Fabolous cake designs

Cakes come in many sizes cupcake to small bit size. Layered cakes are used for celebration sliced up and served for social functions. Such as as a wedding. This ceremonial wedding cake came from the ancient Romans when they married call it confarreatio the sharing of a cake. A finished cake is covered with decorated icing flavored with vanilla extract or cocoa powder. Commercial bakeries and hobby cake decorators use rolled fondant icing for special effects designs. There are special tools available for the more detailed art work involved in decorating a cake such as piping bags with a variety of piping tips. Each tip will give a different design a basic line, stars, a basket weave, drop flower, leaves and petals. Royal icing better known as almond paste is used for special occasions cakes the wedding cake, birthday cakes with its piped boarders and decorated with sugar flowers. Recently new cake decorating products became available to the public, such as sprinkles, colored and flavored. Icing transferring a picture onto a cake.

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