Cake Decorating Ideas

Finding Inspiration for your Cake Decorations

Inspiration for cake decorations can be found all around you. Obviously flowers have always been favored as cake decorations. But there is no need to stop there. The first thing you should do is decide what the theme of your cake is going to be. Then start brainstorming what you could do with icing and possibly 'props' to make your theme come true.

Following are some ideas for themes with examples that might help inspire you:

• Favorite books
          - Harry Potter inspired cake with a lightning bolt, a pair of black glasses, and crossed "wands."
• Favorite movies
          - James Bond inspired cake with a stenciled gun and bubbles with the outline of girls inside.
• Sports
          - Obvious choices include a cake in the shape of the sport (i.e. soccer ball cake)
• Hobbies
          - Book Collecting might lend itself to a cake that looks like an open book with the title and words written in icing
• Favorite Objects
          - A Gameboy inspired cake with stenciled hands and a new Gameboy resting between them (on plastic wrap of course).
• Characteristics of a person you know
  
          - If the person you know has a bald head, for example, then you could use a specialty cake pan that portrays a male character (Mickey Mouse would even work). You ice the entire cake but leave the head bare.
• Favorite cartoons
          -If Tom and Jerry is your thing then you could create a "mouse hole" cake with a mouse's tale showing out of it and a stenciled hand reaching towards the tail.
• Special locations
          - You might want to create a cake of someplace you love in nature like the Grand Canyon when you build up the sides with additional pieces of cake and ice the entire thing in different shades of brown.

Obviously some of these will be much easier to execute than others. They are only meant to be inspiration from which you can create your own masterpiece. If you do create an amazing piece of art, feel free to email it to us at contact@cakeanddecorating.com. These ideas can be used for a variety of celebrations. They can be incorporated with the birthday cake ideas that I discuss on the next page. The choice is up to you. If you want pictures, recipes, and step-by-step directions for making dream cakes than you should definitely visit Dream Cakes Made Easy by Cakechannel.com.

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