I don’t know about you, but speaking for myself, I never even realized that there could be a profession such as a cake designer! Of course I have always noticed the well designed cakes in the windows of bakeries. But I’ve always attributed this more to the fact that the baker was a creative soul than that there was someone who did only that – design cakes. But a recent encounter with a culinary artist exposed me to the fact. You can even find food service companies who will help you to design and mass market cakes and other sweet goods on a large scale.

My foodie friend actually informed me that cake design is one of the most popular courses to take when learning about food. In reality, when the first cake was baked, there was the first cake designer. The first cake designer was the first to lay a layer of icing on a cake. Cake designing has moved on a lot from simply a layer if icing but not all of the new technologies are used.

The two most popular flavoured icings are chocolate and vanilla even though there are so many more options. and there are different materials that you can use in cake design. Yet most people find themselves decorating with icing sugar 95% of the time. Keeping the health consciousness of aging and fitness obsessed people in mind, one prominent company even tried to introduce a sugar free icing sugar. Needless to mention, everyone preferred the real thing and passed up the fake ingredients.

But more than the ingredients and the trends, it is the skill of the cake designer that determines how good a cake looks. A good cake designer can convert even the plainest of cakes into a brilliant and tantalizing creation. And you do not have to spend a fortune on expensive materials. Just some edible wafers, a whole lot of icing sugar and a good and dependable icing cone will do the trick. But don’t under estimate these items. When they come together finally in the hands of a master cake designer, they will turn out better and more appealing than anyone expects them to be.