Finding The Perfect Coffeecake For Someone Who Loves Cycling
A personalized coffeecake may be the best cake you can offer someone who loves cycling. You will be surprised to see that cake making is not that difficult. Once you have a theme, which in this case is cycling, the rest is easy. Just let your creative juices do the rest. If you do not feel comfortable enough to bake it yourself, try your neighborhood pastry shop to do it for you. Nevertheless, I am sure you will find the courage to give it a try once you have read what follows.
Drawing a picture: You can draw directly on the cake from memory, if you feel confident of your artistic abilities, or you may choose to play it safe and trace over a picture instead. The way this works is that you pick a picture that you like. Whether it is a mongoose mountain bike or some other bicycle, the important thing to remember is that your picture is big enough to cover your cake, before you place wax paper over it and trace the picture. Remember, this will be the topping of the cake. If chocolate is used to draw the picture, it must be allowed to solidify. The same goes for icing sugar.
Be resourceful and use your creativeness. Remember, chocolate comes in all flavors and colors. You can also make your own shades by simply adding some food color to white chocolate. The chocolate drawing can be transferred to the cake, once the chocolate has solidified. This operation must be done with care to not break the topping before it is settled on the cake. You might consider doing a few chocolate topping variations of the same theme, just in case.
Cutting into shapes: You just place a paper mold of your design on top of the cake and cut around it, forming the desired shape. However, you will still have to decorate it with some type of icing. Butter and chocolate icings are quite popular, along with confectioners’ sugar.
Have fun and be creative when decorating your cake. Cookies and candy make great decorations on cakes. These make excellent complements to the icing of a cake. Colored shredded coconut, chocolate and candy sprinkles are also great.
Miniatures: The use of small figurines and toys can decorate a cake without much work. You should not have too much difficulty in finding reproductions of your favorite diamondback bikes or the like. Add these on top of some colored icing and your cake is fit for a cycling pro.
Whether you choose to buy or make your own, cake is always welcome after a long bike ride. Why not surprise your cycling friend with a personalized cake today.
