Edible Cake Decorations

A simple cake decorating technique is to use edible cake decorations. This could be edible glitter, edible sugar decorations, molded chocolates or image art. They are super easy to use and can make some fun cakes. The sugar decorations or chocolates work really well on cupcakes, too.

Sugar Shapes

Sugar shapes come in lots of different shapes and themes. Add sugar images to your cakes or cupcakes by adding a dot of frosting to the back or placing right on top of your frosted cake. You can find lots of different themes of these edible decorations just take a look.

Molded Chocolates

There are a lot of chocolate molds out now that can give your cupcakes or cake just the right look you want. Whatever theme your cake is, you are likely to find a mold to match.

Making homemade chocolates really isn't difficult and is quite fun, too. You can learn how to make homemade chocolates here.

Edible Cake Images

These cake images are great for designing your cake. Frost your cake and add a top and/or bottom border if you choose. When you are ready to add your image peel off the backing and lay on top of your frosted cake. Don't take the backing off until you are ready to add it to the cake because it can dry out. When you buy the image it comes with directions also. You can also buy cake images for the sides of your cake.

A few tips for working with edible images:

• Do not open the image out of the foil pouch until you are ready to use it. One time I opened mine up because I just couldn't wait to see what it looked like, Then waited several weeks to use it. They were much too difficult to work with.
  
• Freeze your images for 30 minutes if it is too hard to peel from the backing.
• Use clean, dry hands to rub or tap image on smoothly.
  

Finishing Touches

Don't forget you can decorate cakes with lots of other finishing touches. You can buy edible glitter, sprinkles and sparkle gels in lots of different colors. Blue sparkle gel works great for making a lake or pond look to your cake. You can buy sprinkles of all different colors and combinations, also.

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