are very easy to use. Going through this write up will give you some tips and information on how to use artificial and real flowers on your cakes. There are three types of cake decoration flowers:

· Real flowers

· Artificial flowers

· Sugar glazing flowers

1. ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS: There are many steps to take for you to make artificial flowers.

STEP I: Cut the stems of one and a half inches from the flowers and the leaves base.

STEP II: Also cut 4 inches of a piece of floral wire but I want you to know that the already made ones are commonly found to be 6 inches which is still okay.

STEP III: Cover the flower to the new stem with floral tape.

STEP IV: After all this cut and cover, put them together and cover them with floral tape to make it attractive. Ensure that you do not extend the floral tape to the stems but use adequate floral tape to make the flowers firm and ensure that the wires are well tapes.

STEP V: put the flower head in-between your finger index and thumb, then curve the stems. When each flower has been placed in a desired place, cut off the unwanted stems from the flowers which are connected to the floral tape.

2. REAL FLOWERS: This can be put directly on your prepared cake or better still the above instructions can guide you in order to add more color to your cake with movable stems. Here are the tips you can use to buy real flowers:

TIP I: Ensure the usage of edible flower or your cake will just look ordinary.

TIPP II: Avoid pesticides on your flowers. This can be done by taken them out of your store or you can ask for more information on it from the florist that you bought it from. Florists usually have a numerous flowers that have not been treated for pesticides.

TIP III: Also ensure that you freeze your flowers and used directly on your cake before you eat or display it. In case you are including stems, fix them immediately your flowers are ready, put them in a firmly closed container and freeze, the time has come for you to use them for your cake.

3. SUGAR GLAZING FLOWERS: This type of flower can be made through series of steps:

STEP I: Break an egg and separate the egg white in a bowl and put sugar (common) in another bowl.

STEP II: Remove the flowers stems or fruits but let there be little remaining which you can hold with your fore-finger and thumb. Ensure that you are using an edible flower.

STEP III: Use a pastry brush to coat the fruits or flowers with the egg. Ensure you cover all the fruits and flower.

STEP IV: Use spoon to cover the flowers or fruits body with sugar.

STEP V: Put it on a paper towel so that it can dry. It usually takes some hours to dry. After dried, you can use it for your cake decoration.

Flowers on your cakes could make you to be creative because using them makes your cake decoration beautiful and unique.

It is a great fun preparing for a baby shower cake decoration. It could make you annoying or be impatient if you are not creative. You have to be attentive and careful whenever you are preparing and thinking of baby shower cake theme. Initially, you have to start with a funny idea of cake decoration.

Listed below are few ideas that may be useful when selecting an excellent baby shower cake. There are numerous types of baby shower cake that can be helpful in your thinking and ideas. This will give you creative ideas when coming out with perfect baby shower cake.

1. WINNIE THE POOH: This is a well known baby shower theme that can be seen around. It is simple. No need of any explanation before usage. There are two version of Winnie the Pooh. The classic and the modern. With these two versions, the result is great. You can even bake your cake and then cut Winnie the Pooh shape out of it and then frost.

2. BELLY: This is well explanatory but full of fun. In this type of theme, you bake your cake, cut out a shape from it that looks like mommy’s pregnant belly. After which you frost and decorate very well.

3. GIFT: this is another idea of baby shower cake decoration. You can make this in the comfort of your home. To make this baby shower gift cake, you just need a square baking pan and frost to look like new. You can include additional ribbon from frosting and then wrap again from frosting. You can even apply some touchy that are ice and attractive.

4. GIFT BASKET: This one is similar to gift cake. But what makes this different is that gift basket that is used instead of a gift. People have now become addicted in given out gift basket than just ordinary gift cake. You can generate this type of gift basket from cake in your cake decoration.

