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The Christmas lights on this genius holiday cake are actually chocolate-covered almonds connected with gel food coloring. A cake covered in pretty frosting flowers looks impressive, but all it takes to create one is a little piping practice. Use star tips in various sizes to incorporate a mix of large roses and dainty rosettes. Is a great way to add a delicious, moist, almond flavour to your cake, it’s a triumph topping a homemade Battenburg cake.
If you're up for a more in-depth cake decorating project, consider making a wallpaper-inspired cake. Many bakeries can create an edible print using special paper and ink, which you can then cut to fit your cake. Make your cake even more indulgent by topping it with freshly whipped cream, which is always the perfect base for popping on chocolates or fruits. Cream is super easy to work with and can be spread or piped onto your cake depending on its thickness.
Add Edible Flowers
Sprinkle with icing sugar to mimic a light dusting of snow. Dress up your birthday or holiday cake with these easy cake decorating ideas. Some fancy up the outside of the cake with frosting, candy or fruit, while others use simple layering tricks to make the inside shine. If you’re looking to make your dessert special, then adding almond icing is just the thing.
We all know how difficult it can be to find the perfect cake for a unicorn-themed birthday party. You want something that will make your child smile and that they’ll remember for years to come. If painting on cakes with food coloring is new to you, try starting with liquid paints before trying other techniques like painting with food coloring with gel.
Autumn Tree Cake
A clean bowl of water to rinse brushes between colors and painting on a cake. Have a clean cloth to allow the brush to dry off between colors and allow it to completely dry before using it for the next color. Christmas is right around the corner, and that means one thing – it’s time to start thinking about the perfect cake.
This fox-face cake keeps it super simple, though, and if you can cut up Fruit by the Foot and draw a triangle, you are good to decorate it. I realize this is a bow on a brownie but imagine a cake frosted in a darker tone, including chocolate, with a powder sugar design on top. It's like skipping all the work of detailed frosting decoration. Ree used Nordic Ware's Jubilee Bundt Pan to take a simple pound cake to the next level.
Use a Whole Lotta Sprinkles for Maximum Impact
Edible flowers, such as lavender, also work well in biscuits. Cake pops are made by crumbling up a cake and combining with some buttercream so that you can roll it into balls and then decorate. If you have a cake mishap, or just fancy adding some cake pop deliciousness to your party table, check out the fun ideas we’ve included below. Whether you want to try your hand at a pumpkin, ghost, vampire or candy corn cake, we’ve got lots of easy Halloween cake ideas.
"Hidden chocolate snow bites not only add an extra chocolate hit to the centre of the cake but serve up a surprise amid the chocolate ganache filling when the cake is sliced through," says Frances. For all those Christmas cake and Christmas pud non-believers out there, this is a brilliant alternative, fashioned on the look of a traditional pudding. It’s booze free, so you can give the brandy a rest, and the kids will be thrilled, plus it’s easy and quick, so ideal if you haven’t planned far enough ahead for the more trad bakes. Covered in Maltesers, drizzled with melted white choc and sprinkled with red edible glitter, it’s a great one to serve after Christmas dinner with or without a drizzle of cream. For a humerous take on your Christmas cake that kids will love – acupformycake.com has this fun idea for how to make a snowman in the snow cake. The cake itself is decorated with a snow-effect base of buttercream and coconut, then the Santa shapes are modelled out of fondant.
Bake the cake up to two days in advance, so all that's left is to make and drizzle the sauce over the top the day it's served. These festive holiday cakes will put the finishing touch on your Christmas dinner menu. Gussy up a simple cake with toy animals and this easy birthday sign made from refrigerator magnets, straws, and pipe cleaners. While Oh Happy Day went with a circus theme, it'd be just as easy to put a princess or toy truck or any toy from around the house on top and call it done. I tend to stay away from animal cakes because there seems like a lot of room for error.
If you’re feeling bold, you can make your own at home – we even have a nut-free recipe so that allergy sufferers can enjoy it, too – though you can also buy it ready-made in the baking aisle. Melted or whole, marshmallows are a simple way to turn your cake into a masterpiece. “Marshmallows are a really underrated way to decorate cakes, but they are really fun. For Halloween cakes, they can be put on a cocktail stick and covered with white fondant to create little ghosts. They also look great toasted on top of chocolate cupcakes to create a ‘hot chocolate’ flavour,” says Naomi Boles. Ready to roll fondant can be bought in most supermarkets in the cake decorating aisle and is really easy to work with.
The fact that they don’t need to be precise, and can be swirled in the candy melts make them a very easy option for beginners. My Cake School created a step-by-step video tutorial to show you just how to create this monster sheet cake. Don’t panic, creating a pumpkin shaped cake is not as difficult as it seems. Taming Twins shows you just how to create your very own, using two bundt cakes sandwiched together. We love this jack o’lantern cake from Sprinkles for Breakfast and it couldn’t be any more perfect for a Halloween get-together. What a centrepiece this graveyard cake from My Recipes would make!
Pressing sweetened coconut flakes into the buttercream quickly adds texture to this cake while pumping up the flavor. It looks like snow, so it's the perfect cake to bake over the winter. Icing sugar is also an essential for making American buttercream.
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