5 Easy DIY ideas for cake decoration:

When we bake a cake, we really hope that everyone likes our attempt because baking is somewhat difficult (it need right proportion of ingredients, flavours, the batter shouldn’t have any lumps, etc). But half your battle would be won if you decorate your cake and make it look more tempting.  Today I will discuss easy Do It Yourself cake decorating ideas which I have learnt from the best baker I have ever known, i.e my Mom. :)

1. Fondant Marble effect:

  The marble effect is achieved when we mix two or more colour in a plain fondant. Marble effect usually gives the fondant interesting pattern. You could choose any colour you want.

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This technique could be achieved using two simple methods. Read about those method here. Using Marble effect is best when you don;t have much time to decorate the cake. Just the layer of this fondant would make the cake look beautiful! 

2. Feather effect:

The simplest technique that you could use. The only tool that you require here is the toothpick. To make this effect, make sure the the colour of your icing and the colour of your cake is in contrast. One should be dark and other should be lighter.

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You can learn this technique here

3.chocolate vermicelli:
According to me , it is the best ingredient  available for cake decoration. It doesn't melt away and is very easy to apply. You can create various effect using it. For example , We made a Race track Cake and used the vermicelli to bring the effect of the Sand and Gravel on the chocolate road.

You can use many variation of colours. Like we used many colours of vermicelli on white background and got this amazing result.

4. Fondant Roses:
Making Fondant roses can be a little bit tricky. But 
here is a simple step which you can use to make roses. For this you need a toothpick and minimum of three vertical strip of  fondant. 
here are the steps.:
>>Roll the fondant with the desired thickness of "petals" that you want. Cut it into vertical strip. You would need at least three of them. Make sure the three strips are of same height and length also.
>> grab a toothpick and start rolling the strip over it. As you roll, bend the fondant along the edges to get the "petal" like effect. 
>>Repeat the procedure completing the rose.
You would surely get this result:

5. Double Coloured Icing Flowers.

Every decoration enthusiastic learn how to make flowers by the piping the icing with help of different shape of nozzle. Here you can enhance the effect of the flowers by using two colours. While filling the piping bag with icing, segregate the icing towards one side and then fill the empty space with few drops of food colour. Then proceed to tighten the piping bag and start piping. you can get results like this 

So these were my ideas for a easy DIY cake decoration. Just remember one thing, you can mess these things in your first attempt also but you should try again and again until you  get that perfect tempting looking cake!
Happy Baking!