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Easy Decorating Ideas
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Published 1991
The simplest decorating touch to a cake can often be the most effective. Easiest of all is a delicate dusting of sieved icing sugar which totally transforms the appearance of a cake within seconds.
I like fresh flowers and pretty leaves as decoration best of all, and many flowers are edible, too. On cakes with roughly flicked buttercream or other icing, little silver balls dotted about on the flicks look very pretty, as do crystallized violets, primroses balls.
- Arrange raspberries, seedless grapes or halved strawberries all over the top of a cake. To glaze melt 4 tablespoons redcurrant jelly with 1 tablespoon strained lemon juice, stirring until smooth, then spoon or trickle over the fruit.
- Use strips of paper to make a striped pattern. Lay the strips on the cake, criss-crossing if liked, sprinkle over icing sugar through a fine sieve, then lift off the paper strips carefully one by one so as not to disturb the pattern.
- Crystallize small flowers and petals for decorating by brushing them with whisked egg white and then dipping in caster sugar. Lay them on a baking sheet in an airing cupboard for 1โ2 hours until dry, crisp and frosty looking.
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