Speciality Baking Molds For Fun And Easy Birthday Cakes

by Robin Holland-Smith

Are you currently planning a birthday party or celebration for someone near and dear to your heart? If so, you may be considering spending big bucks on a novelty bakery cake. But did you know that with a speciality baking novelty cake pan, you can make a fun, fanciful cake in as much time as it would take you to put in a cake order and drive to the bakery and back!

A wide variety of novelty bakeware pans are now available for whatever occasion you want to celebrate. They come in all shapes and sizes. Whether you would like to celebrate a child's birthday with a puppy, a bunny, a train, or a character cake, there is now a cake mold you can purchase. An older child or teenager might like a cake in the shape of a basketball or football, a pirate ship, a backpack, or even an MP3 player. Adults may appreciate any number of the wide variety of novelty cake molds now available.

Use a boxed cake mix or whip up your favorite cake recipe and simply pour the batter in the speciality baking cake mold. Bake as usual, and cool before frosting. Then use icing from a jar or homemade frosting and create various colors with food coloring. Frosting the novelty cake is easy - you can spread with a knife, or use a simple piping bag to pipe stars or rosettes.

A simple way to pipe rows of stars tightly knitted together is through the use of a star tip (widely available at craft or decorating store) on your piping bag. For instance to produce a bunny speciality baking mold; the tail and ears can be represented with white stars, the fur by lines of pink or purple stars with additional stars piped for nose, paws and eyes.

Novelty cake pans will produce ridges on the cake, letting you know where you should place the details. After letting it cool, you pipe plain black or white lines on the various parts of the body, as indicated by the cake's ridges. Frosting sparkles, sprinkles, or even using a plain tip to add white lines for whiskers all add a great finishing touch.

Since you've chosen a cake that mirrors a friend's or family's style and tastefulness, you cannot help but create tons of grins and laughter when the time comes to blow out the candles. Creating your personal cake can be enjoyable, simple, and cheap. The price may be as cheap as one tenth of the cost of one made in a bakery!

Are you currently in the planning for a loved one's birthday party or celebration? If so, then you ought to consider a novelty bakery cake. With novelty bakeware, you can make a festive cake that takes less time to make yourself than putting an order in at the bakery and driving to pick it up! This is the way it works: these speciality baking pans come in all sorts of forms and sizes for any baking need you might have. For example, if you're celebrating a baby's first birthday or need a child's cake, you could choose from a bunny, puppy, a train mold cake pans.

Published November 19th, 2007

Filed in Cookware


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