How to Smooth Icing

Your icing should be dry to the touch so when you touch it, nothing comes off on your finger. If that was moist and fresh and I touched it I would have icing on my finger tips. Now I’m going to take my towel and lay it across the top of my cake and gently rub it.

As I do this my fingers are leveling out the surface and the cake will pick up the texture of the paper towel. I have another paper towel that I use that has a very smooth texture. Do you see that pretty little texture on the cake?

Now we’re going to continue around the side because I want the sides of the cake to look as pretty as the top of the cake. I am just rubbing my hands up and down and back and forth. hen I run out of paper towel I just pull it off and reposition it and continue.

I’m going to show you the basics of pastry bags and pastry cones. These are used to decorate cakes and cupcakes. To start I’ll show you how to make a pastry cone. You can make them out of cellophane, wax paper and parchment paper. I’ll show you how to make then out of parchment paper.

To start, roll your parchment paper out, you want to get a perfect square. We’re going to cut the square in half to make a triangle. One trick is to fold this edge to the top edge and the crease it, and the cut along this line. Then open it up, and your going to use that crease as a guide line to cut your triangle out.

Now it’s time to form the cone. I have one over here. I’ve drawn a line right in the middle of the longest side of the triangle and that’s where my point is going to form. To do this, take one corner and roll it in on itself so that the corner lines up down here. Wrap the other side aroud to the back. You’ll see that the two sides line up right down the middle.

Now you want tape to wrap it around the tip. This will prevent the bag from opening while your squeezing it. So there is your pastry cone. To fill it, hold it in your hand, take a spatula, put some frosting on it, place it slowly into the bag, then pinch your fingers down on it and slide the spatula out.

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How to Add Color to Fondant

Now I’ll show you how to color the fondant. For this cake, we’re going to use a lot of different colors. So, I’m going to show you how to add color to the fondant.

The fondant comes in white, usually like this and then you buy some food colors. Now, you don’t want to use the liquid food kinds. You want to use either a paste or gel. You can get the colors from the cake decorating department of a craft or a specialty baking store.

I have a toothpick here and you take the color and you kind of rub it in to the fondant. Then you want to knead it in until it becomes nice and solid color.

This is a copper color and it’s specified to be used for a light skin tone. We’re making a cake that has a lot of people on it and this is the color you would use for a light skin-tone people. If you want to add more browns or change the color, you can add other colors.

As you knead it and stretch it you see that it becomes a little bit stripy and you want to continue that until it becomes solid.

As you knead it, you can see that it becomes stripy like this and you just continue kneading until you have a solid color. You may actually in some cases want to have this sort of marbleized stripy look and at that point you could stop and use it.

But for the skin tone, I want it to be a solid skin tone color.
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Birthday Cake Decorating Ideas For Boys

When it comes to birthday cake ideas for boys, one obvious choice would be a western theme –what better way to “corral” a group of lively little boys?

There are many fun ideas for birthday cake for boys which will keep them happy and entertained. No matter how young or how old, boys love toys, so any toy themed cake is going to be a surefire hit.  Some other popular cakes for boys include Toys, Cars, Stuffed Animal, Cartoon and any. See some picture here.

 

 

Birthday Cake Decorating Ideas For Girl

Actually there are many decorating ideas you can find online for this birthday cake decorating ideas. If you want to make a cake for a girl you can use many theme for that.

One of the most popular i want to share with you is Disney Princess theme. This theme suitable for girl's cake decorating. This theme available online along with Ariel, Mulan, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.

Here i grab a few photos to share with you for this birthday cake decorating. Hope you can get some ideas from that.