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Quick and Simple Ideas for Cake Decorating

There are still some cake decorating techniques that are just so easy yet fun to do.

These are some of the basic and quick concepts you and your kids can certainly have fun with one sunny day. You don't need wide baking know-how to do them. All you need are the right ingredients and wild imagination.

Sprinkles

Sprinkles are very much sold in your local baking store. You'll perhaps be amazed by their various sizes and shapes and as the various forms they come into such as colored sugars, and beads, and non-pareils. You may even pick your own color. It will be much more fun munching a cupcake with your favorite color blue.

Flakes and Nuts

Frosted cakes are yummy, but they can be made more delicious with the addition of flakes and nuts. So why not add more flavor and texture to your cake with different shredded or flaked coconut, walnuts, almonds, or chopped pecans?

Spray Color

Spray color is basically spray paint for cakes. It is sold in a variety of colors that you can mix and match to make a freehand tie-dyed effect on your cake, or you can utilize stencils.

Fresh Fruit

Most berries, grapes, oranges, lemon or lime slices, or cherries can be utilized "au naturel" and grouped together on top or arranged as a border around the cake.

Edible Flowers

Edible flowers like plain or sugared carnation, cornflower, clover, and lilac also make cake accessories.

So you can see there are abundant ways in which you can transform even the most basic cakes into marvelous decorated cakes that will make you the toast of your neighborhood.