Cake Ideas and Top Tips
A host of ideas from flavours to decorations
Cake is perfect for a celebration. And every day can be a celebration especially if this list of food based high days and holidays is anything to go by.
Cake flavours
When baking a cake a world of flavour opportunities is available to you. From classic vanilla to crowd pleasing Biscoff to something a little different like bubblegum. There are lots of delicious options, and ways, to flavour both sponge and buttercream.
Classic and Caramel flavours
- Vanilla
- Fudge
- Caramel
- Salted Caramel
Chocolate Flavours
- Chocolate
- White Chocolate (and Mint or Raspberry)
- Coffee
- Mocha
- Oreo/Cookies and Cream
- Biscoff/Speculoos
- Chocolate Orange
Fruity Flavours
- Pineapple
- Strawberry
- Lemon
- Banana
- Elderflower
- Citrus
- Peach
- Apricot
- Plum
- Blackberry
- Apple
- Raspberry
If you are truly stuck for ideas Sugar and Crumbs make an amazing range of icing sugars such as pineapple perfect for flavouring icings and sponges.
Cakes Inspired by Summer
Under the Sea Cupcakes
I made these under water themed cupcakes for a marine biologist friend. I swirled blue and green cake mixture in the cases, topped with blue buttercream, green crystal sugar and fondant sea creatures!
Daisy Meadow
Fit in amongst the florals with a white chocolate and strawberry daisy cake.
Biscoff Sand Castle
Nothing says summer like a sandcastle. This is the ultimate in Summer themed cakes.
Ice Cream Cake Pops
If its not cold enough for ice cream why not get in the summer mood with Ice Cream Cake Pops
Cakes Inspired by Autumn and Winter
Why not make a Halloween Cake topped with chocolate soil and spooky Halloween figures. Or a Christmas themed cake all covered in snow? It doesn’t have to be a fruit cake inside!
Celebration Cake
Celebration cakes can come in any shape or size perfect for the recipient.
Converse Cake
Don’t put your foot in it with a Converse Shoe Shaped Cake.
Cakes inspired by the Animal Kingdom
Cow Cake
The cow is created from round cakes, carved into shape and covered in fondant. We used ready-made sugar paste flowers to finish off the board and one in the cow’s mouth!
Bunny Bums
Celebrate Easter in style with these carved Bunny Bum Cakes.
Cake inspired by film
Despicable Roses
This cake was baked in a heart shaped tin and then covered in a thin layer of pale pink butter cream.
Next using a star shaped nozzle we piped cream coloured roses at the top. Then adding a little bit of pink butter cream and piped roses continuing down. We kept adding pink buttercream to the bag until all the roses were pink. This way it created a gradient effect as the two colours mixed together. The trick is not to add too much buttercream to your bag at once and do it in stages so you are happy with the stages of colour change.
The little unicorn figure was based on the “its so fluffy” unicorn from the film series Despicable Me. To create this we used white and pink fondant. We used pre-mixed pink as it needed to be neon bright. We then added a yellow horn and used a food pen for the black details. When creating a figure based off something else I find it best to research the object from various angles and keep those pictures in front of you as you model.
Alice In Wonderland Cupcakes
Get lost in Wonderland with these cupcakes.
Other Recipe Ideas
If you are in the mood for sweet treats but not cake. Or just looking for some flavour inspiration why not check out some of these posts
Similar Posts
Review of SMART Majority Chocolatier diploma
How to throw the perfect Afternoon Tea
