Cake Decorating: How About Birthday Cakes For Adults

Cake decorating for adults are a bit different than those you would do for a kids party. It doesn't mean they need to be boring or ugly. Below are some great ideas for adult cakes that are fun to make and fun to eat.

Crunchie Rice Cake

In 2 square cake pans, make 2 batches of rice cereal treats according to the recipe found on the back of the box of cereal. When they have cooled, do not cut the treats, take them from the pans like they are.

Cover the top of the first layer with icing, and then a layer of chocolate chips, and a second layer of icing, and then a layer of multicolored sprinkles, and a third layer of icing. Place the second layer of the crunchie cake on top and frost the whole thing as you would a normal cake. Place a layer of colored chocolate candy on the top. You can even put the name of the recipient in candy. This is a whimsical cake that can be used for adults or children.

Over the Hill Graveyard Cake

Bake two cake mixes in a roasting pan. Make a gray icing with 2 drops of green and red food coloring and mixing it with white icing. Turn the cake out on a cake board ice the entire cake with this icing. Line a sidewalk with thin black licorice, and dot candy corn along the outside edges. Rectangular cookies can be iced with a darker gray icing. These can be used as gravestones.

You can find gummy skeletons at Halloween, or make your own out of toothpicks and use jelly beans for heads. Ghosts can be made from cotton balls, but you need to make sure no cotton gets in the icing you may want to make some out of construction paper and stick them on a popsicle stick. That might be a good idea for the skeletons too.

Ball and Chain Birthday cake

This is a great idea if commissioned by a husband or wife. Bake two round cakes and let them cool completely. Remove the cakes from the pans. Cover the top of one cake with the recipient's favorite fruit pie filling. Place the second layer on top and ice the entire cake.

Buy a bag of small cake donuts and frost them the same as you did the cake. On the cake board place one of the doughnuts up against the bottom of the cake. Follow this with several other doughnuts to make a chain. You can add different decorations on the cake, or leave it plain, it's up to you.

No matter what theme you choose, the cake decorating will be appreciated by the person having the birthday. Make sure you add candles and bring a cake server when you attend the party. Every time you make a cake and decorate it, you are honing your cake decorating skills and the more practice you get, the better you will be at cake decorating.

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Cake Decorating - Children's Birthday Cakes

Cake decorating Equipment: When you are decorating for birthdays and the holidays, you don't need every cake decorating tool out there, but you do need a few basics. The following are a must for cake decorating.

- Rubber Spatulas: These spatulas are made of flexible material and they are the best for scraping cake and frosting bowls.

- Metal Spatulas: Every cake decorator needs one large and one small angled spatula to spread and smooth frosting on your cake. To keep your cake from crumbling, use the small metal spatula to carefully spread a thin layer of frosting on the cake. This is followed by a normal layer of frosting.

- Piping Bags: You can purchase reusable 8 inch, 12 inch, and 18 inch bags, or disposable plastic bags, for cake decorating. Zip-lock bags will work in a pinch.

- Couplers: Coupling nozzles are needed to hold the icing tips in the bag. They allow you to change tips when you need to.

- Food coloring paste, gel, or powder: These food colorings are more concentrated than liquid, and they will not thin the icing.

Important tips for cake decorating

1. All ingredients should be at room temperature, as they will mix much better than when they are cold.

2. Always use and electric beater when mixing the cake. You will have less lumps than if you beat it by hand.

3. You really need a wire rack to invert and cool your cakes.

4. Trim your cake so it will sit flat. Never use this part of the cake as the top, always use the smoother side of the cake to decorate with icing.

5. To reduce crumbling, bake your cake the day before you will be decorating it and place it in the freezer until you are ready to frost it. When you take it out frost it right away.

6. You can purchase cake boards from any hobby or cake decorating shop. You can also cover a large piece of stiff cardboard with colored foil and use that instead.

7. A great icing for cake decorating is Butter Cream, especially for a child's birthday cake.

8. Cut strips of waxed paper and place them under the unfrosted cake. When you are done with your cake decorating they will pull out easily and the cake board will not be smeared.

These are the basic tools that everyone needs for cake decorating. The tips given are meant to make it a bit easier to ice your child's birthday cake. It doesn't matter whether you have decorated a cake before, there are many sites on the internet that will give you ideas for cake decorating. And others that will take you step-by-step through the decorating project.

My advice is to gather as many useful tips that you can and keep them in a little booklet. When you run into a problem, you can consult the book. I know that anyone who has a desire to learn cake decoration, can do so just by visiting the various sites that are available to show you how to go about cake decorating.

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Cake Decorating: Baby Shower Cakes And Frosting Recipes

Baby showers are usually a light hearted and fun way to congratulate the soon-to-be mom and give a gift to the baby. The cake should make a statement about the baby and what you wish for the family.

There are several different types of icing to use on this type of cake.

Quick Buttercream

1 pound sweet unsalted butter

1 pound icing fondant

1/2 tsp vanilla

Yields

2 pounds 3 cups

Use a flat beater or mixer to cream the butter. Add fondant gradually while beating.

