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Food & DrinkHow to Decorate a Cake

Great Birthday Cake Ideas

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Hi, my name is Amanda Oakleaf. I am owner, head baker, decorator of Amanda Oakleaf Cakes in Winthrop, Massachusetts where we do custom cakes of all kinds — wedding cakes, birthday cakes, sculpted cakes. Anything you can think of we can make it into a cake. And today I will be talking to you about cake decorating. When you’re designing a birthday cake, you could go a few different ways. You could design something special around the person’s hobbies, their special interests: Do they like sports? Are they into flowers? You could recreate all that into a cake. You could also do cakes that are designed around the party. So, if you’re having a special event where you have invites and party decorations, you could bring those in and we could design a cake around that. We also have done cakes that match wallpaper. We’ve done cakes that is a baby shower, and in the baby’s new room they have curtains and quilts and toys, and even curtains and wallpaper that have a certain design, and we recreated that on the cake so that everything is all tied together. So whatever is custom, we can definitely recreate it.


Lessons in this Guide

How to Prepare Fondant to Make a Baby Figurine

How to Shape a Baby Figurine Cake Decoration out of Fondant

How to Pick the Right Cake Frosting

How to Make Sugar Flowers for Cake Decorations

How to Airbrush a Cake

How to Make a Fondant Ribbon & Bow for a Cake

How to Become a Professional Cake Decorator

Wedding Cake Options

How to Pipe a Message on a Cake

Great Birthday Cake Ideas

Great Wedding Cake Ideas

How to Bake a Cake

Oil vs. Butter Cakes

Fondant Tools vs. Buttercream Tools for Cake Decorating

How to Decorate a Cake with Amanda Oakleaf

How to Cover a Cake with Fondant

How to Make Buttercream Icing for a Cake or Cupcakes

How to Decorate a Cake with Buttercream Icing

How to Make Marshmallow Fondant for Cake Decorations

How to Make Royal Icing for Cake Decorating

How to Make a Buttercream Roses

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