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.  

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

A creative session with the icing tubes this Easter

How creative can you go? How imaginative is your soul? Just put that to a test this Easter with the ready-to-use icing tubes. Step out of the conventional Easter ideas. Of course you will keep an egg-hunt session and arrange for a family brunch. But in the late afternoon, before dressing up for a formal dinner party, go for a rejuvenating filler. 

Do something completely crazy, creative and exhilarating. Keep a ‘Painting With Icing’ session. 

If your house will be visited by a gang of toddlers this Easter, then they will simply shower upon you lots of kisses and love for this wonderful idea. And we do know that their parents, cousins, big brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts will not shy away at all.

Icings are irresistible to all who love cakes.

Since you are going to eat these works of art after selfies are taken and pics are uploaded on Instagram, you will need to arrange some plates and saucers as canvases for the masterpieces.

You will definitely not let them use your China. So buy lots of unbreakable melamine dishes.

For the paints, you need to shop a full range of icing tubes in all the colours available-- red, green, blue, pink, chocolate, yellow etc.

Buy in plenty since when the activity will start rolling, in no time you shall find that you have run out of tubes. Besides you cannot keep just one tube for a single colour and make the kids or the guests wait for their turns.

That will ruin the sport.

Make sure that the icings are made of completely natural ingredients. We are absolutely against the usage of artificial colours, flavours and hydrogenated fats and we can proudly say that not only the icing tubes or frosting, all of our cake decoration products are free of these harmful elements. 

So shop, paint and make the most of Easter 2015.

Go by the checklist before buying cake decorations

Now when the Holy Easter is just a week away, we are sure you will spend this weekend running a lot of errands and rushing to the stores for everything that you will require for the next weekend.

Of course you will buy a range of cake decorations since all the glittering delicacies spread on the table is one of the chief attractions of the occasion, specially for the children. 

Before you step out for shopping or shop online, please go by the checklist below--

• Do look for the products that are safe for health. By that we mean there should not be any kind of artificial colour or flavour.

• All the cake decorations and any other confectionery product that you buy should be free of hydrogenated fats since these are extremely harmful for health and can trigger cardio-vascular diseases, even cancer.

• Buy exactly the quantity you require. There are sellers who offer all sort of decorations in sachets, pots, tubs and cartons. Select the shop or the website where you can have that flexibility. There is no point in buying more than you need. Money is always hard-earned.

• Do buy ready-to-use icing tubes and frosting tubes since that will save a lot of time. Reputed suppliers always keep them in a range of colours and also in twin-colour options. 

• Do not simply jump on every lucrative product that catches your attention. Make a plan first. Decide the menu, the recipe, the ingredients and the decorations. Then do the shopping. 

• Make sure to include in your coterie at least one writing icing tube, one frosting, one pack of jelly beans, at least one kind of glitter sand, an assorted pack of sprinkle shapes and at least one kind of chocolate sprinkles if you have a strict budget issue.

Visit our website for cake decorating ideas. This will help you learn about the variety of decorations available and you can plan the shopping accordingly.

Paint your Easter eggs with the Cake Glitter

Glitter sands are wonderful substances and this Easter you can use the cake glitters to paint the eggs. That will be a nice break from the usual egg decoration and will definitely earn you a lot or praises.

Imagine your Easter table set with a Jelly Bean Cake, a dark chocolate Holy Cross cake, a full colony of gum paste yellow chicks and a cute bunny pastry decorated with blue, pink, orange or yellow coated choco beans. 

And right in the middle of these sumptuous delights, the guests will find a glittering offering-- a basket full of colourful eggs, shimmering and shining.

At Cake Decor, we are good in imagination and this makes us stand apart from a league of cake decoration suppliers. If you think that is a tall claim, please visit our website. We are sure that the range displayed will be enough to tell you that we have literally walked the talk.

But the story does not end here. So we keep on brainstorming and keep adding to the range. And the best part of all of our products is that those are absolutely free of any sort of artificial colour, flavour or hydrogenated fat.

Coming back to the edible glitter sands, we have a full range in offer, available in all colour options. Those are absolutely free-flowing and we can assure there will be no clumping. 

These glitter sands are available in 0.5 mg. mini pots and also in large tubs. Apart from painting the eggs, you can use these sands to decorate other cakes too.

For example, you can add these sands on the bunny teeth and bunny ears to make the cutest thing look more funny or cover the Holy Cross cake with the silver glitter to give the Cross a metallic shine.

There are a lot more you can do. Just make sure you have all the ingredients ready with you.

