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Summary: Get the proper tools needed to decorate a cake; get expert tips on homemade cake recipes in this free baking video.
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A hand-decorated cake makes any occasion more special. Serving a homemade cake with unique, personalized icing lets the guest of honor know that you really care. Icing design can be as simple or as elaborate as you choose. Whether the event is a birthday, wedding, baby shower, graduation or holiday celebration, you’ll impress everyone when they learn that the artistry is your own creation.
In this series of free video clips, you’ll learn cake decorating ideas and techniques from a professional. Expert Linda Leon guides you through the entire procedure of decorating a cake, offering a recipe for homemade butter cream icing and tips on various icing techniques. She also explains the essential decorating tools you’ll need to add handwriting and make rose, leaf and vine designs. Surprise a special person in your life with a beautiful homemade, hand-decorated cake today. Once you’ve sampled this recipe, you’ll never want a store-bought cake again.
" Hi, I’m Linda Leon with Expert Village.com, and we are going to be talking about cake decorating today. Our theme is the tools for the trade, so come on over and let me share with you some of my tips. Now here are some of the tools for the trade. If you are going to be a good cake decorator, you need a good set of tips. This is the set that I used when I was a professional cake decorator, but for you, all you need to get started is a few tips. You will need a rose tip, which makes rose petals and other flower type petals. You will need a good writer’s tip so that you can put your greetings on your cake, and these come in all various sizes. This is one of the larger ones here, and it is also called a piping tube. You are going to need a good border tip, and this is a basic star border tip, and these come in all shapes and sizes also. Then you are going to need a leaf tip, so you can make good flowers and pretty vines and decorations on your cake. You will also need a stainless steel spatula because this is going to help you get the icing on the cake just right. That’s a small version. I also like to use the larger stainless steel spatulas. You will need a rose tip. This is a rose tip, and when you watch my segment on how to make a rose, you will see how this is used. You will also need a coupler and a coupler screw, which goes inside of a decorator’s bag. This is a decorator’s bag, and that is where you put your icing. You slide your tip in with your coupler and your screw inside of this. And finally you are going to need a good spinning wheel or some type of spinner so that you can ice your cakes properly. I hope you got the opportunity to learn something new today, and I would encourage you to continue on with some of our other segments and learn some other new things about cake decorating."
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evuser10825 said
on 8/2/2008 Thank you million
Really appreciate your help
betsybk1 said
on 8/2/2008 I am so thankful I found you! I am a disabled woman stuck at home. I have a desire to learn cake decorating for possible extra cash & as a fun hobby! But, I cannot drive & all of the other classes I found cost a to9n of money! Then, after 1 3 week search - I found you! God Bless You! Thankyou, Betsy Kendrick
connie55 said
on 8/2/2008 The video was very helpful I have not decorated in approx 2 yrs and I recently applied for a cake decorating job. The video helped me to brush up on my technique.