Hot Cake Decorating How-Tos

How To: Make homemade dessert icing

While topping your cake or cupcake with icing is easiest done using storebought icing, we're sorry to inform you that most grocery store icing has high amounts of saturated fat and even trans fat, both of which clog your arteries and contribute to heart disease. Not so appetizing now, is it?

How To: Frost a cake

Nothing completes a fresh-made cake more than a sweet coating of icing. Learn how long you should let a cake cool before frosting it, and also how to ice a crumb coat. You will need a cake stand, offset spatula, icing and cake.

How To: Decorate cake borders

Don't serve your guests a plain old cake. Jazz it up with these decorative borders. You will need a cake stand, piping bags, round and star pastry tips and a coupler. These cake decorating items can be found online or at a specialty food store. You will also need some room- temperature icing for easy piping. This video shows you how to do pearls, stars, flowers, shells and a bottom cake border.

How To: Make cream cheese frosting for cakes

If you love topping your bagel with cream cheese, then try it on your favorite cake! Combined with sugar and a few simple ingredients, cream cheese becomes a distinctive and delicious frosting. After your frosting is mixed, it is ready to use immediately. Or, you can put it in an air-tight container and store it in the refrigerator for up to a week, or in the freezer for up to three months.

How To: Make marzipan candy & cake decorating

In this dessert cooking class on video, learn how to make marzipan candy and cake decorations. Marzipan is a sugar and almond confection known for its ability to be molded into shapes as various as you can imagine. Our expert will walk you through making some basic marzipan delights, including a strawberry, a raspberry, a carrot, an orange, a leaf, a rose, and chocolate covered candies. She’ll explain the ingredients and utensils you need to get started, how to shape the confections, and how ...

How To: Make Ganache frosting

This video series takes you step by step through the process of making ganache which is liquid chocolate made with semi-sweet chocolate and cream. In the end of the series, you'll also see how to apply the ganache to some great desserts.

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