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.