Different types of chocolate

Read about how chocolate is prepared, and their different types. If you are obsessed about chocolate decoration, you will probably leave halfway whatever you are doing right now and go through instead!  
Each year, the finest cocoa beans are picked from different parts of the world and a good number of their varieties are blended to achieve that distinguished, deep and rich flavour that chocolate lovers crave for.

After roasting at high temperature to get the rich chocolate flavour, the cocoa beans are shelled and the remaining nibs are carefully crushed into a thick, evenly formed rich liquid called the chocolate liquor.  The liquid is then modified, altered or moulded in a number of ways to produce a range of chocolate products and decoration items.

Unsweetened chocolate
Unsweetened variety is the most pure form. It is satin smooth, highly rich in cocoa butter and good for baking. It is however too bitter to eat but it provides great flavour to brownies and cakes. Unsweetened chocolate is usually prepared by blending fine cocoa beans which are roasted, crushed and ground in massive heated rollers.

Semi-sweet chocolate
This type of chocolate is also prepared following the process of unsweetened chocolate but it’s usually made richer by adding sugar, cocoa butter and vanilla. It’s nice for garnish and fondues.
Bittersweet chocolate
It contains chocolate liquor, additional cocoa butter and sugar. It’s dark because of high chocolate liquor content.

Milk chocolate
The name suggests that it’s prepared using milk solids, cocoa butter and sugar. We all love to eat this as a candy bar.

White chocolate 
It’s made using cocoa butter, milk and sugar without cocoa solids. It’s often used as coating for edible products. Technically it is not a chocolate!

So, this is the broad classification. Now when it comes to chocolate decorations, there are choco chips, shortcake balls, choco curls, choco spaghettis and many more. Click the link above to explore.  

About Cake Sprinkles

Sprinkles are very tiny pieces of confectionery commonly used in decoration or to add different variety of texture onto cupcakes, cakes, doughnuts and other forms of edible content. In the Netherlands and Australia, people even savour them on the flavoured sandwiches and breads. Tiny candies are prepared in a variety of colours and are used as a food topping or a decorative element.

These toppings make the bases more enjoyable. Many people even call them jimmies. Actually there is no functional difference between jimmies and sprinkles. Those are only two names. If you are in Boston, Philadelphia, or somewhere else in the inland US, you might ask a vendor for jimmies. New Yorkers usually say sprinkles.

How to buy your sprinkles?
You can get your sprinkles at a cake décor store or from supermarkets. But to save on time, effort and money; check out the online options. There are so many vendors online who supply a range of chocolate decorations, cake decorations including a variety of sprinkles. You can choose the products based on your custom requirements. If you buy sprinkles online in bulk you can even ask for discounted rates.

But before you choose a vendor, you need to do some research work. Browse into a number of websites and learn the details of each and every sprinkle product on display. You should look for a site that has a reputation and never uses any artificial ingredient. Artificial substances, used in cake decoration and sprinkle products can cause serious health issues.

Besides many supplier sites post instructions, tips and recipes which can be useful. Cake sprinkles with no artificial colour, flavor and hydrogenated fats are safe for children. You should go through the client testimonials also. To know more about sprinkles, cake décor, and edible decoration products; please click the website. You can compare, buy and choose from a range of affordable products that are true value for money.

About different types of icing

Selecting proper quantity of icing and spreading it evenly on an edible content is always a fun thing to do as much as it is a learning achievement. Icing can be of different types, and you can mould, modify and customize in accordance with the personalized and/or budgetary requirements.

At this brief blog, we aim to let you know about 3 basic icings you would love to prepare at home and use on your edible content to not only impress your guests but also to give the cake a mouth-watering facelift.  

Butter cream
Butter cream icing is prepared by mixing butter with icing sugar, vanilla, and milk. When done, it yields into a creamy, soft and delicious icing spread which is good to go over a cake or piped into nice patterns. Perfect for small cakes; (read cupcakes) it can be flavoured with a range of improved colour and chocolate variations

Fondant
The shiny, tasty icing can be rolled out to cover fruit and even chocolate mud cakes. Its firmness helps keep cakes fresh and so it is used to decorate wedding cakes, and other types of cakes that require travelling a certain distance.

Meringue 
This is an American-styled frosting and usually prepared using egg white, caster sugar and water. After whipping, it is spread onto a cake using a palette knife. The top of the cake looks awesome when decorated with fresh edible flowers. The icing sets quickly and so you need to be quicker if you want to add sprinkles

Other than the ones mentioned above, you can even choose from other varieties of icing decorations such as Ganache, cream cheese icing, royal icing etc. While we cover part 2 of this article with introduction to those icing varieties, please take out time to visit the website. Cake Décor Group has a range of cake decorations and they do provide doorstep delivery.

A brief overview of Sprinkles

Sprinkles are very small pieces of confectionery commonly used as a popular decoration product or to bring texture to desserts such as cookies, cakes, cupcakes, ice cream etc. They are even used to decorate sandwiches and breads in Netherlands and Australia.

Types
Manufacturers often label sprinkles in different ways – depending on the colour, nature of use and flavour, but for a common consumer these are simply decorative items that are sprinkled randomly over the surface of an edible content, contrary to decorations that are evenly placed at singular spots. Sprinkles are becoming a popular decorative content because of their use and colour.

Uses
Sprinkles generally require icings or frostings to remain stuck to the cakes and cupcakes. Those are available in different patterns and as mentioned above in different offerings and colour combinations. You can get those purchased from décor stores or super markets.

One of the most popular form of sprinkles is the rainbow sprinkle that comes in unique colour combinations. These sprinkles are more commonly used in designing cakes. In one of our earlier articles, we covered how to use sprinkles to decorate a rainbow sprinkle cake. If designed properly with right amount of sprinkles, the cake becomes an awesome piece of art!

Where to buy your sprinkles
You can buy sprinkles at a décor store, but if you want to save on money, time, and effort, which everyone wants to, the right mode of buying is online. There are vendors who provide affordable variety of quality sprinkles. If you buy in bulk, you can request for discounts.

One such sprinkle supplier is Cake Décor. They are known for making cake sprinkles with no artificial colour, no artificial flavour and no hydrogenated fats. To know about their sprinkles, compare the products and buy one; please visit their website.

How safe are cake glitters?

This blog post is an extension of a news article published in The Telegraph in the year 2012. Because the topic is still relevant and its significance has not diminished yet, we thought to do a follow-up so that consumers, who buy glitters for decoration and consumption, become informed consumers.

An investigation by food security authorities found that some glitters used for cake decorations were unsuitable for human consumption and in most cases suited exclusively for use on greetings card. Even many of the glitters were made from low-quality non-edible polyester plastic. When the plastic glitter was held under a microscope, it was shown that these are made with hexagonal fragments with jagged edges. Too bad, literally! If that was not enough, in one of such cases they even found finely powdered brass in glitter content.

The problem is most sellers label these glitters as non-toxic– which does not confirm whether it is safe to eat or not. Then, small-scale craft bakers and cupcake-makers assume that the toppings sold by the sellers are safe for consumption and they can use the products.

Given the gravity of the situation, it has been made clear that only glitters that are marked as ‘suitable for eating’ should be used for decorating cakes, pastries and consumption.

As a consumer, what should you do?
As mentioned above, if you are going to use glitters only for decoration, any type of glitter can work. But if you need them on the cakes and for consumption, buy after carefully reading the label. To save on time, and money, you can buy cake glitters online.

A good glitter supplier to consider is Cake Décor Group. Their products are 100% natural with no artificial colour, flavour and hydrogenated fat. You can choose from a range of products and select an offering depending on your budget.

