Decorating cakes is one of the sugar art that uses layers or frosting and other edible decorative elements to make a plain cake more visually appealing. Alternatively, cakes can be formed and shaped like three-dimensional people, places and objects.
Cakes are decorated to mark special celebrations (such as birthdays or weddings). They can also mark a national or religious holiday, or are used to promote a commercial company. However, cakes can be baked and decorated for almost any social occasion.
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Histori
The cake decor comes from a 17th century European. During the 1840s, the appearance of temperature controlled ovens and the production of baking powder made cakes much easier. As temperature controls increase, an increasing emphasis on presentation and ornamentation is growing. Cakes begin to take on decorative shapes, adorned with an extra layer of sugar that is shaped into patterns and flowers, and food colorings are used to accentuate the decorations or layers of the cake.
Decorative cake is rumored to be started by a French bakery in the 1840s where a French baker wants to increase the price of the cake and therefore thinks of decorating it.
Although grilling from the beginning declined during the latter part of the 20th century in the United States, decorated cakes remain an important part of celebrations such as weddings, birthdays, birthdays, showers and other special occasions.
Turntable cakes (or rotating trays) can be used when decorating a cake.
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Type of decoration
Decorative cake is a decoration or decoration placed above or around the cake. Decorative cakes can be made from edible ingredients or plastics that are safe for food.
Fondant, also known as sugar paste or ready-made icing, comes in a variety of colors, and is usually easy to handle once it is prepared properly. It should be rolled out with cornstarch so as not to stick to any surface and smooth it. Once completely smooth and thin enough, the cake decorator is able to print the fondant to many different artistic expressions. Many of these expressions are also taught in professional cake decorating classes. Fondant is mainly used to cover the cake, but is also used to make individual pieces of performances for the cake.
Royal icing is sweet white icing made by whipping fresh egg whites (or egg white powder, meringue powder) with icing sugar. Royal icing produces a well-defined icing edge and is ideal for pipe complex writing, border, scrollwork and lacework on the cake. It dries very hard and maintains indefinitely if stored in a cool and dry place, but is vulnerable to softening and wilting in high humidity.
Marzipan is often used to model cake decorations and sometimes as a cake top cover, although fondant is preferred.
Rubber paste, also known as florist paste, is an edible, fragile ingredient that is quickly dried and can be carved to make cake decorations such as flowers or mold designs.
Chocolate modeling is a chocolate paste made with melted chocolate and combines it with corn syrup, glucose syrup, or golden syrup. Chocolate is formed into different shapes and structures that can not be easily achieved with other edible, edible ingredients such as buttercream, marzipan or fondant frosting. Chocolate modeling can be made from white, dark, semi sweet, or milk chocolate.
Ink-edible printing is also used in decorating cakes. After a breakthrough in non-toxic inks and printed materials in the early 1990s, it became possible to print images and photos onto an edible sheet for use on a cake. This is the process of preprinted drawings with the color of edible food into candied products such as cookies, cakes, or pastries. Designs made with edible inks can be made with edible printers, special devices that transfer images to edible paper. Edible paper is made of starch and sugar and is made with the color of edible food. Originally introduced as a special service provided by the bakery, this technology can now be used by home consumers using specialty paper, ink and printer.
Technique
Decorative cakes usually involve covering it with some form of icing and then using ornamental sugar, candy, chocolate or icing to decorate the cake. But it can also be as simple as sprinkling icing or sprinkling glaze glaze over the cake. Decorative Icing can be made by combining icing flowers and decorative borders or by printing sugar, fondant, or flower pasta and marzipan numbers. An embossed mat is a tool for decorating a cake that creates an arising effect on top of a cake, a bowl cake, or similar item. The user presses the mat into cookie dough or icing and the pattern that arises on the mat is moved to the item. Embossing mats are often made of silicone rubber or similar flexible polymers.
As an art
It has become a unique art form, and ranges from single layer cubes, simply decorated, to 3-dimensional layered creations, adorned with edible ribbons made of sugar. The initial construction method for cutting the shape of the cake and uniting it to make the structure has been replaced by a preformed character pan, and the formation of the cake from the fondant and various forms of marzipan.
Using this new form of fondant art should be used on the consistency of heavy cakes. However, it can be used on traditional store-bought cake mixtures. Fondant is heavier than traditional knives spreading frosting. Pre-made fondant available in the cake decoration section of the shops has a bit of flavoring. A homemade fondant can be made quickly at very little cost, and tends to have a better flavor than the previously purchased version.
Whether to use icing or fondant or marzipan to cover the cake, if the cake has several layers then not to shift it may need to be secured using a pen made of plastic straw, bubble tea straw, wood chopsticks or dowel wood.
In popular culture
- The Ace of Cakes Food Network features a baker and former street artist, Duff Goldman, and his shop, Charm City Cakes.
- OUR Amazing Wedding Cake is a television series featuring several cake decorating companies across America and focuses on crafting and cake design.
- Cake Wrecks is an entertainment photoblog featuring images of "unintentional, silly, sad, creepy, or inappropriate cakes" submitted by users.
- TLC's Cake Boss features baker Buddy Valastro and his shop named Carlo's Bake Shop in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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