What is this Project About?
Creativity can be a piece of cake! Through this project you will learn the skills to start making cakes for parties and events. It starts with knowing the basics like simple borders, decorations and cake molds. Then it advances to lace and lattice work, tiered cakes, special icings and, finally, advanced flowers.
Grow in Your Project
Starting Out
- Prepare icing to use for borders, drop flowers, and lettering
- Experiment with different decorating tips
- Learn about professional cake decorating equipment
- Decorate with borders, flowers, leaves, and letters
- Use a stencil and paper pattern to decorate a cake
Learning More
- Bake and frost level cakes with smooth icing
- Bake and frost two-layer cakes with jam, pudding, or other filling
- Make flat surface flowers and flowers on a nail
- Learn piping techniques
- Learn advanced borders like lattice, basket weave, pine cones, and haystacks
- Consider cake size, shape, decorating placement, and number of servings
Going Further
- Assemble stacked and tiered cakes
- Experiment with gum paste
- Color and shape marzipan for decorations
- Make pulled sugar decorations
- Apply rolled fondant to a cake and decorate it
- Study the principles of element and design used in cake decorating
Take Your Project Further!
- Visit a bakery to see cake decorating in action
- Create drawings for decorating ideas using the internet or magazines as inspiration
- Attend a food or restaurant show
- Visit a professional decorator to get new ideas
- Interview a home decorator about markets, pricing, and advertising
- Attend a cake decorating class
- Attend a wedding cake consultation
- Compare and contrast different brands of cake mixes or food colorings