How to Make Your Edible Glitter

Who said you can’t consume glitter? Well, we are not talking about glitters that are made from artificial ingredients and exclusively meant for decoration purpose. We are talking about the glitters that are good for both decoration and consumption, which are naturally prepared without the inclusion of any artificial substances.

The good news is such glitters are readily available at décor stores in a variety of colour and flavours. But then if you want to make a few batches of edible glitters yourself, you can do it very easily. All you require are some simple ingredients–

½ cup of white sugar

Coloured liquid food dye

Step 1 –
Put ¼ cup of white sugar into two bowls. Once done, add ½ tablespoon of coloured liquid dye into each sugar bowl.
It’s time for you to coat the sugar. So, start by stirring the dye into sugar with a fork or spoon. Repeat the step with different colour combinations.

Step 2 –
Preheat your oven. Get a parchment paper and spread the dyed sugar on the paper. Bake your glitter for around 8-10 minutes. Once you are sure you can break up the chunks, get them off your oven.
Once the process is done, you can store your glitters into jars or bowls and start using.

So, the process is simple and easy, takes a few minutes and you require ingredients readily available at your home. It is always a good idea to prepare your edible glitter at home to save on time, and money.

Home-made edible glitter is even good for quality. But in case you are thinking to order your products from a vendor, get yours online. There are some vendors who provide naturally sourced edible glitter and other decoration products at an affordable rate; that too without compromising the quality. Order your glitter sugar from one such vendor, now!

Cake decoration Trends of the year

The trends related to cake decorations change while the basic influences remain constant. Be it just any type of cake – a wedding cake, a graduation cake or a birthday cake – each type of occasion deserves a special care from the cake makers. The more detailed, event-specific and practical the cake is, it becomes more sought-after. As far as the cake and dessert decoration trends of the year (2015) are concerned, the limelight is on aromatic flavours, bold patterns and inclusion of diverse ingredients.

Some of the most popular trends of the year so far –

Use of Middle Eastern and North African flavours
Middle Eastern and North African spices occupy a special position in baking. The rich flavour of Za’atar, Aleppo peepers and other rich spices bring complex flavours that pair very well with dark chocolate, sweet treats. They are often used in baking so that the cake gets a different taste.

Dessert mashups
Cake and dessert enthusiasts are work hard to give their innovations a twisting personality by mashing-up and re-mixing flavours into each other – such as mixing cake flavours into cookies, cookies into ice cream and so on!
A more dignified ruffled cake
Ruffled cake is a very popular cake theme for years, and this time experts are finishing it off with bold patterns and fresh flowers in and between the tiers; earning a sophisticated look and colourful, natural flavour.

The flower statement
Freshly-bloomed blossoms like peonies and ranunculi add unique designs to cakes.  The addition of flowers earn the cakes colour and a bold statement.

Other trends
Modelling cakes with thick chocolates or giving it a butter cream texture is in the trend now. Bold patterns and cakes painted with gold embellishment are also in-things.

For other trends, do not forget to keep reading our blog. Meanwhile, if you want to design your cake; why not visit this website – a unique assortment of different types of designing products are available for you to compare, choose and buy. Buy cake decorations products affordably!

About different cake decoration ideas

Cake decoration has always been popular among seasoned and hobbyist cake enthusiasts. A little dash of sparkle using edible cake glitter, edible shimmer or sparkle dust can take your cake from simple to spectacular. Decorative elements not just add lustre to your cake, but make your creation glamorous, unique, and temptingly awesome! As the trend of cake designing is changing and people are opting for newer varieties of decoration stuffs; companies that provide cake decoration products are doing quite well.

How to make your cake shine using readily available decoration products

Lustre dust
Lustre dust is a cake decoration powder which when applied on your cake give it a shimmering finish. You can get the dusts in many different types, just according to your custom decoration requirements, some of which necessarily include sparkly dust, subtle summer etc.

Edible paint
You can get edible paint at cake decoration stores, or make one yourself using lustre dust. It need to be thick, and thin and can be applied on your cake – such as when you need to add sprinkles to the sides

Edible glitter
Edible glitter which you can purchase from décor stores or even make at home, give your cake a sweet edge and even bring in improved look and design. But if you are buying one – be it offline or online – ensure to see the labels. Some glitters are edible, and some are not. Please refer to our earlier articles about how to buy your edible glitter

The above-mentioned products give your cake unique design and decorative edge. Used wisely; with proper ideas and design know-how you can turn a boring cake into interesting work of art. The products can be purchased online and offline. If bought online, you can save on your time, effort, money and investment. To order your cake glitter and other cake decoration products, click the website. 

How to cover your cake with sprinkles?

Just in case cakes were not nice enough, you have got sprinkles to give the cakes an awesome makeover. Available in so many unique design and colour combinations (read rainbow collection) sprinkles act as a multi-purpose addition to your cake. How? Sprinkles provide your cake with a beautifully-designed cover, they turn your cake sweeter, and more importantly they make your cake a live artistic work – so much beautiful, and tempting! Now if you think covering a cake with sprinkles is a task best done by experts, reconsider it. It is literally a simple task to give your cake a sprinkle cover, if you apply proper ideas. Read on!

Start off by getting a super moist cake mix. A moist cake mix helps keep your cake stay intact when you roll it in the sprinkles.
Mix the ingredients evenly and in proper quantity. For example; if your cake has four layers, you would require two boxes of mix and two ice containers. Bake as directed to prepare four layers. When your baking stuff is done, set aside the cake with the nicest top, and using a knife cut the tops of other cake until you arrive at an even surface. The layers should be of equal shape.

When layering is done, you require to stack your cake. Use a cardboard circle and start rolling the cake in the sprinkles. Roll evenly, at the top surface and on sides. The firmer you apply your sprinkles, the better the cake decoration becomes! Once you are done firmly using sprinkles on the cake, it’s time to ice your cake – which is another work of art. While we publish another article specifically about how to ice your cake and give the sprinkles even more design variation, please click the website for better cake decoration ideas and tools to make one. You can compare from sprinkle decoration tools.

How to make your own home-made frosting tube in simple steps

A thoughtful combination of evenly spread glitters, sprinkles, colourful frostings and other decorative elements add life to your cake. Research conducted on the attitude and eating habit of people confirms that if a cake or baked eating content is prepared with decorative element, those are usually consumed with more enthusiasm than one that lacks the decorative facelift.

So, now onwards when you are about to give your cake a finishing touch, make sure you have decorated it in tune with the occasion it is designed for, and that it has a statement to make.

One of the popular tools mostly used for decorating a cake is frosting tube – which is available to purchase in supermarkets and craft stores. You can even make one yourself using readily available items at your kitchen. Read on, as we give you a brief idea about a DIY frosting tube making; a good-read if you were preparing a cake but could not make it to a supermarket or a store to purchase a tube.

1) Get a zip-top bag and snip off the tip of one of its bottom corner. Optionally, if you own a decorating tip, insert it into the bag and make it evenly sprayed out outside.
2) Open the zip-top bag inside the jar and transfer decorative content and frostings into it using a spatula.
3) Remove the bag from the jar and start pushing edible content and frostings towards the opening.
4) Start applying pressure to get the content edging towards the cut corner.
5) It’s time you use your creative intellect to decorate the cake; spray evenly without over pressuring and maintain a note of artistic statement to give your cake a wow look and necessarily a tasteful design!

To know about ready-to-use icing tubes, frostings and edible decoration items; please click the website; now! You can compare from products specifically designed to give your cake an improved look.  

