Have you ever wondered why cakes are made and decorated ?

For every occasion there can be a cake made . A birthday, graduation day, wedding, anniversary, silver and golden …cakes are made even for tea time accompaniments.

There are variety of cakes like 

Madeira, Victoria, cinnamon ,Christmas cakes , stollen cakes, .

Shaped cakes for children and even adults. 

Iced cakes  can be of butter icing, fondant, marzipan, royal icing and many other innovations. 

Traditional Wedding cakes of the past are made of fruit cake, Marzipan and fondant cover and decorated with flowers of hard icing . They are made in tiers.

Wedding cakes of this type take about 15 days to do a thorough job when the flowers , marzipan and fondant are made from scratch I.e not readymade.

Today most cakes are made of soft icing in layers . 

Decoration is an art. You can do designs , borders, shapes and flowers .

You can also do theme cakes 

My daughter is currently doing a ‘tool’ cake as her little son likes playing with tools like the hammer, screwdriver etc. 

I love chocolate truffle cakes . The finish comes smooth and I can decorate it with soft chocolate icing and write the words needed for the occasion. This cake takes about 3 hours to finish an 8” cake. 

Do remember when you want to celebrate an occasion , make it special with a cake and a wish written in icing at the top.

The easy way out is to order one .

However , there is more joy when it is made at home.

Guidelines are always available on YouTube .

So celebrate !!!!