The icing has to be the correct colors, one takes a bag of buttercream icing and creates flowers, leaves, stars, and such, some decorators use an airbrush just like the artists who paint the scenes on cars. A decorated cake is a piece of artwork one can eat!
There are several schools internationally and domestically that are dedicated to the art of baking and cake decorating. Some of these schools include L'Art du Gateau, the French Culinary Institute, the Wilton School of Cake Decorating and Confectionary Art, and the New York Cake Academy.
Cake decorating is more a part of baking than a craft. There is no genre of crafts that cake decorating would be classified into. It is more of a genre of baking, which may fall under decorating. Cake decorating may be more of an art than a craft.
Roland A. Winbeckler has written: 'Figure Piping Ideas for Cupcakes & Larger Cakes' 'Occupation & Hobby Patterns For Cake Decorating' 'Grown-Up Patterns For Cake Decorating' 'Cake Sculpture & Sculptured Figure Piping' 'Decorating With Rolled Buttercream Icing' 'Roland A. Winbeckler's airbrush techniques for cake decorating' -- subject(s): Cake decorating, Airbrush art
Cake decorating is definitely a form of art. Like an artist, the cake decorators medium is cake, fondant, gum paste and more. It is in fact, a more tricky art medium than let's say canvas & paint (no disrespect to artists, just to illustrate that edible art can be a lot more volatile depending on weather, humidity, altitude & more).
It is called cake decorating.
The most frequently bought cake decorating kit is the Wilton twenty three or fifty three piece cupcake and cake decorating kit. The Wilton cake decorating kits are the biggest selection of cake decorating needs.
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The craft stores like michael's do not offer cake decorating lessons. They do however have some books on cake decorating.
A good starter set for cake decorating is the Wilton 53 Piece Cake Decorating set. This set has everything included for someone starting cake decorating from scratch. It can be found either on the Wilton website or from Walmart.
If you have a walmart, they carry SOME cake decorating stuff. Also, its always best to look it up in google. type in "cake decorating stores in fullerton"
You can visit http://www.givesugar.com/Cake-Decorating-Classes.php for more information on cate decorating classes in Chicago, Illinois. You can also search of Yelp.com for cake decorating classes in Illinois.
She was decorating the house with balloons. The decorating of the cake was left for the last minute.