Create stunning cakes and other confections with these ideas for using frosting, candies, and other creative toppers.
First, you get to choose precisely the kind of cake you want to make.
Feel free to go beyondchocolate,white,or yellow (malted vanilla cake, anyone?).
Credit: Andy Lyons
Then you might make your cake decorating icing, which is generally much better when homemade!
Plus, you earn that sense of accomplishment.
Tint each row of frosting a darker shade to produce an ombre effect.
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To give your cake asophisticated look, pipe your frosting through a decorating bag fitted with a decorating tip.
These cake-decorating tools are generally inexpensive and easy to find.
By artfully arranging these toppers, you’ll have ashowstopping cakein minutes.
Test Kitchen Tip:Serve cakes embellished with cookies or fresh fruit within 2 hours to avoid soggy toppers.
OurRainbow Pinwheel Cakepops with color.
To get clean lines when decorating with nonpareils, use strips of waxed paper to provide borders.
Gumballs are an appropriate candy choice forthis creative cake.
Try thisVanilla Sour Cream Frostingrecipe.
Keep in mind that creamy frostings work best for piping.
This method is best for piping lettering or stripes or drawing freehand designs with frosting.
