Cake Decorating Themes

Article by Tyler Branson

When you want to make a great impression to your guests then you need to make a great cake which you design yourself using some cake decorating techniques that you can find online. You can match your cake decorations with your chosen theme or color. You may also decorate your cake according to your age or to what you usually do. Just like what you see in wedding or Holiday cakes, they are influenced by the usual colors and theme of the occasion.

Some Good Cake Decorations

For adults, one of the most used cake decorating ideas is the use of cupcakes to signify the age of the celebrant. Typically, birthday cakes are just single cakes that are either round or square. Putting numbers in your cupcakes is a good and certainly unique idea. Don’t worry too much about the decorations as you can always use the things that are memorable to the guest of honor. Pictures, favorite toys or candy are good cake decorations. This kind of decorations is a lot cheaper and the clean-up will be a lot easier for you later on.

Another good idea is to color your cakes differently to stand out. You can use this during Halloween or in Gothic themes parties. Instead of just using ordinary colored cakes, you can use food color to make a black cake. Bake the cake in a coffin shape or scary bat or anything resembling the creepy world of the dead. An alternative is to use red color instead of black to signify blood. Add some black sprinkles, frosting and you have a cool, Goth cake.

Cake decorating for children’s cakes are uniquely challenging. This is due to the fact that children want a lot of things and that includes the design of their cakes. But this should not be a problem because there is one thing that all kids love – cartoons or childrens movies. An easy way to decide on a theme is to know their favorite superhero or cartoon characters. Pictures and figures of these characters are sure hit to them. One good example is the movie “Cars” which a lot of kids love and enjoy. This theme is fun and easy to do because making a car-shape cake base is easy. This is a great choice for boys.

Little girls love fairy tales and princess stories so they will usually like cakes with designs of Snow White or Cinderella while, younger children enjoy Winnie the Pooh and other cartoon characters. So for the next child’s cake that you bake, know what cartoon characters they want and you won’t have any worries about how to decorate their cake.

For occasions like Valentine’s Day, many are using real fresh flowers flowers such as red roses. A heart-shaped cake is also one of the widely used cakes for this occasion. You can also use cupid figurines to decorate it. As for the other decorations, you can use sprinkles, chocolate chips, tiny mallows and flower candies. White chocolate grated on top is a perfect match to your chocolate cake.

With your imagination and the proper techniques, cake decorating is fun and easy as 1,2,3. But, like all skills, you don’t acquire them at birth. You have to learn baking and practice some decorating techniques. When you aim to hone your decorating skills, you will be highly rewarded.

About the Author

Tyler is fond of baking cakes with his family. He encourages the use of cake box to maintain the beautiful form and aroma of the cake. visit his website for more details on the use ofdifferent cake boxes.

First ever attempt at MMF cake, thanks to all the great ideas on youtube. Made everything from scratch, the hardest thing was finding the figurines at a resonable price, son loved it. First find MMF (marshmellow fondant video – how to make) Second find (marshmellow fondant – how to make cake) Third check out videos on tips and advice about how to colour, and make figures using MMF And finally – check out images on web and go for it. Made cake on a Friday and finished decorating it Saturday……fondant can be made before-hand and keeps really well. Didn’t have any of the lettering equipment so traced letters onto baking paper and then placed onto rolled out fondant. Made impression onto fondant and then cut out with a knife, tedious but worth it.
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