Startup Library: Cake Decorating

Description Ready to sweeten up your skills? Explore the sugar art of cake decorating with Jenny McCoy as your expert guide. In this comprehensive beginner’s class, you’ll learn how to bake and construct a variety of one-tiered frosted cakes with professional-quality results. Along the way, discover essential tools, materials and techniques, including fondant and buttercream, sugar flowers, piping, hand modeling and much more.

• Class Preview
• Introduction to Cake Decorating
• How to Bake a Cake
• Making Swiss Meringue Buttercream
• Constructing a Single-Tier Cake
• Buttercream: Textured Finishes
• Buttercream: Preparing to Pipe
• Buttercream: Simple Designs & Borders
• Buttercream: Piped Roses & Leaves
• Fondant: Handling & Coloring
• Fondant: Rolling Out & Covering a Cake
• Fondant: Cutouts
• Fondant: 3-D Roses
• What's Next: Design Ideas & Inspiration