All that glitters is chocolate!

Gold-- small, tiny chunks, uniformly cut-- piled on a plate or spread all over the creamy, luscious chocolate or vanilla icing on the cupcakes-- shining,  sparkling and inviting-- and you know that all that glitters here is chocolate! Bling sprinkle decorations are just meant for making you more crazy about cakes. 

 

 These are designed to make you crave more for the most divine creations of the world-- chocolates, chocolates and chocolates. Sometimes we wonder what a wonderful substance it is and the idea of coating it with silver or gold paints (edible and 100% natural, it is simply sugar, not to worry) is all about making it more desirable.

It is camouflage and it is to heighten the thrills. Your favourite white chocolate chips or dark chocolate squares when are coated with edible gold or silver paint, becomes more irresistible. You cannot help but give in to the shimmers.

Do not mind if there is some ‘Portia’, standing nearby and trying to divert your attention. Do not at all listen to her. She may or may not be yours, but the bling sprinkles will all be. 
Sprinkles add life to the cakes and why would you hang around only coloured decorations when you can have a platter-full of metals? Gold, silver, bronze are all there to be melted inside your mouth and make you feel the bliss.

Not only chocolates, there are gold and silver glimmer sugar, gold-silver glitter sand or gold/silver/bronze sugar crunches all set to make your weekend family dinner party or afternoon high-tea a completely bling affair.

Life will seem so perfect when after a day’s hard work, you will find yourself drowned in the couch with a bowl full of gold choco chunks and a double-shot espresso.

There is no such rule that you would have to put these sparkling choco sprinkles on the cakes only. Take a mouth-full, whenever you feel like, the way you want.

Are you obsessed with the chocolate decorations?

Close your eyes and imagine you are standing in front of a three tier vanilla cake sprinkled all over with chocolate toffees, duo chocolate curls, milk chocolate chips, chocolate coffee beans, crispy chocolate balls, chocolate splitters... Heavenly, isn’t it? Chocolate decorations are the most divine creations on earth.

Ask randomly any Psychologist, he would tell you that chocolates are instant mood boosters. May be this is the reason why all the Cake Decor employees seldom feel fatigue! The moment we feel we are running out of energy, the mesmerizing aroma of chocolate or vanilla or strawberry rejuvenates us and we get ready once again to delve into more chores. 

We too are obsessed with chocolates and cake sprinkles like you do. Thanks to our job that we spend the major part of the day dealing with the piles of chocolate beans, shortcake balls, colourful mini chocolate beans, choco curls, choco chunks, choco spaghetti... endless. And then we have chocolate writing tubes in dark chocolate, white chocolate, caramel...

You can imagine the kind of self-control we have to practice on job!

It is really fun to sort the sachets, tubs or tubes and we love to imagine the glow in your face when you would pick these from a supermarket. We know that decorating a cake is never a mere kitchen job, it is a hobby, it is no less than an art form. And this is what has made us earn recognition at Cake International, NEC Birmingham. Our range of choco-writers was applauded by critics.

We know that artists hate limitations and this is why we always try to add more and more shapes, coatings, crunches to our range of cake sprinkles and chocolate decorations so that whenever you decorate your cake, you should never feel that something is missing!

Take a look at some interesting cake decorative stuffs

A beautifully decorated cake or cup-cake is surely a feast to eyes. It catches the heart much earlier before having its first bite. Decorating a cake is not very difficult art. It just needs some patience and practice. With each experimental technique the experience enhances and skill gets more perfection.

 Creating the sugar magic on this baked desert was never such easy. Modern cake decoration tools and techniques have made this task more convenient and creative. A variety of readymade shapes and decorative have been provided by the cake suppliers. There is a wide range of decorative items for all bakers either professionals or home hobbyists. From icing tubes and sprinkle decorations to fondant and butter-cream; an exciting range is available in options of color and taste. By adding some color mist, decorative pearls or a bit gum paste one can adorn a cake in a very stylish way.

The manufacturers and suppliers of cake decorative provide all those decorative stuff that any creative cake decoration artist need- be it impression goodies, variety of texture ideas, fondant accents, delicate petal dust or shiny glaze effects. You just need to go to a nearby baking shop or visit online for unlimited range of cake pans, cake boxes, paste colors, fondant molds, icing tubes and sprinkle decorations. To guide and illustrate the newcomers in cake artistry, many publication houses and famous culinary writers have published their baking books. As per technical advancement, the cake decoration ideas and techniques are also available in the form of DVDs. All these have made the cake decoration a fabulous and unique experience.

