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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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Monday, September 28, 2009
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Birthday Cakes For Adults
Cake decorating for adults are a bit different than those you would do for a kids party. It doesn't mean they need to be boring or ugly. Click the link below for some great ideas for adult cakes that are fun to make and fun to eat.
Cake Decorating: How About Birthday Cakes For Adults
Cake Decorating: How About Birthday Cakes For Adults
What Frosting To Use In Your Cake Decorating
Those of us who are into cake decorating, think of the beautiful icing designs when we think of cake.
Icing is the finishing touch on cakes, cookies, and cupcakes.
There are several different types of icing used in cake decorating. The choice of icing while cake decorating, will have a great deal to do with how the decorated cake will look.
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Icing is the finishing touch on cakes, cookies, and cupcakes.
There are several different types of icing used in cake decorating. The choice of icing while cake decorating, will have a great deal to do with how the decorated cake will look.
Read More about What Frosting To Use In Your Cake Decorating
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
What exactly is sugar craft?
What exactly is sugar craft?
To clear things up a bit, sugar craft is a type of cake decorating that is three- dimensional.
It takes a bit of time to learn sugar craft decorating, and the process can be frustrating. The art of sugar craft stands in sharp contrast to more basic styles of decoration.
There is no set formula for sugar craft, you will need to use your artistic eye, and practice until you feel you have it right.
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To clear things up a bit, sugar craft is a type of cake decorating that is three- dimensional.
It takes a bit of time to learn sugar craft decorating, and the process can be frustrating. The art of sugar craft stands in sharp contrast to more basic styles of decoration.
There is no set formula for sugar craft, you will need to use your artistic eye, and practice until you feel you have it right.
Read More About Sugercraft here
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Decorate cake Tools
I am always looking out for cake decorating ideas for any type of cake and how to decorate the cakes in a fun and stress free way. But often, I don’t have the proper equipment to decorates a wide range of modern cake designs.
I remember my first birthday cake design was so challenging without the proper tools. It is therefore important to have all of your special decorating tools out so that you cab be ready to put the decorative touches on your cake. Other important cake decorating tools that you will want to keep in your arsenal include metal decorating tips, pastry bags, novelty tips and a plastic turntable to keep you cake turning for easier decorating.
How About Birthday Cakes For Adults
I remember my first birthday cake design was so challenging without the proper tools. It is therefore important to have all of your special decorating tools out so that you cab be ready to put the decorative touches on your cake. Other important cake decorating tools that you will want to keep in your arsenal include metal decorating tips, pastry bags, novelty tips and a plastic turntable to keep you cake turning for easier decorating.
How About Birthday Cakes For Adults
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Cake Business At Home
If you are a gifted cake baker and decorator and you would love to share your creations with others, consider starting a cake business.
Starting a Cake Business at home is a relatively straight-forward and inexpensive process compared to starting a commercial bakery or buying a franchise. If you're considering a cake business at home, then don't allow anything to stand in your way. It's crucial to remember that once your individual cake business at home is booming, you can never be fired.
A cake decorating business is a great option for a small, home-based business and it does not require a great financial investment.
Go for it.
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Starting a Cake Business at home is a relatively straight-forward and inexpensive process compared to starting a commercial bakery or buying a franchise. If you're considering a cake business at home, then don't allow anything to stand in your way. It's crucial to remember that once your individual cake business at home is booming, you can never be fired.
A cake decorating business is a great option for a small, home-based business and it does not require a great financial investment.
Go for it.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Cake Decorating Themes
It is possible to customize your cake using favorite flavors. When you are the one bringing the cake, you probably will want the cake decoration to stand out, and look a bit more professional than those you make for your family at home.
You can have just about anything you can dream up put on a wedding cake including, fruit and even real edible flowers. You can make any color frosting, including the favorite of the person or people you are baking the cake for.
Everyone seems to enjoy cakes that are baked at home, it is a wonderful surprise on special occasions. When you are the one bringing the cake, you probably will want the cake decoration to stand out, and look a bit more professional than those you make for your family at home. I have put together a few ideas you may want to try.
Cake Decorating Themes
- Fun and activity: These cakes are full of color and whimsical design. The use of different shapes, Balloons, circles, stars, clouds, and other interesting designs will help to make your cake decorating the talk of the party. With the use of animal crackers, you could make a zoo or farm cake. Your imagination can take you anywhere.
