When I made wedding cakes I never froze any type of cake, but if you have to do it, the best method to thaw a cake for decorating is to be slow and patient about it. And freezing cake is one thing,...
Category: Cake decorating
These piped buttercream flowers that you can make ahead of time include daffodils and little hydrangea blossoms. You can do these on piping nails and transfer them to cakes or cupcakes by air-drying...
Making gold and silver icing is tricky, because if you mix edible luster dust into buttercream the shiny particles can't reflect light back, and that's what makes it shine. You have to use something...
I've been testing food coloring recently, and there are a few brands of natural food coloring that I've run across for cake decorating and buttercream icing. Most of them are pretty light, but...
Testing Out Supernatural Natural Food Coloring In Red And Green
Natural food coloring doesn't usually give you a really deep color, especially for red. If you're making a Christmas cake, you'll need red and green to pipe on buttercream icing decorations, and...
If you need to learn how to make royal blue icing, one cake decorating tip that you can use is to use powdered food coloring to get the dark color base. Watch how I get to the color that I'm going...