Ready-to-use Icing tubes are fun

Cut all the hassles of decorating a cake and buy ready-to-use icing tubes. Cake decoration is one of the most creative food activities that people enjoy doing for hours, only to find an excuse to remain engaged with the colours, creams, chocolates, gels etc. as long as possible.

When you are decorating a cake, your mind should be relaxed, focussed on the design and you should have all the ingredients perfectly ready right in front of you. If you are still dwelling with the traditional icing tubes, passed on to you from your mother or any other senior members of the family, it is time to switch to the ready-to-use icing tubes and enjoy the fun.

These filled-in tubes are sold in a range of colours and flavours. You can get writing tubes in different hues, designer tubes in a number of tube shapes, glitter gel tubes in blue, pink, purple and chocolate writing tubes in a variety of options like dark chocolate, milk chocolate or caramel etc. Decorating a cake is as easy as filling a painting sketch with colours.

The best part of these tubes is that you can involve the toddlers of the house in the decoration session. They are the true lovers of edible colourful sugars, chocolates and gels. Of course they will not wait until the design is done and gulp the icings more often. You may run out of tubes sometimes and there lies the real fun.

Instead of getting angry or scolding them, remain prepared beforehand. Buy as many tubes as possible. These are not expensive but never buy any kind of edible decoration that is not labeled as free of artificial colour, flavour or hydrogenated fats. You should never forget that if you want to keep your family away from health issues, you should always check whether these are made of 100% natural ingredients or not.

Edible sprinkles should be 100% natural

When you are buying cake sprinkles you should always look for cake decorations which are made of 100% natural ingredients. Any kind of artificial colour or flavour can cause serious health issues and since most of the time we see children grabbing the sprinkles, you need to be extra cautious while buying such decorations. 

Cake sprinkles add life to the cakes and we all love sparkling glitter sands, sugar strands, pearls, toppers, sprinkle stars and sugar crunches in vibrant colours. No matter what your age is, these are simply irresistible. Leave out the children, even the most senior member of the family cannot resist the temptation of swiftly picking the stars or crunches in secret. 

This is the reason you should triple check before picking a pack of sprinkles from the supermarket or adding to your cart. For the latter you need to be more careful and if the website does not claim to sell sprinkles without artificial colours or flavours, you should stay away from that seller. 

Besides many sprinkle makers use ingredients that are not up to the mark in terms of food grade and very commonly they use harmful hydrogenated fats.

These are unnatural fats which are absolutely detrimental for health. Hydrogenation means forcibly adding hydrogen into polyunsaturated oil so that the oil can solidify at room temperatures. These solidified fats are used as cheaper substitutes of butter in various confectionery products and edible cake decorations.

Unlike the naturally hardened saturated fats these hydrogenated fats are difficult to metabolise. These are not excreted in the normal process and remain stuck in the blood circulations, causing cardiovascular diseases and sometimes cancer.

It is true that unless you are a medical professional or a nutritionist, you may not know all these and many sprinkle suppliers take advantage of this general lack of awareness.

Decorate a cake, if you are feeling bored

Apparently there are 1001 ways to chase boredom away but if you are someone who never lets an occasion pass by without celebrating it with a rich cake, layered with thick creams and added with sparkling, colourful cake decorations, it is the cake that can save you from boredom. 

Decorated cakes are simply intriguing and great mood-boosters, not only as eatables. The aesthetics of the decoration fills up our minds with a happy and positive feeling. How many times have you stopped by the windows of confectioners and served yourself with the eye-treats? The colours and glitters of decoration are capable of freshening up the souls almost instantly.

So, if you are feeling bored, simply start decorating a cake. If you do not feel like going through the pre-decoration phase, go out and buy the simplest of cakes available at your local shop. Buy a handful of icing tubes, gel concentrates, creams, sprinkles, glitters and then start playing with them. You are bound to lose the track of time within a few minutes. The activity will readily lift up your spirit and brighten your mood. 

Let your imagination fly like a bird and keep painting the plateau of cream with the flowers, stars, glitter sand, sugar strands, choco-chips and whatever you like. These are all available in small sachet packets. You will not have to spend pounds to buy a range of them but these tiny elements can act as precious brushstrokes to an empty and dull mindscape.

Ask any psychologist and he will say that making yourself busy with a creative activity is one of the best ways to combat boredom and depression.
The more creative ideas mean the more effective results. And if you still feel sceptic, why don’t you give it a try, at least for once?