Clever Cakes: The trend from "The Lion's Den" - and 5 cheaper alternatives
Created: 09/27/2022, 07:53
By: Nina Dudek
Covering with fondant requires a sure instinct and experience.
It's much easier with Clever Cakes.
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Clever Cakes from DHDL promises fantastic cakes in record time.
We present you fantastically cheap alternatives to create cake works of art in no time at all.
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You have certainly faced the challenge of baking the ultimate dream cake: for a loved one for a milestone birthday, a wedding or a children's birthday party.
Then it's time to check the recipes (especially quick: a simple cake with just three ingredients) and when the cake comes out of the oven, it's time to decorate.
The rolled sugar mass fondant is particularly suitable for this.
In the VOX show "Die Höhle der Löwen" (The Lion's Den), a product was presented that makes this mass, which is otherwise difficult to process, very easy to handle, even for beginners.
Fondant forms a wonderfully smooth surface in beautiful intense colors, but the processing is more than delicate.
But: Unroll it, cover it without creases and place it around the cake without visible seams... All of this requires an absolutely trained hand.
Clever Cakes: The lion's den in cake frenzy
Hobby baker Elina Hoffmann starts with "Die Höhle der Löwen" for cakes with a professional look.
Your "Clever Cakes" is a ready-made fondant cover with many different motifs, which also enables laypeople to make extraordinary fondant cakes quickly and easily.
The highlight: the fondant is already shaped like a "hollow cake", cake bases and filling only have to be stacked inside.
Clever Cakes: Fondant cakes like a professional in just 5 steps
Bake the cake base in the baking pan provided
Prepare the pie filling
Layer the cake base and cream in the ready-made fondant cake cover and leave to set in the fridge
Turn the fondant cover filled with cake and cream over
Decorate the cake with the supplied sugar decoration
In addition to various fondant designs, the Clever Cakes package also includes border decorations and sugar decorations such as stars or flowers.
The supplied sugar glue provides the necessary support, a suitable disposable baking mold for the right shape.
Clever Cakes - the best alternatives for easy cake decoration
At just under 35 euros, Clever Cakes is anything but a bargain.
Money well invested, of course, which helps laypeople in particular to conjure up really beautiful cake creations on the table.
But if you already have a bit of routine in decorating cakes, you will find great alternatives to Clever Cakes, which also ensure a professional look - and are very easy to use.
Clever Cakes Alternative 1: Gumpaste
Cakes can be covered quickly and easily with rolled fondant.
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This ready-rolled fondant disc with vanilla flavor can be used directly.
You can also use cookie cutters to cut out individual motifs.
Available in pink, white, yellow, light blue and red for €6.60
Order rolled fondant
Clever Cake Alternative 2: Marzipan top
Marzipan is easier to work with than fondant and has more of its own aroma.
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Rolled fondant looks beautiful, but the taste is primarily sweet.
If you want to cover your cake with an aromatic covering, it is best to use classic marzipan.
This ready-rolled out marzipan cover can be easily wrapped around the pastry without any creases.
Marzipan top Ø 26 cm from €6.78
Order marzipan topping
Clever Cake Alternative 3: Edible cake toppers
Edible cake topper turns any cake into a masterpiece.
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Even if you don't cover your cake with fondant, but "only" with cream or whipped cream: An edible cake topping immediately turns it into a real eye-catcher
20 pieces from €23.53
Order cake toppers
Clever Cakes Alternative 4: Sugar flower bouquet
A delicate dream for noble wedding cakes.
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Super noble, filigree and delicate, edible flowers made of the finest sugar mass are suitable for birthday or wedding cakes.
However, they should not be placed on moist cake creams or cream, otherwise they will become soggy.
Marzipan tops, rolled fondant or even a chocolate icing are suitable here.
Flower bouquet set from €13.71
Order sugar flowers
Clever Cakes Alternative 5: Essbage's Gold
Not only cakes but also desserts can be decorated with gold powder.
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There is no faster way to turn a cake into a work of art!
Even the simplest cakes that are only coated with cream or cream can be enchanted with a wafer-thin layer of edible gold powder.
10 gram can from €8.91
Order edible gold powder
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