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How to Decorate A Strawberry Shortcake

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Strawberries and whipped cream taste amazing and they are the perfect confection to make for a birthday or fo0r Valentine’s Day. Believe it or not Strawberry Shortcake was a cartoon-like story book character that was owned by theWilton Cake decorating company for many years. The Wilton cake decorating company still sells a pan featuring the character’s face. It also sells cake toppers representing the character. Using cake pans or cake toppers by Wilton can save time and trouble when decorating short cakes.

Most people simply pile layers of whipped cream, ice cream, strawberries, syrup and angel or pound cake to create a beautiful strawberry cake. However you can make a very formal looking short cake by cooking up a layer cake and decorate it with fondant and strawberry.

Tiny strawberry short cakes in wrapper make great party give always as do little iced strawberry cakes. You can even make a short cake whipped cream and mousse delight in a tall wine glass and give it away to your guests at the end of a party. Strawberry shortcake in a glass is a nice take away gift.

One nice idea is to create a giant strawberry that is either flat or 3D by being artistic with cake molds. If you are very clever you can drop the cake inside a larger cake mold and fill it with Jell-O. This can give your cake a very bejeweled look.

With patience and the right decorator’s tip you can also use frosting to make a round cake look like a basket. Use fondant to create the handle and then heap the cake with strawberries. This makes it look like a basket.

Many strawberry shortcakes look just perfect layered between slices of angel cake. The idea is to heap on the berries in the middle and let it die the cake pink. If you are using a cake with a hole you can fill it with berries and cream. Make sure you pile peaks of whipped cream on top of the cake and then dot each peak with a strawberry.

Remember that when you do cut strawberries that they do look like little hearts and these look nice pressed into frosting or whipped cream around the sides of the cake.

One trend is to make a towering 3-D cake. Make a tiered cede of three rood cakes that go smaller as they go up. Ice your tiered cake in pink and decorate it with strawberries.

For a really exotic effect decorate the cake with miniature wild strawberries and then add mint leaves. This gives you the look of a Victorian Strawberry Short Cake.

How to Decorate With Lemons

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If you want to give your dining table or living area a nice fresh burst of color as well as a beautiful clean scent then try decorating with lemons.

You can make a beautiful centerpiece for a coffee table or dining table by just fining a unusual bowl or vase and filling it full of lemons. You can display them whole or you can fill the vase with water and float the lemons in it.

A very trendy centerpiece is to take a very tall narrow vase and stack the lemons inside of it. A wet centerpiece like this is made by filling a tall tubular vase with lemons that are cut in half. However a wet centerpiece should only be used for about a day because lemons cut in half can start to smell.

You can also fill a Bundt pan full of water and freeze whole lemons in the mold. You can then unmold it and place a candle in the center of the hole.

The rind of a lemon can make a nice bowl or cup for all kinds of thing. It is classic to round out lemon pulp from the rind and serve a pudding or gelato inside. You can also use the rinds to hold nuts or other tiny snack. Lemon rinds can also be filled crystals or sand and used to hold candles. You can also fill a lemon cup with water and float a candle inside of it.

You can make a trendy place setting label by cutting the top of a lemon that still as the twig off the top of the fruit. Make sure it is level and stands flat. You can then write the name of the guest on the lemon peel or you can tie a decorative tag to the peel that has the name of the guest on it.

Dried lemon slices smell nice and are very decorative. Simply slice lemons into rounds and then bake them on cookie racks for five to six hours until they are dehydrated. You can then use these dried slices of lemon to decorate green wreathes. They also look nice suspended in jars of bath salts or in clear soap dispensers.

Whole lemons also make attractive wreathes for the kitchen. You can simply string them together (sew them) on wires or tack them to Styrofoam. Whole lemons look nice entwined with green leaves or big chrysanthemums and daisies.

As you can see you can do a lot more with lemons then just make lemonade.