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10 Ways to PRACTICE Cake Decorating
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Jan 30, 2025
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here are 10 hacks to help you practice
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cake decorating without wasting time
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ingredients or money there are so many
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different piping techniques and to
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master each one you'll need practice
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pipe onto parchment paper or wax paper
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or a silicon mat and then scrape the
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piping back into the Piping Bag to use
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for practicing again and again you'll
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save money on ingredients by reusing the
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frosting even for simple techniques like
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piping these pointed dots to make
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Christmas tree lights on a cake it's a
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good idea to practice them on pap paper
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or a plate before moving onto your cake
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to get used to the consistency of the
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buttercream and the pressure you need to
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use when you squeeze the bag for writing
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messages on cakes it's not just the
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technique you might want to practice
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it's also the spacing and positioning on
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a cake which I think is the trickiest
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part choose a cake pan the same size as
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your cake or the same size as the
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available space on the cake if you've
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already piped a border around it pipe
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your message onto the pan before the
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cake to practice your lettering but also
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to practice centering it on the pan
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scraping and repiping the message until
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you feel comfortable so that when you
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then pipe it onto the cake you won't
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make any mistakes and have to scrape it
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off and try again okay number three when
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you make a practice cake try out as many
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techniques as you can on the same cake I
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often do one design on the front of the
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cake and another on the back like with
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these two Valentine's Day designs and
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after practicing techniques on the side
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of a cake I might practice something
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else on the top of the cake and maybe
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try a border around the bottom of the
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cake and another style of border on top
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too this way you'll get the most out of
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your practice cake another great hack
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for practicing is to use a cake zombie
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which is a cake that you use again and
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again for practice this is especially
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useful if you have kids at home so maybe
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it takes you several days to get around
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to frosting and decorating the cake and
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by then it's gone stale instead of
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throwing it away scrape it and try
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another frosting or decorating technique
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on top or several different techniques
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and then repeat by scraping again and
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decorating again number five make cakes
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for every occasion when I first started
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making cakes back in 2009 I was teaching
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English in Costa Rica and I made cakes
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for all of my students and friends
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birthdays and for every party I went to
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and little by little my cakes got better
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and better until I ended up opening a
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cake shop and selling them make cakes
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for your neighbors your kids teachers
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School functions or community events and
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of course your friends and family look
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at this half and half cake I made
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recently with half banana cake and half
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chocolate vanilla marble cake covered
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with half and half frosting and some
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piping compared to my first half and
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half cake before lots of practice back
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in
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2011 styrofoam cakes often called cake
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dummies can be used to practice all
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sorts of techniques without having to
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bake a cake first the trickiest thing
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about these is that they're so
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lightweight they'll slip all over the
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cakeboard if you don't attach them so
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use a blob of buttercream as glue to
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attach the styrofoam to a cake board and
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then leave it to set for a few hours at
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room temperature or 30 minutes in the
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fridge so that it's stuck securely in
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place and won't move around then you can
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Frost it just like you would Frost an
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actual cake now you can practice
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whatever techniques you like make mini
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cakes instead of large ones when you
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want to practice a technique you'll save
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time because the cake layers will bake
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quicker and you'll spend less on
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ingredients for smaller cake and
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frosting recipes you can practice the
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same designs as you do use on larger
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cakes trying out new tools or techniques
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or whatever you want to practice but for
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a fraction of the cost take this even
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further and practice on cupcakes instead
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of cakes pipe swells the kind you would
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pipe on top of a cake or try out a
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homemade stencil or drop flowers I think
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piping is one of the trickiest parts of
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cake decorating because to be neat
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you'll have to have the right
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consistency of buttercream the right
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amount of pressure on the Piping Bag and
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you'll need to move the Piping Bag not
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just with the right motion but also at
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the right speed here's a hack pipe your
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decorations onto parchment paper and
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then freeze them to make them hard it's
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easier to pipe down onto paper than
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sideways onto a cake and if you don't
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like any of your piping just don't use
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it whereas if you pipe onto a cake if
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you don't like something you'll have to
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scrape it off which is Messier when the
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piping is Frozen just lift it up and
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place it onto your cake use a DOT of
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fresh buttercream to attach it Like Glue
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this way you can choose before putting
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it on the cake which piping is the
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prettiest and only use those parts for
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the top of a cake Trace around the
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baking pan onto a piece of parchment or
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wax paper paper and then pipe within the
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circle if you don't like any of the
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piping it's easier to scrape it off this
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paper than an actual cake put the piping
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into the freezer to chill and set so
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that it's firm and then pick each piece
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up and place it onto your cake number 10
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them out yourself by watching hundreds
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of YouTube videos until you find the one
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