Pastry Bakery Knowledge: Cake Decoration
What is Cake Decorating?
- Cake decorating is one of the sugar arts that uses icing, frosting, filling, topping, glazing, and other edible decorative elements to make plain cakes more visually interesting.
- Alternatively, cakes can be molded, cut, and sculpted to resemble three-dimensional persons, places, and things.
- Decorating a cake usually involves covering, glazing, it with some form of icing, and then using decorative sugar, candy, chocolate, or icing decorations to embellish the cake.
- It can be as simple as sprinkling a fine coat of icing sugar or drizzling a glossy blanket of glaze over the top of a cake.
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Cake Decoration Characteristic
- Sculpting/ Molding: sculpt or molding the cake or other pastry products into shapes such as round, oval, square, shoes, pillows, animals, or even people, etc.
- Icing: Coat the cake with icing sugar, royal icing, or any type of sugar decorating
- Glazing: Cover the cake with a glossy glaze that is made from white chocolate or gelatin
- Piping: Pipe the cake with buttercream, whipped cream, meringue, etc.
- Covering: Cover the cake with marzipan, fondant, or American roll buttercream
- Coating: Coat cake with ganache, mirror glace, etc.
- Brushing: Brush or paint the cake with edible paint
5 kinds of Cake Decorating
- Filling
- Frosting
- Topping
- Glazing
- Icing
Kinds of Cake Decorating |
1. Filling
- A filling is any substance inside of the cakes or any pastry product (a filling inside a cinnamon roll, a filling inside a pie).
- Anything between layers of cake is a filling such as a layer of jam, ganache, whipped cream, buttercream, cream cheese, or fruits.
2. Frosting
- It is made from sugar, butter, milk, cream, and sometimes egg whites and is often flavored with extracts, chocolate, and/or fresh fruit.
- Some frostings are cooked, but most are uncooked and whipped together using a whisk or mixer.
- The consistency can range from a thin glaze to a thick spread.
- E.g. Buttercream, Whipped cream, Cream cheese, etc.
3. Topping
- In general, things on the top of a cake are called toppings, in the same way, that things on the top of a pizza are called toppings, but that usually doesn't count the frosting or icing or glaze.
- E.g. Fruit, Nuts, Crumble, Chocolate chips, Shredded chocolate, Grated cheese, Meses/ hegelslag
4. Glazing
- A sweet glaze used to cover or decorate baked goods like cookies or cake.
- To make a surface of the cake shiny by putting a liquid substance onto it and leaving it or heating it until it dries
- E.g. White chocolate base, Dark chocolate base, gelatin, etc.
5. Icing
- A sweet, creamy spread, as of confectioners' sugar, butter, and flavoring, for covering cakes, cookies,
- A sweet coating for baked goods (as cakes)
- E.g. Royal icing, icing sugar, etc.
Types of Cake Decorating
- Meringue
- American Buttercream
- Italian Buttercream
- Swiss Buttercream
- French Buttercream
- Buttercream-Rolled
- Whipped Cream
- Mousse Base
- Cream Cheese
- Pastry Cream/ Custard
- Fondant- Rolled
- Fondant- Poured
- Marzipan
- Ganache
- Glazed - Mirror glaze
- Royal Icing
Cake Building
Cake Building Component
- Cake
- Filling
- Icing/ Frosting
- Topping
1. Cake
- Prepare and make a sponge cake
- Cut and splitting a cake into two or three equal layers
Prepare and Cut the cake |
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2. Filling
- Wet the sponge cake with flavored simple syrup (be sure to use enough)
- Spread the filling on the first layer
- Add a second layer of cake
- Repeat the procedure for the next layer
- Finish with a layer of syrup-soaked cake
- E.e. Buttercream, Cream cheese, or Whipped cream, etc.
Fill The Cake |
3. Icing/ Frosting
- Place a large amount of icing on top of the cake
- Spread the icing over the top and just to the edge
- Using the icing hanging off of the top, start spreading icing on the sides of the cake
- Repeat until the cake is completely covered and smooth
- Finish as desired
- E.g. Buttercream, Cream cheese, or Whipped cream, etc.
Icing / Frosting |
4. Topping
- Garnish with fruit, chocolate chips, crumble, shredded chocolate, meses/ hegelslag (chocolate sprinkle), grated cheese, or nuts, etc.
Kinds of Topping Fruit, Grated cheese, Shredded Chocolate |
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When you first start out learning how to decorate a cake you should use store bought box mixes as the foundation of your designs.
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