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3 Easy Cake Decorating Tips

June 1, 2013 By 28 Comments

Easy cake decorating tipsDecorating a cake can be as complex or as easy as you wish. However, you don’t need to use complicated cake decorating techniques to make an amazing looking cake. You can use simple tools that you already have at home that can be highly effective if used creatively.

Today I will share with you easy decorating tricks that you can try on a single or multi-layer cake and impress your family and friends with your creativity and professional looking cake design.

With the following 3 simple cake decorating tips you can turn an ordinary cake into an amazing piece of food art:

Cake Decorating Tip #1

Use what ever tools you already have at home for your cake decorating such as a spoon, knife or fork.

When talking about patterns in the icing it mainly refers to using a spatula or a knife for frosting the cake but cake decorating tools can be as simple as a spoon or fork.

  • The first thing to do is to place your knife completely flat on the frosting and make a quick upward movement. This will help create a peak or a flat effect with the frosting
  • Then you can use the knife or back of the soup or tea spoon to create swirls in a soft frosting or whipped cream
  • You can use a fork to create a line pattern on the sides of the cake or drag a fork in an “S” design through the cake. Maintain the “S” curve pattern so that it appears wavy

Watch the video for the easy cake decorating tips on how to use a spoon and fork to create simple but beautiful looking patterns in your frosting.

Cake decorating tip #2

Make a paper and/or plastic bag cone for cake decorating  instead of buying it at a specialty store.

Many women don’t realize that they don’t necessarily need to buy expensive tools and an expert piping starter kit to create piped design. In other words, a plastic bag and a tiny cut at the tip of one portion can work perfectly for this purpose.

There are always some “little things” that you should know. For instance, here is a cake decorating tip if you are using paper cones for decorating. It is important to secure the edge of the cone simply by applying scotch tape or masking tape. It will prevent the paper bag cone from opening when you are squeezing it and give you more control.

Depending on how you cut the tip of the cone bag you can do different patterns of flowers, rosettes and shell borders. In case you want to make a shell border, simply squeeze a portion of frosting material from the bag cone over the cake. The next step is to move the topmost part of the bag cone down beneath the end of the shell and discontinue squeezing.

Watch the video below to see what materials you can use to make your perfect bag cone at home, how exactly you should cut the tip to get different types of piped design and cake decorating tips on creating frosting patterns.

Cake decorating tip #3

Use edible toppings such as fruits and chocolate for your cake decorating.

The easiest and fastest way to decorate your cake is to sprinkle edible toppings on the top or sides of the cake. You can use nut pieces like sliced almonds, sugar sprinkles, crushed candy canes, shredded coconut, fruits, strips of chocolate, gumdrops or a combination of any of them.

You will never fail if you choose a combination of fresh strawberries, whipping cream and rich dark chocolate ganache for your cake decorating. You can add fresh strawberries and some frosting between the cake layers and then cover the top of the cake and around the edges with the rest of the whipping cream.

Once covered pour the chocolate ganache over the cake, place sliced strawberries on the top of the cake and sprinkle with some chocolate ganache. As you can see there is no need to be a professional cake decorator to make this delicious cake.

Watch the video tutorial below to see how it is really easy to do.

For more easy cake decorating tips and how to frost the cake Click Here

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Raspberry Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

May 12, 2013 By 36 Comments

Today I am going to share an easy raspberry cream cheese frosting recipe with you. It is made with fresh raspberries and has a great flavour. The berries also give natural sweetness to the cream and you don’t need to use as much sugar as for a regular cake frosting recipe.

I used the dark chocolate cake recipe to bake the cake. To make it moist I prepared a raspberry mix that I poured over the layers of the cake and also used a portion of it to add to the cream cheese frosting.

Raspberry Mix Recipe

170g raspberries (1 standard pack)
freshly squeezed orange juice from 2 big oranges

Directions:

To prepare the raspberry mix I combined freshly squeezed orange juice and fresh raspberries in the small pot and cooked it on low heat. Shortly after the mixture comes to a boil the raspberries will start to fall apart and give their juice. The more juice that comes from the raspberries the better the flavour the cream cheese frosting and cake will have.

To separate the seeds from the juice I strained the mix through a fine metal sieve, slightly pushing the pulp to get as much juice as possible and then put the liquid raspberry mix aside to cool down.

Easpberry nix recipe

To keep the cake moist I used the most part of the raspberry mix to pour over the cake layers. I let it sit for an hour to allow the mix to go through cake before I assembled the layers together. While the rest of the raspberry mix (about 4 tablespoons) was cooling down completely I started to make the base for the cream cheese frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

250 g of plain cream cheese

100g unsalted butter (softened)

4 tablespoons of icing sugar (Learn how you can substitute sugar with an all-natural sweetener that looks and tastes like sugar but has zero calories and zero sugar to make this and many other of your recipes truly sugar-free and suitable for diabetics, weight loss and prevent weight gain)

4 tablespoons of liquid raspberry mix prepared as described above

Directions:

I combined cream cheese and unsalted butter in a medium bowl and used a mixer to beat it together. Added raspberry mix and icing sugar and beat until it got smooth. Depending on how you like it you can add less sugar.

