There are some wonderful children's birthday cakes available to purchase in High Street shops as well as in various online stores. You also have the option of creating your own cake that will ensure you can provide your little girl with a cakethat is unique compared to any item that is can be purchased. For example, you could purchase or create your own special Princess Castle Cakes that is sure to please any child.
Every little girl dreams of being a princess and therefore incorporating a theme or character such as the Disney Princesses with an exciting product such as a birthday cakeis a great idea. Perhaps your child has a special princess character that you think she would appreciate. If so, why not create Princess Castle Cakes incorporating this character to surprise her at her party? You can then decorate it in colorful icing such as pink, blue, lilac, yellow, cream and white with all the special coverings of a PrincessCastle.
Of course, you can purchase children's birthday cakes in all sorts of interesting themes, shapes, colors and patterns. The price of cakes often reflect the quality and size of the cakes and it is suggested that you take into consideration these details and also the number of children and adults you are thinking of catering to.
Creating Princess Castle Cakes is a luxurious way of depicting the theme and character that your little girl enjoys. Therefore, you can purchase the appropriate products to enable you to create an exciting cake such as cake tins, cake coverings and other accessories such as cake toppings. Whatever you choose to do, Princess cakes are a great idea to accompany any child's birthday party.
Whenever you are considering purchasing cakes or products to create cakes, it is recommended that you do a thorough research in High Street shops as well as in online stores to get an idea of the type of items available so that you get to present your little girl with special Princess Castle Cakes.
To help you get started scheming and designing your ghoulish confections, here are a few Halloween Cake Design Ideas. Try these or create your own spin-off's!
Haunted House – Sheet, Novelty Pan or Sculpted Castle
This Halloween cake can be made in many ways.
1.Trim a sheet cake into the shape of an old Victorian house with gables. Then pipe icing windows, doors, and other details, including cobwebs. Ghostly shapes are easy to pipe and fill in with snow-white buttercream icing. Add bats and other easy to pipe Halloween creatures.
2. Or you can use a novelty cake pan with the haunted house theme. Many of these come with decorations and instructions.
3. For a really exciting Halloween cake, try a haunted castle cake! Butter cakes works well. Stack two or more cakes, being sure to place supportive plates in between the layers. If the cake is large like a wedding cake, add cake dowels.
Towers can be created with upside down ice-cream cones or paper towel rolls, shortened to fit proportionally to your cake.
For edible towers, bake a pound cake in a jelly roll pan, and then using a cookie-cutter or glass, cut our circular pieces of uniform size. Skewer these, and then stick the skewered towers into the cake. Then ice them and pipe designs and windows.
For an amazing haunted house castle – think detail. For example, you could cut out windows and place inside kooky ghosts or other ghoulish figures (modeled with rolled buttercream, created with gum paste molds, or store-bought).
You might even want to add a moat and drawbridge! Tuck green miniature lights behind the turrets and under the drawbridge for an eerie glow.
A basic set of confectionary tools will help you model your Halloween cake creatures. You can find these and all sorts of decorating supplies at www.CandylandCrafts.com
If you model your Halloween cake figures with gum paste, creations will dry hard and last for years, but the children won't enjoy the taste much. Marzipan's expensive, and this almond paste isn't as much of a hit with kids as grown-ups. Your best bet for your Halloween cakes is Rolled Buttercream. It's a great tasting icing dough that can be easily modeled or molded.
Frankenstein's Bride – Vintage Halloween Cake
Here's a spin off from our charming doll cake that is made with a Barbie type doll and a cake dress. Use a doll with black hair. Tease the hair so it's all puffed up and then paint the lightening stripes up each side of her hair do. (For a humorous version, you could make her hair stand straight up).
Paint her face a pasty white, add make-up (search online for "Bride of Frankenstein doll" and "Bride of Frankenstein costumes" for ideas. Cover the negligee dress with smooth, white buttercream and maybe add some black spiders and lacy impressions.
Another idea: A vintage 60's Halloween doll cake could be fashioned after the Adam's Family's Mortisha.
