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Zoe has previously written for radiotimes.com, Simply Knitting and The World of Cross Stitching and was previously Deputy Editor of Papercraft inspirations magazine. She has guest-lectured at Bath Spa University. She’s a keen quilter with 5 projects in progress at any one time and another 12 or so planned. Valya's Taste of Home has this amazingly realistic tree stump cake tutorial – the bark around the edges is actually chocolate frosting made using Valya's recipe.
This is beautiful way to decorate a Winter wonderland cake. Using FRESH FLOWERS to decorate cakes is classic and timeless. You DON’T need any fancy tools to make these simple cakes. I'm sharing all my secrets for perfect chocolate ganache drip cakes, from getting the perfect ganache consistency to tips for the drip process.
Make a Christmas tree stump cake
It wouldn't be a Christmas cake round up without featuring an idea from the complete icons of domestic goddessery, Good Housekeeping. True to form they've got a beautiful cake decoration idea with fondant that won't take you hours and hours to master. This snowflake cake idea only needs two colours of fondant plus some edible glitter or sprinkles of your choice to make a really eye-catching cake. There are a lot of Christmas cake ideas out there, and many involve snowflakes, trees, Christmas characters etc..
But there are surprisingly few traditional cakes which have a religious theme at their core. We love this idea from Cake Central both for it's nativity theme, and for the really unusual idea of creating a stained glass effect. You can do this by piping chocolate and then flooding the areas in between with coloured icing. Find more pictures for this cake idea over at cakecentral.com.
Candy Cake Decorations For Kids & Grown-ups
Even for the baking novice, candy cakes are very doable in your home kitchen. You can experiment with your favorite candies, gummy or chocolate or marshmallow, and truly delight your guests. You don’t need to qualify for The American Baking Competition just yet. Another simple decoration for your cakes is the one made with buttercream, a kind of frosting widely used in American pastry, both for filling and for covering cakes and sweets such as cupcakes.
But if you like to surprise people, add your favorite candies to the mix. There’s nothing sweeter than seeing the look of happy surprise on your loved ones’ faces when they realize your cake is infiltrated with sweet gummy or chocolate candies. We love these Easter-themed cake pops which have been given an iridescent sheen with a lustre spray. Now I have a young family of my own, I still make her recipe each year. In fact I make two as I make enough for my wider family to eat as well – such is the popularity of my Mum's Christmas cake.
Raspberry Cake
You can make them with chocolate, banana, lemon, have them vegan and/or gluten-free, and represent every color under the sun—great options for all types of fun events. Replace the icing with a layer of peanut butter decorated with diced Snickers Bars. Consider chopping up some peanuts to sprinkle over the top. Whether the cake is inspired by candy, made with candy, or simply wrapped up candy bars, then this list has them all. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures.
You can easily make jelly candy roses just sprinkle a little sugar on the work surface and roll out the jelly candies on it until they are in the shape of pancakes. The decoration is certainly an art, as is demonstrated by such fashionable decorative techniques as cake design. Using our sugarcraft tips and tutorials is sure to help. Ho ho ho, ok this one is next level festive but if you love to go 100% Christmassy, and you're confident with a piping bag and batch of buttercream, then it could be the one for you. Make this Mummy cake with buttercream icing, chopped Oreos and candy worms. Use colorful JELLY CANDIES and shredded coconut to make this cute Easter bunny cake.
You can also use an elastic band to hold a few stalks together to create a very FULL flower and use those to decorate some parts of the cake as well. Dr Pepper can cake with Dr Pepper Twizzlers on top. It took 2 cases to build and 1 bottle that I cut the top off above the label to put the Twizzlers in. I wrapped it in layers of ribbon and added ribbon loops on the top layer. Experiment and get the whole family involved. Line up different candy bars all around, still in their wrappers.
Buy or make apple MARSHMALLOW POPS and stick them into your cake for this easy Autumn or Fall cake. AVOID flowers that have a very strong fragrance because that can transfer over to the cake too. We have a step-by-step Rock Candy Geode Cake recipe and method for you to follow to succeed with this marvelous creation.
Repeat this process with different flavors and food dyes. Finish with four other blocks to create your marshmallow oeuvre d’art. Cover your cake with M&Ms and chopped up Mars Bars and Hersheys. Finish off with a helping of chocolate sprinkles. Make a cute Easter cake with an Oreo cookie nest and egg candies.
Roll out your fondant into thin strings and then shape them into knitted mittens to top off your Christmas cake! This is probably one of the more technical Christmas cake ideas int his round-up but with a bit of practise you can create the effect of knitting with your icing! Thnaks and image credit to cakesdecor.com for the idea – head over to their post for more pictures and inspiration for this cake. I hope this collection of easy cake decorating ideas for beginners is useful to you guys.
And this one is decorated with the small star tip and I also tossed a few red candy balls to give this cake a pop of color. She'll roll up her sleeves to try any new recipe in the kitchen—from spicy Thai dishes (her favorite!) to classic Southern comfort food (OK...also her favorite). When she's not busy thinking of her next meal, Rachel can be found practicing yoga, going for a run, exploring National Parks and traveling to new-to-her cities across the country. Lemon is available all year round, and on a cake or pie, it will be even more effective if you candy it in sugar.
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