Easy Buttercream Cake Designs: Learn how to pipe ruffles and other patterns with buttercream icing
Fiona Pearce
Language: English
Pages: 53
ISBN: B00D0AH01Y
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Do you dream of being able to make beautiful decorated cakes for any occasion? Easy Buttercream Cake Designs will teach you all of the essential buttercream cake decorating techniques you need to know to create your own amazing designs.
Includes 3 gorgeous pastel-coloured cake projects, piped with buttercream, that are impressive and stylish.
Plus a free video demonstrations, available online, to teach the best way of using buttercream to pipe ruffles onto a cake.
beginners who have little or no previous cake decorating experience, but I hope this book will also serve to inspire more experienced cake decorators and act as a design resource. While the instructions for each project will enable you to reproduce every one of the cakes exactly, I encourage you to adapt the designs and experiment with colours to make your creations unique. If you take the time to also make a few extra decorations while completing each project, you will quickly build up a useful
Buttercream can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 1 week. Remove it from the fridge at least 30 minutes before it is needed, to bring it to room temperature. Buttercream knowhow • Buttercream will always be slightly yellow in colour due to its butter content. This is tricky to counteract, especially if you are trying to colour it pink, as it generally turns an apricot colour when pink or red food colourings are added. A whitening agent (Superwhite) from cake
on a cake board covered with sugarpaste. 1 Knead sugarpaste on a non-stick board until it is smooth and pliable. 2 Using a non-stick rolling pin, roll out the sugarpaste to approximately 4mm (1⁄8in) thick. 3 Dampen the cake board with a moistened cloth, then lift the sugarpaste over the rolling pin, roll it over the top of the cake board and use your hands to smooth it down over the board. 4 Cut off the excess sugarpaste with a knife. 5 Use a smoother, if you have one, or the palm of
your hand to polish the surface of the paste. 6 Rub a finger around the rim of the cake board to smooth the edges. Trimming a cake board with ribbon Once a cake board has been covered with sugarpaste, a length of ribbon 1.5cm (5⁄8in) wide can be attached around the edge of the board using double-sided tape. Tip Use a coloured ribbon on the edge of the cake board that matches or complements the cake design. Cake stands There are oodles of cake stands and serving plates
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