Time - about 12 minutes

Cream Cheese Icing

10 oz of cream cheese

14 oz of icing fondant

7 ounces of shortening

Yields

2 pounds 3 cups

With a flat beater, beat cream cheese while adding icing fondant a little at a time.

Mix until smooth, add shortening, mix all together until smooth and light.

Time 10 to 12 minutes.

Remember that your cake decoration for a baby shower will be the centerpiece for the baby shower. There are plenty of places to get ideas for making wonderful baby shower cakes on the internet, or you may want to make up your own design. In any case you can use one of these great icing recipes.

Buttercream 1-2-3

3 Tblsp. Meringue Powder

1/2 cup water

3 cups of Icing Sugar

1 cup Sweet Butter

1 cup shortening

Vanilla to taste.

Yields

4 cups

Place water, meringue powder, and sugar in a bowl.

Beat with a beater until mixture makes peaks (7 to 10 minutes)

Add soft butter, shortening, and vanilla

Whip until fluffy and all lumps are gone

Flavoring your buttercream icing.

Amounts are based on flavoring one cup of icing.

Nougat

2 Tbsp Hazelnut paste (melt over low heat)

Mocha

1/2 tsp instant coffee dissolved in 1/2 tsp water.

2 Tbsp Semi-Sweet chocolate-melted

Cocoa and Oil

Mix 3 Tbsp cocoa powder and 2 Tbsp veg oil into a paste.

Lorran Oils- 10 to 12 drops

Vanilla- 8 drops

Lemon Flavor- 6 drops lemon oil and 2 Tbsp Lemon Butter

Of course, you can use these recipes on any cake decorating design. The baby shower cake is usually a smaller cake with whimsical or heartwarming decorations in a baby theme. In times past, the decorations for baby shower cakes were limited, now they can be found everywhere. Craft stores usually have a variety of ready-made cake decorations for your baby shower cake.

Whether you are a pro or a novice it is fun to do a baby shower cake decorating project. You can choose to buy the decorations, or make your own with icing. You can use your skills and imagination to make your baby shower cake outstanding. You will be elated when everyone compliments you on the beautiful baby shower cake.

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Lobster Crab Cakes Recipe for a Delicious Supper Tonight

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Submitted 2011-08-30 01:47:38 Whatever you may take in, the first thing that strikes your mind is would it be healthy to consume the same. Isn?t it? In fact, not only you, but almost everyone on this planet suffers from the same worry. Health is wealth. Everyone knows that and this is the reason that drives all of them towards searching for something that could satisfy them both in terms of health and taste. Seafood items, such as crab cakes, etc. have been found to be really very healthy for food lovers. Thus, in spite of avoiding the taste factor, you should opt for these items to relish tasty food with no negative health-related worries.Lobster, shrimp, clam, etc. are also included with clams as the best sea creatures used as ingredients for the seafood preparations.

The steps to prepare ?Lobster and Crab Cakes? have been mentioned below. This item can act as the best delight for dinners and can also serve as the appetizer course if cut into small sized patties.

Ingredients (Tartar sauce)

Mayonnaise ? ? cup
Low-fat sour cream ? ? cup
Cucumber pickles (finely chopped) ? 2
Capers (chopped) ? 2 teaspoons
Parsley (finely minced) ? 2 teaspoons
Shallot or chives (finely minced) ? 1 teaspoon
Celery salt ? a dash
Ground pepper ? fresh

Ingredients (For Cakes)

Crab meat (picked over for shells) ? ? pound
Cooked lobster (chopped) ? ? pound
Fresh chives (minced) -= ? cup
Lemon juice (fresh) ? 1 tablespoon
Mayonnaise ? 3 tablespoon
Dijon mustard ? 1teaspoon
Panko (Japanese bread crumbs) ? 1 tablespoon
Sea salt & black pepper (fresh)
Butter ? 1 tablespoon
Garlic cloves (minced) ? 2
Thyme (dried) ? ? teaspoon
Once again, panko ? ? cup

How to CookLobster and Crab Cakes

To prepare the tartar sauce, stir the ingredients mentioned above all together in a small bowl. Keep it aside.
To prepare the lobster and crab cakes, the first step is to take a container and put the crab, lobster, chives, lemon juice, mustard, mayonnaise and 1 tablespoon of panko together. Stir the content.
Using sea salt and ground pepper, season the content to taste. Then cover the content and allow it to chill.
Now take a non-sticky frying pan and place it over moderate heat. Saut? the garlic in it till it turns golden.
Take the garlic out and add in it thyme and ? cup panko and then cook it. Stir it till the crumbs convert into golden brown colour. Then cool the crumbs.
On a waxed paper sheet, divide the mixture into 8 mounds. Shape them like patties and coat each of the part with crumbs.
Place the sheet pans with foils and transfer the crab cakes to the pan.
Bake the pieces in the oven at 400 degree Fahrenheit. Cook it for 15 minutes till it gets heated through.

Serve hot lobster and crab cakes with the Tartar sauce already prepared and make your dinner relishing for your family and guests. This dish, according to the analysis made by the nutritionists contain 129 calorie, 13 gm of protein, 4 gm carbohydrate, 6 gm fat, 370 mg sodium, etc.

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