Top Tips To Make Anti-Gravity Cakes

One of the most elaborate and show-stopping cake designs out there is the anti-gravity cake: a cake that features a cascade of sweets or chocolate tumbling from the sky down onto the cake itself.

There are some amazingly elaborate designs available for custom cake delivery, from the classic anti-gravity pick’n’mix cake to ones that have upturned fizzy drink bottles, ones in the shape of a cereal bowl and so many other designs.

Amazingly as well, decorating an anti-gravity cake is much easier than it looks when you know the secrets to how they stay upright.

Straw Laughing Matter

The secret that allows an anti-gravity cake to stay upright is a carefully placed straw, and your choice of straw can mean the difference between success and failure.

Dedicated anti-gravity cake kits exist, but as long as you have a straw that bends and is strong enough to carry a wrapper, it should be enough.

Push the straw into the cake that will serve as a base and you have the platform to start creating the illusion.

Sticking Chocolate

As with most cake decorating, melted chocolate will be your adhesive but it needs to be the right consistency to ensure that you can create your optical illusion.

If your chocolate is too thick, it will not set properly, but if it is too runny it will trick down the straw and none of the sweets will stick to it.

Ideally, you want a consistency similar to tomato paste or toothpaste; thick but pourable enough to use with a pipette.

Patience Is Key

Like other hobbies involving glueing pieces into place, you need to have some patience when sticking the sweets to the straw. Only add a few at a time and wait for them to set before putting on the next layer of sweets to avoid collapse.