Kid Birthday Cakes - Easy Decorating

Kid Birthday Cakes - Easy Decorating Do you want your child's birthday cake to be special?

Of course you do But how? Cake decorating takes time and at least a little artistic talent -- unless you know a secret. The secret to your success OK, it really isn't a secret, but it is a SUPER EASY way to turn any birthday cake into a very special cake indeed. Kid birthday cakes - edible cake art Edible cake art is colorful, fun and very easy to use. And edible cake art is available for just about every theme. Edible cake art is -- well, it's edible and so easy to use, but more about how to use your cake decorating "secret" in a moment. First, let's look at where you can find edible cake art. At the end of this article you'll find a link -- Just click the link and you'll discover lots of kid birthday cakes, ideas and edible cake art. How easy is that? Once you've selected your edible decoration at an online cake supply store, your selection will be sent right to your home -- now that's convenient! Easy Decorating Now let's look at just how to use your special cake decoration. It's way easy First, you can either bake your own cake and frost it, or you can pick up a ready-made, frosted cake at your favorite bakery where they make all those yummy, colorful, fun looking cakes and cookies and oh my. Be sure and pick up the type of cake your child likes and their favorite frosting too. Now you simply place your edible cake art flat on your cake. After a while you will notice that the edge of the cake art will blend with your frosting. This makes your cake look very professional. Just add a happy birthday, and some fun candles and -- instant special birthday cake. Your birthday child is going to love their cake. Cake decorating can take time and some creative skill -- but with your new "secret" you can easily create kid birthday cakes that will have all your neighbors talking about your cakes. Have fun Kid Birthday Cakes - Easy Decorating

Kid Birthday Cake Idea Collection - Cake Decorating Without Fear

Our kid birthday cake idea collection makes cake decorating fun and fearless. You don't have to be a pastry chef to create a professional quality cake for your child's birthday or other special event. Learn unique and easy cake decorating ideas to make spectacular homemade cakes.

PARTY CAKE CONCEPT AND DESIGN

Birthday Cakes

The most important kid birthday cake idea is choosing a cake concept which fits with your party theme. You can start with a simple sheet cake topped with small toys or figures, or piece the cake itself to form a unique design.

For example, a Construction Party cake could be topped with tiny toy dumptrucks and bulldozers pushing a chocolate chip mountain. Or, the cake itself could be cut, pieced and frosted to look like a dump truck.

For a Train Party, set a miniature choo-choo train on licorice tracks atop your cake, or line up several brightly colored frosted loaf cakes to form train cars.

For a Luau party, a simple round or sheet cake can be festooned with a silk flower lei, or form a string of cupcakes in a circle and adorn each one with silk or frosting flowers. Connect with a licorice string to make a cupcake "lei".

Baking cakes in an oven-safe glass bowl or in a special 3D sports ball pan is great for making any kind of perfectly round ball cake, or the dress part of a Barbie doll cake. A wonder mold cake pan makes small single serving doll cakes and other cute creations!

Think of the design you'd like to make and what shapes you need to make it - round, sheet, loaf, cupcakes, or a combination.

Peruse cake decorating books for a kid birthday cake idea which fits your needs. Many books provide templates forcutting and piecing cakes to create any number of popular designs. You decide just how simple or challenging your cake will be.

For a no-fuss kid birthday cake idea, apply an edible cake art image to the top of a frosted cake. Many popular themes and copyrighted images such as Disney are available to provide a professional looking cake design.

Themed cake pans are another popular cake decorating option. They provide the shape and visual design to follow for an impressive finished cake. Popular TV and cartoons characters are well represented in cake pans, as well as teddy bears, butterflies, pirates, Tigger,Mickey Mouse, and lots more.

FROSTING CHOICES

Homemade Frosting - Dig up that famous family recipe or check out one of the many online recipe sites and make your cake frosting from scratch. Be sure to plan ahead how much of each color will be needed for both basic foundation and decorative trim.

Canned and Tube Frostings - Easiest and quickest, prepared canned frostings are available in grocery stores in the baking aisle with the cake mixes. They generally come in white, chocolate, and a handful of other popular flavors. Keep a few ready-to-use tube frostings on hand in various basic colors to add the finishing touches.

Fondant Frosting - Gaining in popularity in this country in recent years, fondant frosting gives a beautiful smooth finish to your cake decorating creation. Fondant can be rolled out and draped over a cake, poured on as a glaze, or sculpted into shapes. It is easily tinted, and can be flavored as well. Ready-made fondant is available through party supply outlets. There are also many recipes online for homemade fondant.

