As a hobby baker, mom, aunt, sister, or best friend, at some point you will have the desire to bake a cake for your loved ones. A homemade cake shows that you are taking a lot of time, thought, and effort for that special person. The occasion does not matter, because a well-decorated cake immediately shows why the treat is being given as a gift. For cake decoration, you can use edible paper, fondant, chocolate, or real edible flowers, for example. This article is all about the topic of cake decoration with a special focus on edible paper.
Baking cakes
A topper cake is a cake that you finish and then place a motif topper on. This can be, for example, made of edible paper with a photo of the birthday child or a picture of the bride and groom; that naturally depends on the respective occasion.Many hobby bakerslove baking cakes because they can let their creativity run wild. The decoration is fine manual work and ideally nothing should go wrong, as it is difficult to correct mistakes. The advantage of cake toppers is that if you are short on time or lack materials for decoration, a pre-printed image can be placed on the cake and the end result immediately looks great. Children in particular prefer edible paper because it is a taste experience to eat it. The idea of eating paper that tastes sweet and melts on the tongue is very funny for many children. The motif on the edible paper is also crucial, because it is even more fun to laugh when you bite into your own picture or get to eat your favorite character from television.
What is edible paper?
Edible paperhas been around for over 70 years in Germany and belongs to the category of baking wafers. The colorful paper strips were first available in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 50s. Children, in particular, enjoy the edible paper. Nowadays, it is not only used for decorative purposes, but it is also successfully used in therapy for young and old. This includes speech therapy, among other things, because the perception and muscles in the mouth can be wonderfully trained and exercised by the machine-made food. The edible sheets are predominantly made from water, salt, and wheat flour. The bright colors and the slightly sweet taste are due to additional fruit flavors anda type of sugar, sucralose. Allergy sufferers should pay attention to whether wheat flour has been replaced by corn starch, as many manufacturers now offer both variants and take food intolerances and allergies into account. Edible paper is very popular with hobby bakers and confectioners because it can be transformed into individual images with the help of edible ink. This is how a pink piece of edible paper becomes a chic unicorn. Of course, you can also send your personal wishes and photos to many manufacturers and they can have your desired edible paper printed. The special decoration shops will send you the edible paper with a photo shortly and you can decorate and finish the cake yourself. The only difference between commercially available edible paper and the version from the decoration shop is that the printed edible paper is thicker and is delivered on a special film.