How do decorate with chocolate: Some tips

To decorate with chocolate is an art and science of perfectly blending a balanced variety of ingredients, giving the decoration a designer look on a tasty base. There are many tools available nowadays that can make the whole thing easier.

But you need to work on it, practice a lot, to bring perfection and ready-made choco-writers can help. You may have seen top chefs and bakers on television cuisine shows, using such tubes to create stunning designs on cakes, pastries and cupcakes. These tubes are perfectly handy and if you are a chocolate aficionado, you should always keep a stock of such tubes.

These tubes are available in milk chocolate, dark chocolate and white chocolate. You can find them in supermarkets or you can buy online.

There are many cake decoration suppliers who provide doorstep delivery of quality choco-writing tubes. You just need to do a bit back-ground checking and definitely make sure that the seller doesn’t use any artificial flavour or hydrogenated fat in the choco-products.

The easiest way to start will be to design lattice shapes. Just follow the tips mentioned below --
• Spread baking paper or wax paper on a tray. You can even try on a clean chopping board.
• Now just open the choco-writing tube and start making shapes. These tubes are absolutely ready-to-use. Try easy shapes in the beginning, like heart, flower, stars etc.
• If you want solid geometric shapes, you need to pour the chocolate first and then spread it, shape it using a spatula.
• After you are done, leave the tray aside. Shapes are set in room temperature but if you are staying in a hot humid locality, refrigerate for some time.
• Now, when your chocolate decorations are ready, pick them and adorn the cakes. You can break a long lace into smaller pieces and put individual pieces on the frosting swirls deposited on the cupcakes or set the entire lace on a fondant-covered cake.

How online cake decoration is evolving, for good?

About a century and a year ago, when perhaps vintage birthday cakes were made, who would have thought that a time was coming when the entire trend of cake decoration would meet with a click revolution? Thanks to the Internet; we can virtually change what we don’t like and suit it according to our own taste until we see perfection into it. Gone is the time of putting hard labours on preparing add-ons that can make a cake look more sumptuous.

Now, go to a site that sells eatable decoration, key in your query and see the wonder. You can actually change the size and type of your cake, print it for record, and change the taste by adjusting in the ingredients. That is about virtually changing or rather improving the look of your cake. Now let’s have a look on how the entire concept of cake decoration is changing.

These days, people are on the habit to compare and buy cakes after choosing from a league of online vendors. Although this gives them the comfort to choose any type of cake depending on their personalized requirements, the trend is actually changing the tradition of cake and cake decoration buying. People are counting on the internet not just to select cakes of their preference, but consumers are readily asking cake experts about feedback on how to decorate their cakes.

Apart from the points mentioned, cake decoration sellers found on the web are helping people to read reviews before actually asking them to opt for products. People are comparing cake decoration tips and choosing from informed sources to ensure that what they buy are really good in quality. Online decorating products come in a range of varieties and are available in different offerings. You can buy a crate, a tub, a pack and even a sachet. If you want to know more about cake decoration ideas and etc., click the website. 

How to virtually buy your cake sprinkles?

Before you buy your sprinkles online, it is important you compare from the resources online. Comparing your resources online is importantly decisive, and before opting for your sprinkles, you need to know if you qualify for discounts, provided you are ordering in bulk. This is a small blog outlining how you should get your sprinkles online, and which important things you need to take care for to get the sprinkles at a good rate

How to buy sprinkles online

Before you buy, define your requirements to know which sort of sprinkles do you require, it includes the colour of the sprinkles, volume, and necessarily the features. If you know which type of sprinkles you require, you can compare without having to narrow down on the specifics set by the manufacturers.

This in turn saves your valued time, effort. Once you know which type of sprinkle you require, the next thing you can do is comparing the reviews of vendors who provide sprinkles online. Reviewing necessarily means reading what their users are saying about products, what the type of sprinkles they sell and how to distinguish between good and bad products. Buying sprinkles online becomes a simple task, if you know how to get your orders

Apart from reading reviews, you need to know if any discounts are there. If you are buying cake sprinkles online, you can ask for discounts. You can order your sprinkles by comparing from genuine vendors who provide discounted products by assuring quality. Buying your cake sprinkles can be of use if you compare from product set-up and get to order bulk varieties.

So next time you buy your sprinkles, visit your local store online, rather than visiting it in real. You will save on time, money and energy and can get improved set of sprinkles without having to compromise order.    

Because the chocolate is the most exotic guilt

From the ancient time we are addicted to chocolate. The cocoa was first found by the Mexicans who used to prepare a hot drink from it. Then the people of Belgium transformed it in milk chocolate bars and brought a revolution in the world of desserts. One step further, the trend of chocolate cakes which was the gift from the Dutch and Viennese, made the chocolate the most adorable food ingredient of the people from all over the world.

No matter what is our age, culture, nationality or food habit; we all are passionate about chocolate and if it is a chocolate cake covered with smooth delightful chocolate fudges, lattice shapes, chips etc., nothing is comparable to the bliss. Now, while we have cupcakes, a better miniature version of yummy chocolate cake with the same taste, richness and aroma, anybody can have its portion of this heavenly bite anytime.

Filled with the goodness of starch, eggs and cream, a single serving of chocolate cake is the best start of a day when it is complemented with a glass of milk for kids as well as an adult. While at the party, this is the most awaited and adored dessert that no one can resist. If you are in love or experiencing a recent break up, chocolates can soothe you, for both.

Though many dieticians and doctors advise to control the habit of chocolate cosumption, chocolate lovers find their own ways by gulping sugar free cake, cookies, and ice creams and low fat versions. Still the cakes with chocolate flavour and coated with breath-taking chocolate decoration are undoubtedly the most sought-after baked delicacies. Doesn’t matter how much calories it contains and how many hours of exercise is required to balance, chocolate lovers will always rush for a slice. And we are acquainted with many who don’t even share, quite capable to gulp a pound alone.

Cake is the sweetest personalized way to show that you love someone so much

When you love someone, how will you express it when you are not friendly with words; maybe you go with roses, cards, and a box of exotic chocolates with a beautiful love quote or poem.  But I think, you should take a chance with your baking skills. A tasty and nicely decorated cake can help you to win your sweetheart.  Is it valentine’s day or you want to thank them for making your life so graceful on thanksgiving day, it could be a birthday or you want to say sorry, cake is the best way to show your feelings.

From chocolate to red velvet or colourful rainbow cake, simply but skilfully piped and highlighted with a pinch of glitter, a cake can get all that appeal that is enough to melt a heart. While it is a dessert prepared for ‘love’, no doubt it should be in the heart shape or adorned with heart-shaped decorations. To give more touchy appearance, you can apply fondant made or real roses.
While you are friendly with piping work, a whole range of ideas is available for you. Decorate it with swirls, flowers, leaves and other delightful patterns. You can also write a sweet love quote with the choco-writing tubes.

But, if you are not so good at piping, don’t lose your heart, just frost your cake with simple vanilla butter cream icing and pour molten chocolate over it. It will give a magical effect as nothing is more exotic than chocolates. Here again, don’t forget to place a heart shape (it could be made of sugar, gum paste or cereal )covered with red cake glitter as you are unique so your way to express your love should be unique too. So, don’t wait, just rush to your kitchen and give your darling a sweetest surprise.

Some easy yet smart ideas to decorate birthday cakes for kids

While you are planning a birthday party for your little rock star, you definitely consider his or her choice in all aspects of menu, guest list and party decoration. In this birthday bash, don’t underestimate the central attraction of the event, the cake. Though you are a good baker and can bake a really tasty cake, that is not enough for an occasion like this. Think about decorating it in an amazing way that your sweetheart and the guests feel fascinated with your expertise.

