TYPES OF CAKE ICINGS

Simple and creative ways to decorate your cakes

Baking and making a cake is sheer pleasure but when it comes to icing part it becomes bit messy especially for beginners. But here are some cake icing hacks you can try out.

If you happen to bake a cake for your friends and family do try out these super creative, easy and no fussy cake garnishes or decorations.

First step is bake a basic sponge

Here we go with our 5 ways to decorate a cakes:- 

1:- No Icing Cream frosting

If you don't have or don't know how to make icing cream at home. Try this 2 minutes butter cream frosting. Recipe below:-

Ingredients:-

Unsalted butter (Nutralite butter) - 100g (1cup)

Vanilla essence- 3 drops

Powder sugar - 100 g (1cup)

                                                               

Method:-

Just whisk or beat the butter into a bowl (do not melt) add sugar, vanilla essence and mix really well.

Your quick cake frosting is ready within no time.

          

Use it directly as frosting or put in piping bag and use on cake.

2:- Real Fresh Flowers Cake Garnishes

Use the butter cream frosting and simply decorate your cake with real or edible flowers. Flowers like Rose, Shoeflower /hibiscus, sunflower are edible so simple place those flowers on top.

          

3:- Fresh Fruits Garnish

Fruit garnishes are never out of trend and it gives beautiful look to your cake. 

                                                      

                                                       

Simply cut your sponge into layers place butter cream/cake icing only on top place fresh berries and layer it with other cake sponge and repeat the steps. It looks pleasent and probably fuss free way of icing a cake.

4:- Melted Chocolate Cake garnish

                  

                                               (Image source:- Google)

In  a double boiler add dark chocolate and some butter melt it till it's runny in consistency. Your chocolate garnish is ready. Simply pour it on a sponge as shown in picture and top with some nuts or berries.

5:- Sugar Dust and Paper Stencil

This is no effort and probably easiest way to make your cake look chocolate sponge look wow. Simply dust powdered sugar on top drizzle some chocolate sauce some sprinklers and it looks beautiful. Just as shown in picture.

                       

    (Self made)

If you are willing to take more efforts try out paper stencil and sugar dust hack.

Here you go:-

Make paper stencil by yourself or else they are readily available into market.

              

                                                       

Use paper stencil in following way:-

You can also make birthday or other shapes stencils as well your cake would look wonderful.

These were my simple, different and easiest ways to decorate a cake especially for beginners.

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- Pricooked Tales (Priya Modha)

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