- Say it With Flowers: The use of floral patterns in soft shades, are perfect for cake decorating. The addition of a few green leaves make this type of cake decoration an excellent choice for any special occasion. Flowers are great on wedding cakes, birthday cakes, mothers day cakes, and for other happy celebrations.
- A Little Romance: Romantic cake decorating is perfect for sweethearts day, valentines day, a birthday for a husband or wife, or a wedding anniversary. You can make any color frosting, including the favorite of the person or people you are baking the cake for. You can add hearts, cupids, or anything that will remind the guests what the celebration is about. Use your imagination and make it a little jazzy without going overboard. Just a bit of glitter or candies that sparkle should do the trick.
- "What's Up Doc": Younger children (and some that are over 90) love cartoon characters as much as they love cake. This is why it is a great idea to combine both when decorating a cake for the birthday of someone who loves these whimsical critters. You can either draw them in icing and color them in, or use molds and fondant to make the characters. After they are made, they can be colored before they are placed on the cake. So invite Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Taz, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Garfield, Donald Duck, or any of the many cartoon characters that have stolen our hearts and funny bones, and are doing the same to our children, to the party.
There are some supplies that are essential when you are thinking about cake decorating, these are:
- A professional icing smoother or thin metal spatula. This tool will help you to cover your decorated cake with an even layer of icing, and to make the frosting very smooth so that it can be decorated. This will make the cake look as if a pro did it.
- The use of decoration Molds is a very easy way to make figures and objects to use in cake decorating. You will probably want to start with the basic shapes like circles, squares, or triangles, until you are sure of how to perfect the process. You can move from that to flowers, numbers, and characters. Some molds also have text so you can add a message.
- Icing bags are an absolute essential if you want to do any type of cake decorating. Once you get the hang of it, you will be able to use it as you would an ink pen, except it is held with both hands. One hand is used to apply steady pressure on the upper part of the bag, while the other guides the tip to make the decorations.
- The use of frosting flowers that are already made for you is a less time consuming way to add beauty to your cake decorating.
- Edible glitter and colorful sprinkles are a great way to spruce up your cake decorating design. These small additions could be just the thing to give your cake that finishing touch.
- Edible color sprays are quite easy to use, especially when you are using a template. It can be the difference between a cake decoration that is blah, to one that has everyone complimenting you on your artistic ability.
- You can also print out edible photographs of the graduate, that fish that almost got away, or a wedding photo of the bride and groom, the way they looked when they were married to place on their 50th anniversary cake. The paper these edible images are printed on is also edible, so you can place the whole thing on the cake.
A cake stand will make your creation stand out, especially a glass stand.
Read More About cake Decorating Themes >>
You can have just about anything you can dream up put on a wedding cake including, fruit and even real edible flowers. You can make any color frosting, including the favorite of the person or people you are baking the cake for.
Everyone seems to enjoy cakes that are baked at home, it is a wonderful surprise on special occasions. When you are the one bringing the cake, you probably will want the cake decoration to stand out, and look a bit more professional than those you make for your family at home. I have put together a few ideas you may want to try.
Cake Decorating Themes
- Fun and activity: These cakes are full of color and whimsical design. The use of different shapes, Balloons, circles, stars, clouds, and other interesting designs will help to make your cake decorating the talk of the party. With the use of animal crackers, you could make a zoo or farm cake. Your imagination can take you anywhere.
- Say it With Flowers: The use of floral patterns in soft shades, are perfect for cake decorating. The addition of a few green leaves make this type of cake decoration an excellent choice for any special occasion. Flowers are great on wedding cakes, birthday cakes, mothers day cakes, and for other happy celebrations.
- A Little Romance: Romantic cake decorating is perfect for sweethearts day, valentines day, a birthday for a husband or wife, or a wedding anniversary. You can make any color frosting, including the favorite of the person or people you are baking the cake for. You can add hearts, cupids, or anything that will remind the guests what the celebration is about. Use your imagination and make it a little jazzy without going overboard. Just a bit of glitter or candies that sparkle should do the trick.
- "What's Up Doc": Younger children (and some that are over 90) love cartoon characters as much as they love cake. This is why it is a great idea to combine both when decorating a cake for the birthday of someone who loves these whimsical critters. You can either draw them in icing and color them in, or use molds and fondant to make the characters. After they are made, they can be colored before they are placed on the cake. So invite Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Taz, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Garfield, Donald Duck, or any of the many cartoon characters that have stolen our hearts and funny bones, and are doing the same to our children, to the party.
