Simple Cake Decorating Tip: Icing With Out Crumbs
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I started decorating cakes when my daughter asked me to make her Wedding Cake. I did a lot of practicing when I first started. I would like to share with you some of the easy techniques I learned along the way. My first question was "How do I keep cake crumbs out of the Icing while I am frosting my cake?" Have you ever frosted a cake and been aggravated with the crumbs getting into the icing making the surface speckled with bits of cake? Continue reading...
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Simple Cake Decorating Tip: Smoothing Butter Cream Icing
After we have Iced our cake with out crumbs we need to smooth the cake out. I have included some step by step instructions and photos I took of a cake I made quickly today. Continue reading...
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Cake Decorating: Snow White Icing
The following is a recipe for Snow White Butter Cream Icing used for Wedding cakes. So far in our tutorials we have made Decorators Butter Cream Icing and Royal Icing. Snow White Butter Cream Icing is what most decorators use if they need an all white cake. Continue reading...
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Making a Dinosaur Cake
Last weekend my grandson turned 2 years old. I had planned to make him a Magic School Bus Cake. At the last minute he asked for a dinosaur cake. I love making cakes so I jumped right in changed gears and this is what I came up with.
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Butter Cream Icing for Cake Decorating
ingredients:
1/2 cup solid vegetable shorting
1/2 cup butter softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons milk
Makes approximately 3 cups icing.
Cream shorting and butter with an electric mixer. Add vanilla. Gradually add sugar one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often. Continue reading...
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Cake Decorating: Royal Icing
Today we are going to make Royal Icing. What is Royal Icing? Cake decorators use royal icing to make edible decorations to put on cakes. Royal icing is not for frosting a cake. This icing is stiff and drys hard. When making decorations to place on a cake they are usually made and left to sit on waxed paper until they are dry(24 hrs). Then you can gently place them on the cake where you would want them. Continue reading...
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