4 Clever Ways to Decorate Desserts and Cakes
Image credit: Scrumdiddlyumptious on Youtube
If you dine at a high-end establishment, you can count on your meal, and especially your dessert, being presented in a stylish manner. It’s a great way to make a dinner feel extra special, but it can also wind up costing a lot of money. However, it’s also possible to create lovely decorations for your sweets at home. Decorating your cakes and sweets doesn’t have to be difficult when you use these 4 inventive ideas from Scrumpdiddlyumptious on Youtube. The base for these sweets is chocolate so they’re much more delectable. When you use them for a special event like your New Year’s Eve party, you’ll surely leave your guests impressed.
Below is an example of one among the clever ideas in the tutorial.
White Chocolate Carnation
Ingredients:
- 11 oz tempered white chocolate + pink food coloring
- 3 tablespoons heavy cream, whipped
- powdered sugar
Directions:
Put out the granite cutting board or similar surface, and use the long spatula to spread out a thin layer of the pink tempered chocolate over the top of it. Don’t let the tempered pink chocolate to solidify.
Push strips of pink chocolate up with the spatula swiftly while keeping each piece together with your hand and fingers as you slide the spatula upwards, making the chocolate coil up and come to a point to make carnation pedals. Refrigerate the white chocolate pedals for a few minutes before serving.
To solidify the pink chocolate, spread a thin layer on a piece of parchment paper and place it in the refrigerator. The heavy cream should be whipped before it is piped onto the pink chocolate circle once it has been cooled. Carnations are formed by sprinkling the whipped cream with pink chocolate pedals.
Place the white chocolate carnation on top of a frosted cake and sprinkle with powdered sugar sifted through a fine sieve.
