Gourmet Cakes

About Gourmet Cakes

There are many kinds of cakes in this world. What makes one different from another one is taste and difficulty in decorating.

You can get gourmet cakes in supermarkets, bakery shops, and cake shops. You can even get them through mail order and the internet.

If you know someone that is real good at baking, you might even want to ask them to bake one for you. You might just get it cheaper then you can buying it at a store. Gourmet cakes come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. They can be moderately priced up to very expensive.

Some of the more unusual ideas for gourmet cakes are the ones that are carved to look like designer purses.

These cakes are covered with fondant and decorated with gum paste. A really good pastry chef can carve a cake to look like anything.

Other then purses, they can make cakes look like any type of animal from dogs and cats to jungle animals. I have even seen a cake that looked like a swimming pool.

They look like they have real water in them, but it’s gelatin died with blue food coloring. More conventional cakes for parties are ice cream cakes and tier cakes.

Ice cream cakes are fairly easy to form into most shapes. All you have to do is soften the ice cream and put it in a formed pan and place the ice cream filled pan in the freezer.

Ice cream cakes can be made in many different ways. You can have the bottom made out of cake and the top made out of ice cream. You can have tier ice cream cake or anything you can think of. Tier cakes are made to feed many people. These cakes are good to serve at weddings, sweet 16 and anniversary parties. These cakes can be iced with whipped butter cream or cheese cream or any other icing you want.

Fillings in cakes can be anything, but it seems to me that fruit is the most popular filling. In yellow or white cake it seems that lemon and pineapple are the best tasting, vanilla is another popular choice.

Some gourmet cake shops will even make 1/3 pineapple, 1/3 vanilla and the other 1/3 lemon if you want. The filling that seems to be most popular for chocolate cake is fruit. Strawberry, blueberry and raspberry are all good choices. Multilayered cakes can have more then one filling. You could even mix the fruit with a pudding filling. Decorations on gourmet cakes can be simple or very difficult.

You can use a stencil. All you do is lay it on the top of the cake and sprinkle powdered sugar over it. Then you carefully lift the stencil off. You’ll have a simply decorated, but elegant cake. If you think you can do something a little more difficult, try covering a cake with fondant.

This is not easy, but once you get it right your cake looks beautiful. You can even make flowers or people with the fondant. If you don’t think you can do this, you can frost the cake and it could still look like a gourmet cake. Whether you buy a cake or do it yourself, it can still be a gourmet cake. Just take your time and find the perfect cake.

Gourmet cakes come in different sizes. They can feed eight people or two hundred and fifty. They can be as simple as sprinkled powder sugar, to an intricate five tier fondant covered wedding cake. You can get it at your local bakery or if you’re a good baker you can bake it yourself. Whatever you decide to do, its your cake, make it special.

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