How to Spruce Up your Cake With Cake Decorating Flowers
Cake decorating flowers help spruce up the cake. And of course, decorating a cake is the most difficult part of the entire process. If you can come up with innovative ideas to decorate the cake, everyone appreciates the delicious cake thoroughly. Cake decorating flowers give a new dimension to your cake.
You have a choice to select cake decorating flowers. You can use the real edible flowers to decorate your cake. Before you use real flowers to decorate your cake here are some things that you should keep in your mind.
Pick up only those flowers that you are absolutely sure are edible. Make sure the flowers you use are from your own backyard. So that you are sure that no pesticide is used. Do not use flowers bought from a florist. If you pick up flowers from garden centers or nurseries they may be treated with pesticides which can be harmful to you.
Some of the edible flowers that can be used are daisies, nasturtiums, Johnny-jump-ups, roses, calendulas, violets and lavender. Sometimes only petals are used to decorate the cake instead of the entire flower. Only thing is go easy on flower decoration as sometimes people have allergic reaction to the flowers.
You can sugar glaze the flowers by covering the flower with egg white and then sprinkle the flower with sugar. Let them fry which will take a few hours. The end result will be sugar glazed cake decorating flowers for your cake.
Another option is to use artificial flowers. You can choose from the wide variety that is available in the market. Cut the stems short. Put together the flowers. Arrange in any way that you feel looks good and put it on the cake.
You can get edible sugar flowers. With the help of food colors in paste form and dusting powder you can change the color of the sugar flowers to match the theme of the occasion. If you are decorating a wedding cake then you can match the flower color to the theme of the wedding hall or to the colors of real flowers the girls are carrying. The possibilities are immense as well as endless.
There are different types of flowers made from different ingredients. You can get flowers made with Buttercream, Royal icing, gumpaste or readymade silk flowers. Royal icing is used for making many flowers such as roses, pansies, daisies, violets etc. The royal icing dries hard so the flowers made from this icing can remain firm and do not wilt easily.
But if you want really hard flowers use gumpaste. It is sugar dough that can be easily rolled out. It can be shaped like flowers. Flowers made from the gumpaste look very realistic.
You can use Buttercream to make roses with or without leaves.
You can use the cake decorating flowers directly on the cake. Some of the manufacturers have come up with flower holders. You can use those holders to arrange your cake decorating flowers. Or you can bake the cake which has some space in the cake. You can put some kind of flower holder in that gap and then put real flowers in it so the flowers will not touch the cake but a stunning effect will be achieved.
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Charity bake - how can I cook a natural RED CAKE without colourings? Could be decor?
I want to cook a natural cake - without sugar - and make it red using decorations, perhaps flowers. ANy ideas welcome? It is for a charity bake and I want to win my husband's tream some points
a cake without sugar will taste pretty bland. and if you substitute with splenda it's hardly "natural" anymore is it?
if you want to be sugar-free you could try that concentrated apple juice as a sweetener, but it will darken up the cake.
beetroot juice won't make the cake red, it will give it a funny not-quite-pink tinge. I've tried it. It does make great pink icing, but not red. perhaps just do a white cake and decorate with red ribbons? chic and elegant.
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The Marvels Of Cake Decorating by Richard CC Wells
I would love to share with you a few of my personal experiences with cake decorating. First and foremost, I would like to let everyone know that I am by no means a cake decorating expert. I have used cake decorating paste on plenty of sheet cakes, and I have probably designed more than thirty or forty cakes in my life.
Cake decorating can be an amazing and fun opportunity to bond with your spouse, children, brother, sister, parent, grandparent, or friend. It lets you pour creativity out onto a cake and let the world know what you are truly capable of. It will let you put on display your true amounts of creativity that may have otherwise gone unnoticed.
The first thing you will need to do is find out what type of cake you are going to decorate. There are plenty of different options here. There are small, big, long, short, and fat cakes of many different sizes. You will want to see what ingredients that will be required. Do not forget the cake decorating paste. This can be a key ingredient that will really help you jazz up your final product. The key touches put on with a cake decorating utensil at the end will dazzle your audience.
Speaking of audience, it is very important that you know your audience very well. If the cake is for your spouse and they hate a lot of icing, it would not make much sense to put a lot of icing on. In this case, it might be nice to add a few touches here or there. This would be a situation where a little is actually going further. If your audience is very big on icing and elaborate schemes, you should really feed into this. Make a tall elaborate cake if you can. Dazzle it with icing flowers. Put several colors on the cake that really make it come together.
Having said all of this, it is apparent that cake decorating can not only be a stress reliever but also a great way to show your love for someone. Oftentimes, something from the heart, such as a cake, will go much further than something bought at the store. The cake will get consumed, and there will be joy from it. This is often much better than a silly present that may get put in the attic or sold in a rummage sale.
Once you are done with all of your cake decorating, you are left with the clean up. Make sure you thoroughly clean all of your tools and utensils so they are ready to go the next time you use them. You will thank yourself a hundred times over for taking a little time to make sure they are very clean and dry.
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Hi, my name is Richard 'Cool Cakes' Wells and I love cakes. If you would like to read my article on the "The History Of Cake Decorating", then click here; http://www.coolcakedecorating.com/the-history-of-cake-decorating/. For more articles on decorating cakes, visit my website at; http://www.coolcakedecorating.com/.