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Decorating cake ideas?

  • July 22, 2010 11:55 am
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Question by Marli: Decorating cake ideas?
I am going to make a Halloween cake for our Halloween party and I need to have my idea set in stone ahead of time, so I can make a practice one before I make the actual cake. I have been looking everywhere for Halloween cake ideas and haven’t found any that interest me that much! I’m pretty sure that I’m going to make my cake using homemade fondant, but I need a pretty simple decorating idea, because I’ve used fondant very few times.
Thanx!
-Marli

Best answer:

Answer by hennshan
color the fondant orange and do gel circles from small to big (like a bullseye almost) in black. Get a toothpick and do straigt lines to create a web look. Then put some jelly spiders on top!

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Halloween Flower Decorating Ideas – Detroit Florists

  • July 18, 2010 11:52 pm

Halloween Flower Decorating Ideas – Detroit Florists

 Various folk tales brought about the uncanny Halloween motif and tradition, but nowadays, further aesthetic value signifies this October 31 holiday.  People wear ghoulish costumes to imitate a story wherein the townspeople did so to frighten away spirits wanting to possess bodies, as their only hope for the afterlife.  Trick or Treating originated from a Christian custom where people beg for “soul cakes”.  Each cake corresponds to a prayer they must recite so that the donor’s dead relative may enter heaven.  People in many countries continue to celebrate this event with a modified approach.  Trick or Treat is the most common practice in which participating house owners adorn their abode’s facade and give candies.  Otherwise, the small children threaten to commit a minor prank on them.  ProFlowers, the leading online florist located in Detroit, is ardent to be of great help in beautifying these Trick-or-Treat stops.

 For a decade now, ProFlowers takes pride in their delivery of affordable and adorable floral array for all occasions.   They have paved the way for making Halloween, an equally special holiday as most other holidays, as a flower-giving day.  Thus, the current trend of holiday greetings by way of sending flowers to loved ones is no longer confined to Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Birthday, or Christmas.    ProFlowers send flowers straight from the fields to their valued customers with a one-week Freshness Guarantee.  Thus, the best way to mark this special event is by using their fresh flowers and wonderful decorative ideas.

 Showing one’s Halloween spirit is doable by decorating the surroundings with floral arrangements.  Give away orange long stem roses or Halloween-inspired flowery decors.   If one does not know how, ProFlowers offer decorating ideas and other homemade decorations for Halloween at “proflowers.com”.  In this URL, a systematic guide is given on how to make three of the favorite ProFlowers Halloween items – The Classic Pumpkin Vase, The Candy Corn Vase, and The Jack-O-Flower-Lantern. 

 The customary Hallow’s Eve ornaments include pumpkins, cobwebs, witches, bats, ghosts, skeletons, and a lot more.  ProFlowers makes these conventional decors or gift items even better by taking advantage of the versatility and beauty of fresh flowers.  During the Halloween season, they commonly use hearty and long lasting carnations and mums.  They also use bold tangerine-hued flowers and those with shades of orange such as gerbera, roses, and lilies.

  For want of being a non-conformist, do away with the conventional unsightly theme and try out the fresh flower Halloween decors of ProFlowers.  Even non-artists and no-green- thumb persons can do it using easy-to-follow instructions.  Let no pranksters haunt you on Halloween.  Delight friends with the “bewitching” flowers as gifts, or doll up your porch as the best Trick-or-Treating destination.  ProFlowers is dedicated to giving customer satisfaction so they bring creative decorating ideas even for Halloween. Enhancing the ambience of the last night of October does not have to be difficult or forever horrifying. Let the professionals help, let ProFlowers do the trick in giving your loved ones a special treat.

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Cake Decorating Ideas For Halloween Party?

  • June 20, 2010 6:17 pm

Question by Da Rez Girl: Cake Decorating Ideas For Halloween Party?
Our office is doing a party and is doing a cake decorating contest… does anyone have some cool ideas of what i could do… and if you know how hard it is to use fondant if you have never used it before?

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Answer by missmack
I think this is really cute… it is on krispy treats but could be done on cake too…

http://www.recipezaar.com/Halloween-Tombstone-Treats-192164

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How To Find Cake Decorating Ideas

  • June 15, 2010 5:50 am

How To Find Cake Decorating Ideas

In today’s society, cakes are a favored way to observe just about any occasion. There are a huge number of cake decorating ideas available for you to use. Still, it is not always easy to know how to decorate a cake. Luckily, there is a wide variety of items and cake pans that will assist with making decorating cakes easy as, well, pie.

To begin, it is important to know what occasion to make your cake for. For example, it would not look good to offer an Elmo birthday cake when going to a Saint Patrick’s Day party. The good news is, once you know the occasion, the rest is simple.

ANIMALS

There are a lot of animal pans that you can use. A lot of occasions can be represented by an animal. For instance, a rabbit frequently typifies Easter, a deer can be used for Christmas, and a cat cake can be used at Halloween.

Or, you can choose from many popular character animals for birthdays. Presently fashionable animal characters include Blue the dog from Blue’s Clues, Elmo and many of his pals from Sesame Street, and Boots the monkey and Swiper the fox from Dora the Explorer.