I used the frosting for the Mother’s day raspberry chocolate cake to put in between the layers and over the cake.

Chocolate raspberry cake recipe

For the cake decorating I used sliced almonds on the sides of the cake, put fresh raspberries on top and used a tempered dark chocolate and then some icing sugar on top of the raspberries.

Chocolate raspberry cake

 

Check out More Mother’s Day Cake Decorating Ideas

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Mother’s Day Dark Chocolate Cake Ideas From Scratch

May 6, 2013 By 37 Comments

Homemade Mother's day chocolate cake recipe from scratchMother’s Day is coming up and I wanted to do something special for my mom. I decided to make a chocolate cake. The only problem was that I have never baked a cake…

So as not to make it too complicated for me as a beginner and have a realistic chance of making a beautiful cake, I started to look for some Mother’s Day cake ideas.

I came up with a 3-part recipe for an easy homemade dark chocolate cake from scratch that includes:

– A simple and quick recipe for the dark chocolate cake

– A super easy and delicious recipe for the dark chocolate frosting

– A video tutorial of how to make white chocolate roses for cake decorating

I baked the chocolate cake and prepared the frosting an evening in advance. Then I put it in the refrigerator overnight to let the chocolate frosting go through the cake and continued with the cake decorating on the following day.

This is an easy dark chocolate cake recipe from scratch that is quick and simple to prepare. The cake decorating looks absolutely beautiful and it was easy to make, however it required some time, patience and work since I did it for the first time.

If you are a beginner don’t be afraid to try to using white chocolate roses for the cake decorating. I am absolutely confident that you can make such a great looking and delicious chocolate rose too.

Dark Chocolate Homemade Cake Recipe:

  • 2 organic eggsDark chocolate cake mix recipe
  • 200g of solid organic yogurt (it shouldn’t be liquid)
  • 2 tablespoons of organic 100% cocoa powder
  • 1 tablespoon of sugar
  • 1 cup of all-purpose gluten-free flour
  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon of baking soda
  • ½ cup of organic whole milk

Directions:

 

I put milk aside and combined all other ingredients in a bowl and mixed it well.  I added milk and mixed until smooth. After that I poured the mixture into a baking form that had parchment paper on the bottom. The baking form should be filled only to a maximum 2/3 of the form because the mix will rise.

I baked it in a preheated oven at 350° for 40 minutes until the cake was ready. Then I took the cake out of the form and sliced it into two halves.

Dark Chocolate Frosting Recipe:

  • 3 tablespoons of organic 100% cocoa powder
  • 4 tablespoons of sugar (Learn how you can substitute sugar with an all-natural sweetener that looks and tastes like sugar but has zero calories and zero sugar to make this and many other of your recipes truly sugar-free and suitable for diabetics, weight loss and prevent weight gain)
  • 1 small organic egg
  • 1 tablespoon of all-purpose gluten-free flour
  • ¾ cup of organic whole milk

Directions:

 

I poured hot dark chocolate frosting over each layer of still warm halves and assembled it into a cake. After the cake  cooled down I placed it into the refrigerator overnight to let the frosting go through. The cake will absorb the frosting like a sponge and keep it moist.

Tip:

If you follow this recipe you get a dark chocolate cake that won’t be sweet. It will have a rich dark chocolate taste that perfectly combines with a sweet taste of the chocolate rose.

If you would like to have a sweet cake you can add more sugar or use any ready cocoa mix for both cake and frosting. Cocoa mixes from your supermarket such as Nesquik are already sweet but they will contain gluten. If you are watching your sugar intake look for the “no sugar added ” Nesquik option.

How To Make White Chocolate Roses Video Tutorial

Chocolate can melt at room temperature and it can ruin your creations within minutes. To save yourself a lot of frustration and prevent your chocolate from melting, getting streaky or spotted and losing its form you should always use tempered chocolate.

Tip:

Don’t make the petals too thin or there is a higher chance that they can break. Try to make the petals rather in an oval form than round. This way it will be easier for you to assemble your white chocolate rose. To make it more interesting I added a small piece of dark chocolate to my white chocolate mix during the tempering and my chocolate rose has a cream color.

More Mother’s Day Cake Ideas

The following short video is about Mother of Pearl cake decorating and how to decorate Mother’s Day cake using water colors:

Check out More Mother’s Day Cake Decorating Ideas

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