Tip Tuesday

One of the easiest parts of cake decorating is putting on the border. The most common type of border is the shell border which is pictured below. This is the the type of border I use at work 99.9% of the time. I have to admit when I first learned how to do it I found it very difficult, I could not seem to get how to do it. I originally learned it by taking a basic cake decorating class at Michaels. After that I had a friend show me an easier way and now its one of my favorite borders to do. However without tip #22 I would never be able to create this border. Tip #22 is a large star tip, and is the most common one used for the shell border. There is also tip #32 that has more lines in the shell. I personally don't like the look of this border which is why I stick to using tip #22.

Tip Tuesday!!!

Although I use many tools to create my cakes, there is one thing I could not live without! A cake smoother. This tool is used to smooth the sides of the cake as well as the top. Without using this, cakes would have spatula marks where one tried to smooth the icing. This is something that I use every single day. Everyone should have one because it makes your cakes look professional even if you doing it at home!!!

Tip Tuesday

Tip Tuesday is a new thing that I'm starting on my blog! The purpose is to help fellow beginning cake decorators by using the skills that I have learned.

For the first Tip Tuesday I want to feature the most important tip to a cake decorator! Its the cake icer tip #789! This tip is so amazing...instead of using a knife and risking cake crumbs in the icing you can use this tip to get your frosting on smoothly! This tip retails at $3.29 and is made by Wilton. This tip does not work with a coupler and has to have its own bag because its such a large tip. I bought one the first time I saw someone use it and it was the best $3,29 that I have ever spent!