How to Decorate Cakes With Fruit

Strawberries make an excellent cake decoration.

Bring the bounty of a colorful harvest to your desserts by decorating your cakes with fruit. Naturally sweet and colorful, fruit adds a delicate touch to any iced cake. Use fresh fruit or sugar coat it to add a sparkle. Opt for the brightest, freshest looking fruit you can find for decorating your cakes to give them a professional touch.

Things You'll Need

• Baked and iced cake
• 2 tablespoon pasteurized egg white
• 1 tablespoon water
• 1 quart mixing bowl
• Whisk
• 3 cups small, whole bite-sized fruit (grapes, kumquats, berries, etc.)
• 1 cup sugar
• Wax paper-lined baking sheet

Instructions

1. Whisk together 2 tablespoons of egg whites and 1 tablespoons of water.

2. Stir 3 cups of whole fruits into the egg white mixture to coat and then remove to a bowl.

3. Sift 1 cup superfine sugar over the fruit and toss to evenly cover all of the fruit with a thin layer of sugar.

4. Lay the sugar-coated fruit in a single layer on a wax paper lined baking sheet and let dry overnight to harden the sugar.

5. Scatter the sugar coated fruit over the top of an iced cake or carefully arrange the fruit in outlines of shapes such as stars, circles, lines or boxes on the top of the cake.

Tips & Warnings

• If you want, you can arrange fresh fruit pieces on top of an iced cake without sugar coating it.

References

• All Recipes: Decorating Cakes - Finishing Touches
• Baking 911: How to Crystallize Flowers/Fruits