Frosting on cakes look nice, but it’s painstaking as well. You need to prepare the frosting with care; in some cases, you need to dye it to provide a different texture and color, and then you need to apply it all over the cake with great caution.

While frosting makes a cake look amazing, it’s not the only thing that makes a cake look great. Then again, there are ways of making a cake look great that don’t take as much time as frosting. Sadly, many of us don’t know about these methods.

Today, we’re going to learn how to decorate a cake without frosting. Let’s get started!

Creative Ways to Decorate a Cake Without Frosting

Here are the most innovative ways to decorate cakes without frosting.

Decorate a Cake Without Frosting

Fruits

This is perhaps one of the easiest ways of decorating a cake. All you need to do is cut one or multiple fruits that go well with the type of cake you baked. For example, if you’ve baked a strawberry cake, you can add fresh and cut strawberries on top of the cake.

You don’t need to add fruits only on cakes that are flavored like some fruit. For example, if you bake a vanilla cake, you can add different fruits on top of it to add a twist of flavor.

The reason behind us talking about this way is because it’s a very simple and easy process. You don’t need much effort to cut the fruits and put them on the cake. Then again, if you’re planning on decorating the cake with berries, you can set the fruits there without cutting them as well!

Decorate a cake with fruits

Imagine putting one or two strawberries on top of a chocolate cake! It’s going to look very delicious.

One thing to keep in mind is, you need to put the fruits on the cake right before you serve it. Otherwise, the fruits might get a bit moldy. If you’re anticipating that you won’t be able to do that, just put some clear glaze gel on the fruits; this will keep the fruits shiny and fresh!

Sprinkles

If you’re in a situation where you need to rush to finish the cake, garnishing the cake with sprinkles is the right thing to do. Sprinkles are cheap and easy to find no matter where you are, and they make your cake taste better.

The best part about sprinkles is that you can use them with any sort of cake. It’s also a creative way of hiding any flaw on the outer layer of cream on your cake. Also, you can use them in different patterns to provide a unique texture to your cake.

Decorate a cake with Sprinkles

You can find these sprinkles in all sorts of color combinations, making them a great choice no matter what color of cake you baked.

Painted Pictures

If you want to get all out creative on your cake, hand paintings are the best thing to do. Although it might seem that painting on a cake, that too all by hand, might get a bit tough.

However, if you’re very good at painting, you can do so easily. You can always call someone to do this if you aren’t!

Decorate a cake with Painted Pictures

The best part about hand-painted cakes is that they show how much effort you put up with the cake. At the same time, they don’t require that much effort to make. Then again, they give cakes a truly artistic feeling, which is always nice to see.

Edible Flowers

If you want the cake to look pretty, adding edible flowers on top of the cake is one of the best ways of decoration. A lot of common flowers like Honeysuckle, Calendula, Daylily, Mint, etc., are edible.

Decorate a cake with Edible Flowers

You don’t necessarily have to eat them only because you added them. Their main purpose is to make the cake look amazing. Another reason you should use them is that adding flowers around the cake and on the cake doesn’t require much of an effort.

Chocolate Coating

If you’re running out of time and have no idea what to do, just add tons of chocolate syrup on top of the cake. Chocolate syrups go best with chocolate cakes, but you can add it with some other flavors as well.

The best part about this method is that you don’t need much effort to add chocolate syrups, but the result will surely make everyone drool!

There are tons of other things that you can add as a decoration to your chocolate cake. For example, chocolate chips are great decorations that you can add without any effort, but they’ll make your cake taste amazing.

Chocolate Coating

When you’re decorating your cake with chocolate, there’s hardly any chance that things will go wrong. However, this depends highly on the type of cake you’re decorating.

Adding caramel syrup with chocolate syrup can enhance the overall taste of the cake!

Fondants

The idea of fondants can be very daunting, especially if you don’t know that you can buy pre-made fondants. Yes, you can purchase fondants from most superstores and bakeries, and all you need to do is roll them on the cake.

These fondants usually come in different colors. Then again, if you can’t find the color you’re looking for, you can always get a white fondant, and then you can color it with the edible colors found on the market.

Decorate a cake with Fondants

All you need to ensure is that the cake has a solid and flat surface for you to roll the fondant on. If the surface isn’t even, you won’t be able to make it uniform, which will look bad.

Sugar

Cakes are mostly sweet. Tasting a cake that’s not sweet will seem very bizarre, in fact. Due to this, coating cakes with sugar is a great idea. You need powdered sugar to decorate the cakes.

The powdered sugars aren’t all too sweet; this allows us to sprinkle them on the cake to create a light coating without making the cake too sweet.

You can get more creative with this idea if you want to. For example, you can take a piece of paper and cut it into a heart shape. Hold that paper on the middle of the cake, and shower sugars on the cake.

Decorate a cake with Sugar

This will create a beautiful heart shape in the middle of the cake, while the rest of the cake will be covered by layers of powdered sugar.

You can take this up a notch by creating complicated yet beautiful looking designs on the cake easily.

Nuts

There are hundreds of types of nuts that you can use as a decoration on your cake. You can use them in several ways for decorating your cake as well. For example, you can sprinkle the nuts on the top or cover the entire cake with nuts.

Decorate a cake with Nuts

The best thing about nuts is that they add a great texture to the cake, and they add unique flavors and experiences as well. This is the reason we prefer decorating cakes with nuts.

Balloons

The trend of putting balloons on cakes have become quite famous recently. Of course, the balloons will be kept at a distance from the cake by holding them up with a pole. Some people tie up helium balloons with cakes, but this gets risky as the balloon may run out of gas and fall on the cake!

Decorate a cake with Balloons

Conclusion

Hopefully, by now, you have a good idea about how to decorate a cake without frosting. All the methods mentioned above will make your cake look amazing with very low effort, but you need to be careful about which method you’re using.

Depending on the type of cake, you better pick the decoration. Otherwise, there’s a chance that you might be ruining the cake!