1 / 18

How to decorate your Easter theme Layer Cake!

How to decorate your Easter theme Layer Cake!. Baking a cake. Ensure you put a parchment paper circle underneath your cake batter to make it easier to take out when baked & cooled. Demo. Make icing Color your icing using a toothpick and gel color How to prepare your icing bags

nariko
Download Presentation

How to decorate your Easter theme Layer Cake!

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. How to decorate your Easter theme Layer Cake!

  2. Baking a cake • Ensure you put a parchment paper circle underneath your cake batter to make it easier to take out when baked & cooled

  3. Demo • Make icing • Color your icing using a toothpick and gel color How to prepare your icing bags • Cut coupler size • Fit bag on a cup • Fill about a hands length of icing.

  4. How to fill your cake • Making a well/ wall around your filling • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvScYh5ghA8&feature=relmfu

  5. How to Crumb Coat • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCEV5bCJBEU&feature=relmfu

  6. How to ice your cake • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw92AXYARUQ&feature=relmfu

  7. STARS • Tip #18 & medium icing • Hold piping bag hovering over practice board. • Squeeze, hold, lift. • Maintain 90° angle

  8. ROSETTES • Tip #18, medium icing • Squeeze on 90° angle and wrap around

  9. SHELLS • Squeeze on 45° angle and pull so it has a tail • Often used for borders

  10. DOTS • Round Tip, Less than 90° • Squeeze to size of dot required and pull down quickly

  11. Basket Weave • Can make a basket or a fence using the tip • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE4hBly_F7w

  12. STAR FLOWERS • Tip 2D, medium icing,90° • The tip should be lightly touching surface. • Squeeze, letting icing build up to make the flower. Stop squeezing, then lift tip away. • Decorate the flower center, with small bead of icing, using round tip

  13. SWIRL DROP FLOWERS • Tip 2D, 90° angle • Lightly touch the surface with tip 2D. • As you squeeze out icing, slowly turn your hand until the back of your hand returns to its natural position • You may use a small round tip to pipe a small bead or dot

  14. LEAVES • Tip #352, thin consistency icing, 45° angle • With angled side down, pull down

  15. Piping a Trim • Use dots, rosettes or stars to make a simple trim around your cake and give it a professional look

  16. Transferring an image onto a cake • Choose the picture you would like to transfer • Lay a piece of parchment paper on top • Trace around the image with a gel writer • Place the parchment paper gel side down onto the cake • Fill the image with the desired colors • You may use different piping techniques to create a professional look

  17. Choose one of the images for your lab group’s cake • Decide what colours of icing you will need to create your picture • Write them down on your lab sheet to refer to for tomorrow when you are making icing

  18. Happy Baking!

More Related