Edible Decorations for Cakes

Professional cake bakers can make cakes that look like people, animals, cartoon characters or other objects.  Edible decorations will enhance the theme of your party as they are creative and interesting to look at. Popular edible decorations are frosting, icing, molded sugar shapes and a clay-like sugar icing that is called fondant.

• Edible flowers are carried in the gourmet shops and can be ordered by florists. Crystallized flowers are made of superfine sugar, water and egg whites. Roses and other flowers are made with royal icing to create smooth petals. They can be made in different colors.


• Fondant is a thick molded confection that is clay-like and can be shaped into ribbons and can be shaped into other types of flat surfaces.  Fondants can be tinted with food coloring and flavored.


• Edible images can be made to decorate the cake. Photos, decals, and patterns are printed out with food coloring is used instead of ink.  There are hundreds of edible themes that can be use for decoration on your cake.  The patterns match up from one strip to the next. The edible images can be ordered from your bakery.


• Sugar figures that looks like toys, numbers, cap and gowns, letters, cars and anything that you can be made to decoration your cake. They come in all different sizes to fit your cake.


• Candy, sprinkles, nuts and coconut are all old-fashioned edibles ideas that have been used for years to decorated cakes. You can always use candied fruit to decorate your cake.