Why Purple Desserts Are Taking Over Every Celebration Table?

Purple is a colour that is not easy to ignore in dessert tables. Purple can be soft and light in the form of lavender colour or can be deep and dark as violet.

This means there’s a lot of flexibility in the purple desserts, and they can all be suitable for any occasion. For example, light purple cake would be a good choice for a spring party and darker purple would be for an evening party.

Food colouring is not the only way to make desserts purple. Filipino ingredient ube purple yam has added its own flavour, colour and dessert ideas to UK bakeries. It’s on ube cake, ube cheesecake and other sweet bakes.

The purple velvet cake provides you with that purple colour but is actually quite similar to an actual celebration cake. Using good gel food colours, one can go from having a light lavender shade to a darker violet shade that matches the party theme and cake decorations.

The Ube Effect

The Ube dessert began to spread its popularity in 2022 and is becoming more popular in the UK cafes.

Ube purple yam, a natural bright violet, is of Filipino origin. It’s sweet and tastes of vanilla, pistachio and sweet potato. The best benefit of ube is that it gives desserts a natural purple shade and does not use artificial colours.

One can experience both color and flavour at once from ube cake, as it has an additional layer of ube halaya jam. If one wants an even better presentation of this dessert, a purple spiral of ube swiss roll runs through the center of the cake.

In case you are looking for something to create at home easily, you should try a no-bake ube cheesecake. This version requires no special appliances making it really easy to prepare at home.

However, it is sometimes difficult to find the ube. When you need to recreate its purple shade you can use Electric Purple food gel and Regal Purple soft gel paste for a consistent colour.

Purple Velvet Cake

Purple velvet cake is a bold new face to the familiar combination of cocoa and cream cheese. The sponge keeps its light cocoa flavour and tangy taste but the traditional red hue is replaced by a deep purple paste food colouring.

You can enhance your cake decorating ideas with the help of purple ombre sugar roses placed along the sides in cascade form. The layered flowers provide more decorations but do not make the entire cake covered with flowers.

With cake cream purple velvet, it is possible to get a perfect colour and flavour without mixing everything on your own. It is recommended to coat your cake with the Purple Premium Sugar Paste Fondant, which has a deep purple colour and lasts throughout the whole celebration.

Purple Cupcakes

Depending on the event, purple cupcakes can be simple or fancy. By using the right colouring and  small details, even the most basic cupcakes can turn out really beautiful.

For a simple choice, purchase purple professional quality cupcake cases, bake the cupcakes and decorate them with violet buttercream icing using a star nozzle. To decorate the cupcakes as gifts, use the purple mystic sprinkle mix while the frosting is still wet and put a hand painted purple glitter butterfly cake topper on top of it.

Another decoration idea would be to tie a purple satin ribbon to each cupcake box. In addition, Purple Professional Quality Cupcake Cases offer you many cases for making large orders for a party, which means that you will never run out of them.

Blueberry and Berry Desserts

There are blueberry cupcakes, peach and blueberry crumble, and triple berry cheesecake for the purple dessert dishes made from natural ingredients.

Baked goods get a deep purple to indigo color when cooked with blueberries, blackberries and dark cherries. The color may change from fruit to fruit and even depending on how it’s prepared.

Simply mix fresh blueberries with cupcakes batter to make cupcakes with small pieces of fruit inside giving a purple speckled interior along with a tangy taste. Peach and blueberry crumble is an ideal combination of purple-blue warm berries and golden peaches.

If you wish to make a softer dessert, try triple berry cheesecake which has strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries on top of the cream cheese for the natural purple colours without fondant techniques.

Purple Ombre Cakes

The purple ombre cake is the simplest method of having multiple colours within one party cake. This involves an ombre style with three to four colours of purple ranging from the deepest violet at the bottom to the lightest lavender on top. Add each colour to the buttercream and make the stripes, then wipe off the stripes to merge the colours together.

The purple mixed paste food colour set includes four shades, which means you can prepare all the colours instead of four separate ones.

For extra sparkle, a few brush strokes of Purple Sparkle Edible Lustre Dusting Colour can be applied to the cake, which will provide extra glitter for the picture. Top it off with a Happy Birthday Purple and Light Purple Double Layer Cake Decorating Topper for a simple touch to your purple desserts table.

Purple Macarons and Tarts

Purple Macarons and Tarts are two of the most eye-catching purple desserts to give as gifts and to display on a party table.

The purple macarons with fillings such as blackcurrant, lavender buttercream or blueberry ganache serve as a sophisticated two-bite cake decoration. The white packaging makes it even more attractive. At the same time, a lavender honey tart featuring a violet-colored custard filling topped with edible flowers goes great with afternoon tea as well as party grazing tables.

The best way to colour macaron shells is with concentrated purple paste gel. This way you get a clean and stable shell colour without softening the batter. A completely dried macaron shell brushed with velvet purple metallic edible art paint creates a high fashion metallic finish that adds a truly luxurious look to a gift box. A good piping bags and nozzles combination will provide the right level of control for you to easily fill the shells of your macarons and pipe designs in a consistent manner.

Getting the Purple Shade Right

One of the most common issues with making purple desserts is that one uses the wrong colour, which may come out to be blue, pink or gray but not purple.

Purple is the most pH sensitive colour in baking. In an alkaline batter, it will turn blue while in an acidic batter, it will turn pink. If a little cream of tartar is added, the pH will be stabilised and the purple colour will remain consistent during baking.

When carrying out decoration work outside the oven, concentrated paste gel food colouring retains its colour in buttercream, fondant and royal icing without changing as the icing hardens. Both the deep purple spectral paste gel food colouring and the colour flex extra paste purple provide clean and stable shades which do not need large amounts in order to achieve vivid and saturated effects. The use of a cake turntable helps when trying to put and smooth out the purple buttercream by rotating the cake into the scraper for an even and consistent result each time.

Decorating Purple Desserts

The right selection of decorations can make any good result into a great one.

The deep purple artificial foam roses produce a rich and full floral display without requiring any skill in arranging sugar flowers. The royal purple double face satin ribbon that is wrapped at the base of every cake tiers provides a professional touch to them. Also, the purple edible confetti sprinkles and purple velvet jimmies add a celebration effect on the frosted surface.

Amethyst purple metallic edible brush pen can be used for adding metallic hand-painted metallic details to fondant and cookie surfaces. Also, you could add some edible cake decorations that would match the colour theme, such as sugar flowers, sprinkles, and toppers. All of this will help to give a unique look to your purple desserts table without complicating the decoration process.

Purple Is the Colour Worth Baking In

Purple isn’t just a passing trend in the baking world. There are purple cakes, cupcakes, cheesecakes and other simple home baking recipes that can be used to create great purple desserts for various occasions.

There are natural ingredients that make it attractive. For instance, the ube purple yam gives a violet colour, while the blueberry cupcakes give a soft purple and blue shades. The purple velvet cake will give a deeper purple colour while the ombre effect can give a combination of different purple shades on a single cake. There are also ube cake and ube cheesecake that introduce the Filipino flavours.

This colour is not only appropriate for big parties. For instance, peach and blueberry crumble may become your choice if you want to have purple and blue desserts at a casual party, while purple cupcakes tower can suit the milestone birthday event.

In terms of putting the whole presentation together, it’s those little touches that will make the difference. A round purple foiled cake drum board underneath your cake is yet another purple detail to add and makes the entire table look coordinated.