The holiday baking season may be over, but it’s never too early to start prepping for Valentine’s Day orders. One cake trend we are watching out for this Valentine’s Day is a little Victorian and a little bit ’80s: The Lambeth heart-shaped cake! Yes, these stylish cakes are having a moment and will be a perfect surprise for your order drops that your customers will fall in love with this Valentine’s Day! According to the Knot, heart-shaped cakes will be a big trend for wedding cakes in 2024. Professional bakers and bakeries can add heart-shaped Lambeth cakes to their menus with bold and delicious flavors and colors that will complement this trendy and over-the-top cake, because after all, a cake should turn heads AND taste delicious.
Customers are looking for Lambeth cakes for not only their wedding day but also for all the wedding milestones leading up to the big day, like engagement parties, bridal showers, and rehearsal dinners. This gives a lot of bakers opportunities to promote popular cake design on their menus beyond just wedding or even Valentine’s Day.
What is a Lambeth Cake?
Lambeth style cake is the method of “over-piping” a cake with intricate designs of piped details, scrolls and garlands, over top one another in rows to give impressive depth and layering to the cake. The Lambeth cake was a popular cake technique in Europe in the 19th century. Today, this cake design is buzzing and professional cake designers have seen a surge of Lambeth cake orders due to the rise in Victorian TV shows like Bridgerton, The Great British Bake-Off, and The Crown.
Flavoring Your Lambeth Cake
LorAnn’s bakery emulsions are the sought-after flavors by baking professionals because they are more robust than typical extracts you will find on the market today. Cake designers can use LorAnn’s bakery emulsions, offered in over 30 flavors, to flavor their stunning Lambeth cakes. For Valentine’s Day we suggest flavorings to fit the season like our juicy and jammy, Strawberry Bakery Emulsion or our luscious Raspberry Bakery Emulsion that adds fresh and deep, ripened raspberry flavor. For a non-fruity flavor that pairs well for the Valentine season, bakers can opt for our most popular, Red Velvet Bakery Emulsion that adds both red velvet flavor and color in just one easy step. For customers with special dietary needs or asking for natural flavorings, LorAnn offers our most popular emulsion flavors in organic options.
What makes bakery emulsions so unique from other extracts on the market today is that these flavors have been suspended in a water-base, making them less susceptible to flavor loss when exposed to heat. All of LorAnn’s emulsions are gluten-free, nut-free, and low-carb. Bakery emulsions can be used in your favorite baked goods recipes like cakes, cookies, cupcakes, frostings, glazes, and even in beverages. For bakers and bakery shops that do a lot of baking, they can purchase bakery emulsions in bulk sizes to fit their needs without any minimum order commitments. LorAnn offers emulsions in 4 ounces up to 5 gallons and offers 4 ounces in 6-unit cartons to fit your business’s needs.
Picking the right food coloring for your Lambeth designs
Color is a big part of creating a lavish and gorgeous Lambeth cake. The variety of colors and piping designs that go into creating a Lambeth cake is rewarding, but also time-consuming. When coloring your frosting for Lambeth cakes, we recommend using gel food colors so you can achieve the bold and vibrant colors you are looking for quickly and with less drops. Gel food colorings are highly pigmented colorings, so bakers are able to achieve the desired coloring results in less drops than other food colorings, which is a huge cost-affective and time plus when creating your Lambeth cake color palette. Especially if you are a professional cake designer and have many orders piling up in your queue!
Why Do Gels Only Take A Few Drops To Achieve Desired Color?
Like most gel food colorings/paste, LorAnn’s Liquid Gel Food Colors are water-based and contain glycerin, where the semi-thick coloring creates a more concentrated form of food coloring and most colors can be achieved in 3-4 drops! This is a major reason why gel food colorings are the preferred colorings by professional bakers and candy makers. LorAnn’s Liquid Gel Food Colors are packaged in a convenient squeeze bottle dispenser for 1 oz. and 4 oz. sizes. This helps easily squeeze, gel food color drops into your creation since they are thicker in consistency. In addition, like the emulsions, LorAnn offers colors in food service sizes and 1 ounce, blister-packs for retailer displays.
