Tips on Using the Cricut Cake Tool

Whether you're planning to design a wedding cake, birthday cake or even a batch of cupcakes and snacks for your children, the Cricut Cake makes it easy to create the perfect confections for every occasion. Designed to be similar to the Cricut Expression machine, which cuts die cuts out of paper, the Cricut Cake machine allows you to slice fondant and frosting using both existing and new Cricut cartridges. Read on for tips on using the Cricut Cake tool for many different events.

Creating Cakes with the Cricut:

1. Decide on a particular design. Cricut products are designed to be simple to use and to generate precise results, but you'll want to keep a specific pattern in mind to achieve the look you want. Print out photos of cakes you like, and then purchase Cricut tools, including new Cricut cartridges, that fit your style. With its food-safe interior parts, the Cricut Cake can cut frosting, fondant and other soft foods. This allows you to experiment with the Cricut machine once you've chosen a design to follow.

2. Make it personal. Cricut cutting tools, especially the Cricut Cake, allow you to create one-of-a-kind projects for yourself, your family and friends. Use Cricut Expression accessories or cartridges designed for the Cricut Cake to cut letters and phrases out of fondant for a special look. Spell your child's name on a birthday cake without dealing with messy pastry bags. Create stunning monograms for a wedding cake with the bride and groom's initials. If you already have a Cricut Expression machine, you can use existing Cricut tools and cartridges to create die cuts using paper and see how they look before cutting your design out of fondant.

3. Shape up. Use a Cricut cutter to create unique shapes that make your cake stand out. With the Cricut Cake's stainless steel dials that adjust to blade pressure, speed and size, you can pick cartridges with swirls, floral patterns and spirals to make an exquisite wedding cake or use the Cricut cutting machine to craft simple star and heart shapes for your daughter's birthday cake. Don't worry about clean-up; this Cricut cutting machine is designed especially for cutting food and has stainless-steel blades that are easily washed.

4. Play with your food. The Cricut Cake doesn't have to be used solely for decorating cakes and cupcakes. Since the Cricut machine features a 12-inch by 12-inch cutting mat, you can create intricate shapes and designs out of cheese, modeling chocolate, tortillas and cookie dough. Put your Cricut Expression accessories or other Cricut cutting cartridges to work and create flower-shaped quesadillas for your daughter or dinosaur-shaped sugar cookies for your son. Be creative with your Cricut cutter; you can make healthy snacks more appealing with fun star-shaped cheese slices or football-shaped tuna sandwiches.