LO 3.

Decorate cakes
Decorate sponges and cakes suited to the product and occasion and in accordance with standard
recipes and enterprise practices

Use suitable icings and decorations according to standard recipes and/or enterprise
standards and customer preferences
Cake Decorating
 Have you ever thought about how much time and creativity is put into
making and decorating a cake?
Cake Decorating

Cake decorating is one of the sugar arts

that uses icing and other edible decorative
elements to make otherwise plain cakes
more visually interesting.
Things to consider when creating/decorating
a cake
 Your birthday is coming up…what kind of cake would you design?
 What creative holiday/special occasion cakes can you think of?
 Flavor of cake?
 Theme of cake?
 How creative can you get?
 Imagine the possibilities!
 Meaning of Icing

Icing is a sweet coating made of sugar, butter, water, and egg whites or milk; It is often flavored and cooked and
used to cover or decorate baked goods, such as cakes or cookies.

Different Types of Icing

Here are the most popular kinds of cake icing that you can use to finish your cakes.

1. Butter Cream Butter cream is made of sifted powdered sugar, milk and superior butter. The quality of butter used
will reflect on the appearance, consistency and taste of your butter cream frosting.

Children love this type of frosting and are one of the most common types used in cake decorating and the secret is
whipping up the butter at the right temperature. Also, since this type of cake icing melts easily in hot weather, the
finished cake must be chilled prior to serving to prevent the butter cream frosting from losing its stiffness.
2. Whipped Cream This type of cake icing is achieved using cold heavy whipping cream and sugar. Some would advise you
to use powdered sugar but ordinary granulated sugar would work just as well. You can also add your preferred extract or
flavoring to match your cake's flavor. This is a favorite among those who love a light and easy-to-make frosting on their
cake.

3. Royal Icing This type of cake icing dries into a hard outer shell. It is also one of the easiest to dye with edible colorings.
There are two ways to make this type of frosting: using egg whites (like a meringue icing) and powdered sugar or by using
meringue powder in place of egg whites. This type of icing is also used to "flood" or color sugar cookies by adding a bit
more water to make it pourable. The baker then uses different cake decorating tools to draw features on plain biscuits or
cookies.

4. Cream Cheese Frosting Cream cheese frosting is made with part butter cream frosting and a good quality cream cheese.
This type of frosting is usually perfect for carrot cakes, red velvet cakes and as a filling for doughnuts and cupcakes
because of its consistency. It is a bit heavier to spread than most types of cake icing. Some would even put cream cheese
frosting on their bread as a standalone spread!
5. Meringue The basic ingredients for this frosting are egg whites, cold water and granulated sugar and are one of the
most common types of cake icing. It is light and fluffy because air is introduced into the egg mixture to create a stiff
consistency.

6. Fondant This is a popular heavy frosting among celebration cakes because it is easy to sculpt and work out. Basic
fondant ingredients include gelatin, glycerine, water, icing or castor sugar (lighter than powdered sugar) and shortening.
Fondant is made by melting marshmallows (or heating the gelatin mixture) and adding the rest of the ingredients until
you achieve the right consistency, which ideally, should stretch but should not tear easily. This cake icing is quite heavy
and sculpting it to various shapes is possible with the use of carving and decorating tools.

7. Chocolate Ganache
Chocolate ganache and glazing are probably the easiest cake icings to make. Watch my video tutorial how to prepare
chocolate ganache.
Steps and Procedures in Icing a Cake

Cake cardboard Cake boards come in all different sizes. Use a board that is 1-inch larger than the cake pan.
If you don’t have cake boards, a kitchen plate would be just fine.

Turntable It is used to move cake easily in making frosting and decorating

Cake decorating knife or Icing spatula These are round tipped blunt knives that are essential for moving icing
around and smoothing edges. They come in bent and flat. I almost exclusively use a flat, but the bent come in handy
for smoothing the top of cakes.
 Procedure in icing a cake

1. Start by taping a doily to your cake board, or kitchen plate.

Place on the revolving cake stand. .

2. Center cake on top of the cake board or kitchen plate.

3. Dollop about 3/4 cup of frosting into the center of the cake
round.

Pour about ½ cup to 3/4 cup of butterscotch filling into the center of the iced layer. Using the back of a spoon, not
your icing spatula, spread the filling until it reaches the icing barrier that you have created.
5. Set aside the butterscotch topped layer for a moment. Place the second layer of cake on a piece of waxed paper on
the revolving cake stand, top side up. Trim the cake with a serrated knife to even out the cake round just as you did
with the first layer.

6. Return the butterscotch layer to the cake stand and carefully place the second layer, frosting side down, on top of
the butterscotch filling.

7. Make sure that the top of the cake is fairly even. Gently push the cake down a bit if one side is higher than the other.
Place a cup of frosting onto the center of the cake. Using the icing spatula spread the frosting out towards the edges of the
cake. Smooth the center letting frosting accumulate at the edges of the top of the cake if you find you have extra. The
extra frosting at the edge of the cake can be used to frost the sides of the cake.

8. Run the icing spatula under warm running water. Cleaning the knife with warm water will help smooth the icing
more easily.
9. Once the sides have been frosted and smoothed, clean the icing spatula once again.

Now your cake is ready for decoration. You can cover the cake with fondant and go nuts
Group Activity: Dummy cake.

Using any available materials, the group will create a dummy cake.

Observe proper application of design elements.