5. RUBBER DUCKY: This is strange and indeed creativity in baby shower cake decoration. This theme is a well known theme. It is also a very good theme of baby shower cake decoration. Rubber ducky theme is very simple to make. Just bake a big rectangular shape cake, cut and make a duck shape out of it. Frost with yellow. Great! You are done.

6. BOAT OR NOAH’S ARK: This is uncommon idea in cake decoration. Actually, boat or Noah’s ark cake is not difficult at all. It is not different from the common plain cake you bake everyday. What makes it different is the decoration and frosting part of the cake and not all. These are known to be 2 common cake idea of decoration because they are said to be the 2 types of the popular baby shower themes.

This is to mention just a few. In this aspect of baby shower cake decoration, you are restricted only to your budget and time. This baby shower cake decoration is a great and nice idea that will add more color to your cake decoration. The themes are nice and irresistible.

Be informed that the most suitable chocolate cake decorations may be prepared for about 30 days before the actual usage and be kept inside the refrigerator.

BIG CHOCOLATE CURLS AND CHOCOLATE CARAQUE

Extend the dissolved chocolate within a light layer over a marble slab, even if it is a well kept and flat work surface and better still, baking sheet can as well serve same purpose.

As soon as you have made the chocolate ready, apply the kept decorator’s wallpaper stripping instrument at 25 degrees, move it towards the chocolate which makes the chocolate to curl. But in case it is not curl but break off instead, it means it was too hard. Then you have to scratch and melt again. The smaller type of chocolate curls is known as caraque and could be done in the same manner.

Two-tone effect will be very useful. Your melting be dark and add milk chocolate or better still use white chocolate after which you pipe or put other means of colors on it and mix with pliable knife. With the step by step guidelines above, scratch the chocolate bands. The results, to a great expected two-tone effect.

CHOCOCLATE LEAVES

For you to make a good sizeable chocolate leaves of up to 45 to 50 in numbers, 225g of chocolate will be enough. Look for a finely defined shaped leaved that is free from chemical sprays. This leaves must be neat, impressionable, bone dry and in good condition. Heat the chocolate that you want to use. Take a small size of paint brush and paint the leaves at the under part until the under side is well coated with chocolate. Allow it to cool and set it. You can refrigerate to hasten the cooling. If you see that the chocolate is too light then there is need for you to recoat. If you are satisfied with the result, then remove the leaf gently with care from the chocolate.

PIPED CHOCOLATE SHAPES

For you to make some designs or concepts on a chocolate cake, then 115g of chocolate will be adequate to carry out this. This is said to be a wonderful approach of creating your own type of decoration designs, the reason is that chocolate will definitely give you whatever you expected from it in as much it is properly channeled. Look for a concept, draw it on greaseproof paper. Heat a chocolate, use spoon to put the chocolate in a small paper chocolate adequately through the designs that you want. Allow the chocolate to pipe without forcing it. Let the designs set. Handle it with care as they can melt in your fingers or hands. It can be refrigerated by keeping it between the greaseproof paper layers.

If you want to extract the designs out o the greaseproof papers the suitable method to use is to cut the paper to squares round the design before the paper is carefully taken from the chocolate. Care needs to be taken as the chocolate is hard and could be broken with ease.

A person can only be referred to as a professional cake decorator after he or she has successfully undergone adequate teachings in the skillful production of various designs on cakes as well as pastries. The patterns in question greatly vary between basic to the complex and detailed ones. Having an initial knowledge of fillings and frosting should be the pre-requisite for anyone aspiring to be a cake decorator. This will enhance the possibility of converting these into the attractive works of imaginations and creativities available on cakes. It is also pertinent for all intending cake decorator to carefully study the average temperature specially required by some particular baking materials can permit. Obviously, a lot of cake decorators resolve to narrow themselves to wedding cakes with they believe that it has a steadily increasing market and prospects.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Not only must the aspiring cake decorator need to pass through the necessary teaching, basic educational background is also suggested as a good complement several students are at liberty to be trained by a pastry program registered by American Culinary Federation. So many culinary schools are available here and there where you can easily select one. These schools include: Wilton School, Oregon Culinary Institute, Lincoln College of Technology, Arizona culinary institute, capital culinary institute, Johnson and Wales University, Florida culinary institute and a lot more. Having indicate your intension to learning the act of cake decorating, it is highly recommended that you kick-start with adequate training and education. Almost all the potential employers actually prefer that their prospective employees are graduates from the recognized schools coupled with years of experience.

