Cakes: Delicious and Elegant

Beautiful and delicious bouquets and arrangements make wonderful center pieces at receptions, showers or parties. These arrangements include bouquets, baskets, party arrangements and most especially the cakes. Cake is a kind of food that is sweet and baked. Cakes are made with flour, sugar, egg, gluten or starch, butter, shortening, or margarine, a fruit purée such as applesauce for taste, a liquid like milk, water or fruit juice, flavors and some form of leavening agent like yeast or baking powder.

Cake is a member of dessert family, and is mostly used at ceremonial occasions, like weddings, anniversaries and birthdays. There are countless cake styles, recipes and innovations. Bread-like cakes are mostly used with daily evening tea, or in breakfasts. Rich cakes are mostly used in celebrations and parties. Cake making was a complex procedure, but now it has been made the easiest and favorite by anyone, even a kid can make a wonderful cake with a little guidance.

Cakes are divided into several categories, with variations in ingredients and cooking techniques. For example cakes for occasions, are different from content and Passover cakes. Some are made elegant with the use of fruits and other items. Some are made just with cream and cheese, chocolate or coffee.

A wedding cake is the most important cake as everyone’s attention is at the wedding cake made especially for the day, chosen by the couple, showing their taste, and reflecting the personalities of the newly married couple. Traditional fruit wedding cake represents fertility and the cuts and curves symbolize the first act of the couples working together in a caring, sharing way.

Birthday cakes are mostly colorful and match the birthday celebrations and themes. They are the treats for the kids and their friends. They're called art piece or master piece of a designer because they are made by designing a beautiful picture, a cartoon or even a special logo. Now a day’s cakes resembling spider man, superman, Mickey mouse and many other characters are equally likeable by kids at their birthday parties. They make your child's celebrations look too good to eat.


Almost everyone gets excited at the sight of a beautiful cake. Decorating these tasty and grand cakes is another art and is well appreciated by every eye. Every time that you walk into a bakery or any occasion you get amazed by the sight of some amazing cake designs. People adopt it as a hobby and fun. You can decorate these incredible cakes with the fresh fruits and dry fruits. Decorate them with cream and other decoration items. If you don't have a traditional cake topper, you can decorate the top tier with sugared fruit, flowers, or intricate piping. You can pipe a shell border or round pearls. For an extra-special touch, you can use a parchment cone for fine detail work. Make your parties wonderful with the fusion of light and sweet cakes and desserts.

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Fruit cake is the traditional British Christmas Cake that is full of fruit and nuts, covered with royal icing. This delicacy is conventionally associated with holidays and weddings, but now every special occasion is celebrated with cakes. Bakers have transformed the old age fruit cakes in to very amazing and delicious cakes.
Occasion’s cakes are of many special kinds and there are different ways to make them; the recipes for them would rapidly fill a very thick book! Recipes for fruit cakes differ widely depending on what country they come from and the kind of fruit that's available in that country. Business celebrations, birthdays, wedding anniversaries, Graduations and many other fun involving events are incomplete without cakes. The fruits and toppings of these cakes are of special importance as they give taste and color to your cakes.
Fruit cakes are healthy as well as nutritious. They have added nutritional value of fruits and food flavors. Many fruits are utilized to make a perfect fruit cake like apples, pineapples, dry fruits, strawberries, cherries, apples, mango and many more seasonal fruits. All these cake come in different variations in the batter like white chocolate, cheese cream, dark chocolate, and many new ideas. Different and tasty fruit juices and syrups are used to complement the flavor of fruits.
Fruit cakes are made by finely layering your favorite fruits in between the slices of the batter and creatively decorated at the top. For impressive looks, these easily handmade fruit cakes are topped with icing sugar, whipped cream, dark, milk or white chocolate and a thick crust of nuts, shedder coconut, and almonds or finely shuddered low sugar biscuits.
We are all created with some gifts and talents. A little bit of innovativeness in preparation of the fruit cakes would go a long way in making the occasion memorable. Honey is another excellent taste maker. Coffee and caramels are also used as topping of fruit cakes for special days. They are an outstanding ingredient in most of the fruit cakes. A fruit cake that's made with utmost care gives splendid result and is a proof to the baking skills of the person who made it.

One of your gifts that you can make and cheer your friends or loved one is a special fruit cake made-up of fresh fruits. Place them in beautiful box and cover them with beautiful plastic wrap. This Exquisite cake will be your most memorable gift to your beloved.

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Return bowl to simmering water and carefully heat to between 88 and 90 degrees; do not let chocolate overheat. To test if chocolate is tempered, dip a knife into chocolate and transfer to a refrigerator for 60 seconds. Chocolate should be set and have a nice shine; if not, repeat process until chocolate is set and has a nice shine.

Place a large heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Add 2/3 of the chopped chocolate to the bowl. Stir occasionally, using a rubber spatula, until chocolate is melted and reaches 100 degrees on an instant-read thermometer. Carefully remove bowl from saucepan and stir in remaining chocolate. Continue stirring chocolate until it has cooled to between 83 and 84 degrees. As chocolate begins to cool it will crystallize and harden around the edges of the bowl; stir crystallized chocolate into melted chocolate.