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You don't have to be a pastry chef to create a professional quality cake for your child's birthday or other special event.
Learn unique and easy cake decorating ideas to make spectacular homemade cakes.
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For example, a Construction Party cake
could be topped with tiny toy dumptrucks and bulldozers pushing a
chocolate chip mountain. Or, the cake itself could be cut, pieced and frosted to look
like a dump truck.
For a Train Party, set a miniature choo-choo train on
licorice tracks atop your cake, or line up several brightly colored frosted loaf
cakes to form train cars.
For a Luau party, a simple round or sheet cake
can be festooned with a silk flower lei, or form a string of cupcakes in a
circle and adorn each one with silk or frosting flowers. Connect with a licorice string to make a cupcake "lei".
Baking cakes in an oven-safe
glass bowl or in this special 3D sports ball pan is great for making any
kind of perfectly round ball cake, or the dress part of a Barbie doll
cake. This wonder mold cake pan makes small single
serving doll cakes and other cute creations!
Think of the design you'd
like to make and what shapes you need to
make it - round, sheet, loaf, cupcakes, or a combination.
Peruse cake decorating books for a kid
birthday cake idea which fits your needs. Many books provide templates for
cutting and piecing cakes to create any number of popular designs. You decide
just how simple or challenging your cake will be.
For a no-fuss kid
birthday cake idea, apply an edible cake art image
to the top of a frosted cake.
Many popular themes and copyrighted images such as Disney are available to
provide a professional looking cake design.
Themed cake pans are another
popular cake decorating option. They provide the shape and visual design to
follow for an impressive finished cake. Popular TV and cartoons character cake pans are a great kid birthday cake idea, as are teddy bears, butterflies, princess crown, Little Mermaid,
Winnie the Pooh, and lots more.
Frosting Choices -
Homemade Frosting - Dig up
that famous family recipe or check out one of the many online recipe sites like Cooks.com and make your cake frosting from scratch. Be sure to plan ahead how
much of each color will be needed for both basic foundation and decorative trim.
Canned and Tube Frostings
- Easiest and quickest, prepared canned
frostings are available in grocery stores in the baking aisle with the cake
mixes. They generally come in white, chocolate, and a handful of other popular
flavors. Keep a few ready-to-use tube frostings on hand in various basic colors
to add the finishing touches.
Fondant Frosting - Gaining in
popularity in this country in recent years, fondant frosting gives a beautiful
smooth finish to your cake decorating creation. Fondant can be rolled out and
draped over a cake, poured on as a glaze, or sculpted into shapes. It is easily
tinted, and can be flavored as well. Ready-made fondant is available through
party supply outlets.
There are also many recipes online for homemade
fondant. (Enter the term "fondant recipe" in the Google search box at left under
the navbar.)
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Cake Decorating with Candy and Small Toys -
Cookies, candies, and other materials can
be used for special and impressive effects. Frosted sugar cones can serve as the fins on a space
ship cake or the turrets on a castle cake. Make a surprise cake filling with jello.
A wide variety of plastic stand-ups or cake toppers
are available in craft stores. Or, simply
use a toy which fits in with the party theme as a cake topper and give it to the
party child when the party is over. Action figures, small dolls, animals
and cartoon characters all make good choices.
Add cool candy accents
with M & M's, licorice pieces, licorice whips, animal crackers, oreo
cookies, paper umbrellas, pretzel sticks, tootsie rolls, jimmies, gummies such
as worms, bears, etc, gumdrops, mini marshmallows, colored coconut, jellybeans.
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There are many novel
choices for placing the finishing touches on your party cake. Dress it
up in style with one or more of these unique special effects:
Spray Color Mist
- is a fun addition to your baking repertoire.
Frost your cake white, then spray on edible color from an aerosol can. Available
in many colors, it can be used with stencils to make unique designs, as a
highlight to whipped topping - even on your child's mashed potatoes!
Luster Dusts - are an edible food safe "dust"
which can be used on any frosting recipe that dries hard and firm to the touch.
Brush it on white frosting for a metallic-like glossy sheen or layer it for
interesting color effects.
Cake Stampers -
can be used along with brush-on color for fondant icing. Simply stamp
shapes and designs into the finished fondant and tint with brush-on color.
Kandy Clay and Gummy Kits assorted gummy decorations for your cake or cupcake creations.
Edible Activity Kits - Everything the Do-It-Yourselfer needs to make gorgeous cakes and cookies. Great for including the kids in the decorating process!
Edible sugar-shape
decorations, decorative candles, themed cake picks and rings, and sprinkles are all
fun tools in your cake baking arsenal.
Now you're armed with
lots of great ideas for cake decorating success - without fear!
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