Cake Decorating Techniques

Making stylish cake decorations is fun. But, in order to make them you have to know the basics of baking. Here is therefore some simple advice / tips on what you should think about when you are baking!

1. Always roll marzipan using potato flour that is easy to brush off the marzipan.
2. Whip up a few extra egg whites and put it into the Cake mixture if you want it more fluffy.
3. Do you want chocolate cake really dark in color – use baking soda instead of baking powder. Half the amount of baking powder.
4. Whip cream with 1 teaspoon cold stirred custard powder per dL and you will get a firmer and tastier cream.
5. When you bake muffins, place foil on a plate before you put on the filled molds so you do not burn the bottom.
6. Add a pinch of salt as you whip egg whites and you will get high and durable foam.
7. Never allow the custard to come into direct contact with marzipan when you make a cake. The vanilla cream will melt the marzipan.
8. Try to take out the eggs from the refrigerator a few hour before baking and let them reach room temperature. By doing so, the baking result will get much better.
9. If you don’t have have dark chocolate at home, it can be replaced by 3 tablespoons cocoa powder, 15g butter and 2 tablespoons sugar. Equal to 25 g of chocolate.
10. If you put a frozen cake in the refrigerator, it will thaw in just 3 hours.

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The star tip is undoubtedly the most useful and the most famous tip. With a star tip, available in many different sizes, you can create stars, flowers, borders, rosettes, shells, French lilies and much more.

Before you start with the piping you will need a couple of tips in different sizes.

My recommendation is:

• For small stars: Tip No. 16, 18, 21, 32 and 199 These tip fits in small coupling.
• For big stars: tip No. 4B, 6B and 1M. These tip fit on a large coupling.

Before you start:

Fill the bag with a frosting that is not too loose for the peaks to stay upright. Are you right-handed, do the movements from left to right. Hold bag at a 90 degree angle

Small star:

1. Keep tip lace just above the surface of the substrate
2. Press with a flat and still and short press so that frosting attaches itself in an approximately 2 mm thick layer.
3. Cut off, press and lift off the tip. If the star gets a high peak, you have not stopped pushing until you lift off the tip. It is necessary to do so before torque is completed to get a nice and perfect ending. The most important thing, when it comes to making perfect stars is to completely stop squizing before the tip is lifted off and to keep the bag with tip in a fully upright position (90 degrees).

Exercise:

Make a couple of lines with close fitting stars who have all the same size and height.

A band of stars

A number of stars can be used as a nice ending around the edge of a decorated cake. Always try to get the small stars so much alike and regularly as possible and place them close together.

Small star to cover decoration

To cover an entire surface with small smooth and tight-fitting Star is an excellent method to get a fine and distinct area of a motive cake. The most important thing for a good result is that the stars are equal and that they are really tight.

Triple star tip

With a triple tip can you easily do three tight-fitting stars with a pressure. Perfect when you are decorating a lot and want to work quickly and efficiently. The size corresponds trippel tip No 18

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Hello and welcome to cake decorating techniques website! Here you will be able to read about the best way to decorated your cakes and what tools you need for optimum performance.

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Many people are interested in cake decorating, but not many people can get the technique down to be successful at making their own cakes. While most of these people aren’t interested in cake decorating as a business or career, many of them just want to make their own cakes for the various celebrations that they celebrate throughout the year.

Learning all the various cake decorating techniques there are can easily be accomplished by simply taking some lessons. Believe it or not, many cake decorating classes are taught at local craft and hobby stores, and are perfect for the beginner that would like to make some really cute cakes.

Most of the classes for cake decorating that are offered at local craft or hobby stores are held on the weekends during various workshops throughout the month. These classes are not very expensive at all, making for an even bigger benefit for learning.

The instructor should be knowledgeable and patient while teaching the various cake decorating techniques to each person. Some may catch on quicker than others, and some may just need to take a few of the workshops to really grasp hold of everything. Some of the techniques most commonly taught is smoothing out the frosting properly, handling a pastry bag, and basic piping techniques.

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Once you get really good at the basics, you should be able to make a large variety of cakes out there.If you live in a location that does not have a good amount of local craft or hobby stores to choose from, then you can always contact a local bakery to see if they offer either private or group cake decorating lessons.

You should be aware that they will probably be slightly more expensive than the craft store classes, but you will most likely get more one on one direction, as well as being taught a larger amount of cake decorating techniques.

Once you find a good class that you will fit into based on your learning style, you will soon be putting together so many cakes for all the different occasions you can imagine. You will probably find that everyone will soon be coming to you to make their cakes.

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