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.

Easter is never complete without choco delights

Although Easter is the occasion when we get more inclined on the colourful cake sprinkles-- those glimmer sugars or jelly beans or glitter sands in bright orange, yellow, pink and blue-- do not ever forget to pick a handful of chocolate decorations.

These are available not only in simple dark/white/milk chocolate varieties but also in coated versions, in colours and glitters. You can find them in bright hues as well as in metallic shades. 

While you shall be picking sachets or tubs of choco curls, choco chunks, choco spaghetti, duo chocolate curls, milk chocolate chips, chocolate coffee beans, crispy chocolate balls or chocolate splitters, do look for colourful mini chocolate beans too. 

This particular cake decoration product is meant for multi-purpose uses. This one is available in assortment. You can find beans in all the colours in a single pack.

Use these beans to decorate a bunny-shaped or chick shaped cake or simply keep the pile on a plate. Even the grown-ups will grab a handful.

To make a design with these beans, simply draw a rough outline first, marking the areas for each colour to use and then finish the decoration by putting the beans on the frosting.

If you are more into shiny and glittering decorations then our Bling range is meant for you. You will get chocolate chips and chunks, coated with edible gold, silver or bronze glitters.

Besides you should pick dark chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate, two tubes at least per variety, if you will be hosting an Easter lunch or dinner for 10 to 12 people.

If it’s only ‘two to tango’, then pick at least one choco decoration. Sit together and finalise a menu. Now go for shopping or simply order online. We deliver in no time and you are already running out of time.

All of our products are free of any artificial flavour, colour or hydrogenated fat and so there’s no need to worry.