You’ve likely heard people say, “You eat with your eyes first.” Any well-presented dish is more enticing to devour, which is likely why food presentation has become an art form.
But some delicacies are so elegantly prepared that you’d feel guilty taking a bite. The cakes you’re about to see are an excellent example.
These goodies are from the Cake Recipes 101 Facebook group. With more than 930,000 members, it showcases eye-catching sweet treats that are more worthy of being on a display case than on someone’s plate.
As you will see, some of the photos we’ve collected for this list pop out more than others. Feel free to scroll through and be amazed. They may even inspire you to try your hand at baking.
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I'm in!! I love making strawberry shortcake with angel food cake. I use a box of angel food cake and it only needs 1/3 of a cup of water. Then stick it in a angel food cake pan(?) and bake it. When it comes out I put it upside down to cool. I get the strawberries all cut up and mashed with some sugar. Then the whipped cream is just cold whipping cream and a mixer. Then as it thickens I add some sugar. I cut the angel food cake into slices and pour over the strawberries and then the homemade whipping cream. It's the best!! It's a big dessert and everyone has two pieces of angel food cake that with everything on it would be $14 in a restaurant. I get 6 for around the price of 1. The family is always ready!!
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No, I'm not going to lie on that. Syrup is so hard to get out of my fur.
I cant comprehend that this is a cake. HOW. TF. IS. THIS. A. CAKE?????
I wanna taste. However, I'd like Irish cream whiskey with mine.
The cakes a very creative and pretty but how many of them are done with sugar paste? I upvoted for creativity but i would not want to eat them, i tried sugar paste and it tasted awful but maybe others like it?
TIL that fondant is called sugar paste in the UK! And I actually love the taste, but I can definitely understand why others wouldn’t!
Load More Replies...So many creative cooks, I used to make things like this before we moved to China. Paid a fortune for an oven for our apartment and the element exploded after only a couple of uses. Cost of replacing it the same as another new oven. Needless to say we never bothered.
That sounds incredibly frustrating after making such an investment! 😟 Have you found any alternative cooking methods since then?
Load More Replies...The cakes a very creative and pretty but how many of them are done with sugar paste? I upvoted for creativity but i would not want to eat them, i tried sugar paste and it tasted awful but maybe others like it?
TIL that fondant is called sugar paste in the UK! And I actually love the taste, but I can definitely understand why others wouldn’t!
Load More Replies...So many creative cooks, I used to make things like this before we moved to China. Paid a fortune for an oven for our apartment and the element exploded after only a couple of uses. Cost of replacing it the same as another new oven. Needless to say we never bothered.
That sounds incredibly frustrating after making such an investment! 😟 Have you found any alternative cooking methods since then?
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