It is well known that your position or status and your area of specialization make you to be unique in your wages. Cake decorator’s job opportunities involve cake designer, pastry artisan and catering. With baking and pastry art II, a lucrative job awaits you in case you have completed baking and pastry art I. even going to cake decoration classes for more training will enhance your edge and at the same time looking for a well developed organization that will appreciate your certificate.

Cake decorators are very extensive. They can work in hotel, restaurants, catering establishments, cafes and some other places. They must be able to do different things at the same time. They must have adequate knowledge of the rightful amount of ingredients to use. All these attributes will be possible with the help of cake decoration classes.

As you know that an attractive cake draws the on-lookers attention, cake decoration is based adequately on proper training. You cannot be a cake decoration professional without going to cake decoration classes. For you to move higher in cake decorating system, it is recommended that you attend cake decoration classes. Through this, you will be able to learn a cake decoration that suits a particular occasion or situation. For instance, one of the cake decoration class that you can attend is the one organize by Wilton company. In Wilton class, you will be thought how to be imaginative, innovative and making cake decoration of attractive tiered cake even the one without icing.

Few weeks ago, a crafty Seattleite which is at the back of Not Martha has been doing a lot of creativity work on cutest and tiniest cupcakes which I have never seen in this world.

When I checked on the words written on her cupcake, I saw visiting a seattle cake shop which somebody advised her to check. I have never heard anything about this sore before, immediately I went to North seattle to make an enquiry about it.

When I got there, I find out that this shop known as Home Cake Decorating Supply Co. is a family business that has been in existence since 1960. In this area, you will never see any merchandise shop like a la Sur La Table, Williams Sonoma or City Kitchens around except Home Cake Decorating Supply Co.

What makes Home Cake Decorating Supply Co. to be successful since 1960 are:

· Low cost of their products

· Entertain customer’s complain for correction

· Frilling products.

As people do say first impression matter most, when I look around this Co., I was a little bit disappointed in their arrangement which was bad and obvious. But I later knew that the Easter period has just ended and there was holiday on Sunday and Monday, this is Home Cake for you after a brief weekend break and a great activity and strong emotion that is often violent on baking shopping. After a while, I got over it and become fascinating by various attractive selections like cupcake tins of different sizes and colors, beautiful ribbons, French cake, silicone molds, tart pans, Madeleine, sanding, flavorings, superfine sugars, colored and coarse. The cute and colorful sprinkles of cupcake alone will make you to make long and high sound.

In this Home Cake Co., there are different types of chocolate, food coloring which is in rainbow shades, the most fragrant almond paste, hard candy molds, sugar flowers, icing tips galore, baggies, bags for home made confections and baked goods.

Home Cake Decorating Supply Shop is a well known shop among chefs, home bakers, seattle caterers, professional. It is known as baker’s world which is full of stacks of Martha Stewart, In Style Wedding for inspiration and motivation. I was so surprise at all the rich information of baking that Greil gives to her clients when helping them to do their shopping. She is so friendly in every of her answers.

Greil spare me some time and take me round her shop and along the line told me the shop history and her family. She also gave me some tips on how to make delicious buttercream icing with the help of luster dusts on handmade chocolates with food color paste.

At the end, I came out with numerous ideas and supplies on chocolate making and cupcake baking. These keep me busy for some time give me more inspiration on how to open a cake decoration shop of my own named Sugar High Fridays and Cupcake extravaganzas. And with this, cake decoration shops and highly flooded with baking materials, the sky is the limit.