Young children will adore a Jack o' Lantern cake with a cute or goofy expression, while most older kids will get a kick out of an outlandish or spooky face.
Start with 2 bundt cakes (butter, pumpkin and pound cakes work well). Then after leveling and icing the bottom of the cakes, fit them together to form the pumpkin. Cover the pumpkin with smooth, orange buttercream. Then pipe and/or use rolled buttercream to model the facial features. Pipe green leaves on top and add a stem made of rolled buttercream or an upside-down ice cream cone, iced with green.
Last, but not least, here's an important Halloween Cake tip. The amount of liquid food coloring needed to create black or dark brown icing will probably give your icing a bitter taste. To avoid making a Halloween cake that tastes creepier than it looks, try one of these ghoulishly clever tips:
· Use gel, paste or powder coloring. They're concentrated, so you won't need as much.
· Begin with dark chocolate buttercream, and you'll need even less.
· Instead of black icing, cover plain buttercream with crushed, dark chocolate cookies, and use licorice and such for spiders and bats.
In our current society, cakes are a favorite means to observe just about any occasion. Cake decorating ideas can be seen just about anyplace, if you know where to look Still, not everyone knows how to decorate a cake. Fortunately, there is a vast assortment of cake pans and items that will help make decorating cakes easy.
To begin, you will need to know what social function to make your cake for. As an example, it would not look right to bake an Elmo birthday cake for a Saint Patrick's Day party. The good news is, after you know the occasion, the rest is simple.
ANIMALS
You can use an animal pan. Many occasions can be represented with an animal.
You can also select from numerous popular animal characters for birthday cakes. Presently popular animal characters include Blue the dog from Blue's Clues, Elmo and many of his friends from Sesame Street, and Boots the monkey and Swiper the fox from Dora the Explorer.
You also have the option of placing animals on top of the cake for decorations instead of using an animal cake pan. There are oodles of small, plastic animals available at stores that you can purchase to adorn your cakes. This would be an excellent way to create a zoo setting for animal lovers.
HOLIDAYS
Holidays are forever fun to make cakes for, and you can let your imagination go crazy. If nothing else, you can use sprinkles in various colors. You can add edible heart decoration sprinkles on cakes meant for Valentine's Day. Black and orange sprinkles are perfect for Halloween cakes, as are green and red sprinkles for Christmas cakes.
Ornamental cake pans come in patterns particular to holidays that make them perfect for holiday cakes. Frankenstein, ghosts,, and other monsters can be used for Halloween. Pumpkin cake pans are good for both Halloween and Thanksgiving cakes. Cornucopias and turkeys may also be used for Thanksgiving. Hearts and cherub pans are great for Valentine's Day. Bunnies and eggs are just right for Easter. Pots of gold, leprechauns, and rainbows pans are great for Saint Patrick's Day. All you need to do is find a cake pan or decorative item particular to a holiday and start decorating a holiday cake.
VEHICLES
Vehicle cakes are always popular with boys. There is just something about a moving vehicle that enchants young boys. You can create cakes that showcase airplanes, boats, cars, dump trucks, fire engines, helicopters, and tractors. You can place vehicles into the frosting to make scenes with them. You can even add small building built from Lego's and Lego's people. Just make sure whatever you place on the cake will not be hurt by either the icing or water from washing off the frosting from the vehicle or item.
YOUR OWN IMAGINATION
Do not forget that your own imagination can be just as good, if not better than, ready-made pans and ideas. You are likely to come up with ideas that no one else has come op with before. Your local arts and crafts store can be a wonderful place to get ideas and items that you can use for your own ideas.
Are you worried that you are not good enough to decorate a cake well? Do not worry about this. Do not make the perfect cakes seen at bakeries your goal when decorating cakes. Your cakes are sure to be wonderful regardless of how they look. Know that your efforts will certainly be appreciated, no matter how your cakes turn out. So, bake and decorate your cake, then take it easy and bask in the praise you get from the people who enjoy the fruits (or, in this case, cakes) of your labor.
