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10 Ways to Improve your Cakes in 2025
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Jan 30, 2025
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take your cakes to the next level in
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2025 with these 10 cake decorating tips
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you know the expression practice makes
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perfect with every cake you make you'll
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improve basic skills like smoothing
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frosting but also cake decorating
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techniques like creating a gradual ombre
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effect look at the distinct bands of
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color on the cake on the left in
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2019 compared to the gradual blending of
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colors on the cake on the right in 2024
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and notice how messy the stencil on the
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left is when I was first experimenting
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with making my own stencils out of
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parchment paper in
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2019 and now on the right after doing it
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for 5 years you'll get better at every
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technique with practice from smooth
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frosting to perfect buttercream Stripes
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so take every opportunity to make a cake
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forget togethers events any occasion and
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practice a skill or technique you'd like
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to improve experimenting is another way
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to improve your cake decorating skills
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instead of practicing the same Tech
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technique over and over again try
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different ways to do something for
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example instead of filling different
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piping bags with different colors for a
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design layer those colors within the
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same Piping Bag to create the easiest
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ombre effect and instead of piping drop
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flowers straight onto a cake like this
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pipe them down onto parchment paper or a
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non-stick mat which is a much easier
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angle and after freezing them you can
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choose only your favorites to pick up
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and press onto your cake by tweaking the
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method you create a a very different
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cake design if you've tried carving
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buttercream you might have found the
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result messy with little crumbs of
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buttercream along the edges but
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experiment with different temperatures
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and you'll find that dipping your tool
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into warm water before carving will give
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you a much neater result experiment with
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different tools like a metal or acrylic
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cake comb instead of a plastic one to
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see which one works best for you for
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smoother frosting and if you struggle to
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level or divide your cakes with a knife
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try a wire leveler in instead small
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changes in the way you do things can
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cause big improvements on your cakes as
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far as which techniques to improve to
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improve your cakes the most I would
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definitely choose smooth frosting it's
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the foundation of almost every cake
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design so it's worth really focusing on
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until you're happy with the results I
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have lots of tutorials to help and the
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link is in the top of the screen but
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also here are two hacks to help you the
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first is the microwave hack where you
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scoop up a third of the buttercream and
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microwave it for 10 seconds and then
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pour this melted buttercream back into
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the bowl stir it together and you'll
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have silky smooth thrusting without air
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bubbles perfect for frosting a cake the
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second hack is to use a warm metal cake
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comb run it under hot water or dip it
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into a pan of hot water and dry it with
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a towel or use a hair dryer or blow
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torch to heat it and wait a moment so
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that it's warm not hot scrape around the
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cake and the warm metal will Glide over
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the frosting filling in any shallow
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indents or air bubbl and leaving the
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frosting super smooth to improve your
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frosting but also your piping you'll
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need the right buttercream consistency
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use room temperature butter to make your
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buttercream to see the true consistency
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because temperature will change it so if
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your butter is cold your buttercream
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will seem stiffer than it really is when
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you stir the buttercream Peaks like this
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and lots of texture within the
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buttercream mean your buttercream is
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stiff and will hold its shape perfect
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for piping add some milk and when the
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Peaks droop over like this the
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consistency is looser or softer perfect
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for frosting a cake to improve your
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cakes try different piping tips almost
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everyone starts with a 1 M A star-shaped
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tip for cupcakes and that's fine for
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srls but what about a 2d for softer
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wavier Ruffles and a 1M is okay for
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borders but try a star tip with more
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prongs shorter and closer together like
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this 4B switching up your piping tips
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will add more variety to your cakes and
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you you can even use the same technique
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with a different tip for a different
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effect like with these smaller
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star-shaped tips a number 32 and the
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previous one was a 199 and also choosing
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a smaller or larger size piping tip will
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make a big difference to the overall
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design making the Border a subtle extra
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detail or an eye-catching attention
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grabber make your cakes look more
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professional with packaging instead of
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providing cakes just on their cake
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boards or in a cake caddy which is
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effective but typically used by
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hobbyists rather than cake businesses
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buy cake boxes which are only a few doll
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each when you buy 10 or 20 at a time and
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these make your cakes look so much
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better make all of your cakes on the
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same size cakeboard so that they just
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fit into the box without sliding around
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inside this way you can use the same box
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for a big cake or a small cake and if
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you make a tear cake or a tall cake use
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this hack so that you can still fit the
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lid on and keep your packaging looking
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professional these diagonal slits in
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opposite sides of the lid will raise the
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lid a few inches to fit the cake and the
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packaging will still look great to space
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out patterns evenly on your cakes draw
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around your cake pan and cut out the
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circle and then fold it in half or
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thirds looking at the outer edge of the
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circle to choose however wide you want
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the sections of your pattern to be
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unfold the circle and place it on top of
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your cake after the frosting has set so
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it doesn't stick use the creases on the
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paper Circle as guidelines for your
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pattern or you can poke toothpicks into
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the cake below each crease to make the
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guidelines more visible now when you
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pipe you'll have clear start and end
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points for your lines dots waves shells
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Etc to improve patterns on your cakes
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make your white cakes really white with
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this trick lighten yellow butter by
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beating it for several minutes before
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adding any sugar after mixing in the
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sugar add a tiny amount of violet gel
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which will cancel out the yellow dip a
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tooth pick into the bottle to get just a
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tiny bit rather than trying to squeeze a
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small drop and accidentally ending up
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with purple buttercream look at the
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difference in this buttercream before
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adding Violet and after it gets so much
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whiter as you improve your cakes in 2025
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document them by improving your cake
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photos the easiest Improvement to draw
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attention to the cake and to minimize
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any distractions is to adjust the focus
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which you can do in portrait mode on an
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iPhone by tapping on the F and dragging
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the bar up up or down to make the
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background more and less blurry doesn't
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this cake look best when only the cake
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itself is in Focus you can do this on a
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camera too by adjusting the f- stop or F
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number making the background in Focus or
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out of focus I have an online course on
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cake photography like a pro which will
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show you everything about lighting
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backdrops props taking photos with a
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phone and a camera and editing and while
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we're talking about my courses to really
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dive into whatever you're interested in
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smooth piping flowers or borders
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decorating with chocolate coloring
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