Saturday, 12 October 2013

Tips for Cake Decorating

Hey Hey,

So who doesn't admire those amazing, intricate cakes that looks like they have been planned to the very last detail.... Well they are!

I design all my cakes before I make them!
This means sitting down with a brief whether it be from a friend who has asked me to bake a cake for an event or just for a friends birthday or ever just for fun.
I will admit sometimes I make a cake and just throw the icing on cause I'm hungry and don't care how it looks. But even just throwing the icing on can make a cake look beautiful by making patterns or swirling the icing until you get the desired effect.

Here is what I usually do
here is my plan:
sorry its sideways it didn't work when I flipped it apparently
I did a few quick sketches and when I found exactly what I wanted I drew up my final design. As you can see I annotated it with all my different ideas.



 And here was the final result:
You can tell it slightly differs but is mainly the same.


To see how to make this cake look at  my earlier post:
Beach Cake

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