Fourth of July Cake Decorating Supplies

Series Summary

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. This Independence Day, make a cake that will get everyone in the holiday mood. In this free video series, learn how to decorate a Fourth of July cake. Our expert, Karen Weisman, teaches professional cake decoration tips and techniques. She demonstrates how to make a truly impressive holiday dessert. Learn the basic supplies for decorating a cake. Also, get tips for trimming and cutting cake layers so that they are even. Curious about fondant icing? Weisman demonstrates how to prepare and color fondant. Learn how to make an American flag out of fondant icing, and get tips for transferring it onto the cake. Add fireworks, banners and stars to a Fourth of July cake. So, take a moment, and learn how to make a Fourth of July cake today!

Video Transcript

"Today, I'll show you how to create the spectacular 4th of July Cake. I'll show you techniques, using buttercream, fondant, and royal icing. I'll also give you some tips on how to shape a cake, that may be less than perfect, so you can have professional results at home. These are the materials we'll be using for our 4th of July Celebration Cake. We'll be using two nine inch round cakes, and one six inch round additional layer. We'll be using about six to eight cups of buttercream frosting. I'll be using a disposable pastry bag, fitted with its coupling, and a star tip for making the borders. We'll be using red, yellow, and blue food coloring. We'll be using this wire here, for some decorations. You want to use a fairly heavy gauge that will be able to stand up, with a little decoration on it. We'll be using some fondant, some ready made fondant, that you can purchase in a cake decorating supply store, and with the fondant, you'll need a little bit of confectioner's sugar, and a little bit of shortening or margarine to work with it. Also some toothpicks are handy for coloring fondant, and frosting. You'll need a serrated knife for cutting and shaping your cake, and you'll need some spatulas for the frosting. We'll be filling our cake with a chocolate ganache, and how you make that is, you use ten ounces of semisweet chocolate. You can use chocolate chips, or you can use a chocolate bar that you chop up, and you add to that, one quarter cup of cream, and you want to melt that over a double boiler. If you don't have a double boiler setup, you can put a pan, a smaller pan over a larger pan, full of water, and that will work also, and you stir that up. You want to melt the chocolate and the cream together, so that you don't have any curdling."