Cake Art, Cake Decorating and Baking
Cake decorating can involve plain cakes, fruit cakes and mud cakes. The choices are many.
Cakes can be made three-dimentional by moulding or sculpting. They can be made to represent persons, places or things.
Cake decorations and ornaments made from sugar paste are a challenge, however the visual rewards are immense.
Decorated cakes can include chocolate roses or perhaps a cake adorned with choux pastry swans
What you do with that cake can be simple or extremely creative and elaborate. There are many recipes for sugar flower paste, fillings and icings. There is a huge selection of food safe colours, then there are the choices of edible decorations, from animals, flowers, people, sea creatures, choice of a special occasion themes is great. The images below show some sculptured cakes and a variety of edible decorations along with baked products.
Yes, the sailing ship pictured is edible!
Sometimes the passion for cake decorating is so great that you just have to create a masterpiece for a show, exhibition or for that very special occasion.
You are only limited by your imagination.