First of all you should bake a simple chocolate or vanilla cake as the base. These two are universal flavours. Now apply a coat of butter cream icing of the colour and flavour loved by your little one. Usually kids love strawberry, chocolate, pineapple, butterscotch and vanilla icing for their cakes. From here, your designer journey starts.  Here are some ideas or tips to decorate a birthday cake in very easy yet lovely style:

• You can coat the whole cake with tiny sprinkle. There are a variety of jemmies, sugar strands, hearts and many other sprinkling items, available to be picked according to your choice. Adding meringues, fudges and other confectionery tops is also a good choice.
• Just melt some chocolate and pour over the cake and when it is cooled enough pipe some simple flowers or any simple pattern with the help of the icing tube.
• One more trick of sprinkle decoration; crush a milk chocolate or a dark chocolate and sprinkle all over the cake.
• Add his or her favourite fruits or dry fruits over the cake. You can apply a single fruit or a combination of more.
• Edible print sheets of popular cartoon characters are available in the market. Pick any and apply on the cake. So simple, but your kid will love it.
• If you are good in piping work then show your skill by creating some delightful flower or other designer pattern.

Before starting the decoration, get your cake cool properly

If you are in the baking business or regularly bake in your kitchen, you are simply aware of this fact that a cool cake is ideal for cake decoration. Generally, it is best to give the time of a whole night to your cake to get properly dry and set in itself. But in emergency as you have to complete an urgent order or your cake base has been spoiled accidently, you don’t have this time; here are some easy techniques to cool your cake base faster and without any stress and fear of breakage:

• Usually what you will do in the rush time, bake a cake, bring it out and starch it. It's wrong, let be in the oven for a while.
• When you can feel the nice aroma of completely baked cake in your kitchen, off the oven but let it rest in it. Now bring it out and place on your counter for 10-15 minutes.
• The cake base is still hot inside and it’s time to shift it in the fridge. In about 15 minutes it is cool enough to touch and stretch out.
• The cake at this condition is quite perfect for eating right this way, but if you need a right base of decoration, you need more cool yet a moist cake. To maintain the moisture, it is ideal to wrap the cake while it is still in the pan and let it placed in the fridge.
• One or one and half-an-hour is quite enough time for this purpose and afterwards is time to bring the pan out from the fridge. You should use a sharp knife to get your cake firmly out from the pan. In this way, you shall get a perfect base for your cake decoration, even if you are in a hurry.

Some tips for working on cakes during summer

Summer is hot, humid and sometimes threatening to the cake business. Sometimes, it becomes very tricky to deal with heat and as a result the droopy and melted butter-cream. The high temperature not only harms the icing layer, but it spoils the entire cake decoration as all sugar made decorative get sticky and the glitter also starts to lose its colour and shimmer.  Here are some tips to deal with summer and assure a beautiful yet stable cake decoration this season.

• As possible, keep your cake in cool temperature, while you are decorating, storing or transporting it.
• While you are preparing a big size cake for wedding or any such occasion, it is recommended that assemble it on the venue, right before the event.
• In case, you are thinking to present the pre-assembled cake to the venue, be sure about your transportation. The delivery van must be air-conditioned otherwise the cake can get weaken, melt or even collapse due to heat.
• During summers, replace the classic butter cream with Swiss Meringue butter cream or Italian butter cream. Adding Meringue powder in the regular butter cream makes it a bit harder and stable in hot climate.
• Using a bit less known cheese cream icing is a better and stable alternative to butter cream icing and it also it tastes good.
• While delivering a big sized cake always be prepared for any kind of emergency.  Having back up plan and cake-repairing kit is smart and professional tip to face any problem. This kit may include extra butter cream, some extra pieces of fondant or gum paste articles used in the cake, sprinkle decoration items, glitter sugar etc.
• Though cake should be kept in the refrigerator before the reception, but before final presentation it should be placed out and kept at room temperature for some time. A change in the temperature may cause condensation and the entire cake decoration may ruin due to this.

Benefits of ordering your next slot of bulk icing tubes online

Whether you are a homemaker or professional chef or a hobbyist; the need for icing and icing tubes is common, if you are heavily into designing and decorating cakes, pastries, cookies and any kind of dessert than just simply preparing it. There was a time when you had limited access to ordering cake decoration items.

You used to visit stores and spend a considerable time to get the right thing at the right price. Thanks to the Internet; you now can compare, choose, and opt from unlimited varieties of products without leaving the comfort of your home or at the lunchbreak of a working day.

You are lucky that contemporary online cake decoration stores keep a range of ready-to-use tubes, filled with icing in different colours and flavours. These tubes are available in almost in all the colours and in a number of shades. Choco-icing too is available in tubes.

And these are not at all expensive. If you buy in bulk, you may get a discount too. Ideally you should always buy the icings in bulk so that you can keep a stock. These tubes are easy to preserve and why should you think of using the icing on the cakes only?

You can swirl on the cookies and cupcakes to bring smiles on the breakfast table. Surely this will cheer up the tiny tots in the house and boost your mood as well. And since edible glitters too are available in tubes, you can also add some sparkle in your platter.

Besides, you can get a doorstep delivery if you buy online. But before you order for icing tubes in bulk make sure that the icings are free of any artificial flavour, colour or bad fats. We do ensure that our products are completely free of such things that can result in health hazards. 

OMG it’s a chocolate cake

Chocolate is the most adorable, exotic and desired dessert in itself. And when it is included in any other dessert; makes that special also. People love chocolate cakes, cupcakes, cookies and ice creams with the same passion. And when there is talk about chocolate cake, nothing can match the feel and appeal of cocoa. Who can resist the rich puddles of flawless chocolate sponges covered with mouth-watering chocolate butter cream icing and decorated with delightful chocolate chips and ruffles? Chocolate is the ideal topping for all types and all flavours of cakes.

There are many flawless recipes of chocolate cakes and each of them is quite capable enough to steal a heart with just one glance for example chocolate layer cake, marble cake, chocolate mousse,  fudge cake, devil’s food cake, black forest cake, ganache cake and many more. Now a day, the expert bakers are experimenting this fine exotic flavour with some unique blends such as rum, coconut, mint, red pepper, tea and honey. These ideas are getting more popular as the chocolate lovers accept every delightful and innovative idea regarding cocoa.

These day the chocolate cakes are introduced in a new avatar, the rich, creamy, smoother, silkier but flourless cake.  This new trend is setting some very new standards in modern patisserie. This cake is made by using the aerated chocolate custard. This fine restaurant style dessert is gaining popularity among the people who prefer the gluten free diet.

Though chocolate is a high calorie diet and, some say, it is the richest source of cholesterol, but if we listen to the chocolate lovers, this is a guilt free sin which fills the life with an unmatched satisfaction. No doubt, the number of chocolates made recipes and the passion for this dessert is increasing every day. To know about various options of chocolate decorations and tips, please click the website. 

Cake decoration is fun, don’t fret about it

We all love cakes and most of us love to bake, so we know that it is not the easy thing like cooking. It is much trickier and involves a huge amount of risk of failure. It can be at any point, if the cake has not been rising properly or burnt, cracked, exploded or crumbled; the list goes on.

Here a little bit of creativity and the basic knowledge of tricks and techniques of cake decorating, you can cover almost all the shortcomings of your cake, except the burning. This sugar and cream made layer is not only the best way to hide your failure, but also it gives you an unlimited parameter to express your decoration art.