There are some supplies that are essential when you are thinking about cake decorating, these are:
- A professional icing smoother or thin metal spatula. This tool will help you to cover your decorated cake with an even layer of icing, and to make the frosting very smooth so that it can be decorated. This will make the cake look as if a pro did it.
- The use of decoration Molds is a very easy way to make figures and objects to use in cake decorating. You will probably want to start with the basic shapes like circles, squares, or triangles, until you are sure of how to perfect the process. You can move from that to flowers, numbers, and characters. Some molds also have text so you can add a message.
- Icing bags are an absolute essential if you want to do any type of cake decorating. Once you get the hang of it, you will be able to use it as you would an ink pen, except it is held with both hands. One hand is used to apply steady pressure on the upper part of the bag, while the other guides the tip to make the decorations.
- The use of frosting flowers that are already made for you is a less time consuming way to add beauty to your cake decorating.
- Edible glitter and colorful sprinkles are a great way to spruce up your cake decorating design. These small additions could be just the thing to give your cake that finishing touch.
- Edible color sprays are quite easy to use, especially when you are using a template. It can be the difference between a cake decoration that is blah, to one that has everyone complimenting you on your artistic ability.
- You can also print out edible photographs of the graduate, that fish that almost got away, or a wedding photo of the bride and groom, the way they looked when they were married to place on their 50th anniversary cake. The paper these edible images are printed on is also edible, so you can place the whole thing on the cake.
A cake stand will make your creation stand out, especially a glass stand.
Read More About cake Decorating Themes >>
Candied Flowers For Cake Decorating
Edible flowers are often used as a garnish or as an ingredient in salads. While not all flowers are edible, there are many out there that are. Very few supermarkets carry edible flowers, but they are available at specialty markets that carry gourmet produce. These flowers can be stored up to a week in the refrigerator as long as they are wrapped well. This is fine if they are to be used in a salad, but when they are used in cake decorating they need to be fresh.
You should never eat flowers that have been sprayed with pesticides. Some of the most popular edible flowers are:
Nasturtiums have a Peppery flavor, Chive blossoms taste like a mild sweet onion, Roses, Violas and Pansies taste a bit like grapes. Other edible flowers are apple blossoms, almond, lavender, borage, chamomile, lovage, lemon, orange blossoms, plum blossoms, peach blossoms, and squash blossoms. We also have daisies, chrysanthemums, geraniums, marigolds, jasmine, lilacs, and violets.
Candied Flowers
Candied flowers are great for desserts and in cake decorating. Here is a recipe to make your own.
Time to prepare: 8 hrs. and 15 minutes
Yield: 2 dozen flowers.
1/4 cup beaten egg whites
1/2 cup superfine sugar
2 cups edible flowers of your choice
Clean and blot flowers dry with a paper towel. With a paint brush, brush on a thin layer of egg white on each side of the flower petals or blossoms. Place flowers into a shallow bowl of superfine sugar and sprinkle more sugar over the flowers so that they are coated. Make sure all of the flower has been sprinkled with sugar. Remove flowers and place them on a sheet of waxed paper. Sprinkle each flower with another layer of sugar, again, make sure the entire flower gets a layer of sugar.
Allow flowers to dry on the waxed paper for 8 hours. Store these tasty treats in an airtight container at room temperature until they are needed.
We are seeing more real flowers and fruit in cake decorating than ever before. The addition of these wonderful edible gifts of nature, gives the cake an elegant look. Whether you are making a wedding, anniversary, retirement, birthday, or a cake for any special occasion, you will get many compliments on your choice of decoration.
Cake decorating can be a bit frustrating and time consuming, but once you learn the techniques and utilize the newest ideas when cake decorating, you will find that it can be fun, rewarding, and lucrative. Most cake decorators have an artistic background, or artistic talent.
If you are thinking of starting a cake decorating business in your home you will need to keep up with the latest trends in cake decorating to be able to offer your clients new unique and wonderful choices. As with anything designs get old, while some will stick with the traditional white or ivory for a wedding cake, but there are those who want to step out of the mold and have a little color in their wedding cake.
Read More about candies flowers for cake decorating >>
You should never eat flowers that have been sprayed with pesticides. Some of the most popular edible flowers are:
Nasturtiums have a Peppery flavor, Chive blossoms taste like a mild sweet onion, Roses, Violas and Pansies taste a bit like grapes. Other edible flowers are apple blossoms, almond, lavender, borage, chamomile, lovage, lemon, orange blossoms, plum blossoms, peach blossoms, and squash blossoms. We also have daisies, chrysanthemums, geraniums, marigolds, jasmine, lilacs, and violets.
