Cake decoration can be easy and does not always need a professional to do it. To make these edible cake toppers all you need are a few items that you probably already have at home! These toppers make the cake more personal and engaging, and they certainly do not require any fancy work to make the cake look great. One of the best things about making your own cake toppers, is it makes every birthday cake or that special holiday cake feel so special. Besides, it makes them at home where you can have the chance to choose the right colors, shapes, and designs that fit the occasion.
1. Fondant Shapes
Fondant is such a flexible and easy-to-work-with substance ideal for creating edible decorations. After you prepare it, you can spread it and shape it into various forms with cookie-shaped cutters. Fondant is available in many colors; however, you can combine the gel food color of your choice to achieve the right color for your theme. Ideally, they are shaped like stars, hearts or letters and are usually taken in events such as birthdays.
Fondant toppers are very easy to create and dry hard hence are fixed when put on the cake. For a slight gloss, you can sprinkle edible glitter on top when you are through. Fondant shapes are entertaining, flexible and add that perfect professional finish to any cake.
2. Candy Melt Shapes
It is easy to create shapes and designs out of candy melts. Well all that has to be done is to melt the candy and then pour it on molds or draw shapes on parchment paper. When candy gets firm, you have a pretty to look forward to- a candy decoration. This candy shapes are ideal for topping children’s cakes, or any occasion where you simply want to add that burst of color.
3. Sprinkles and Edible Glitter
For a two ingredient and unpretentious topper, sprinkles and edible glitter are enough to get the job done. Holographic sprinkles, Christmas sprinkles or even pastel sprinkles or rainbow sprinkles, makes it very fun. For a more neater appearance to the cake one can use a cookie cutter to shape the shapes with sprinkles on top of the cake to form hearts, stars or numbers.
4. Buttercream Flowers with Piping Tips
With piping bag and piping tips, one can make stunning buttercream flowers, which can be used to decor the cakes. For a more elaborate design, use Russian piping tips to make multi-level flowers at once as demonstrated on video below. From my experience, these buttercream flowers look exquisite and can be made in other different colors.
5. Chocolate Shards
Chocolate shards are easy to make and make an impressive addition to any cake. Temperate chocolate, spread it thinly on an acetate sheet, allow to cool and set. After the chocolate has got a little hard, chop it into irregular pieces and just push it into the cake. To enhance the appearance of the chocolate before the edible glitter sets add a pinch of edible glitter.
Chocolate shards give a very cool and chic outlook and are suitable for a rather edgy contemporary-style cake. They are especially attractive on high cakes, they add both height and surface irregularity with relative ease.
Conclusion
It is indeed very interesting to prepare cake toppers at home and baking is a good way towards doing this. For instance, the fondant shapes topper idea mentioned above can be modified for every occasion as can the chocolate shards topper idea also mentioned above. All the supplies you will need to make these toppers a reality are available at Baking Pleasures. Just read on these tips detailed below and learn how you can easily transform any cake into a magnificent dessert with simple touches.
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