Magazines, food channels and a large number of websites show the great designer cakes which leave us breathless by their dazzling appearance, on the other hand they make us nervous also. Cake decoration does not need the chef style finishing each time. It is your hobby and your peace of heart, while you want to bake and present to your family, friends or a special loved one. So just listen to your heart and allow your mind to direct your hands to create some simple yet nice design on the baked surface.

A cake can be decorated in many ways, but it starts with icing every time. While you are a hobby baker at your home kitchen, we recommend to apply butter cream icing to spread it evenly through knife or spatula. Now, it’s time to redefine this cake in your own way by applying sprinkle or cake decoration. Sprinkle decoration means skilfully or sometimes roughly putting the sugar-made decorative items on the cake. It can be candy, cookies, cake glitters, little hearts, stars and anything else you can find from your grocery store or nearby mall.

Some modern age Cake decoration trends

Cakes are decorated according to the season, occasion, clients’ specific demand or the ongoing trends. These trends come and go and again they are repeated. The earlier, simpler cakes have been replaced by modern high stylish cool and ramp ready masterpieces. Modern tools and techniques, availability of more appealing and attractive ingredients and use of social media as generators and messenger of trends and styles, have changed the entire dimension of food art.

In no longer past, the cake was the actual star not the outside icing covering; also the flavours were limited to chocolate, vanilla and strawberry flavours mixed in the butter cream icing spread over it.  But it is history now as the easy availability of fondant, gum paste and royal icings the cake covering is much convenient and more visually appealing. And as a cake flavour one has too many options as mango, fruit and nuts, caramel, coconut, rum and many other flavours or the blend of any two or more. Today, you can expect a layered cake with each layer and icing all of different taste.

The earlier cakes were mostly round or square shaped and today one can have it in any desired shape and pattern. Not only the geometrical but the shapes of almost all objects (human and animal figures, boats, boots, purses, buildings and anything) can be sculpted as the part of the cake decoration.  A cake artist can create any design as per clients’ wish and budget provided.

Now, come towards colours; replacing the boring plain cakes with rather unattractive colours of cake decoration, the modern age cakes have bright, delightful and vibrant colour schemes.  To maintain the health standards, all the food colours are made by using 100% food grade ingredients. Many chefs also prefer to apply the natural ingredients to get the desired colours.
The present day cake decoration is not prepared just for cutting and eating at the same time, it is about putting the whole creativity and imagination to sculpt and allure a ramp ready centre piece.

Cupcakes are small, handful bites with a high designing potential

Today, a cupcake is not just a miniature cake with the some icing and toping above it, eatable at rush time or for experimenting a taste. A modern age cupcake baking and decorating is a newly set tradition or a specific type of food processing in itself.  It is a most preferred dessert for all ages around the world as kids, young and also the senior aged people equally love to eat and praise. As per recent trend, many high profile, designer cakes are being specially designed by using many cupcakes over it.

So it is quite obvious that, the cupcake decoration has become one more field of presenting the food artisan’s skill and expertise. Each cupcake decoration tells a different story in itself. Cupcakes are loved by people as they are simply gorgeous, elegant, tasty and smartly decorated according to the theme or mood of the client.  They can be made of almost each flavour, and creatively topped with fondant covering or the swirls of icing. The use of colourful variety of improved additives gives it a great visual appeal and also create a magical effect over it.

A variety of flavours from traditional chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and fruits to the modern bold and experimental flavours such as red velvet, cheese, rum, mint, pumpkin, garlic and coconuts are being used and admired today. At a height of creativity, a great deal of monogram cupcakes, and personalized cupcakes are getting popularity as they give the sense of personal attachment of an individual with the dessert.

We can easily imagine the designer appeal of the cupcakes presented at a corporate party with the colour theme of corporate design and the logo or initial of a company’s name placed skilfully on the dressing over it. Or what about the cupcakes with sleek swirls of strawberry icing and use of sugar crystal based cake sprinkles on it while it is the occasion when the occasion is the 16th birthday of a beautiful girl and she is wearing a pink dress with crystal neckless. Isn’t it simply awesome?

About chocolate decoration

Chocolate is a great addition for giving your cake or any other celebrated eating content a grander look and feel. It is a long time now that chocolate has been used as decoration stuff, and if you ask professional chefs why chocolate is so famous; they would give you some very reasonable reasons; such as –

Chocolate is a versatile edible content that can be used in a number of thoughtful ways without having to turn your preparation dull. They are distinguished because of colour and richness

It turns your plated dessert a masterpiece by combining so many personalities without losing its core sense

Chocolate are found in greater variations; in colours as diverse as black and white (technically speaking)

They add enhanced taste to your plate other than improving design variation
Giving chocolate in an improved variation and format actually ensure proper balance and adjustment to your cake.

Get your chocolate decoration stuffs online 

If you are to decorate your cake using chocolate, there is some awesome variety of affordable options exist online. A simple study done online fetches you some great ways to compare, buy your decoration stuffs. There are vendors that provide different types of standalone chocolate in sundry colours, and design. There are accessories that are used to uncomplicate the process of chocolate management on cake or other eating content. Choose a vendor that provides affordable chocolate solutions, if it is possible ask them for discounted chocolate decorations order; this is justified if you are a professional chef and need the decoration items for regularized use.

Buying your chocolate decoration products online saves you time, effort and money since you can order from home, and compare from unlimited options to save on your budget.

To know about chocolate decoration products, to order your next or first decoration products, please click the website now!

Modify your cake with glitter sugar content

These are perhaps the simple and naturally improved ways to give your cake a touch of rejuvenated design.  A little sprinkle of sugar gives a sweet cake an awesome makeover.  By adding edible glitter, luster dust and even glitter spray, the mix becomes tasty and it creates a delicious design variation, which can be relished with anything added to it.

The science of adding sugar into cake in an improved balance and variation depends on how you add selectively calculative amount of sugar and the nature of sprinkle. The greater balance you bring in your cake without over spraying the sugar content ensures the taste of cake.

A beautifully designed cake is the attention grabber of any occasion. The cakes can be given a range of unified colour combination and design types such as floral design, contemporary colour variation etc. It depends on your intellect and choice that which type of sugar, edible glitter and contemporary designer sugars are being added into the cake.

Usually, people stick to simple design for simple occasions, but for important milestone celebrations the cakes are given personalized look. For example; if your company is celebrating a milestone in providing green solutions, your cake design could have more of colour green and natural reference.

The use of glitter sugar, which can be added in designer variations and end number of colour, can give your cake even more interestingly improve design and look. If you are to buy glitter sugar in designer variation online you could compare from options to review your order.

Ask the online service provider about reviewing your order and ensuring you with credible type of glitter sugar content variation. By using the sugar content in custom design cake, you could give it a nice tone of representation. To know about cake design and glitter etc., please click the link above.

How to choose a cake sprinkles supplier online?

Before you decide on opting for cake sprinkles online, you need to understand important deciders in order to avail improved variety of affordable sprinkles. There are online cake sprinkles suppliers who lure audiences by providing cake sprinkles at discounted price. You need to be decisive about the fact that sprinkles should not cost too much yet these come of value.

