The Cake Mix Doctor's 25 Best Birthday Cakes by Anne Byrn

Author:Anne Byrn
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Published: 2011-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Dress Up the Birthday Cake—It’s Easy

You don’t have to be a professional to turn out a dazzling birthday cake. Some of my favorite cakes have been those that were simply decorated with candy, flowers, fruit, or just candles. Ingredients in your pantry, your refrigerator, or your garden are the best choices and the most accessible, and they’re even better suited if they match the flavors of the cake and frosting. For example:

Stock up on colorful sugars and sprinkles to decorate cakes and cupcakes. You can spell out words and names on cakes with larger sprinkles. These adhere best to a freshly frosted cake.

Top chocolate cakes with crushed peppermints.

Sprinkle miniature marshmallows and graham cracker pieces atop a chocolate cake for the s’more lover.

Add jelly beans or colorful gumdrops to the top and side of a strawberry or lemon cake.

Crown most any cake with fresh fruit, such as strawberries, cherries, or raspberries.

Top white or angel food cakes with shredded coconut. Tint the coconut a different color by shaking it in a resealable plastic bag with a few drops of food coloring.

Provided they haven’t been sprayed with pesticides, garnish the top and around the base of cakes with violets or nasturtiums from your garden.

Dust cocoa powder, cinnamon, or confectioners’ sugar over a cake using a fine mesh sieve. Get creative and sprinkle on patterns and designs using stencils.

Even the birthday candles themselves can be decorative. Look for long, slender, colorful candles at gift or cookware shops. They look glamorous on any cake and may be reused.

Chocolate curls are the ultimate edible garnish. To make them, run a sharp vegetable peeler in one long stroke over the top of a bar or square of chocolate. The longer the stroke and the warmer the chocolate, the more elegant the curl. But even the curls that break into shavings look pretty piled in the center or scattered across the top of a chocolate cake.

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