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Crumb Coating A Cake

By Applying a thin inner layer of frosting to your cake it will trap crumbs and will help prevent bits of cake from appearing on the finished surface of the frosting, particularly important with the contrasting colors of chocolate cake and white or cream cheese frosting. [...]

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Before Covering Cake with Fondant (recipe only)

FondantBasic Decorating Technique   BEFORECovering Your Cake with Fondant   Cakes should be covered with apricot glaze (see recipe below) or a thin coating of buttercream icing. Let set 15 minutes before covering with fondant.   Apricot Glaze Ideal for preparing a cake for fondant or for crumb-coating cakes before icing.   Ingredients: 1 cup apricot preserves Heat preserves to boiling, strain. Brush on cake [...]

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Frosting Shape - Clowns - Elaborate Version

Clowns Basic Decorating Technique   Clowns Elaborate Verson     Tips: 21, 67 Bags: Featherweight or Disposable decorating bag with tip 21, parchment paper with tip 67 Icing: medium consistency Positions: Bag: 90° angle Tip: slightly above surface when piping body; inserted into body when piping arms and legs [...]

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Frosting Shape - Clowns - Simple Version

ClownsBasic Decorating Technique    CLOWNS  Simple Version     Using stiff royal icing and tip open star or shell tip - hold bag at a 90° angle and pipe swirl motion body for each clown. Then insert small derby clown heads and let dry. Pipe arms and legs into the position you want them in and add palm of hand. Top [...]

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Frosting Shape - Marigolds

MarigoldsCake Decorating Technique   MarigoldFlowers   Rich, golden puffs with a color bright as a gold coin!   Practice, practice with tips: 13, 101s To pipe, use tip 101s and press out a tiny petal, just half an inch long, narrow at center and curved at outer edge. Try to maintain a continuous back-and-forth motion, moving hand out, then back, then out [...]

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Candied Carrot Strips (use to decorate cakes)

  CANDIED CARROT STRIPS Perfect for decorating a Carrot Cake... Very unusual and tasty,fun to make and fun to sharehow you decorated acake using the "unusual"   Ingredients:4 large carrots 4 cups sugar 2 cups cold water1 oz. Orange Liqueur Directions:Peel the carrots and using a slicer set to 1/8-inch, slice the carrots lengthwise.   In a small sauce pan, add and [...]

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Frosting a Cake Evenly

    Frosting a Cakeand Spreading It Evently Do you have trouble spreading your frosting evenly and smoothly after creating a beautiful cake? Me too. You just created a beautiful, moist cake.  The cake has cooled and you are ready to top it with frosting. Problem:As you spread the frosting, it sticks to the cake, pulling up the beautifully golden [...]

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Frosting Shape - Woman or Man

 Woman or ManCake Decorating Technique   WOMAN or MANHanging over the side of the cake     DIRECTIONS:Use medium consistency buttercream and tip 1A, hold bag at 90° angle and squeeze out a line of icing for body and a ball of icing for head. Pipe tip 10 arms and legs in a line. Add tip 2 fingers, hair and [...]

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Frosting Shape - Mice

Mice - Mouse Basic Decorating Techniques M I C E Cute for Cinderella Cakes!       Use tips 1, 3, 101s. With tip 3, with medium pressure, pipe a dot then ease pressure to pull out end. Add tip 101s "petal" ears and tip 1 facial features and tail.    ***************

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Frosting Shape - Strawberries

StrawberriesBasic Decorating Technique   STRAWBERRIES   Practice with tips: 2, 8, 352 Using tip 8, pipe teardrop shape; add tip 352 leaves and tip 2 dot seeds.

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