The suppliers who provide cake sprinkles solutions online should be categorized in terms of deciders vital such as how to design the sprinkles etc. The blog cover how to opt for your cake sprinkles online and how to opt for your cake sprinkles from a service provider

Cake sprinkles are used as a decorative substance to cake and it is used to bring your cake variation in design and colour. Before you give your cake smart choice of design and colour variation, you need to be decisive about the type of design work. Cake sprinkles come in unique type of coloured range, with different dimensions. If you to buy your cake online or cake decorative online, you need to ensure that your cake decoration and sprinkle designer come of value

Read manual of cake design and sprinkle decoration and read about how to work around idea. Review the features of using it. Before you stoop to buy your cake sprinkles, ensure that the sprinkles come in improved design and colour variation.  Comparing the budget of the sprinkles is important as well, Review the service provider in order to ensure the design variation of the cake sprinkles.  It is important for you to know the design variation of cake.  It is good that the cake sprinkles come in budget and make sure to not buy cheap cake in order to save on your design idea

How to choose your cake decorations designer

It is quite a times simple to decorate your cake, but those who need attentive care in terms of designing their cake in an orderly manner, you could compare from online designers who are specialists in designing cake, and edible stuff. To contact the cake decorations experts, you could find their reference online. By typing specialist keywords such as “online fashion designers online”, you can find reference of good number of designers who work online, and on your request provide you cake decoration solutions. Online cake and edible decoration experts provide improved type of service, and they specialize in courses that teach how to decorate cakes and etc.

Online cake decoration services are helpful if you require some quick assistance in terms of choosing a decorative cake variants. Before decorating your cake, it is important to design your cake variation.

Before you get to order your cake decoration online, it is important to order your variant by knowing the type and design. A cake decoration service provider need to know how to provide you factual based services by using specialized decoration.

Cake decorations online need to be balanced in terms of design and variation choices. Before you get to work around your designing of cake, some important things need to be considered. The service provider need to have improved knowledge as to how to design your cake, and how to work around important decisions.   

To order your cake decoration  service provider online, click the website. It has been providing affordable variety of designer cake and cake designers are ready to provide you with awesome sampling of designer cake design.  

I am a professional baker then why should I join a class?

It is the common question arise in the mind of very chef who is successfully running his or her baking business. The simple answer is yes, you need it to improve yourself and bloom your art and performance. While you get a chance to learn under the senior food artisans about the in-depth theories they have obtained through a long practical experience, you easily explore some very unique  ideas and tricks to make an extraordinarily amazing party show stopper.
You can either join an in-depth  learning course to get the superior skills and the certificate obtain will add some stars in your resume or you can attend a short term baking project class that will enrich you with some very attractive ideas and techniques. While a long term learning course is aimed for boosting your profile as you learn from the masters and it gives you all necessary know-how about starting a new business or take your business to the new heights. On the other hand the short term project classes are mainly focused on any one or more projects or techniques in which you want to get more exploration under experts’ surveillance.
These classes tell the participants about the variety of supplementary items, their effective application and from where they can be obtained. These include the edible glitters, fondant and other icings and various sugar based decorations.  These classes also guide to their students to prepare their own decoration goodies like sugar and fondant flowers, edible glitters, different blends of colors and flavors, etc.  Here one can also get the commercial and professional advice about commencing new business or staying on the top of the field. You can ask for the course from the leading baking suppliers or search online.  To know about cake glitter, edible glitter etc., please click the website

Give your cupcake a personalized touch with a monogram design

When the cupcakes are baked and decorated to be served in a special event or to gift a very adorable someone, some personalized touch can add a mind blowing presentation. A simple yet effective, personalized punch will result in a great “wow” from your guests and loved ones.  Placing monogram on the top of a cupcake is a simpler but sometimes tricky task to be done sometimes. Here are some tips to use this stream of edible decoration in a convenient and impressive way.
     • Piping: It is the oldest and simplest technique to make a monogram on a cake with use of icing tubes. Any king of the medium can be filled in the icing tubes as royal icing, butter-cream icing, white or dark chocolate and sometimes fruit jam.
     • Painting:  Here, the food colors are mixed with vodka and applied over the iced surface by using the paint brush. You can write, draw or make some simple patterns like polka dots or Cris-cross over a cupcake.
    • Fondant letter cutters: In the market, there are many fondant cutters which are available in the different font sizes and designs.just roll the fondant to obtain the required thickness a punch the fondant cutter over it, the text is ready to be attached over the cupcake and for further detailing.
    •  Hand molded fondant text: if you have plenty of time and you like to mold the tiny pipes of fondant, it is the best way to show your creativity. Take small pieces of fondant, roll them, then mold them in a desired shape and before it gets dry, put it over the cupcake with the help of gum paste. A small personalized edible masterpiece is ready to be served.

How to choose a cake sprinkles supplier online?

While opting for your cake sprinkle online, you need to understand important deciders in order to avail improved variety of affordable yet nice sprinkles. There are suppliers who lure in people by providing discounted cake sprinkles, while there are costly sprinkles. You need to ensure that your sprinkles come of value and that you need not to cut your pocket. The suppliers who provide cake sprinkles need to be categorized in terms of the quality and quantity of materials. The blog briefly describe you of buying ideas before opting for your edible glitter or cake sprinkles online. Read on!

Cake sprinkles are used as a decorative substance to cake and it has been regarded as a best means to avail your cake smart variants and colours. Cake sprinkles are edible and can be of different dimensions,  If your are to buy or order your cake sprinkles online, there are some importantly vital things that you need to take into care.

Before ordering your cake sprinkles compare the features of the product. Read manual about its usability. Review the features, read instructions about its use. Before opting for your sprinkle, know if the product is safe. Comparing the budget and ideating from aligned products is important. The supplier need to be compared based on reviews. It is good for you to know what the consumer are saying about it. It is good that the cake sprinkles come in budget but do not buy cheap or affordable sprinkles to save on money, buy a packet of cake sprinkles that are useful and is equipped with solid features. To know about edible glitter and etc, please click the website.  

Create some floral magic over a cake

Decorating a cake with the beautiful flowers is a highly creative task which adorns the ordinary cake in a delightful manner and gives it a gorgeous appearance. These sugar flowers are made with many different sugar bases such as fondant, gum paste, butter-cream or gelatin mixed sugar blends. Cakes decorated with the floral theme are especially demanded for weddings where the multiple tiers of decorated cake are finely complemented with impressively dazzling flowers highlighted with cake glitters. 

 
Floral decoration is the most popular way to décor the cakes in both traditional and contemporary themed cakes while a cake artist can combine the imagination with the specific demand of a client. Many innovative and skillful techniques and ingredients are being adapted to redefine the floral based sugar art and give the spectators a gasp with delight. 

These tricks and techniques are finely complemented with the various tools which are introduced in the market and are certainly helpful in turning this much tricky task into a fun. With the variety of icing tube tips it is easy to create some extremely beautiful butter-cream flowers by ruffling and thinning. The pre-made fondants bases are available in a variety of taste and colors to facilitate the sculpting leaves, petals and buds. 

Once created, these sugar-made delights can be added with more dazzle and attraction with the use of cake decorative item such as sprinkle decorations, sugar pearls, sugar Crystals and cake glitters.  Decorating the cakes with floral inspired designs is a safe as well as challenging technique that blooms your art and expertise while you are baking for fun time with your family or creating a masterpiece for some specific occasion of your client.

Give your cake a pleasant shot of alcohol

Alcohol is always a party popper and nowadays if  it is the matter of some really exotic cake flavors no one can deny the taste and appetizing appeal of a rum cake or chocolate cake with beer. Pairing alcohol with some really nice cake flavors is enough to make your dinner dessert memorable as  a legend. There is no comparison of the red wine cake with the punch of dark chocolate decoration over it. Here are some tips to help you in creating some mysterious and exiting alcohol infused sweet delights:

• Prefer the classic cocktails: it is smart choice to play safe and use the popular  blends of cocktails that are familiar to the taste buds. For example, the recipe of fine ivory Russian cake contains cream, vodka and coffee liqueur.  

