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Cake Decorating 101: Tutorials for Beginners

Cake Decorating Tutorials for Beginners on Cake-Geek.com by Mandy Merriman

Cake Decorating 101

  • Learn how to add filling between your cake layers
  • then crumb coat your cake
  • before frosting it to perfection (with either buttercream or chocolate ganache – the same method applies)
  • and finishing it beautifully in Mandy Merriman’s tutorial for the above cake here.

More Techniques:

  1. How to Split A Cake into Layers
  2. A second method of frosting or ganaching a cake which uses The Profroster tool available here. In our opinion here at Cake Geek, this is the easiest and fastest method. You’ll find a tutorial on how to frost or ganache a cake using the Profroster here.
  3. If you’ve ganached your cake, you’ll find a tutorial on how to cover a cake with fondant icing right here.
  4. If you’re creating a extra tall/”double barrel” cake, you’ll find a tutorial to help you here: how to cover a double barrel cake with fondant. There’s also a second method for covering extra tall tiers, which you’ll find in this tutorial on the fondant panelling method.
  5. Lastly, here’s a tutorial on how to dowel and stack a tiered cake.

Congratulations – you’ve completed Cake Decorating 101!

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