Nowadays, there are more and more kinds of cakes. There is an electric oven at home, and friends who love to bake cakes always like to bake some cakes at home. Friends who don't have an oven at home and can't bake cakes often choose to buy birthday cakes in the cake room outside. I remember when I was a child, there weren't so many fancy cakes. I only heard about Tahiti thyme and German chocolate today. The most beautiful design of previous birthday cakes was colored candy bars decorated with sticks or some silvery white balls.

We are always interested in brightly colored and sparkling ingredients. This colorful candy and silver ball caught our eye. If we could buy a cake like that for our birthday when we were young, it would be enough to show off for several days. I wonder if you liked this little birthday cake when you were a child? The children who used to be have grown up now. Do you know what materials these colorful reflective decorations are made of?

Colorful candy, the announced name is "colorful sandwich chocolate needle" Although there is also the name of chocolate, the ingredients of sugar needles are actually edible starch, cocoa butter and white sugar. The natural color of the processed sugar needle is dark brown, which is actually the color of cocoa butter. The reason why it can reflect bright red, milky white, dark blue, light yellow, rose red and other colors is actually because the surface of the sugar needle is covered with a layer of food pigment.

Previously, this colorful candy was very common, and the decorative design was very rare in desserts such as birthday cakes and ice cream. However, in traditional Japanese summer festivals, one kind of food must use colored sugar needles, that is, chocolate bananas and apples. Chocolate banana is a fresh banana apple peeled, wrapped in a layer of chocolate liquid, and sprinkled with many colored sugar needles before chocolate curdles. After chocolate is concentrated, sugar needles are embedded in it, which is very popular in sacrifice.

The silvery white ball is announced as "Silver Pearl Sugar" and the golden ball is also called "Golden Pearl Sugar". This beautiful reflective sugar ball is usually decorated on small and medium-sized cakes, such as cupcakes or boxed cakes. The appearance of sugar balls has a metallic texture. If you eat them in your mouth, you may feel that the mask made of metal outside is sweet. The ingredients of Yinzhu Decoction are edible starch, edible pigment and cocoa butter, and metallic melanin is the most important ingredient of Yinzhu Decoction.

Compared with colored sugar needles, the taste is similar, but the appearance design is different from the melanin used, one is made into needles and the other is made into spheres. However, the production and processing technology of silver bead sugar is more than that of colored sugar needles, and the sugar balls will become harder and harder after twice drying. The edible pigment used is much more expensive, and edible pearl powder can also be added to show the brilliance of metal materials.

Now there are colorful sandwich chocolate needles and better packaged silver beads on the market. These dessert decorations are mass-produced with equipment, which is cost-effective, so the prices of these decorations are very cost-effective. A few dollars can buy a big jar. However, it is recommended not to eat more, because these sugar needles and balls look good, but the cocoa butter and edible starch contained in them are easy to make people fat. It is recommended to eat less, occasionally, or for decoration and design.