GARNISHING CAKES
WITH POWDERED SUGAR
The simplest of all garnishings is to sprinkle the cake with powdered sugar; strips of paper can be laid over the cake before it is dusted, so as to give lines or squares of white over the top; In lines or squares. stencils for this purpose are easily cut, giving circles or diamonds.
WITH CHOPPED NUTS
Almonds, walnuts, or pistachio nuts. Brush the cake with white of egg and then sprinkle with nuts chopped or sliced fine; or the cake may be lightly coated with a red jelly or jam, and then sprinkled with chopped nuts.
WITH COLORED SUGARS
Cover the cake with royal icing, and before it hardens sprinkle it with red and green colored sugar (see page [393]). It may be put on in dots or sprinkled evenly over the whole.
WITH TWO COLORS
Loaf cake may be iced in sections of alternate colors. To do this, place a strip of stiff paper upright between the colors while spreading them, and remove it carefully as soon as the icing is on. This will give a clean, sharp line. Cakes iced with chocolate or with boiled icing may be ornamented with fine lines of royal icing.