Cake Decorating Ideas
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Gelatin Plastic Is a Creative Way to Top Any Cake
If you’re into creative cake decorating, meet your next make: gelatin plastic. Once hardened and dry, gelatin plastic maintains a beautiful shape and translucent consistency, which mimics rock candy or even stained glass. It’s a simple way to create an avant-garde look to your sweets, especially if you twist it into spirals or a bow.
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How to Choose the Right Piping Nozzle for Your Cake
If you’re a cake decorator, chances are you’ve amassed an impressive collection (or what some might call hoard) of piping tips and nozzles. It’s important to learn how to choose the right piping nozzle for your cake. But even if you have quite a bit of royal icing and buttercream piping experience under your belt, it can still be tricky to visualize what your design will look like by the tip alone.
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Sugar Sheets Are The Most Foolproof Way to Decorate Spectacular Cakes
Decorating with sugar sheets is a blast, and you’re in for a seriously exciting adventure if this is your first time. Edible sheets of paper let you run wild with your decorating ideas, creating lots of different shapes and designs and working all kinds of cake magic. (Plus, they’re totally easy to master!)
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These Pastel Mini Cakes Are As Sweet As Spring
They’re not cupcakes, they’re mini cakes. Which means they’re ultra-fancy. And thanks to the magic of Russian piping tips, they’re easy enough for beginners to whip up.
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Modern Piping for Your Cake
Atlanta cake artist and 15-time Food Network challenger Joshua John Russell single-handedly brought piped cake decorations back into style. In Modern Piping, Joshua shows you his signature techniques for perfectly piped designs, from ornate monograms to gilded accents. You’ll learn how to make royal icing and pipe sophisticated designs for wedding cakes or any occasion cake that calls for elegance and panache.
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Tiered Ombre Cake with Fresh Flowers
This class will take you through the step-by-step methods that are ideal for bringing this dynamic creation to life. The first lesson starts with trimming and filling the baked and chilled layers of cake. Next you will learn a fool proof way for crumb icing your cake tiers in order to get them ready for the final icing.
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This Haunted House Cake Belongs at Every Halloween Party
Haunted houses are typically full of ghosts, ghouls, vampires and zombies. But what about one that’s full of cake? This one is scarily perfect for your Halloween party, and it’s great for beginners who want to level up their skills with something a smidge more challenging. The best part: haunted houses tend to look like they’re falling apart, so perfection isn’t the goal — it’s all about creating some creepy character!
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Cake-osaurus Rex
Rawwr! With Catherine Ruehle's help, learn to design, carve and decorate a fantastic dinosaur cake. You better eat it before it eats you!
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Here’s How to Bedazzle Your Cakes With Edible Glitter, Luster Dust and Lustrous Paint
You don’t have to be Cardi B to love a little bling. Think of all the glittering things in this world and how even a little sparkle can make anything seem more special — including cake. Especially cake. If you want to decorate a cake to make it more glamorous, more eye-catching or just more fun, bedazzle it! Here are a few different ways to get your gleam on.
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This Candy Corn Cake Makes Halloween All Sorts of Cute
Candy corn is an iconic Halloween treat, so might as well cake-ify it to be even sweeter. Just think how cute it’ll look on your Halloween dessert table!
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Vintage Cakes, Modern Methods
Add antique appeal to your fondant! Adorned with colorful peonies and lilies of the valley and gilded cages, your cakes will evoke a bygone era. Colette Peters’ innovative brush embroidery techniques make petals and leaves look stitched, whether they’re applied directly onto the cake or added on as three-dimensional gum-paste embellishments.
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Classic Sugar Flowers: Peony, Anemone, Tulip
Whether you’re relatively new to making gum paste blooms or a pro in the cake biz, you’ll find a wealth of useful tips and tricks from a veteran in the trade. Nicholas will start with the graceful French tulip, then build on these techniques for the more complex anemone.
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