Cake Decorating
Make supplied designs your own
Use star tip No. 22 to pipe shell top and bottom borders in alternating colors. Along the bottom border of the cake, extend the border onto the sides...
Ante up with a poker cake
By Katherine Martin associate editor Place green fondant on the top of the black fondant-covered cake, and use a hexagon cake pan to trace and cut the...
'Sun'-sational cakes for summer
by Shirley Ryan Rose with Katherine Martin Use tip No. 103 to outline the bikini with bands of black icing. Finish the design with a white bottom border...
Geometric decorations transform contemporary wedding cakes
Mark a strip of fondant at 2-in. intervals. Use a ruler to cut diagonally from the top left corner to the second 2-in. mark. Continue down the length...
Desserts in bloom
After enrobing cupcakes in chocolate, use open tip No. 10 to pipe simple dot flowers. Ice cookies with warm fondant, and use buttercream to pipe flowers...
Cake ideas to sweeten Valentine's sales
by Jan Cartwright, Decorating Ideas editor Score a quarter sheet cake into 24 pieces and pipe hearts in each square. Form the hearts by piping two teardrops....
Enhance cake colors with airbrush techniques
Use tip No. 104 to pipe yellow and lavender pansies. Airbrush the entire cake green. Add another coat of color to the borders for accent. Place an oval...
Carve additional sales with sculpted dinosaur cakes
Pam Randel competed as the representative from the Chicago Area Retail Bakers Association in the Creative Decorating Competition at the Retail Bakers...
Quick decorating ideas for busy holiday season
Place a plastic Kwanzaa design on an 8-in. square cake. Add colorful strings of icing with tip No. 3. Stripe a pastry bag with white icing and fill it...
Enliven your in-store cake program
by Heather Brown, executive editor CAKES MEAN BIG BUSINESS for most supermarket bakeries. Custom-decorated, all-occasion, wedding and upscale dessert...
Create an award winning farm design
Juliet Brutger, Cold Spring Bakery decorator and RBA Cake Decorating Grand Champion But, Brutger's preparation truly began at age 16 when she started...
Fresh designs put sizzle in summer cake sales
The beginning of summer means graduations, the end of school, weddings, camping trips and picnics. Customers will want desserts to celebrate these events....
Rolled fondant techniques fetch top dollar
Buddy Valastro started decorating when he was 11 years old, and his cakes are regularly featured in popular bridal magazines.What do Modern Bride magazine...
Rolled fondant techniques fetch top dollar
Buddy Valastro started decorating when he was 11 years old, and his cakes are regularly featured in popular bridal magazines. This designer purse cake...
Decorate simply elegant wedding cakes
by Jan Cartwright,Decorating Ideas editor Pipe white dots using open tip No. 10 on the first and third tiers. On the second tier, pipe cornelli lace using...