• Go with a classic pairing: It is the theory that the classic pairing of alcohol always work well everywhere, either in the beverage or as a cake recipe. If you are serving a triple Sec drink poured with Irish cream and coffee liqueur, it will be best complemented with the cupcakes containing the coffee liqueur, soaked in Triple Sec and topped with Irish cream butter-cream and tiny chocolate decorations.

•  Get inspired: always look for inspiration to get new blends of cocktails or alcohol plus traditional flavors from your surroundings. While you like to eat sour cheese or salted nuts with beer so you can try this combination in your cake or muffin also. 

6 reasons to use cake sprinkles

Using confectionery toppers, glitter sugars, sugar crunches, sprinkle shapes or any kind of cake sprinkle is a trend but can you tell us why it is so? Only for decoration? Of course that’s the basic idea but there are other reasons too. 

Sprinkles are tasty
 
Jelly beans, sugar crunches, slices and sugary sprinkle shapes— those are so yummy that we just cannot help but sprinkle on the cakes as much as we can. 

We can eat them just like that
 
Forget decorating a cake. When you’ve got a cupboard full of fudges, gold shimmer chocolate chips, glimmer sugar pearls… just open the pouches, tubs or packs, whenever you feel like, and grab a handful, just like that. 

Make children eat the bases
 
Children often refuse to eat cakes and cookies if those are not garnished with premium toppings. To make them eat, we need to shed hard labour. We need to cover the bases with creamy and tasty icings and then sprinkle tasty adornments so that we can persuade them to eat the bases.  

To trigger envy
 
An innovatively designed cake topped with edible glitter sand, sprinkle shapes or confectionery toppers, placed right in the middle of a laid out dinner table can actually make your guests feel envious. They will praise but will also feel jealous.

Most of the time the story ends with a counter invitation where the hostess tries hard to prove that she can do the art better than you. 

To impress your sweetheart
 
A cupcake platter with icing swirls and sprinkles on the top, served to your sweetheart with evening tea can make a nice impression. And of course you have too many occasions round the year to show how good you are in baking and decorating cakes for birthdays, anniversaries, Halloween or Christmas.  

To boost your mood
 
If you are in love with icing, jelly beans, sprinkles, choco chips, meringues and so on, try cake decoration as an instant mood booster. It’s healing.

How to use the choco-writers: 5 steps

Have you ever used the choco-writing tubes? Forget the home-made pastry bags that make you clumsy in chocolate decorations. Buy the tubes that can help you design lattice shapes or write a wish message in cursive writing without fretting around. 

Choco-writing tubes are available in milk, dark and white chocolate but before you buy make sure that the company uses pure chocolate and does not mix any artificial flavour or fat. 

We never use anything artificial in our products but not all the cake decoration suppliers are that responsible. 

Please follow the simple steps mentioned below and delve into creativity—

Step one
 
Put the tubes inside a jug full of piping hot water and wait for at least 5 minutes. The chocolate inside will take that much of time to melt. 

Step two
 
Keep a clean kitchen towel ready on the table beside the jug. Now use a scissor tong to pick the tubes out of the water and put them on the towel. Wrap the tubes by folding the ends of the towel. Try to wipe off the water.

Step Three 
 
Remove the jug and the tong from the table or set aside. Put on your oven gloves. Now you can hold the tubes at ease. Snip off the nozzle and get started to write a message on a cake or make some swirly patterns on the frosting. 

Step Four
 
To make lattice shapes or chocolate laces you’ll need to spread a thick bunch of pastry papers, the kind of paper we use to make pastry bags, on a tray. Pile at least 6/7 to make it thick enough. Now start designing. Make any shape—a heart, a swirl, a zig-zag, letters, words—anything. 

Step Five 
 
Let the shapes cool down. Wait for a couple of minutes and then put the tray inside the refrigerator. Leave it for an hour and then you’ll get them ready to serve.

6 ideas to decorate cupcakes

Several times we have heard Moms complaining that their kids refuse to eat cupcakes if those are not garnished with sumptuous cake decorations. Now these ladies really get worked up sometimes. 

It’s not easy to come up with a new idea every day but kids do expect that or rather demand that. 

So we thought how about sharing some of our cupcake decoration ideas. Ladies, please do let us know if you have liked any. 


Butterfly cup
 
Remove the cupcake papers and cover the cakes with vanilla frosting using a spatula. Now put pink and yellow cocoa butter butterfly confetti on the top and also on the sides. Use one butterfly colour for one cake. Cupcakes are best served as a platter. So you can use chocolate frosting also on one or two and put white butterflies on them. 

Jelly bean cup
 
Use a sharp edge to drill the cupcakes in the middle and then stuff with jelly beans. Use lemon, raspberry, orange, banana and lime flavoured jelly beans for separate cakes. 

Glitter cup
 
Buy a couple of glitter writing tubes and coat the cakes. Now to add more sparkle, sprinkle edible gold or silver cake glitter sand. 

Smiley cup
 
If you are in a hurry and can’t spend more than 5 minutes then simply draw smileys of different colours. Always keep a range of colourful icing and choco-writing tubes in stock. 
Those are all-purpose.

Gold chip cup
 
This will go best with the chocolate muffins. You can put a vanilla swirl first and then garnish with gold shimmering choco chips or else you can just coat the cakes with a choice of icing and then put the chips. 

Fudge cup
Either you can use normal fudge pieces as toppers or you can bake the muffins with bake stable fudge pieces instead of choco chips. In any case it will be a fudge cup. 

Besides you can also buy assorted cupcake toppers. Check our site.

What lies inside the tube?

Icing is an art and not very long ago people had to shed hard labour in their kitchens to prepare the icings, especially when they had to cover or decorate 10+ pounds. 

We’d rather say that people of our time are saved from those hassles. We can just pick and choose ready-made icing tubes in a range of colours and flavours.
 
Of course, you should pick good quality stuff so that you can get the icing free-flowing. Also try to buy packs that come with two or three decorating nozzles. 

Besides, be careful to buy products that are free of any artificial colour, flavour and harmful hydrogenated fat. 

But do you know what lies inside the icing tube? Of course, you have an idea if you have seen your mother or grandmother working in the kitchen. If you have missed that experience, then please go through. 

Icing is nothing but a creamy glaze made of sugar. To make it taste better and premium we add egg yolk, butter, cheese, chocolate or any special flavour. There are many kind of icings—

• Glace Icing is made of powdered sugar and water. Most of the common coloured icings are glace icings since adding colour or flavour to this mixture is easy.

• Royal Icing is prepared by beating egg white and powdered sugar. It’s a kind of hard icing which we get to see in Christmas cakes or Wedding cakes. It is used as a smooth covering or to design sharp peaks.

• Fondant, which is commonly used to design ribbons on wedding cakes or birthday cakes, is made of heated water and sugar. To make rolled fondants we use stabilizers like Gelatin.

• Ganache is made by heating cream and then adding chopped chocolates.

• Marzipan is made of sugar and almond meal. Once it used to be an essential part of cake decorations but nowadays due to increasing cases of nut allergies, people are avoiding it.

• Couverture Chocolate is a special kind of icing that contains high percentage of cocoa butter.

• Besides, nowadays many cake decoration supplies sell glitter gels in icing tubes. And those are not at all costly.

