How To Make Icing Decorations
When you want to make a special cake then you probably want to know how to make icing decorations to adorn your creation.
Whether it’s for a special birthday or a seasonal celebration, there’s nothing quite like a home made cake.
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Baking a cake is skill most people can master quite easily, but decorating is where many people lose confidence or fall back on a dusting of icing sugar.
There is no need to feel a lack of confidence when it comes to learning how to make icing decorations; the reality is simple once the mysteries are unravelled!
If you are interested in making flowers then you should consider investing in a good piping bag and a set of nozzles. A quality bag will last a long time and if well looked after will provide you with many years worth of decorating fun.
Piping roses, swirls and rosettes is only a matter of understanding where to put the pressure on your bag and of wrist action. I would encourage you to make up a batch of buttercream icing which is easy to work with for a beginner and then simply pipe away on a piece of greaseproof paper.
Once you remove the stress of performance and realise that there is room for mistakes, you will begin to understand how the tools work and then you’re only a few steps away from learning how to make icing decorations.
Some people love the look of moulded fondant figures which are so popular today on novelty cakes.
Using fondant whilst you learn how to make icing decorations is a great way of achieving impressive looking cakes with only basic modelling skills.
Fondant icing can be bought at most large supermarkets. It comes in packets and is generally white. You can add colour by using concentrated food colouring. Rather than using traditional food colouring which is very runny and may change the consistency of your fondant too much, you can use a colour paste which is thicker.
Knead your fondant until it is soft and add colour very gradually. Make several batches at once in order that you may have enough fondant to add different colours to.
Making figures is very easy once you know how. A basic figure can be made by using an oval shape for the body and a ball for the head. Limbs are slim tubes. Once you have made all the body parts, you can assemble them; moisten each component with water which will enable you to stick them together firmly.
Next you can add clothing and hair. Hair is fine rolled tubes, which you can arrange into various styles and clothing can be constructed with very thinly rolled sheets of fondant which is draped around the figure and snipped into shape.
Nothing will teach you more about how to make icing decorations than actually trying it. Go out and buy some materials, roll up your sleeves and get a feel for the materials. Experiment and enjoy!
