Welcome To Cake Decorating Ideas!
We have compiled some of the best pictures of decorated cakes to help your creative mind come up with your own cake decorating ideas.
Want to learn a decoration method? We have also added some of the most popular videos from YouTube. Many of the videos are from professionally trained pastry chefs and bakers, who are kindly sharing their knowledge with any who are interested in learning.
If you are ready to learn, then please browse through the many categories available. Better yet, go bake your cake, then look around for cake decorating ideas while your cake is baking, so you have your plan of action ready to go when your tasty treat comes out of the oven and has cooled.
Tip: Never frost a cake that hasn’t cooled completely, or you risk having your creation melt from escaping heat. It would be heartbreaking to see your designs slowly melting down the side of your newly baked confection.
New posts are added frequently, so check back often for even more cake decorating ideas!
Gum Paste Rose
A rose bud can be a beautiful decoration on any cake or cupcake adding color and creativity to birthday, wedding or anniversary cakes.
Making a rose bud isn’t as hard as you may think. With tools available on the internet or from craft stores, you are able to purchase all different stencils to use with gum past.
How To Create Your Gum Paste Rose
To start make a cone out of gum paste and attach to short thin green stick. Allow this to dry, once hard this will become the base of your flower. Read the rest of this entry »
Royal Icing Daisies
Adding a lovely summer theme with brightly colored royal icing daisies on any cake will give a great cheerful feel to any cake.
Take your daisy template to the flat side of your rose nail, place transfer tape over the template and wax paper over that. You don’t want to cut your wax paper too big because you need to turn the nail easily and if your wax paper is too big it will scrape against your hand constantly.
Tip number 104 is the best tip for this kind of work. It has one flat end and the one thin end. Put your tip into your icing/pastry bag and fill with white icing. Twist the top tightly enabling you to squeeze out the icing as you go. Read the rest of this entry »
Butter Cream Icing
Covering your cake with a delicious butter cream icing is a treat for everyone, but being able to produce a smooth, sleek cake will give you the edge whether you are making a tiered wedding cake or a birthday cake.
Always use a turntable when icing, it simplifies the process and you can move the cake around with ease. Putting a piece of cardboard under your tiers helps you move them later on.
Your first coat of butter cream should be your crumb coating which will then be covered in a second smooth coat. Start icing your cake using a spatula, start at the bottom of the cake and work your way around. Adding more icing as you go and working your way to about three quarters of the way up the side of your cake. Read the rest of this entry »
Layer A Cake
Layering a cake is much easier than you would think. You need to start by leveling your cake.
Place your cake on a rotating stand and a drum board. Drum boards are excellent for four tiers or less, any more than that and you will need a heavier wooden board to handle the weight of the cake. A thin board can be used between each tier. Once placed and covered in butter cream, you will have no idea it’s there.
Put your cake in the fridge or freezer, once cold it is stronger and easier to handle. Cover the cake in plastic and then foil, this will help keep your cake moist and protect it from odors in your fridge such as garlic or onions. Read the rest of this entry »
Smooth Icing
If you intend to decorate your cake, you will want the frosting to be smooth and free of any bumps or lumps. Creating a cake with smooth icing is really ease to do, if you know what to do.
You Will Need:
- 1 Large 16 inch bag
- 1 Tip number 7892
- Different sized spatulas
- Different sized scrapers
- Roll of Viva paper towels
Fill your bag with frosting and put your cake on a turntable, it makes it a lot easier to work this way, as you constantly need to turn the cake as your frost it. Read the rest of this entry »
How To Make Royal Icing
Making decorations for any cake or cupcake adds creativity and flair to your display. Whether it is a birthday, wedding or anniversary, using royal icing flowers on your cake leaves a great impression. No longer do you need to wonder how to make royal icing on your own!
When making royal icing you must ensure that you use glass or metal bowls. Plastic bowls and utensils soak up grease, which affects the outcomes of your icing. If you want to use plastic it must be brand new.
Sift three cups of royal icing and four cups of sugar to remove any lumps. Add three tablespoons of meringue powder in your mixing bowl. Read the rest of this entry »
How To Make Gum Paste
Making gum paste is easy and will enable you to make lovely decorations for your cakes and cupcakes. You don’t need to be a baking wizard to make your own gum paste.
Get your twelve teaspoons of tylose, eight cups of powdered sugar, four eggs and vegetable shortening ready.
Start by sifting your sugar into a bowl or jug. Add four egg whites to your mixing bowl and put your mixer on high speed for a few seconds, just to allow them to break up. Read the rest of this entry »