Make sure to buy safe glitter sands

Are you sure that the cake glitter sand you have just bought and spread over your cupcake or pastry is safe to eat? This may stir up confusions, anxieties and trigger panic attacks if your kid has already gulped it all.
Of course, you should have been more careful. It’s the matter of your health, your family’s health most importantly. You will never be able to forgive yourself if this non-edible dust would cause some critical illness.
Yes, it happens. If you cannot believe in our words, put a search on Google and see what people are talking about confectionery toppers, cake sprinkles, cake decorations which are not free of artificial colours, flavours and harmful hydrogenated fats.
Since inception, years back, we have tried to make our customers aware of these issues. We are a responsible cake decoration seller and we feel that we should take it as a social responsibility, to educate people on this matter.
We hope you remember what happened with actress Sarah Hadland on The Great British Bake Off show on BBC2, just three years back.
She did not know whether the glitter sand she had used on the show was edible or not and that stirred a lot of events back then.
The news went viral and made quite an impact. Hobbycraft cleared the racks of their 61 stores and a number of companies had to change their products and packaging.
The worst mistake a buyer can do is buying products without enquiring what lies inside or what the product is made of. Smart buyers spend a considerable time reading each and every word printed on the packs.
They take time before adding to the cart. They first learn about the specifications, increase their knowledge, gather as much information as possible and then select the best one.
We mean the ‘safest’ one.
Since cake decorations are mostly consumed by children, you should be extra careful. Next time you visit a store or shop online, check whether the products are free of artificial substances. 

Make sure to buy safe glitter sands

Are you sure that the cake glitter sand you have just bought and spread over your cupcake or pastry is safe to eat? This may stir up confusions, anxieties and trigger panic attacks if your kid has already gulped it all. 

Of course, you should have been more careful. It’s the matter of your health, your family’s health most importantly. You will never be able to forgive yourself if this non-edible dust would cause some critical illness. 

Yes, it happens. If you cannot believe in our words, put a search on Google and see what people are talking about confectionery toppers, cake sprinkles, cake decorations which are not free of artificial colours, flavours and harmful hydrogenated fats. 

Since inception, years back, we have tried to make our customers aware of these issues. We are a responsible cake decoration seller and we feel that we should take it as a social responsibility, to educate people on this matter. 

We hope you remember what happened with actress Sarah Hadland on The Great British Bake Off show on BBC2, just three years back. 

She did not know whether the glitter sand she had used on the show was edible or not and that stirred a lot of events back then. 

The news went viral and made quite an impact. Hobbycraft cleared the racks of their 61 stores and a number of companies had to change their products and packaging. 

The worst mistake a buyer can do is buying products without enquiring what lies inside or what the product is made of. Smart buyers spend a considerable time reading each and every word printed on the packs. 

They take time before adding to the cart. They first learn about the specifications, increase their knowledge, gather as much information as possible and then select the best one. 

We mean the ‘safest’ one. 

Since cake decorations are mostly consumed by children, you should be extra careful. Next time you visit a store or shop online, check whether the products are free of artificial substances.

How good is your choco handwriting?

We would really like to know how good you are into it. If you love chocolate then we are sure you have tried your hand many a times with the choco writing tubes. 

No? Oh, maybe you are the one who still uses piping bags. Well, we are actually not against piping bags but if you want to take chocolate decorations into a level of art, then you need smarter tools.  

Many of our clients who are now the bulk buyers of choco writing tubes were initially apprehensive. We appreciated their concerns since they wanted to make sure that we use pure and best quality chocolate. 

Being a responsible cake decoration supplier we never ever mix any kind of artificial colour, flavour or hydrogenated fat in our products. We are completely against such practice. 

We sent samples to a few selected customers. All of them called us up immediately after using the tubes. They also mailed us some snaps of the decorations. We felt very happy. 

The best part of these tubes is that these are too much user-friendly. Just drop the tube in hot water, snip off the end of the nozzle and start writing, making designs or figures, keep swirling on the cupcakes as long as you can till the tube runs out. 

The consistency of the chocolate is smooth enough to move up, down or in any direction for the sake of the design. You can make flowers, lattice shapes, try cursive writing or decorate the walls of your pastry cake with motifs. 

You can choose from our dark chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate tubes. We are very proud of this range. This has earned us a lot of recognition in the Cake International, Birmingham last year.

The more you shall hone up your imagination skill, the more versatile you will be in choco decorations. 

And we do want you to be. 

Jelly beans, dolly mixtures, the chamber and you

Once again we shall ask you to imagine something and you know we are good at it. If you are honestly obsessive about the cake decorations and cake sprinkles, you shall go weak on the knees.

Now close your eyes and dream about a castle, much like one which you have seen in the movie ‘Beauty and the Beast’. You have suddenly stumbled upon a pebble and... Magic. 

The grey castle is right in front of you. There is no one around, not even a bird. Only trees are quietly shedding yellowed, withered leaves. You are gently stepping inside the enormous house, trembling. 

The chandelier has gone old but still showing you the smoky hallway that leads to the dining chamber. This may remind you of ‘Great Expectations’ and with your heart pounding you move step by step to that room where awaits... Something.

You gather enough courage and reach the door. ‘To knock or not to knock’-- when this clutters your mind, you feel a chill in your back, your body is almost paralysed.

Half-faint you finally push the door and... Whoa!

There is no old lady in ghostly attire, no antique candle-stand or dust covered china lying on the table.

The room is shiny and bright, full of colours and fragrance. The table is full of tubs, piled with red-orange-yellow jelly beans, sugar crunches, dolly mixtures, meringue drops, choco chunks, sprinkle shapes, micro-mallows and so on.

You go crazy, you go mad like you have found the treasure cave of that Arabian Night story.

Now, what are you waiting for? Do you want the Ogre of the castle, sleeping somewhere inside to wake up and make you his dinner?

No? Then be quick. Open your tote or the napsack. Come on, this scene is from a story but you are real. Stuff your bag with whatever you can and rush for the door.

Let us see whether the cake sprinkles stolen from the giant’s castle vanish like the Cinderella story or you can taste a mouthfull.

If the magic doesn’t stay with you, click the link above or visit our website. We have all that you have missed.

Happy Easter! Have a glittering weekend

The Holy Friday is here and we all are looking forward to a weekend that will be full of activities. We have invitations, parties and church sessions to attend, movies/shopping/dinners to go out for or spend a serene time in a resort or a vacation home... wherever you go, may you have a glittering weekend.  

Happy Easter to you all.

And Happy Easter to the foodies! We just cannot wait to delve into the Easter delicacies. We are sure you too are busy doing last minute retail hopping for the fresh ingredients. 

While shopping for the sprinkles, glitter sugar, coated colourful chocolate beans, please make sure that all those cake decorations are free of any artificial colour, flavour or hydrogenated fat.

When you shall be preparing the table with hot cross buns, big bacon & egg pie, spring greens with lemon dressing, smoked trout, mackerel on toast, roast lamb, crispy layered thyme potatoes, beetroots and simnel cake, make sure to keep a sparkling egg nest in the middle.

Paint the chocolate Easter eggs with edible colourful glitter sands and sprinkle yellow-orange glimmer sugar all over the spongy chick cake.  

Do you love raspberries and cranberries? Do you like oranges and lemons? Oh, no we are not just telling you to buy loads of such fruits.

Of course you can if you feel like and serve a bowl full of diced fruits topped with whipped cream, chocolate sauce or colourful icing.

But do you want these fruit flavours in glimmer sugar? Then please visit our website. We do supply bespoke flavoured glimmer sugar in sachets, tubs and packs in whichever flavour you will ask for. 

We supply in all quantities, from 5g sachets to 15 kg. Cases-- to the  supermarkets, retail stores, households or individuals.

Do knock or order from our online store.