Let us face it, cake is not necessarily the quickest thing to bake. Besides, you are also put off my the mess it makes. It could refuse to rise, remain half baked, burn, crumble, crack, and not rise. I can tell you this, you can use simple techniques to decorate your cake and conceal all your flaws under a layer of sugar, butter and fun. (not the burned ones). Once it you dress up your cake well, it is just as sweet as any other cake out there. However, if you still want to give it a gourmet look, you go for online cake decorating suppliers. There are a lot of professional cake decorators out there that create edible cake decorations in Australia. We have listed a few tips below.
1) The Chocolate Drizzle
This is one of the simplest techniques in cake decorations. All you have to do is pour the ganache over the icing. To prepare the drizzle, melt equal quantities of chocolate and cream in a double boiler. Allow the ganache to cool before working with it. If you want a fluffy frosting or chocolate filling, allow it to cool until it becomes thick, and then whip it until light and fluffy.
2) The cake in cake
When you are pretty sure, your cake is going to fall apart, cover your cake with a cake. To be precise, cover it with swiss rolls and you can easily hide all the blemishes in your cake. This makes an easy cake decoration. Besides, it looks pretty curious, and people will definitely want to try it. The cut out swiss roll discs can be anywhere between 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch wide.
3) Ruffles, ruffles, and more ruffles !
The best part about the ruffle cake icing is that it gives a creamy, silky, satiny texture to the cake. It can also be used to coat cakes before they are covered with fondant, but it is even delicious when used on its own, especially for an occasion and wedding cakes. You can experiment with different kinds of colours, such as coral colours, rainbow colours, etc.
The ruffling cake decoration technique itself is pretty straight-forward. Placing the cake on a rotating cake stand, and with a large piping bag filled will butter cream and fitted with a large petal tip, start at the bottom. Hold the piping bag straight with the tip pointing at cake board and the smaller part of the tip facing outward. Go about it in a back and forth motion until you reached the top of the cake then started again beside that row, and so on.
Happy Ruffling!
For the Swiss Meringue Butter cream
- 5 large egg whites (150g)
- 1-1/4 cups (250 g) granulated sugar
- 1 pound (4 sticks) unsalted butter, softened, cut into cubes
- 2 teaspoons (10 mL) pure vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
4) Doodle your Cake
Let your 5 years old decorate the cake for a change. The art work does not have to be perfect. To make the doodle cake, cover the butter cream cake in white fondant and refrigerate overnight. You will need approximately 2 lbs, 3 oz of fondant for a 9″ round 5″ high cake. Remove the cake from the refrigerator and let the child draw and colour all over the cake using food colour markers. Place the cake back in the refrigerator and remove it every 15 minutes or so, if it begins to soften up before the child is finished (otherwise you will get dents in the cake). You can also have everyone at a birthday party sign the cake, write a message or draw a picture.
Now a days you get many cake decorations, such as sugar flowers, sugar hearts, sugar stars, rainbow dust colours, edible figures and other cake decoration tools from online cake decoration suppliers. These cake decorating shops have their decorations made from the most creative cake decorators in Australia, who really love their cakes.
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