Frosting Recipes

When it comes to cake decorating and icing techniques, a picture or video is worth a thousand words.

Good Housekeeping has a series of cake decorating slideshows and step-by-step videos that beautifully illustrate some great techniques you can use at home.

For example, piping dots around the border of a cake can look so elegant, but it requires some technique.  How and where you hold the pastry bag, as well as how much pressure you exert, affects how your icing comes out.  This particular slideshow also includes how to make cake border decorations like dots, squiggles and chains that don’t look like there’s been an accident.

Icing Piping Techniques – Dessert Decorating Ideas – Goodhousekeeping.com.

Essential for flawless cake frosting, a crumb coat is one of our favorite cake decorating tips.  It prevents cake crumbs from spreading into your finished frosting.  To make a crumb coat, apply a thin initial layer of frosting which is designed to trap cake crumbs and prevent them from showing up in the outer frosting layer. read more »