Amazing & Easy Creative Cake Decorating Ideas
Cake baking and decorating are an art. These days cake shows on cable-TV have really skewed my kids' Birthday Cake expectations. Fondant? Gum Paste? Airplane? You can't suddenly become a cake boss, however, with little effort and patience you can make beautiful cakes too.
To keep your children happy you can try these basic cake decorating ideas to make nice, delicious and lovely looking cakes at home. Before starting you need to have some things handy as cake decorating is a messy job. You're going to need an apron, towels, bowls where you can put scraped frostings, toothpicks, parchment paper (to put under the cake base while frosting).
To start with cake making:
Choose a right quality & right Shaped Cake pan
A cake can look special if you have it in a different unique shape. A football, tractor or airplane shaped cake for your son's birthday; a butterfly shaped cake for your daughter would bring them in joy. Children prefer to have innovative and creative shapes as for birthday cakes. There are many different themed cake pans to choose from.
Top it off with homemade Cake Toppers
Cake toppers are another easy and efficient way to decorate your cakes or cupcakes. Apart from doll toppers available from retail suppliers, you can make chocolate or hard candy cake toppers at home too. For that you just need cake toppers molds or chocopicks. Buy molds suitable for the occasion and make them at home. Other things that can be used as cake toppers are gummy bears, M&M's, Jimmies, and more.
Wrap them with cool cupcake roundabouts
Thinking of decorating your cupcakes for a friend's baby shower? You just need to wrap them up with printed roundabout and put over a blue/pink frosting and some sprinklers. You'll end up baking beautiful cupcakes and your friends will just love you for this.
Use cake stands
You can use a cake stand to decorate the cupcakes.These days people prefer to have decorated cupcakes than cakes so that everybody gets a fully decorated and frosted peice of their own. Use tiered cake stand where you can place your cupcakes and make them look like a tier cake.
Use right frosting and decorating tools
For frosting and icing you must use right tools including brushes, spatulas, pastry bags, tubes, fondant rolling pins, pastry mats. You can create beautiful patterns using frosting tubes and that can turn a plain cake to a real professional looking cake.
Cake decorating kits
Last but not least there are many cake decorating kits available in the market which you can buy and make a delicious attractive looking cakes at home.
I hope the above Cake Decoration ideas will invoke the cake baker in you and you will end up baking some delicious treats today. Check out Flavortools for all cake making and baking supplies.
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Where can I buy cupcake decorating things?
There aren't any cupcake/cake stores nearby where I live, but do they have any at grocery stores like Safeway or Wegmans? Also, where can I find links to cupcake decoration ideas for Valentine's Day? I'd like them to be very specific in the directions. Thanks!
Your local party supply store should have cake decorating things. Also, about this time of year Target and Walmart stores start to stock their Valentine's Day cake decorations. Here are a few links that I found that might help you:
http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/special/specialfeature/valentines_food_ms/
http://www.wilton.com/ideas/browse.cfm?cel=Valentines-Day&cat=Cupcakes
http://cupcakerecipe.net/labels/Valentines.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/510393/2008_valentines_day_cupcake_decorating.html?cat=22
I hope that helps! Happy Valentine's Day! 
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Vegan Carrot Cake – Simple and Creative Vegan Cupcakes Making! by Tina Fung
Making Vegan Carrot Cake is easy and fun to do. You can make some great Vegan Carrot Cupcakes that you can use as a Birthday Cake or for a picnic or other family outing. These cupcakes would even be great for a pot luck or at the office to have with coffee on your break. Regardless how you chose to serve them or how you chose to decorate them your friends and family will love this Vegan Carrot Cupcake recipe.
To make Vegan Carrot Cupcakes you will need the following Ingredients:
One and a half teaspoons baking powder
Two teaspoons baking soda
A half cup unsweetened applesauce
Two cups four
Three quarter cups sugar
One and a half teaspoons cinnamon
One half teaspoon nutmeg
Half teaspoon salt
A cup of crushed pineapple
A cup grated carrots
Quarter cup canola oil
Procedure:
1) Mix the baking soda and applesauce in a small bowel until foamy. Set aside.
2) Put flour, sugar, baking soda, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt in a large bowl and mix well.
3) Add the oil, carrots, pineapple and some of the juice and applesauce mixture to large bowl and mix very well.
4) Add flaked coconut, nuts or raisins-optional. Mix well again
5) Spoon mixture into twenty four cupcake liners until three quarters full. Bake in a moderately heated oven at three hundred twenty five degrees for thirty minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool completely and frost with vegan fluffy butter cream Frosting
One quarter cup shortening that is not hydrogenated
One quarter cup margarine that is not hydrogenated
One and three quarter cups confectioners sugar sifted if necessary
Three quarter teaspoons pure vanilla extract-not artificial vanilla
One eighth cup plain soy milk
Combine the shortening and butter in a large bowl and beat well until frothy. Add sugar and beat an additional three minutes. Add vanilla and soy milk and beat for an additional five to six minutes until frosting is fluffy.
Spread generous amounts of frosting atop each cupcake and swirl with spoon until nice fluffy peaks are on each cupcake.
To make an extravagant Birthday presentation arrange seven frosted Vegan Carrot Cupcakes on a platter. Then stack six on top of the previous seven. Next stack five cupcakes and then four on the next two layers. The final two cupcakes create the peak of this cupcake Birthday tower. Additionally, if you have a three tier Serving Platter you may stack the cupcakes on this for presentation. You can also make shapes with cupcakes such a Christmas Tree shape for Christmas or a Bunny Rabbit for an Easter Party or even a Turkey for a Thanksgiving gathering. There are so many ways to present these cupcakes that your only limitation is your imagination.
Carrots are full of beta carotene, low in saturated fats and cholesterol. Carrots provide a good source of thiamine. Additionally, carrots offer an excellent source of niacin, vitamin B6, K, A, and folate and potassium. Further, carrots are full of fiber.
Another recipe you might like to try is Vegan Chocolate and Banana Cup Cakes. This recipe uses whole wheat pastry flour, sugar, mashed bananas, cocoa powder, canola oil, hot water and vanilla extract to make a deliciously moist cupcake that everyone-vegan or not, will love! There are some other vegan cake recipes that the list is practically endless so feel free to click links, look around, I am certain you will find a vegan recipe or two that you will like to make for your family.
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Hi, this is Tina Fung, a vegetarian and love baking. If you would like to read more vegan birthday cake information, please visit atVegan Birthday Cake, where including other vegan birthday cake recipes, such asVegan Chocolate Cake, Vegan Carrot Cake, and more. Enjoy!