The ornaments on top of the cake can also include animals. There are tons of small, plastic animals available at stores that you can use to decorate your cakes. This is an an outstanding way to create a zoo scene for animal lovers.

HOLIDAYS

Holidays are forever fun to make cakes for, and you can let your imagination go wild. If nothing else, you can use colored sprinkles. You can add edible heart decoration sprinkles on cakes meant for Valentine’s Day. Orange and black sprinkles are perfect for Halloween cakes, as are red and green sprinkles for Christmas cakes.

Ornamental cake pans are available in shapes particular to holidays that make them perfect for holiday cakes. Frankenstein, ghosts,, and other monsters are perfect for Halloween. Pumpkin cake pans will work for both Halloween and Thanksgiving cakes. Turkeys and cornucopias can also be used for Thanksgiving. Hearts and cherub pans are perfect for Valentine’s Day. Bunnies and eggs are just right for Easter. Leprechauns, pots of gold, and rainbows pans are great for Saint Patrick’s Day. Just find a pan or decorative item that typifies a holiday and you are good to go.

VEHICLES

Boys seem to be born enamored with moving vehicles. There is just something about a moving vehicle that enthralls young boys. You can make cakes that showcase boats, airplanes, cars, dump trucks, fire engines, helicopters, and tractors. You can set vehicles into the icing to make scenes with them. You can even add Lego’s people and small building built from Lego’s. Just make sure that anything you place onto the cake will not be damaged by either the icing or water from washing off the frosting from the vehicle or item.

YOUR OWN IMAGINATION

Do not forget that your own imagination can be just as wonderful, if not better than, manufactured pans and ideas. You are likely to come up with themes that no one else has come op with before. Your local arts and crafts store can be a wonderful place to get ideas and items that you can use for your own ideas.

Are you worried that you are not good enough to decorate a cake well? Do not worry about this. Do not make the perfect cakes seen at bakeries your goal when decorating cakes. They are sure to be wonderful regardless of how they turn out. Know that your efforts are certain be appreciated, no matter how they turn out. So, bake and decorate your cake, then sit back and enjoy the praise you get from those who enjoy the fruits (or, in this case, cakes) of your labor.

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Why Halloween Cake Decorating is Fun for All Ages

  • June 7, 2010 6:14 am

Why Halloween Cake Decorating is Fun for All Ages

Halloween cake decorating is fun for all ages. Halloween is all about haunted houses, carved pumpkins, and edible eyeballs. The spirit to honor the dead and trying to make sense of life after death has found its way into the Halloween spirit.

The American film makers have helped the haunted spirit and spooky figures of the Halloween a lot. Bats, black cats, ghosts, spiders, crows, witches and ghouls, everything that is spooky can be an ides that find its way into the Halloween cake decorating.

Vampires, aliens, zombies, mummies, werewolves, demons and mystical monsters these are some of the popular Halloween characters. But the symbolism in the modern times is inspired by the classic American films. They deal with fictitious characters such as Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, the Mummy and the Wolf man.

When you are baking a cake for Halloween party you can be very creative. You can make the haunted house. If you are throwing a kiddy party then you can bake a chocolate cake. Cover the cake with black icing. You can pipe in white icing to make a spider web. If you can manage a big spider on the top, try or you can go in for artificial spider to complete the picture. The kids will live it.

Halloween cake decorating is fun if you are making a cake for elder children. You can be as graphic as you want. You can use different molds to bake the cake and make them look like human body parts. Use red, orange and black colors to decorate your cake. You can use readymade Halloween figures that are available in the market. Green monsters, spooky looking aliens can also make your Halloween cake decorating all the more spooky.

There are many superstitions in connection with Halloween. Bats and black cats are a major part of superstitions. One of the superstitions is if a bat comes in the house on the Halloween day that means that it is a sign. It is a sign of spirits and ghosts are near your house or they are already in your house and they let the bat come into the house.

If you spot a spider on Halloween it means a dead loved one is watching you.

All these superstitions will help you to Halloween cake decorating. You can cut a flat cake into a bat shape. Use black icing use red color for the eyes and paint white teeth. Put those on the cake.

Halloween cake decorating can be fun to do. There are lots of things particular to Halloween such as the carved pumpkin, lanterns and the popular ghost stories. You can pick up any idea. Bake the cake, at times two or three different cakes using different molds. And you can create the entire spirit of Halloween on the cake. Make use of readymade Halloween figures that you get in the market or just be creative and make some figures yourself. It does not matter they do not look perfect. All the aliens that we see in the cinema or read about in the books are never good looking. The messier the look the better, so just go for it.

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Halloween cake decorating ideas?

  • June 4, 2010 11:49 am

Question by Vermillion C: Halloween cake decorating ideas?
I just finished baking a chocolate cake, and I don’t know what I should do to decorate it. Any Ideas?

Best answer:

Answer by Claudia
Maybe use some orange icing and some halloween-colored sprinkles?

If you’re really into cooking and cake decorating, get some fondant and make pumpkin shape and witch hats.

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