Cake Decorating 101 Lesson #3

This lesson was all about the cake decorations that normally get overlooked and overshadowed by roses, ornaments or images on the cake. What cake decorations am I talking about? Leaves, borders, and writing—yes, writing is considered decoration too. Writing on a cake is pretty much similar to any other type of writing, but the difference is that the “writing utensil” (a.k.a. icing tip) doesn’t touch the surface and the “lead/ink” (a.k.a. icing) doesn’t always stay in place. For example, if you are writing something with a big curve like the lowercase letter “s” in cursive, as you are curving down, the “lead/ink” could be dragged by the curving motion of the “writing utensil”, and you will end up with a mix between the letter “i” and “s”. You just have to practice a couple times to get used to these differences. Leaves are very easy. The tip literally does all the work. All you have to do is squeeze the icing and once the base of the leaf is the size that you want it to be (which depends on how big you want the leaf to be) you slowly release your pressure as you pull the icing away—it is that simple. We didn’t learn the same type of border we did last time which was called shell. We learned the reverse shell and the rope which is my favorite. The reverse shell is exactly what it sounds like, doing the shell but in the opposite direction. The rope is when you basically overlap the shells to make it look like the shells are wound together.