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Cake Decorating Tools
How to Add a 2nd Cake Layer
How to Add a 3rd Cake Layer
How to Trim Cake Layers
How to Add Base Cake Frosting
How to Smooth Cake Frosting
How to Frost a Cake Top
How to Prepare a Cake for Fondant
Tools for Working with Fondant
How to Soften Fondant Icing
How to Make Color Fondant
How to Make Fondant Ribbons
How to Roll Fondant Ribbons
How to Decorate Fondant Ribbons
How to Make a Fondant Bow
How to Cover Cake Sides with Fondant
How to Cover the Cake Top with Fondant
How to Decorate Cake Borders
Fondant Decorating Tips
How to Add Ribbons to Cake Decorations
How to Add a Bow to Cake Decorations
How to Add Flowers to Cake Decorations
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Karen Weisman graduated from Boston University with a degree in hotel and food management. Since then, she has helped a national grocery store chain develop and launch a gourmet food...read more
"Hi, I'm Karen for Expert Village. Okay, let's start by preparing our cakes, trimming them to the right size. Now I want to take off the dome of this cake and I'm going to use a serrated knife. You want to cut that as level as possible. Okay? And we'll be discarding that cake or giving it to your friends, neighbors or children. You want to eye the cake to see that it is nice and flat. And then I'm going to turn the cake out of the pan. This is a baking paper that I place in the bottom of the disposable pan and it makes for a nice flat cake when you remove that. Now I'm going to trim my cake to six inches. And if you just actually mark it with the knife like that, measuring and cut the edges. Now do it a little bit bigger than six inches. You want to measure that a little bit bigger than six inches, because we'll probably want to trim the cake once more once we get the three layers together, in case they're slightly uneven. Okay, so we'll place our first cake down. Now if your cake slides on your serving platter, maybe your cake's a little drier or you're afraid it's going to slip off, you want to put just a dab of icing in the middle and that will act as glue to hold your cake down. And then you put your first layer of icing and you could also instead of using frosting, you can put a chocolate ganache between your layers. You can use a jam between your layers or anything in there. Make sure that it's nice and even. Now we'll trim our next cake. And again we want to just, with a serrated knife, just cut off the dome. Now I'm cutting it off while it's in the pan, because this pan is a one inch pan and I'm using the edge of the pan to gauge the correct height. And then I'll turn that out, remove my baking paper. Like that. We'll trim one end and measure six inches, a little bit more than six inches and here also and trim that cake. Okay, put our second layer down."
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adyenid said
on 9/23/2009 hi karem: i love your recepies and i want to know how long can i refrigerate the frosting? Thankyou very much anticipate!!!