What are Sprinkles?

Sprinkles are simply small decorations made of puffed rice, flour, starch and sugar. They come in many different shapes: balls, pearls, vermicelli, hearts, bats, stars, crowns, cats and many more. There are as many shapes as your imagination can give and with very different themes: Halloween, Christmas, baby shower, summer and many more.

Sprinkles can be sugar pearls in pastel shades or bright colors. Some are also chocolate or flavored, which adds even more benefits to using this type of cake decoration.

Sprinkles are often used to decorate cupcakes and cake designs, but they can also be sprinkled on a birthday table.

In this category page you will find dozens of different types of sprinkles that you can use on all your pastries.

Our various sprinkles available on Autourdugâteau.fr

Discover our almost unlimited variety of sprinkles, confetti, hearts, butterflies, beads, sugar pearls...

To decorate a designer cake, edible decorations are a must-have; they're everywhere and allow you to brighten up your creations in no time. Simply order your sprinkles according to the theme you want: butterflies for a country or princess theme, hearts if you want to create a Valentine's Day cake, gold and pearl beads if your wedding cake is in a chic style.

We offer something for all tastes and in all forms:

- Sugar confetti are small flat circles of various colors or plain.

- pearls, balls and other spheres can be made of sugar or chocolate.

- The more extravagant shapes of sprinkles, they represent characters or animals: zombie heads, dinosaurs, butterflies, donuts, crowns etc. And they have the advantage of being made of sugar like all sprinkles, therefore edible!

- Rods or vermicelli in French, are colored sugar 'sticks'.

- Finally, you will also find on our site a classic sprinkle: mini meringues!

How to use sprinkles?

There are several techniques for placing sprinkles on your cakes:

- Simply uncap the sprinkles container and sprinkle them directly onto the cake. This is the least precise but fastest method.

- If you want to be more precise in the arrangement of the sprinkles , use an angled tweezer , it is a small tweezer that allows you to grab your sprinkles and pearls and place them with unparalleled precision on your pastries. This technique is very practical for making special decorations with sprinkles.

In the same genre, you have sugar pearl guns, which allow you to place pearls one by one on a cake design or pastry.

You can also use sugar beads or pearls to decorate your cakes or wafer discs .