Wilton, a recognized leader in the manufacture of cake-decorating supplies, offers an extensive line of decorating tools and directions that allow a cake decorator to reproduce creative icing techniques at home. Both professional cake decorators and home bakers can make Wiltoncake decorations in a wide array of designs and mediums. Beginning with basic instructions and proceeding to intricate designs, you can learn the techniques to beautify your cakes.
Begin with a smooth foundation for your cake designs. Wilton sells cake turntables that allow the decorator to rotate the entire cake, making the application of icing a snap. By using a long spatula, the decorator can smooth the sides and the top of the cake.
Pipe buttercream borders, flowers and leaves with a combination of metal piping tips in various sizes and shapes fitted into pastry bags to hold and control the icing. Buttercream icing is a common cake covering and it is soft enough to pipe when writing names on cakes, adding shell borders or creating soft flowers. Wilton offers a wide assortment of tips that also create a basket weave effect or enhance your cake with swirls and dots of all sizes.
Work with fondant or gumpaste to create delicate flowers and other three-dimensional items that hold their shape when dry. Wilton instructional manuals and local classes teach the cake decorator how to knead the clay-like fondant or gumpaste and mold it into intricate items. Because these substances can make very thin petals, the results can be stunning. Tools for using fondant and gumpaste include silicone mats to work on and nonstick rolling pins, cutters and molding tools.
Locate a Wilton cake decorating class if you enjoy hands-on instructional courses, where you bring your own icing to class, and professional cake decorators teach you the many Wilton techniques. Wilton classes include three levels of techniques, each one serving as a basis for the next, more advanced level .
Bake a sheet cake the size that you need. Make buttercream icing. Draw the dinosaur on the cake using an icing filled bag and round tip, size #5. Cut away the cake from the outline of the dinosaur. Piece the tail onto the dinosaur using the extra cake pieces that you cut away from the dinosaur outline.
Make yellow icing. Using star tip, size #18, fill in the yellow areas of the dinosaur.
Next, make orange icing. Using star tip, size #18, fill in the orange areas of the dinosaur.
The eye is piped on using round tip, size #5 and black icing. The teeth are made using star tip, size #16 and white icing and piping the tooth on, ending in a small point.
Next, make green icing for the ferns. Use a star tip, size #18 and make long strips ending in points for the ferns. Make the strips on each side of the fern leaf. Use the same green icing and round tip, size #5 to pipe the centerline on the fern leafs (refer to the picture.)
The Elmo cake : testimony to make Elmo cake decorating
Testimony 1
My 3-year-old son insisted that his sister needed an Elmo cake for her 1st birthday. It’s from a 9-inch and 6-inch round cake, covered with fondant icing. Make the flowers using an extra small flower cutter (glue it on the Elmo cake).
The Elmo is from the Wilton stand up bear cake pan. Cut the nose of the bear and everything else to make it smooth. Then cut the right and left sides to make it oval. Make the eyes, nose, and mouth from fondant icing. Cut the left arm of the bear, and replace it with a Butterfinger.
Cover the whole thing up with buttercream icing, red color. A border of orchids was made from fondant icing using orchid mold, but you can just pipe buttercream along the border.
Testimony 2
I bought an Elmo cake pan by Wilton, I bought white icing, and mixed a dark red food coloring in to get the perfect color for Elmo’s face. I then used white icing to make the eyes, and white icing mixed with black food coloring to make the eye balls, and mouth.
I also mixed white icing with orange food coloring for the perfect color orange nose. I used a plastic baggie, and poked a hole in the corner using cake tips to make little dots for Elmo’s hair. This cake is really simple, and fun. Hope you enjoy. Be careful, the red icing can stain.
There are some wonderful children's birthday cakes available to purchase in High Street shops as well as in various online stores. You also have the option of creating your own cake that will ensure you can provide your little girl with a cake that is unique compared to any item that is can be purchased. For example, you could purchase or create your own special Princess Castle Cakes that is sure to please any child.
that you take into consideration these details and also the number of children and adults you are thinking of catering to.
