Party Decoration

 Edible Cake Decoration

For as long as any sweet-toothed can remember, edible frosting and sprinkles have been used as cake decorations for decades on end.

Frosting or icing refers to that sweet glaze over the cake, made of sugar, butter, water, and egg whites or milk.

Though they are yet to kill the competition, another cake decoration technique is by way of edible photo images incorporated over the cake.

Anyway, the most common of all edible cake decorations is by way of frosting such as royal icing, marzipan, almond paste, sugarpaste and buttercream.

Fondant is known to make sumptuous chocolate cake decorations. On extensive use too are floral sugarcraft or wired sugar flowers.

With the right piping techniques, a cake decorator can make many different theme party decoration designs such as open star, closed star, basketweave, round, drop flower, leaf, multi, and petal.

Still erudite bakers have now made it possible to transfer photo images onto the cake. It makes for some serious razzle-dazzle, but it is not any more inedible than one's margarine.

This is edible cake decoration of the highest order, created by printing images on an edible paper made out of glucose and starch.

A birthday celebrator will truly be flattered with such decoration once affixed on the birthday cake. Most picture formats, such as JPG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, as well as files from Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, are compatible for printing on edible paper.