There are many ways to put a finishing touch on your cake-decorating project. Sugar-frosted fruit and fresh flowers are very popular cake decoration garnishes. They will add a contrasting texture, and add color to your beautiful creation. Using these items will allow you to spruce up a plain cake.

Fruit

Using fresh berries as a garnish on your decorated cake is a colorful, and flavorful addition. You can roll them in sugar, glaze them, or use them plain. Placing fresh strawberries and mint leaves around the top of a chocolate cake will add a splash of color. Orange sections, grapes, and strawberries glazed with shiny syrup can be placed on the top of a cake for a beautiful, yet edible effect. 

Dollops of whipped cream and fresh figs arranged tastefully on a cake can be quite appealing to the eye. Frosted whole fruit, such as grapes, seckel pears, small apples, and figs are great cake decorations for late summer and fall weddings. Berries will last longer than sliced fruit, serve the cake soon after adding the fruit as it tends to bleed onto the frosting.

Flowers

The use of fresh, edible flowers in cake decorating, is a beautiful and easy way to make a cake more appealing. Starting with a cake dusted with confectioner's sugar, or a frosted cake, and adding flowers. There are many flowers that are edible, rose petals, sweet violets, honeysuckle, bachelor's buttons, calendula, etc. You might want to add a generous dollop of whipped cream to the center, or just off the center, of the cake. Arrange the flowers around the whipped cream. 

When you dust the flowers with super-fine sugar, the look is one of elegance and sparkle. Candied rose petals and candied violets are wonderful cake decorations. Make sure the flowers you are using are edible, clean, and free of pesticides.

Nuts

Candied or toasted nuts are great on carrot cakes and spice cakes. Coarse or finely chopped nuts can be pressed into the icing on the sides of the cake, or along the bottom edge, for texture and flavor.

The use of fresh fruits and flowers will add an unusual and unique look to any cake. Cake decoration has become a bold hobby or choice of career. You can open your own cake-decorating business and cater to your friends, and family. And community. Although it is time-consuming, cake decorating can also be a fun and lucrative business. 

Artistic cake decorators can just about name their price for one-of-a-kind cake decorating creations. Of course, this will all depend on where you are located. Cake decorators in New York City will be able to charge more than those in Jamestown. Of course, there is also a cost of living difference and a more sophisticated group of clients. No matter where you are located, offering unusual, unique cake decorations will put you on top and you will be in popular demand for the cake decorating needs of the majority.