Cake Decorating Techniques

Student guide for Wilton’s cake decorating course 3: Fondant and Tiered Cakes. Reach a new level of decorating sophistication with beautiful flowers and techniques. Begin with intricate accents such as embroidery and lace, string work, garland, and ruffle borders. Discover the beauty of decorating with rolled fondant for covering cakes with an immaculate smooth surface and shaping fun figures and elegant flowers. Add several new icing flowers to your repertoire, including lovely ho (more…)

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Cake decorating has been popular for a very long time. Many people everywhere really enjoy making their own cakes. This is true for special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, baby showers, bridal showers, holidays, and many more.

After learning the basic cake decorating techniques, you can make just about any cake for any event that you would like. With the exception of wedding cakes, cake decorating is fairly simple that anyone who is motivated can learn on their own. No classes are really needed for just the basic decorating techniques that you will find are needed for the majority of most cakes.

You can easily find detailed instructions to teach you the basic cake decorating techniques on the internet. There you will be able to see pictures, videos, and illustrations to help you make sure that you are doing each technique correctly. Most of this information is going to be free, so beware of the sites that make you pay for this information.

Another thing to keep in mind is making sure that you are getting the information from credible resources. Nowadays anyone with a computer and internet access can publish directions on how to do just about anything. You should be able to tell fairly easily if a site is not as credible as it should be. You may even want to compare a couple sites with each other to make sure that the directions you are following are the right ones.

Most of the cake decorating techniques you learn on the internet yourself are going to be the basic piping techniques, smoothing the frosting, handling the pastry bag, working with fondant, and several others. After you master each one of these, you will be able to do so many different cakes.

You can find books with cake ideas for any occasion imaginable. Holidays, birthdays, showers, and more will be celebrated with beautiful cakes made special by you. Not only will you save money by making these cakes yourself, but you will be making each one of these occasions that much more memorable with a homemade, hand decorated cake to enjoy.

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Kate Sullivan has baked wedding cakes and party cakes for some of New York’s most interesting weddings and events. Her sought-after recipes, designs, and tips are compiled in this extraordinary volume now available in paperback.Featured in numerous magazines, and on television, Sullivan is a respected and creative baker. For the first time, she brings her knack for creating the unusual to those of us who want to bake more than a layer cake but aren’t sure how.This book features her de (more…)

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