Angelica is an edible flower that ranges in color from pink to blue to lavender. Angelica buds have a bit of a licorice taste so they go great with poppy seed cake or lemon cakes. They also make a nice garnish for Edam cheeses and caraway type cheeses. An angelica blossom also makes a good garnish for drinks made with Sambuca or Pernod.
Almost any cake or pudding looks great garnished with dark or white chocolate curls. Simply use a paring knife to slice the curls off of a chunk of chocolate that has been cooled in the fridge in a while. White or dark chocolate curls look great on bed of whipped cream on hot drinks such as caffe lattes or hot chocolate.
Apple Blossoms are a really nice interesting garnish and like apples they are edible. They go well perched on the edge of a glass of brandy and of course you can sprinkle them on Apple Brown Betty’s or apple cake.
To make a lacy pattern out of icing sugar for the top of a cake simply take a doily, place it over the top of the uniced cake and sprinkle the icing sugar over it. Lift the doily gently and you have an elegantly decorated cake.
Marzipan is not just used for cake decorating. You can buy premade sheets of marzipan and use them the same way you would use modeling clay to make any shape you want. Marzipan looks great garnishing any kind of cake or cookie. To make marzipan carrots to decorate a carrot cake simply roll tubular carrot shapes out of orange marzipan and top them with a button of green marzipan.
If marzipan hardens while you are making cake decorations this does not mean the marzipan has gone bad. Simply add a bit of water, the same way you would add water to modeling clay, and it will become soft and pliant again.
To make a strawberry fan, use a paring knife to slice thee strawberry from a point slightly below the top stem to the bottom. Continue making thin slits from one end of the strawberry to the other. Gently spread the segments of strawberry apart to create the strawberry fan,
If you want a add an unusual splash of color to the top of a white iced cake or a fruit fool try sprinkling the top with edible violet blossoms. Violet blossoms also look nice frozen in ice cubes or on top of a salad to give it a dash of purple.
