Everything You Need to Know About Baking Exotic Cakes

Who doesn’t think of cake, when there’s a birthday or an anniversary around? Today, there is a range of exotic birthday cakes available, and you can easily opt for online cake delivery if you have a party coming up and are short of time. What’s special about modern-day celebrations is that your cake no longer needs to be the staid and old-fashioned variety with a plain message on it. Today, the sky is the limit when it comes to creativity and ideas for baking.

Theme for a dream cake!

If your loved one is a cricket lover, you can get an exotic cake in that theme — say a cricket pitch, bat and ball, wickets. If your kid is a fan of comic superheroes, you can get a cake designed in that theme. Your friend is a Game of Thrones fan and all set to devour the latest season? Go for a GoT-themed cake and surprise your friend. There is a whole range of exotic birthday cakes for which you can seek online cake delivery; they include cakes with a heavy topping of gems, mango praline cakes, Ferrero Roche cakes, mousse cakes with toppings of Oreo, cheese cakes, red velvet cakes, cakes with fresh seasonal fruits as toppings and rainbow cakes, among others.

Trends in baking

•   With an intermingling of cultures, there seems to be an outburst of flavors, colours and themes in contemporary baking. A lot of modern-day cakes have vibrant themes and colors, reminiscent of lush tropical landscapes or the deep beauty of the woods.

•   Importance is given to natural fruit flavors such as pineapples, litchis, strawberries, passion fruit, mango and banana, while chocolate and coffee bean remain classic choices. 

•   Yet another trend that caters to millennials is the use of other desserts in the cake, and therefore, the Oreo cake, cakes with macarons and donuts, etc. Also, millennial cake trends include offbeat flavors such as watermelon, bubblegum etc. There is also a liberal use of confetti in these cakes — just so they are Instagram Mable and Pinterest-friendly!

Talk to the store

If you want to know more about exotic birthday cakes or planning an online cake delivery, especially if it is a customized one, you would need to talk to the bakers or sellers of said cake. You should find out about frosting. Some bakers may want to work with buttercream while others with fondant. You would need to talk to the baker about it. Also, you would need to know when the cake is prepared, and if you have a complex design or theme, you may want to share pictures with your baker. Also discuss the choice of filling. The most common fillings in your cake are buttercream, mousse, fruit or puree.

Want to try your hand at baking?

Also, if you were to try on your own, you need certain essentials such an oven, baking pan, baking paper, measuring spoons, spatulas and icing sets among others. You would also need supplies of whipping cream, egg, frozen berries, currants, zests, spice mixes, butter, sugar, self-raising flour, essences and syrups in varied flavors.

Or just order and enjoy!

You find all this too much? Just opt for online cake delivery, sit back and enjoy! That way, you can have the cake and eat it too.