Cake Fakery: Tips, Tricks, Short Cuts & Insider Cake Decorating
Secrets For The Novice Decorator
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From Rhonda Flanagan
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Dear Frustrated Novice Cake Decorator,
Does the thought of making a birthday cake for your child's birthday
give you a feeling of dread in the pit of your stomach?
When your club asks for a volunteer to make a cake for the next
social, do you sink down in your chair so nobody will see you?
I KNOW THE FEELING. LET ME TELL YOU MY STORY...
Since I was a little girl, I have loved to bake. I'm 45 now and,
over the span of my life, I have made thousands of cookies, brownies,
bars and cheesecakes. In my younger years, I would attempt the
occasional cake, but was never happy with the way it looked. It always
looked sloppy and amateurish, and I hated that. I even remember
throwing frosting across the kitchen once!
In 1992, I was getting married. I was bound and determined that I
was going to make my own wedding cake. I must have been crazy, but we
were on a tight budget and I thought it would be "fun." I had about
six months before my wedding and figured if I was going to learn, I
had better get on the ball.
Long story short, I took a few months of cake decorating courses and
made a really respectable wedding cake. Not the most beautiful ever
made, but it was very pretty and our guests were impressed. I
accomplished my goal of making my own wedding cake, and I was proud of
it. I also got really good at birthday cakes and, for a few years,
made many pretty cakes for birthdays and other family get-togethers.
Fast forward a decade or so and we've moved to Las Vegas. A few
years after the move, I was looking for a job. Baking and decorating
cakes immediately came to mind, so I thought "how about a bakery?"
There is a famous bakery here that has been featured in multiple TV
food shows that I wanted to work for.
There was one problem, though. Before we made the big move from
Indiana to Nevada, I stupidly sold all of my cake decorating supplies
at a garage sale, except for my cake pans and a few cake plates. So
here I was, out of practice and with no equipment. But I wanted to
make some cakes to show them what I could do.
I didn't want to spend a ton of money on equipment, plus a bunch of
time practicing the techniques I'd learned years ago. I gathered what
I could from my kitchen to use as tools and spent hours experimenting,
trying to recall some of the techniques. I wanted to find easier ways
of still producing a pretty cake without investing as much time as it
takes to decorate traditionally. I made a pretty decent looking cake,
took a picture of it and sent it with my resume to the bakery.
After getting hired by the famous bakery as a wedding cake
consultant (yay!), I got to see the professional side of cake
decorating, especially many of the tricks and short cuts used by the
pros that worked there. I even got to help them from time to time. Due
to tendonitis, some of the techniques, like piping, were very hard on
my elbow. So I knew I didn't have a future as a professional
decorator.
I never stopped thinking about ways to decorate cakes without
"decorating" them -- without the expensive equipment or special
techniques that sometimes require months of practice. And I never
forgot the frustration of spending a bunch of time on a cake, only to
be unhappy with how it looked. I challenged myself to come up with
ideas that are so simple, a child could follow the directions and
create a beautiful cake.
I've assembled these ideas into my new book
CAKE FAKERY:
HOW TO DECORATE WITHOUT REALLY DECORATING
TIPS, TRICKS, SHORT CUTS & INSIDER CAKE DECORATING SECRETS FOR THE
NOVICE DECORATOR
Here's a taste of what you'll learn inside:
* Why you don't have to grease and flour your pans
* What you can do to make your cakes bake evenly
* If your cake is uneven, how to level it
* Why you should freeze the cake before you ice it
* How to make a 1 layer cake into a 2 layer cake
* How wax paper can prevent icing disasters
* How to quickly and easily ice your cake
* The secret to keeping crumbs out of the icing
* Camouflage tricks to hide your mistakes
* Quick ideas for fillings, when you don't want to use store-bought
* How a simple ziplock bag can be your best friend
* How to fill your decorating bag without making a mess
* Where to find cheap cake decorations
* Tips for writing names and messages for your cakes
* My chocolate writing secret will make you love chocolate even
more than you already do
* My "canning" secret that saves tons of decorating time
* How to turn a dry cake into one your guests will love
... and many more tips, short cuts, recipes and explanations of all
those decorating terms you hear on those cake shows.
Plus, you'll get to see over two dozen cakes I created to illustrate
my tips and techniques. I'm sure you'll come up with tons of your own
ideas from seeing these cakes you'd be proud to serve to your friends
and family...
...or just feel free to steal my ideas, that's what they're there
for!
SPECIAL FREE BONUS!
I'LL ALSO GIVE YOU A SET OF SPECIAL PAGES YOU CAN PRINT OUT TO HELP
YOU WITH MY CHOCOLATE WRITING SECRET!
They have all the letters (capital and lowercase) and numbers in
four different easy-to-use fonts, perfect for helping you make
beautiful chocolate letters!
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Remember, you don't need to take classes or learn a bunch of
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