Halloween Cakes – The Perfect Treat

Halloween has grown in popularity in the UK to become a true calendar event to look forward to. As with all big events, Halloween has an emphasis on seasonal foods that are a treat to eat. 

Halloween activities

Halloween or “All Hallows’ Eve” has mysterious origins, but today everyone is familiar with what it means.

It is a fun evening to

• Pull pranks on friends
• Go trick-or-treating
• Greet trick-or-treaters at your door
• Watch horror films
• Host a fancy dress party

All of these various activities have one thing in common – all are perfect reasons to enjoy delicious Halloween cakes and biscuits.

Children

• Children love getting small treats from the houses they visit, so it might be a good idea to stock up on cupcakes with edible Halloween images on top. You can easily buy these from professional bakers and best of all, they leave no mess as they come in their own wrappers.

•  If you have children joining their parents at your house, or your own children have decided to stay in, buttercream cupcakes are even more indulgent and won’t get spoiled by being dropped into trick-or-treat bags.

 Adults

• Popcorn is boring at Halloween. Spooky gingerbread figures are a much better way to get that crunch and satisfy your appetite whilst waiting for the next adrenaline rush from your horror film. They are also excellent sharers – who wouldn’t want to bite into a vampire or munch on a skeleton?

• If you have decided to host a party, it would be a great touch to supply a scary cake as the center piece, perhaps shaped like a traditional pumpkin or cauldron. If you like giving a speech or two, cutting into a moist sponge masterpiece is a good excuse!

Professional bakers

Of course, this is a busy time of year so leave the treats to a professional bakery that has put in all the hard work of crafting your snacks.

Dunn’sBakery in London have an online cake shop offering a large range of Halloween treats to make perfect whatever plans you have for the evening.

Why Birthday Photo Cakes Are a Great Cake Idea

Birthday photo cakes are indeed a great idea for all ages and tastes. They are original and simply can’t be a wrong choice. Contrary to some expectations, photo cakes do not strictly refer to photography in the sense of a photo showing the birthday girl or boy, but to any cakes that have images on them. It can be a personal photo indeed, a funny one if the birthday cake is meant as a surprise, or any other image that the celebrated one will like.

The images on the cakes are made with edible ink, which is one of the greatest things about these cakes.

It is said that an image is worth a thousand words, and so it is. If someone is a big Elmo fan, an Elmo birthday cake is simply perfect.  

The only thing needed to create a truly unique birthday cake is an image that can be taken from the internet and the skills and dedication of a specialist bakery. The result will be a fresh sponge cake, made with free range eggs, butter, milk and jam. The cake can be either square or round.

Photo cakes are a great choice for almost any occasion. Usually recommended as birthday cakes, they can become a nice surprise for any celebration. A special occasion cake is always welcome especially if there’s a suggestive image on top of it.

Children will love to see their favourite characters, Nemo or the Little Mermaid, while adults will smile to see their most peculiar habits or tastes transformed into an image on their cake.

How easy is it to make such a photo cake?

It should be the other way round – how difficult is it to make a photo cake? While at first sight photo cakes seem like easy to do, there is a lot of work behind what seems such a neat image. The equipment used has to be one of the best as the printed image has to be as accurate as the one printed on paper. No smudges allowed.  

The quality of the image that will appear on the photo cake depends on the quality of the image used. So rather use a different image, than stick to a certain one that will not turn out so great in the end.

Of course, it is only a professional bakery, like Dunn's Bakery  that can help you with your photo cake. Doing something like this at home is practically impossible. There are special inks and special icing used to make sure that the image is one of the best.

Use personal images

Why not have your image as the hero fisherman on a delicious cake? Have you thought of a funny face photo? This way you can be creative and have a truly bespoke photo cake.

There is no more need to explain why photo cakes are a great choice. And it’s always easy to buy cakes online.