Cake Decorating

Cake Decorating

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 quality cake decorating tools in or around Toronto?

For example, featherweight Wilton pastry bags, couplers, tips, etc? Specifically I would like to find a place that sells the metal Wilton pastry bag tips - I've been to Cayne's in Thornhill but they only sell sets.

Anyone know of a store around Toronto that sells quality cake decorating supplies?

Golda's Kitchen opened a retail store at the Heartland Town Centre in Mississauga. 2885 Argentia Road, Unit 6 (east of Winston Churchill Boulevard at Highway 401) in Mississauga.

They sell over 1400 Wilton products - one of the largest inventory for Wilton in Canada. You should have no problem finding your Wilton needs from here. You can shop in-store at their retail outlet or shop online at and their service is awesome.

http://goldaskitchen.com/merchant.ihtml

Micheal's does carry Wilton cake decorating supplies but nothing like
Golda's Kitchen.

Other online stores you may want to check out are:

www.creativecutters.com (excellent selection of products)
www.petradecor.com (has Americolor! amazing gumpaste flowers)
www.mccalls.ca

Hopefully these will be of help to you.

Good Luck