Candied Flowers
Candied flowers are great for desserts and in cake decorating. Here is a recipe to make your own.
Time to prepare: 8 hrs. and 15 minutes
Yield: 2 dozen flowers.
1/4 cup beaten egg whites
1/2 cup superfine sugar
2 cups edible flowers of your choice
Clean and blot flowers dry with a paper towel. With a paint brush, brush on a thin layer of egg white on each side of the flower petals or blossoms. Place flowers into a shallow bowl of superfine sugar and sprinkle more sugar over the flowers so that they are coated. Make sure all of the flower has been sprinkled with sugar. Remove flowers and place them on a sheet of waxed paper. Sprinkle each flower with another layer of sugar, again, make sure the entire flower gets a layer of sugar.
Allow flowers to dry on the waxed paper for 8 hours. Store these tasty treats in an airtight container at room temperature until they are needed.
We are seeing more real flowers and fruit in cake decorating than ever before. The addition of these wonderful edible gifts of nature, gives the cake an elegant look. Whether you are making a wedding, anniversary, retirement, birthday, or a cake for any special occasion, you will get many compliments on your choice of decoration.
Cake decorating can be a bit frustrating and time consuming, but once you learn the techniques and utilize the newest ideas when cake decorating, you will find that it can be fun, rewarding, and lucrative. Most cake decorators have an artistic background, or artistic talent.
If you are thinking of starting a cake decorating business in your home you will need to keep up with the latest trends in cake decorating to be able to offer your clients new unique and wonderful choices. As with anything designs get old, while some will stick with the traditional white or ivory for a wedding cake, but there are those who want to step out of the mold and have a little color in their wedding cake.
Read More about candies flowers for cake decorating >>
Creative Cake Decorating Ideas | Fanciful Cake Decorating themes
You want to bake a cake for a exceptional function, you recognise you're creative, just you want a new thought to work on with. All festivity includes a cake to be shared out among the guests and family members. It's custom to have a cake baked from a bakeshop, or to accept a relative bake a cake for the event. Whenever you're the assigned cake designer, you could be looking to a fresh idea for your following creation.
Below are a few cake decorating ideas:
- Character reference*: There are 100s of renowned character reference* to use for cake dressing. You are able to have whatever cake special by drawing in Dora the adventurer, or Blues Clues. Or you might prefer to cut up the cake to create the whole cake into a popular character reference.
- Themes: perhaps you'd wish to move with a 50's theme, underwater venture, athletics theme, or a thriving 20's theme for your cake dressing. Expend your creativeness and come up a theme that will exhilarate the somebody you're creating the cake for, and the guests . You might would like to have a fancy dress party in that theme. Whatsoever you choose, have fun.
- Motor Cakes: Boys are generally in love about motortrucks, automobiles, fire truck*, boats, tractors, choppers, or aeroplanes. Once again you will be able to apply your cake dressing expertise to build a farm on a three-D tractor, a racing strip, or a picture demonstrating ablaze being put away by firefighters. Naturally it entirely depends upon what the particular birthday boy is fond of.
- Animals: you are able to likewise use an animal theme by carving the cake to appear alike some animal, or draw in a scene applying animals. It could be a zoological garden scene with a lot of animals or pick out one animal and beautify the cake with other decorations demonstrating where it came from. Use your imagination.
- Food for thought: perhaps you're making a cake because the opening of an Italian eating house. You could create a scene depicting the construction, or if it is for a chef opening the eating house, a scene of the kitchen with a different Italian dishes would be amusing. You are able to besides cut the cake to appear as though a hamburger, hot dog, taco etc... The sky is the limit when it concerns cake beautifying using a food theme.
- Vacation Themes: I recollect once bunny cakes became popular at Easter, Wilton has pans and decorating supplies for all vacation cake dressing designs. A affectionateness on Valentine's day, or a 4 leaf clover on St. Patrick's day is a fantastic way to say happy vacations.
- Your Own Creation: If you've been involved with in cake dressing for quite some time, or if you are a beginner with an tasteful flair, you are able to make your own cake based on the theme or the celebration.
Whatever cake you make will be the centre of attention as cakes generally are at a celebration. It's turn custom to have a spectacular cake at every celebration. Knowing that you're the one who's artistic enough to make this cake, and the praise you'll receive from other people, will bring about you a bushel of satisfaction.
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