Cake is a food items that gives happiness, indicates celebration and success. It is a good idea to bake a cake and decorate it for an event at the comfort of your house. Some of these cake decoration techniques can add more color to your cake.
One of the cake decoration tools is a pastry bag. It has different sizes with different attachments that come in tips form like star tip, rose tip, round tip, leaf tip and many more. All these equipment are used as required. Cake decoration techniques need large quantity of butter cream icing. The fundamental butter cream icing recipe is white in color. After which you can add color of your choice that is suitable for your cake. You will need an icing nail to make your rose flower decoration.
CAKE DECORATION TECHNIQUES
1. MESSAGES: To make a cake special for an event or person, writing a message that matches the occasion or the person is the best approach. Such messages could be on birthday wishes, name of the person, congratulation message and many more. Writing must be in a stylish form to make the cake look nice. The best decorating tip to use in writing text on your cake is round cake decoration tip of pastry bag.
2. BORDERS: No matter the shape of the cake, it is necessary to decorate the border of the cake. If not your cake will not have a perfect finishing. You can use a star tip to fill the icing which is inside the bag with the help of a color contrast to the base. With this, you can make zigzag pattern, dot pattern and so on to beautify your cake base. This is the simplest cake decoration techniques.
3. ROSES: This is the most attractive and admirable part of cake decoration. The art to learn by practice is making rose with icing. Here is the step to take:
a. Fasten a round tip to pastry bag. Put a parchment paper of square shape on icing nail.
b. Firstly, make a big icing dot in the middle of icing nail by squeezing the pastry bag, turn the nail and at the same time reduce the pastry bag pressure. End the squeezing where the starting point is met and raise the pastry bag up. That is the base of the rose.
c. Fasten the petal tip to pastry bag; grasp the biggest part at the middle of the upper part of the rose base and the nail. Squeeze the bag, and then tighten the nail gently to the right. When a big circle is made, stop the squeezing. That is the inner part of the petal.
d. Let the tip be on the top of the first petal. Begin to squeeze in order to form the next petal by twisting the nail to the right side. Do the same process in (a) to (c) again for five times to make the outer petals.
e. Gently remove the parchment paper from icing nail. Put the paper and the rose somewhere for 30 minutes after which the rose is cut off with knife and gently put it on cake.
f. Leaves
g. Lines: Round tip could be used to draw lines on your cake. This is another simplest approach of cake decoration techniques.
Therefore, different cake decorating techniques gives cake an icy and savory taste.
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