Making a wedding cake decoration is not all that difficult in as much that you have patience and sufficient period with easy and admirable decoration approach. But you must be experienced in baking. For you to make a wedding cake decoration, then you need a specific recipe on wedding cake decorations.

Here are the step by step approaches to wedding cake decorations as it is good for three tiers of 12”, 9” and 6” with large quantity of icing:

1. Cooling and torting: After baking your wedding cake, in 2 days before the wedding, allow the cake to cool for 30 minutes. Put your knife round the cake pan (inside), turn the pan upside down and allow the cakes to come out of the pan, though warm. After total cooling of the cake, wrap with foil until you are ready for cake decoration. When you are ready to decorate firstly start with the largest size and divide into 3 equal layers. You can use cake leveler to level it out or use thick filling like preserves, raspberries and icing.

2. Filling the layers with fresh raspberries and preserves: Put the lower part of the third layer that was cut on a round circle cardboard bought form cake stores. Arrange the thin layer of raspberry preserves on it and place the layer of fresh raspberries on it. Do not let it be too thick but sufficient to cover other slices.

3. Addition of cream cheese icing to the layer: Add a tablespoon of cream cheese icing, put in dollop round the layer at the bottom. With the help of offset spatula, arrange the icing on the raspberries to have a flat surface. After this, put the middle layer on it and do the same process in (2) and place the top layer on the middle layer to have a design of 3 layered bottom tier of your wedding cake.

4. Icing the layers with crumb layer of icing: Your three layers must consist of raspberry preserves, fresh raspberries and cream cheese icing in-between each of the layer. You can then put icing dollops on the top. Then use spatula to smooth on the top and side of the cake. This is all crumbs and gum them. After this, you can put the biggest tier inside the fridge for 30 minutes and at the same time continue with the other cake tiers. Do the same process of 2 and 3 to the other tiers.

5. Cake layer and straw supports: At this level, the cake could be decorated one by one and place on the table or better still a suitable cake stand can be used. At this stage, there is no collapsing risk. You can stop here and live the rest till wedding morning. The next thing to do is to support the cake tiers with plastic drinking straws. Dip a straw at the middle of the bottom tier and use pen to mark 1/8” up the icing. Bring out the straw and use it as a measurement to cut more straws which must be at the same length with it. Now dip all the straws cut which are of the same length to the bottom tier at 2” deep. After which the bottom tier is placed on the serving platter. Put the middle tier on the top of the bottom tier straws. Ensure that it leveled to accommodate the stability of the middle tier. Perform the same process for middle tier in order to support the top part.

6. Provide a smooth final layer of icing: add the final layer of icing and then smooth it for 20 minutes to an hour. You do this based on how smooth you want it to be.

7. Decorating the wedding cake with flowers: this is not strenuous. It is just 5 minutes work but if it is a very complicated concept, it will consume much time.

8. Wedding cake platter decoration: This decoration is based on your selection or what you desire. For instance, addition of edible roses or petal roses.

9. Addition of monogram: This is based on your experience in wedding cake decoration idea. It will take 5 to 30 minutes.

For you to have successful wedding cake decoration, start as early as 2 days before the wedding day.

The most memorable thing a child could remember on their birthday is their birthday cake. This birthday cake is now getting more imaginative unlike before. These days birthday cake decorations are made to suit or speak for the birthday. The shapes are more suitable for a particular purpose which resulting from clever new ideas. It could also have current Hollywood blockbuster as their perfect image.

Always let it be at the back of your mind that your birthday cake decoration ideas must appeal to people’s taste.

For instance, Pineapple Upside Down Cake is the type of cake that children love most in the olden days. Nearly all children love fruity cake and gooey creamy. It is highly pleasant and attractive. The sugar is caramelized. It consists of small quantity of yellow pineapple with the red cherry at the top of it. It can be served with custard. This is one of the special cakes prepared for children birthday. This usually attracts the presence of your kid. Whenever this cake is brought out of the baking tin to the tray, it thrills your kids a lot.

