Cake Decoration

Cake decoration has many important values it adds to cake, it's like the cloth it wears!! It beautifies the cake, it enables you to express yourself in words and design and it sweetens the cake amidst all other importance.

There are different types of cake decoration;
1. Fondant

2. Butter icing

3. Royal icing.

However, in this series, I ll be talking about the butter icing!


Butter Icing

This is the type of cake icing that does it for me anytime any day.

Unlike fondant which can get very thick and not totally suitable with the cake after days, butter icing will still be very sweet, soft and it works like the cake sauce.

Butter icing can be made by creaming butter with icing sugar or powdered sugar. It can be done using a mixer or manually by hand. It can be fully made when colourant and flavour is added.

Decorating Cake With Butter Icing

As soon as your cake is done and it's well rested (hot cakes will melt the icing), you turn the cake over as the down part is well formed in terms of shape.

If the top is to be used, It is first trimmed. This is because irregular shaped cakes might affect your work and decoration.
So, when all these are in place, you will need the following equipments;

α Piping Set

α Cake Scrapper

α Cake Icing Turn tables

α Palette knives and leveller.

α Electrical Mixer


Materials needed for butter Icing.

Butter (Margarine)

Powdered Sugar (Icing sugar)

Colourant.. (Any colourant)

Flavour.

How to decorate.. Read all@

http://www.caterbakes.com/2017/11/how-to-decorate-with-butter-cream-icing.html?m=1