How To Achieve Different Cake Textures

Texture at present plays a big part in block blueprint and adding certain icing textures has go increasingly popular, especially on wedding cakes.

Since the discovery of fondant, cakes have been elevated to a new level of edible art. While a cute smooth finished cake is elegant, with fondant you tin can too take additional textures to make a truly beautiful photo-worthy cake.

In this web log nosotros explore different kinds of textures:

Ruffles

Romantic, Soft, Elegant

Ruffles or frills create a cute scrunched textile like texture. They come in different forms, for instance:

Tight ruffles
Moving ridge ruffles
Floral ruffles
Petal ruffles
Rose ruffles

Wedding cake ruffles texture example — White tight ruffles

Pearl pink cake ruffles texture example — White tight ruffles

Each ruffle is rolled out, cut, and depending on the type of ruffle might be individually textured. Ruffles are a labour of beloved as they have time but look stunning when finished. We tin fifty-fifty create an ombre issue, which looks beautiful! These are great for all types of cake and are popular for hymeneals cakes.

Ivory cake ruffles texture — White wave ruffles

Fondant cake texture ruffle wave blue — White wave ruffles

Quilted

Timeless, Sophisticated, Formal

Quilted cakes suit all occasions (see some of our quilted wedding cakes), a simple texture that elevates a block to look more sophisticated and elegant.

This effect is achieved with a quilting impression tool. A cake is covered, the tool is lined upwardly and pressed into the fondant to create equal diamonds.

Depending on how much you want it to resemble fabric nosotros can elevate this result with boosted techniques. Where each diamond intersects, we describe lines and utilise a star cone block tool to make a more realistic texture. Nosotros can then add a dragee or even a diamante at the points so the overall effect resembles a real quilt or chesterfield sofa. All of our cake decorating tools used for this texture tin be purchased or hired from our shop.

Black patent cake covering texture fondant — Patent quilted

Blue and white pearl texture cake quilted — Patent quilted

Dragees / Sprinkles

Bold, Edgy, Fun

Dragees are tiny sugar assurance, sometimes chosen carbohydrate pearls. They come up in various unlike sizes in metal, white or coloured options. These can exist used as private decorations to partially or completely cover a whole tier. Still, it is non a cheap consequence, to cover a cake takes thousands of carbohydrate pearls, merely it looks spectacular when it is complete.

Sprinkles or 100's and 1000's are miniature sugar strands, shapes or micro edible assurance. Nearly frequently plant on kids cakes or cupcakes.

Fun fact: Sprinkles are chosen funfetti in America which we call up is a great name!

Two tier unicorn sprinkles rainbow cake — Jo Jo sivia bow theme block

Confetti

Sophisticated, Pretty, Colourful

This is a real party texture. These are tiny saccharide discs with a subtle shimmer finish. Confetti comes in white, gold or rainbow colours. Cheaper than dragees, these tin comprehend a cake completely or as a cascaded effect to give a fun and interesting texture.

Rose gold confetti cake example — Rose gold confetti

Gold confetti sugar cake texture — Rose gold confetti

Swags

Soft, Gentle, Regal

Nosotros can create swags of icing, placed equidistant around the edge of a cake they give a imperial texture, often popular on our princess or nuptials cakes. Nosotros can as well fold the icing to resemble draped fabric hanging down the block in swags.

Beauty and beast cake example swags — Pinkish swags

Bawl

Rustic, Realistic, Touchable

For something completely unlike we can fifty-fifty make the cake wait like bark. Either a knarly old tree stump or a light, bright argent birch, who knew there were and so many different types of bark? This realistic texture makes these cakes a existent talking piece; wonderful for a rustic wedding.

Carved cake initials wood texture silver birch tree cake

Lace

Romantic, Dainty, Intricate

Block lace is an edible icing containing glucose and starch. Information technology begins as a paste which is poured in pretty moulds. One time set it keeps its shape but is soft and flexible allowing it to wrap around a cake. It creates a cute texture with added glamour.