With birthday cake decoration ideas, you can create a spacecraft concept, a fire engine, dump truck, even a car or a train.

You can build a train cake with many loaves of cakes. It is designed and frosted in the traditional train livery. You can use round sweets as the windows and biscuits as the wheels.

Cinderella cake is an admirable cake that little girls love most. You can even use a cake to build castle. With Cinderella birthday cake, your daughter feels like princess in the midst of her friend during her birthday. Square cake is used as castle with a pretty doll decorated like Cinderella.

You can set up your party theme with birthday cake decoration ideas. With a train cake, as few games could be made round your theme and design likely engineer costumes and train attendants. You will also have to dress your Cinderella with attractive dress cut from paper and from any object in the shape of a straight thin stick with attractive dancing.

Storybook could be designed from cakes. The design could be Harry Potter or Cat in the Hat. With this concept, you need more knowledge in icing and be professional in this.

Birthday cake decoration ideas on games and cartoon characters like Ninja Turtles, Mickey Mouse and Big Bunny are very good.

To decorate all cakes, frosting that is already made could be used. To decorate, all these materials like ready made teddy bear stickers, edible color markers, marshmallows, stencils, sugar decorations will be needed.

Birthday cake decoration ideas for adult need an experienced baker. The events could be on company parties for the executives where you are invited to the occasion. When preparing this type of cake, it must show the company and the executive status. Placing the newly discovery inkjet printed food grade color picture on your cake is good for this type of cake decoration.

For you to prepare a classic birthday cake, it is good to go online or better still check the cake book to give you better understanding on it.

Kids’ cake decoration is admirable and full of fun. You need not to be pastry chef before you can bake and perfect a good cake for your children. All what you need is to study an uncommon and simple cake decoration ideas so that you can make impressive cakes.

CONCEPT AND DESIGN FOR PARTY CAKE

Children have to select a cake design that matches their birthday party. You can begin with an easy sheet cake which is covered with figures, toys or even cut the cake to make uncommon design. For instance, you can flood the top of a construction party cake with small toy like bulldozers that is pushing a chocolate chip up a hill or you can cut the cake and frosted and make it exactly like a dump truck.

For you to make and decorate round ball cake without any error, you can bake your cake in oven-safe glass bowl. I want you to know that for you to have a cake which is a single serving doll and other types of pretty and attractive designs and concept, then you must use a wonder mold cake pan.

CAKE DECORATING BOOKS

Carefully study of cake decorating books in order to have an idea of how your kid cake decoration will look like is a good idea or suggestion. Most of these decorating books give you some types of template through cutting and making small sizes of cakes for you to get different types of concepts that you want.

It is advisable to make use of edible cake art image on your frosted cake for you not to bother much on your kid cake decoration.

THEMED CAKE PANS

This is another option for cake decoration. This gives the shape and visual concept that can guide you in cake decoration so that you can have a perfect finishing. Cartoons characters, TV, Tiger, teddy bears, Mickey house, pirates, butterflies and many more could come in form of these cake pans.

FROSTING SELECTION

Homemade: Decide in advance on the number of colors that you want to use for your preparation and decoration. Make your frosting from the beginning.

Canned and Tube Type: You can get the fastest and simplest type of canned and tube frostings in the grocery stores. They are packaged in chocolate, white and with other attractive essences.

Fondant: this gives attractive and smooth finishing to your cake decoration designs.

CAKE DECORATION WITH SMALL TOYS AND CANDY

Small toys and candy has a great and positive effect on kid cake decoration. You can use sugar cones as the fins on a ship cake. Just design a cake filling with candy and small toys. You can buy cake stopper in craft shops and better still you can get action figures, animals, small dolls and cartoon character and placed them on your kid’s cake.

