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Decorating a cake requires patience which may discourage people who are setting forth in the confectionary industry. However, as is the case of every good thing, novelty cakes may look complicated to make, but in fact are very easy to make. One can make this process a lot easier with store bought frosting and boxed cake mixes. Some cakes which are a lot in demand are listed as below:

Sports Ball Cake

Sports cakes can be made of any ball game as usually all of them are round. The batter can be baked in a metal mixing bowl which is sprayed with a nonstick cooking spray. This works better than using a cake pan. One requires a 2 qt mixing bowl for each box of cake mix. One can test the cake after 40 minutes by inserting a wooden skewer into the center. One needs to allow the cake to cool in the bowl for about 20 minutes. One can run a knife between the edge of the cake and the bowl to loosen the cake. Before inverting the bowl, one needs to place a serving platter or a cake plate. To make the sports cake more realistic, one can decorate it with tinted icing to represent the correct sports ball. For instance black shoestring liquorice and orange frosting will make a basketball cake and alternate white and black frosting is football cake.

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cake

One can bake a strawberry cake in a heart shaped pan. One can tint the frosting with red paste food coloring and frost the whole cake. The liquid food coloring is no match for the paste food coloring as it gives a richer red color. One can add the leaves on top of the "strawberry" by cutting green taffy into the shape of leaves and pasting them on top of the strawberry. One can apply sliced almonds to give the appearance of seeds. To add a special touch, one can place chocolate candy melts to the icing. One can place wax paper strips under the cake to cover the serving platter. This helps make minimal mess. The melted candy melts can be poured over the bottom to give an appearance of a strawberry dipped in chocolate.

Beach Cakes

These novelty cakes can be created in shape of any cake. To depict sea side one can use food coloring to represent water and then the entire cake can be frosted. One can crush wafers of vanilla or graham crackers to depict sand. Fruit roll ups in colors of green can represent weed.

These are some of the cakes that can be made by people who have time on their hands and want to create a truly memorable cakes. Novelty cakes are usually baked to either commemorate a special event or to turn an ordinary event into a special events. So, to make your event special, go ahead and make a novelty cake for yourself!

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Cake tin moulds can be very expensive, so if you want a shaped cake why opt for a simple cake design and carve the design yourself? You really don't need any special equipment for carving as ordinary household knives are fine, but bendy blades can be a bit awkward and are best avoided. All you really need is a knife with a serrated edge for carving fruit cakes, a long bladed knife for making larger cuts and a smaller one for finer details.

The most important thing to remember when you are carving a cake is that the cake itself must be able to withstand the carving process. Some people freeze their cakes and then bring them back to room temperature before they start carving as this technique will help to firm the cake which can make the carving easier. Personally I prefer to work with a fresh cake, as apart from the carving challenge I know that there will be no over-moist areas in the centre when it is delivered to the customer.

Another important factor is the type of cakes being used, as those that are whisked, like a Genoese sponge for example, are much too light and full of air and if this type of cake were stacked up the air would be forced out and they would most probably sink/collapse.

Also remember that after you carve the cake that a thin coat of butter cream (crumb coating) will be needed and that one characteristic of a lot of margarines is that they spread easily straight from the fridge, however you will need the crumb coating to slightly crust so a firm margarine is preferable.

Most of my cake designs are created from a mixture of different heavier sponge cake recipes or rich fruit cakes, both of which are perfect for carving because they are firm and close textured.

Once you have finished carving and decorating your cake, don't waste the offcuts and left over crumbs as  they can be used to make deserts, such as trifles, baked Alaska and truffles.

Simple truffle recipe

Place all cake leftovers (including any buttercream/jam filling) into a food processor and blend it all until smooth, then add to it some coco powder to taste and blend again.

Turn the mixture out into a bowl and put in the fridge to firm up so you can then handle it. Take a teaspoon of mixture and roll it into little balls, if the cake crumbs refuse to stick together then just add a little more jam to the mixture, and then to finish roll the truffle in chocolate vermicelli and place in foil cases.

Kim makes and decorates cakes for all occasions including wedding cakes and even novelty birthday cakes.

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