Decorating Basics

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Ingredients included in this recipe are Confectioners Sugar, sifted, salt, vanilla.

There are many trimmings besides frosting that can be used for cake decorating. Some of the common items are chocolate, candy, coconut, fruit, and nuts. Used alone or combined, these trimmings will make an interesting cake decorating design on an otherwise plain cake.

Cake decorating with chocolate offers many ways to add fun and delicious looking decorations to use when decorating chocolate cakes, white cakes, or any flavor cake that pairs well with chocolate. The chocolate decorations can be used alone or added to other decorating designs.

When it comes to cake decorating many of us just scoop the frosting on the cake and spread it around the best we can. Sometimes the cake doesn't turn out too bad and other time it can be a struggle to end up with a frosted cake that is presentable.

There are cake decorating supplies that you can use when cake decorating at home to make the task much easier. You will be surprised at how much easier it is to frost a cake when you are using the right spatula or how a turntable makes frosting all sides much simpler.

Decorating Frosting is a simple frosting that works well for writing or piping on details when decorating cakes and cookies. The consistency of this frosting recipe can be changed to make it flow easily. Being able to adjust the consistency of the frosting is critical when you are doing detailed decorating.

Decorating tips are the nozzles on the end of a pastry bag that the frosting or filling is forced through to apply it to cakes, cookies, or pastries.