By Michelle Anderson
Cake Decorating Exper, about.com
Technology is here to stay and apps have become part of our everyday
life helping us organize our day, educate us and provide many tools for a
vast array of tasks. Even an activity as creative and individual as
cake decorating has been impacted by the onset of various apps. There
might be a time in the future when complete cake designs will be put
together on an iPad or smartphone but most professional cake decorators
still draw their designs. As interesting as apps can be for the basics
they still can't touch the creative flow and leaps of innovation that
designers come up with when inspired and challenged. That being said
cake design apps can still be nice tools and a great deal of fun. If you
wish to have cake decorating apps on your device the following might be
good choices:
Cake Doodle
This app seems more like a
game than an actual design platform but it can provide a base look if
you are fiddling with a particular design. It can give a visual of what
certain design elements, colors and shapes will look like when combined
together.
It is an entertaining way to kill some time because
you actually drag ingredients into a bowl and "mix up" your cake or
similar to life you can use a virtual boxed mix
to make your cake. You then get to select the style of your creation
from tiered to sheet to various shapes and bake. The decorating options
are where this app might be useful for throwing ideas around for your
real cake. There are dozens of icing colors, fondant, flowers, candles,
toppers and other options. This is obviously not an app that will be
used for intense realistic looking cake designs by professionals but it
is fun and for 99 cents it really does not break the bank.
Sweet Dreams
This
interesting app is more valuable for cake designers who want to learn
some of the basics but do not want to attend a class or spend the money
on internet designed instruction. Will you learn everything needed? Of
course not but foundation skills such as frosting cakes,
stacking, fondant work and working with food coloring is definitely
achievable. Sweet dreams has many tutorials that show step by step
instructions as well as the lists of required tools. The one flaw in
this app is there accompanying text for the tutorials rather than actual
sound. This might be frustrating for some users. The recipes included
in the app are quite straightforward and it includes an easy icing color
mixer for your convenience. The app is $4.99.
Wilton
Wilton
is one of the most trusted names in cake decorating so it is no
surprise that you can download a comprehensive app that highlights the
cake design possibilities that exists while using their products. Does
this app point people in the direction of Wilton supplies? Of course it
does but that is really no hardship because Wilton
has countless tools that make design work easier and more attractive.
The Wilton Cake Ideas & More app is wonderful for getting design
ideas or spring boarding your own imagination. There are literally
thousands of pictures of cakes, cupcakes, cookies and cake pops divided
into easy to navigate categories. When you click on a particular design
the next frame offers complete instructions of execution of the project,
tools needed, techniques, reviews and questions. It also lists the
level of design experience required to produce the project which can
save time and reduce the risk of disaster! The app is free so you can
enjoy all this wonderful information without any cost or risk to you.