CAKE DECORATING WITH CANDY AND SMALL TOYS

Cookies, candies, and other materials can be used for special and impressive effects. Frosted sugar cones can serve as the fins on a space ship cake or the turrets on a castle cake. Make a surprise cake filling with jello.

A wide variety of plastic stand-ups or cake toppers are available in craft stores. Or, simply use a toy which fits in with the party theme as a cake topper and give it to the party child when the party is over. Action figures, small dolls, animals and cartoon characters all make good choices.

Add cool candy accents with M & M's, licorice pieces, licorice whips, animal crackers, oreo cookies, paper umbrellas, pretzel sticks, tootsie rolls, jimmies, gummies such as worms, bears, etc, gumdrops, mini marshmallows, colored coconut, jellybeans.

THE LATEST CAKE DECORATING FADS!

There are many novel choices for placing the finishing touches on your party cake. Dress it up in style with one or more of these unique special effects:

Spray Color Mist - is a fun addition to your baking repertoire. Frost your cake white, then spray on edible color from an aerosol can. Available in many colors, it can be used with stencils to make unique designs, as a highlight to whipped topping - even on your child's mashed potatoes!

Luster Dusts - are an edible food safe "dust" which can be used on any frosting recipe that dries hard and firm to the touch. Brush it on white frosting for a metallic-like glossy sheen or layer it for interesting color effects.

Cake Stampers - can be used along with brush-on color for fondant icing. Simply stamp shapes and designs into the finished fondant and tint with brush-on color.

Cake Stencils - Place stencil on iced cake and sprinkle edible glitter, confetti sprinkles, or use spray-on color mist.

Edible Color Markers - These unique markers are used just like an ink marker. Draw fun designs on cakes, cookies, fondant frosting, even cheese, fruit slices and bread. Decorating marker kits are available for children.

Edible sugar-shape decorations,
decorative candles, themed cake picks and rings,and edible glitter are all fun tools in your cake baking arsenal.

Now you're armed with lots of great ideas for cake decorating success - without fear!

Go forth and create... and above all, have fun!

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Cake Decorating - Children's Birthday Cakes

You will need only a few basic cake decorating tools to decorate cakes for birthdays and any extra holidays. construe tools are not primary for manufacture uncomplicated cakes. Cake decorating for children's birthday cakes will call for the following equipment:

-Rubber Spatulas which are made from a flexible material. You will use this for frosting bowls and scraping cake.

Birthday Cakes

-Metal Spatulas that can come in two sizes, small and large, will be needed to smoothen and spread the cakes' frostings. Small spatula is used to apply thin layer of the cake's frosting. A layer of general frosting will follow.

-Piping bags which are 18 inch, 12 inch and 8 inches and reusable, plastic disposable bags and Zip- locks can also be used in cake decorating

-Couplers or coupling nozzles will be needed in keeping the bags into icing tips. It also enables you to change the tips whenever necessary.

-Food coloring paste, gel, or powder.

Important tips For cake decorating:

1. The ingredients that you will use must be at room temperature because they tend to blend best with that temperature.

2. An electric beater will be best than beating manually with a spatula as it will give lesser lumps in your cake.

3. Wire racks are needed for your cakes' inverting and cooling.

4. Trimming will make your cake sit flat. Make use of the side, which is smoother for decorating your cake.

5. Baking the cake a day before the decorating will lessen the crumbling. Remember also to set the cake in the freezer until the frosting part. However, if you resolve to frost the cake you have to do it as soon as you put it out.

6. Cake boards are available at cake decorating shops or hobby shops, or you can also make one by surface cardboard in a colored foil.

7. Butter Cream is will make an excellent icing in cake decorating specially in birthday cakes for kids.

8. Unfrosted cake should have strips of waxed paper underneath. After the cake decorating, they are for real pulled out thus maintaining the neatness of your cake board.

The basic tools are a crucial part of prosperous cake decorating. Tips are recommend to aid you in your child's birthday cake. The labor will be hard but the succeed will be sweet. Numerous sites about cake decorating are available in the Internet to help you get ideas. Some will already give you great cake decorating ideas from beginning to the end. Write all the tips that you think are useful and read from it when you encounter a problem in your cake decorating. If you cannot find a solution in your notes visit the web sites once again and look up for the answer. This will enable you to make beautifully decorated cakes in no time.

Cake Decorating - Children's Birthday Cakes