Cake Decorating

Some cak-ettes I made

Cake decorating is fun, and delicious (if you can bring yourself to eat the finished product! Once I bought a pretty frangipany muffin and had it in my fridge in a transparent case - museum style - for nearly a year. I just couldn't bring myself to destroy it's perfection. In the end I had to throw it out)

To  make cakes like these, you will need:

1. Your favorite cake (I just made a really basic sponge)
2. Some Royal Icing (from the supermarket)
3. Some marzipan (to make the roses)
4. cutter, to cut the cake into whatever shape you want
5. Various things to decorate. I used mulberries (cake 1), I made some marzipan roses (all cakes but 3), ribbon (cake 3), glittery butterfly (cake 2), strawberries (cake 3), turkish delight (cake 3), marzipan coloured pink with food colouring and rolled into little balls (cake 3)

Note: when rolling out the icing, you need to make sure the surface you roll on is perfectly clean, otherwise your icing will be tainted. You can colour the icing with food colouring if you want.

Note 2: You can make all kinds of things to top your cake with out of marzipan or Royal icing. Experiment! You could make little people, palm trees, strawberries, a watermelon, a pokeball, whatever!

 

Some more inspiration (not made by me!)