Also there are some updated kids cake decoration fads like spray color mist, Luster Dusts, cake stampers, cake stencils, edible color markers, edible sugar-shape decorations, edible glitter, decorative candles and themed cake picks and rings. All these are said to be fun tools for your kid cake decoration.

A lot of recipes can be used for butter cream icing. There are so many cake decorating icing such as butter, eggs even every shortening or a mixture of shortening with butter. Individual cake decoration is passionate about certain cake decoration icing recipe. Obviously, preparing the desired cake decoration icing formula is indeed very easy. It is such a wonderful thing to cover your favorite cake, making the borders as well as preparing frosted flowers.

You may unlikely need butter for your cake decoration icing formula during the hot season or if you reside in predominantly hot environment. Reason being that hot weather dissolves butter; thereby make your cake less attractive. The formula applies for the cake decoration icing in the context consist of shortening inside only. The particular product used is Crisco shortening, in addition with this formula anytime cake decoration icing is being made.

The cake decoration icing recipe is listed as follows:

2lb pack of icing sugar, one cup of solid vegetable shortening with two-third cup of milk, nothing could be more easier. Add the icing sugar inside a big bowl and Crisco blending and mix everything with the aid of fork. Thereafter, put the milk blending with the fork to derive icing powder that is slightly wet. With the application of electric mixers blend it thoroughly on top speed to ensure its smoothness. If you can successfully preserve the recipe in a well covered bottle, it can still maintain its value for so many weeks. Similarly, you have the choice to do away with it for couple of weeks.

In addition, cake decoration icing is useful for cookies, icing cakes, cupcakes borders as well as handwriting over the cakes. Apart from the extra time it takes to dry prior to your griping, you may go further to produce frosted flowers. With cake decoration icing, you can easily bring out varieties of colors including blue, yellow, pink, black red start from white icing to the application on the standard or quality of your cake.

Begin with little quantity of cake decoration icing, insert one toothpick inside the color swirling this within the icing. Keep increasing the color gradually per time till it gives you your best shade.

Always dedicate one fresh toothpick every single time you increase color in order to prevent having icing in the container of color. Try to mix the icing thoroughly with a little cake spatula or even knife.

Following a continuous mixing for almost two hours, cake decoration icing turns somehow darker. If you are not desirable of the exact quality, be certain that you blend adequate color for what you prefer using on your cake. It is very complex to copy a shade of color, try to keep this at the back of your mind in order for you to maintain the standard color on the cake. It is not-too-easy to work with cake decoration icing most especially at the early stage of your learning what cake decoration icing is all about.

Making a cake for a special occasion can be a rather creative and fulfilling journey. And the incentive by the end of all the efforts is the smile on everyone’s face, especially the one for whom the cake has been crafted.

Many people consider cake making to be a fun-filled hobby. They attend classes to understand the details of all that goes into making cakes, as well as decorating them. So, at a class one is not only taught about the various cake decorating equipment, but are also taught various interesting recipes, and some teachers also go in teaching sugarcraft.
for those, who are not aware of what this is; sugarcraft is form of decorating a cake. According to the experts it is, in fact, an intricate method of cake decorating. It is a method of using 3-dimensional modeling on the cakes surface and a total hit amongst children, who not only enjoy the look but, also the pleasure of eating the models.

A very basic sugar-crafted design could be a series of dots with a model figure crafted and placed on the center of the cake. Thus, crafting with sugar is a form of sculpting. This technique of cake decorating requires a kind of icing dough that is termed as rolled fondant. This fondant can be used for covering the top layer of the cake, as well as to prepare icing decorative sculptures.

Food color is added to this fondant to produce colorful toppings for the cakes. There are various books the provide step-by-step information on sugar-crafting of various designs and models. According to many crafting with sugar is like returning to childhood and playing with play-dough creating various shapes and models.