Cake Decoration

Everyone loves the taste of chocolate cake. But since we eat with our eyes first, appearance does matter. These easy chocolate cake decorating ideas will help you easily make your delectable creation look as good as it tastes.
Simple and sweet, these six decorating methods are fantastic ways to make your chocolate cake a visual as well as gustatory delight.
Edible chocolate garnishes are a sophisticated looking but incredibly simple decoration to prepare. All you have to do is melt chocolate, pipe it on to waxed or parchment paper, and let it set. Voilà! Chocolate garnishes. You can create freehand, free-form designs, or get more elaborate by tracing more intricate designs. Either way, they'll make your chocolate cake or cupcakes a pinkies-out affair.
To create the unique marbled look on this cake, lines of chocolate ganache, chocolate buttercream and vanilla buttercream were drawn across the top of the cake. Then, a spatula was used to gently drag the piped toppings perpendicular to the direction of their orientation, which gives the slightly wavy look. "Beehives" of chocolate buttercream punctuated with raspberry halves add the perfect border to finish off this easy, but decidedly fancy-looking, chocolate cake.