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Cake Decorating Ideas

Everyone loves a home made cake
They make special occasions even more special.
Shop bought cakes look nice but are not as good as your own produce.
You will certainly want your cake decoration to look outstanding
Here are some good ideas to help you with a better looking cake.

An Activity or Hobby
This makes a cake really special.
Why not include a relevant activity for the person your cake is intended for.
A sporting activity would be quite exciting for anyone and would show you are really thinking of them.
Colour is important and a cake iced with a Football or racing car would be a real eyecatcher,.
Is the person into scuba or ballooning - a gift of a cake with an underwater scene or a hot air balloon on the top would be great fun to receive.

Imagine a cake for a stamp Collector or coin collector -
with a real range of different colours and their name too!

Just plain colours with a pattern would enhance your cakes amazingly.

A cake iced with flowers or decorated with real flowers would be perfect.
Add some green marzipan leaves to brighten up a Wedding Cake or a Mothers day cake.
Colours really can create moods.
Romance is always PINK ( unless you are making a cake for a Goth.) So stick to cupids, hearts,flowers and candelabras for accessories.

For Younger people why not decorate with Cartoon Characters ?

You could ice popular cartoon characters from tv series or superheroes - or cute ponies and fairies for a young girl.
It is fairly easy to copy characters from cartoons and just fill in the outlines from cartoons with coloured icing sugar.
There are many how to draw websites and these make a good starting point for ideas for a cartoon cake..

Molds are readily available on Amazon or eBay to make cartoons and even three-d characters quite easily.

Icing a cake is relatively easy now - icing sugar is available in sheets or shapes and with many stick on decorations.

You really do need a good palette knife though to smooth out the icing sugar both of the sides and the top of your cake. This will give you a professional finish and make it easier to add other decorations.

A standard Pound Cake recipe is the one to use as this will hold together well and is a good base for the icing process.

To add a finishing touch you can use confectioners molds to make basic shapes or even figures.

There are many icing kits available but the essential tool is an icing bag and whole books have been written of the art of Cake Icing.

An icing bag is fairly easy to use but you should start slowly to avoid mistakes.
It is however possible to get good results with fairly basic tools.

I suggest that you start with basically icing a cake and then add ready made flowers
Or you can use a cake topping to start with.

You can use an edible color spray and everyone will be amazed at your culinary skills.

Edible Photographs are now available and these are fairly easy to use and of surprising quality.. These make excellent cake toppers and memorable souvenirs too.