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.

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