Who Else Wants to Learn Cake Decorating Techniques?

By Maria Campbell

Picture this: You have invited your family and friends over for a special event. You have prepared a cake that could easily grace the cover of a cooking magazine. When you explain that YOU made this cake, their jaws drop in amazement. Can you imagine the feeling of pride you will have?

Whether you?re brand spanking new to cake decorating or simply want to refine your skills, you can learn everything from basic techniques to more advanced ones right on the computer sitting in your own house.

There are a few simple things you can do for making cake decorating techniques easier to learn. For instance, you need to make sure you?re using the correct pastry bag. You shouldn?t use large bags, as they can be awkward to handle. When starting out, smaller ones will make adding color and writing a lot easier.

There are a few easy things you can do to make cake decorating techniques easier to master. For example, you must make sure you?re using the right pastry bag. You should not use large bags because they can be awkward to handle. When beginning, smaller ones will make adding color and writing a lot simpler.

Another thing you can do to ensure that your practicing goes smoothly is to learn to cut the pastry bag correctly. It has to be cut so that it fits the coupler perfectly. Don?t forget that the larger end of the coupler faces up towards the tip of the bag. Place it down inside and then slice the end of the pastry bag so that the smaller end of the coupler sticks out a tiny bit.

It may take a few tries before you learn how to prepare the pastry bag and coupler precisely, but once you get the hang of it, it?ll make learning cake decorating techniques A LOT easier! Cake decorating instructions can call for thin, medium, or thick consistency icing. As a beginner, you may find assessing the correct consistency to be confusing, but you?ll catch on.

It might take a few tries before you feel like an expert on how to prepare the pastry bag and coupler precisely, but once you get the used to it, it will make learning cake decorating techniques abundantly easier! Cake decorating instructions can call for thin, medium, or thick consistency icing. As a newbie, you might find assessing the right consistency to be quite confusing, but you will catch on quickly.

Whether you want to learn basic cake decorating techniques or more advanced, intricate ones, you need to accept the fact that you probably won?t learn everything in just one night. You may find yourself talented at one style but not so much with another style. Just take your time, don?t get discouraged, and good luck! - 29884

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Lemon Bars - Delicious

By Jack Smith

Most kids like chocolate chip cookies or peanut butter cookies, but I always preferred lemon bars. I remember as a young kid, I'd go crazy to get my hands on lemon bars. Funny thing is that they are easier to bake than cookies. Here are 10 great tips for baking better bars.

The first thing I like to make sure of when baking is to follow the recipe. You have to make sure you use the same size baking dish as listed in the recipe. Try not to vary. Any variations in baking pan size will throw off baking times and will affect the texture of the lemon bars. For example, if the pan is too large the dough will dry out and the bars will be too thin. On the contrary, if the pan is too small the lemon bars will become gummy in the center or more cakey than they should be. If you follow this tip, you'll be happy with the results.

If you are worried about the bars sticking to the pan, you can line the baking pan with heavy duty aluminum foil to insure easier removal later and you'll be glad you did because it's a pain trying to get some baked goods out of the pan in a pretty manner. You can also use butter to grease up the baking pan. Just be sure to use a lot of butter to grease the pan.

Everybody wants lemon bars that are pretty just like in the magazines. For bars that you can boast of and pretty enough to package up and give away, use a large sharp chef's knife to trim away the outer dry edges of the bars before cutting them, wiping the blade clean with a damp towel after each cut will help keep them pretty. Follow this tip and you'll be happy with the results.

Never use diet or whipped margarine or any product labeled "spread" in your lemon bars, the results will be awful. Like any other cookie dough, be sure once you add the flour to the batter (as well as other dry ingredients) you don't over-mix the dough. Too much handling will develop the gluten in the flour producing tough bar cookies. - 29884

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Need Ideas for Birthday Cake Decorating? Check Out These Great Ideas for a Kid's Birthday Party!

By Maria Campbell

Trying to think of birthday cake decorating ideas? If you want to prepare a cake for a kids birthday party, you need to make sure its memorable! If theres one thing kids love about birthdays (other than presents), its the cake. Instead of going to the store and buying the same ole cake that all kids get, you should make a special, unique one!

The internet is full of cake decorating ideas for all kinds of themes. It does not matter if you want to make a cake for a boy or a girl, you can find all kinds of ideas and supplies needed to make just about any cake. All of the decorations can be found online!

One well known theme for girls is the Disney Princesses. You could decorate a cake using all of the princesses or even just one, such as Cinderella, Ariel or Belle. There are instructions online for making these cakes, but you will want to purchase the decorations so that you can put the figurines on it for your little girl to keep.

There are lots of birthday cake decorating ideas for boys as well. Boys seem to love cakes that are themed around superheroes. Of course, Spiderman cakes are super popular as well as Batman. There are many themes to choose from when it comes to boy cakes.

You can never go wrong with cupcakes, either. The great thing about cupcakes is that you can make each one unique if you want, whereas you can only do so much on one cake. You can make a batch of cupcakes and decorate half for girls and the other half for boys.

If you want to make a cake that both boys and girls will love, you can always go with Looney Tunes characters. Animals are also a popular theme that all children love. There are plenty of cat, dog, and tiger birthday cake decorating ideas for you to check out.

Go ahead and ask the kids what type of cake or cupcakes they would like. You could even have them help you! Sharing your hobby with your children will be a fun family project, and they will love making their own cake! They can show it off to their friends at the party.

You can use frosting thats already made, or you can make it yourself. Its up to you whether you want to start completely from scratch or buy some of the ingredients already prepared. Either way, youll definitely want to get all the decorations, including: stencils, food coloring, figures, sprinkles, and so forth. - 29884

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