Cake Decorating

One of the most important components of cake making is the decorating. You could have a really good tasting cake, but if it doesn’t look cool, or catch the consumers eye, how do you expect someone to but it?? There are many different techniques to cake decorating. One of the easiest and most effective ways is to use Fondant. Fondant is a thick sugar paste that is very easy to mold, it has a very similar texture to play dough.

In the video below you see the simplicity of molding fondant into a beautiful ribbon and bow. When trying to get the fondant to stick together, you need to use paste that is made up of water and Meringue Powder. One thing that baker stressed was that it is very important to let the fondant sculpture dry, in this situation it was a lovely pink bow. She rested it on a block of foam to allow it to dry longer. Once the bow had dried it was ready to be placed on the cake. This simple decorating technique took a good cake and transformed it into a great cake!!