Amazing Cake Decorating Accessories To Make Your Day
Stores today are full of state-of-the-art accessories that can make beautiful cakes a lot easier to create. This is a far cry from the time when making a tiered cake meant using wooden pegs and wrapping them in foil or frosting. Nowadays it is not only easy to build a cake with several tiers; it is also possible to make them look as if they are floating on air with cake decorating accessories.
Accessories that Help You Start
It is easier to come up with a beautifully decorated cake if you have a good base cake which is of course baked in a tin. Cake tins today come in just about every imaginable size and shape. It is easier now to make a dinosaur cake because the very pan where the cake is to be baked is already shaped like a dinosaur. There are also tins shaped like Mickey Mouse, Batman, Shrek and a host of other characters. If you want to make a Wonder Woman cake, all you need to do is put your batter into a Wonder Woman tin. To frost it, all you have to do is use a star tip and fill up the cake with the appropriate colors.
You now have turntables that are heavy duty as well as turntables that tilt so that you can get to the cake’s edges without bending. One advertisement promises that you can actually build the cake on the turntable and ice it there. Turntables now turn in both directions and they come in a wide range of sizes and materials.
Frosting the Cake
Successful cake frosting begins with a level cake. Today’s accessories are a thousand times removed from the traditional knife. You can now have your pick from the simple wire cake leveler to its more sophisticated cousins.
In the past, to frost a cake you had to use a spatula, period. Today, apart from the standard spatula, there are extra wide tips that can be used to cover a cake. If you are decorating cupcakes, there are whole kits dedicated to making unbelievably pretty ones.
It no longer takes a special gift for organization to keep your cake decorating accessories orderly in between frosting sessions because you can invest in beautiful caddies that enable you to store accessories logically and neatly. These caddies come in different sizes; some no bigger than a make-up bag.
You no longer need to make so much effort to organize frosting in different colors because a decorating bag holder can now be purchased. It is now no big deal if you want to create blooms in half a dozen different colors because some of these holders have the capacity to keep as many as eight filled bags on hand.
Fondant Accessories
If you are working with fondant, you will find that there are many exciting accessories to help you create a truly smashing cake. There are fondant smoothers, rollers, embossers and ribbon cutters to help you produce the finish you want. There are molds of every type, cutters of every size and sheets of fondant in colors that are hard to mix.
Even drying your gum paste leaves and what-have-you has acquired a new level of sophistication. You no longer have to use empty egg cartons to rest your daisies and sunflowers.
Assembling the Cake
You can now divide a cake, measure a cake and comb it with special accessories that remove the guesswork out of these tasks. Stacking a cake used to involve problematic makeshift pegs that would hold the different layers or tiers. Today your options would include clear plastic dowel rods to give the illusion that the cake pieces are floating; wooden or bamboo pegs that you can cut to desired length and plastic pegs that make the different cake separators stay in place.
In addition, today’s accessories include a selection of beautiful cake caddies. One of the most remarkable in the market today allows you to carry 12 standard cupcakes or 24 small cup cakes or a 9 by 13 cake, depending on which side of the tray you use. It is only fitting that a wide variety of carriers complete the array of modern cake decorating accessories. After all, you will want to protect and safely transport the masterpiece you fashioned.
