With food, most of the time it really is all about the taste. And that's great, but sometimes you feel like going a bit over the top, and the results are in: the highest marks go to the cakes with the funny shapes! All you need is one of the Wilton cake pans to have a masterful Dora the Explorer shaped cake or an editable Guitar on your hands. You have your choice of fun, kid-friendly shapes or, if you're an aspiring masterful pastry chef, look into their other specialty cake pans.
Icing the Cake
When baking a cake, the first half of the job is baking the batter into the mold. Then comes icing. If you'll be using Wilton cake pans to make a themed cake, chances are that you'll need to prepare yourself to do a heck of an icing job to make your cartoon character cake, vehicle cake, flower cake, etc. come to life. You can use a simple buttercream recipe and add food coloring to make a veritable palette of colors for your cake. There are also techniques to make your icing decorations have a bit more flare. You can learn how to make raised ribbon patterns or even roses. You can use smaller icing tubes to either write messages along your cake or for finer detailing, like for cake car windows or wheel rims.
