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10 Best Cake Tools for Beginners
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May 6, 2025
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on my channel you'll find hundreds of
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videos showing you how to decorate
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stunning cakes without lots of fancy
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tools but even as a beginner having the
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right basic tools will make cake
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decorating easier and more enjoyable and
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they'll give you the prettiest results
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here are the 10 best tools to buy to
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take your cakes to the next level the
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first most basic tool is an offset
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spatula or angled pallet knife which
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you'll use to spread fillings and
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frostings onto your cakes and the longer
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the blade the faster you'll be able to
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spread for the top edge of the cake
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you'll flatten more with each swipe with
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a longer blade compared to lots and lots
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of swipes with a short blade but you'll
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need one with a smaller blade like this
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4-in blade for lots of decorating
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techniques like stenciling layered
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colors and spatula painting which are
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all part of my online course on 10 cake
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decorating techniques which you'll get
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exclusive access to when you take my
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free course on 10 frosting techniques
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and the link for that is in the top of
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the screen and in the video description
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or go to
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britishgirlbakes.com next a cake comb or
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frosting smoother or icing scraper these
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come in different sizes and can be
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plastic acrylic or metal choose one
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that's at least as tall as your cake so
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that it smooths the entire surface with
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each spin my favorite material is metal
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because I find that plastic and acrylic
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get chipped quite easily when you wash
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or drop them which causes grooves or
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trails like this in your frosting also
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you can warm up metal with warm water or
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a haird dryer or blowtorrch and the warm
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metal will make your frosting even
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smoother i like to store my cake combs
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like this organized by size and material
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so they're easy to see and grab this is
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a bamboo rack intended to store lids for
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pots and pans a turntable or spinning
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cake stand makes it possible to get a
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long steady scrape around a cake to
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smooth the frosting and it makes
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decorating cakes quicker because you can
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adjust the position of the cake quickly
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as you work your way around it adding
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piping or sprinkles or cake toppers or
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stenciling or painting plastic is the
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cheapest but these turntables will also
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be the most wobbly causing these jerking
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or shuttering motions as you spin which
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create these vertical indents or dents
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in the frosting metal turntables are
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about twice the price and you'll notice
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the difference their spin is much
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smoother so your frosting will be
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smoother too for piping you'll need
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piping bags which can be disposable or
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reusable i prefer the disposable ones
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which can be washed and reused hundreds
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of times compared to the reusable ones
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which I find start to smell after a few
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uses you can use these without any
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piping tips by just cutting a little
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piece off the end for quickly adding
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fillings and frosting to cakes and you
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can add dotted details as decorations
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with them too cutting less off the ends
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for small dots and cutting more off for
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bigger dots next piping tips i'll show
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you which ones I think are best in a
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minute but first here's how to fit a
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piping tip into a piping bag piping bags
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are sealed at the end so when you first
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use one drop a piping tip into it and
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push it down as far as you can and use
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scissors to score about halfway up the
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tip push the piping tip out of the way
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and cut along the line you scored and
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then push the piping tip down and about
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half of it should stick out which will
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keep it snugly in place while you pipe
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now which piping tips should you buy it
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depends what you want to pipe for swirls
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like this on top of a cake a 1M and 2D
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are my favorites they're very similar so
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choose either one of them you can use
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the same tip for this rope border too
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for beaded borders choose a medium round
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tip like a number eight and for textured
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beaded borders try a number 32 for big
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chunky wave or shell borders like on
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this coconut cake a 6B is my favorite to
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pipe thin lines for writing messages or
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creating intricate designs or adding
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small details you'll need a small round
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tip like a number three or even smaller
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a number two as well as different shapes
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piping tips come in different sizes
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these are regular sized these are small
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these are large and these are Russian
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tips or flower nozzles you'll cut a
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different sized hole into a piping bag
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for each size of tips so you'll need at
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least one piping bag for each size of
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tips you own i store my piping tips in a
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craft box with different sections for
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different types of tips so that they're
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easy to find the final tool I recommend
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for piping is a coupler or ideally a few
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of them drop one into a piping bag and
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push a piping tip onto it outside the
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piping bag and then screw it on using
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the coupler ring which comes with it now
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you can switch between different piping
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tips to use with whatever color of
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buttercream you have in the piping bag
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or switch one piping tip between
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different piping bags with different
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colors to make piping much quicker
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because you can change between these
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without first needing to squeeze all of
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the buttercream out of the bag to get
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the piping tip out a textured cake comb
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can look like this or this or this or
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this and just like straightedged cake
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combs or frosting smoothers or icing
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scrapers they can be made of plastic
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acrylic or metal use them the same way
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you'd use a straight cake comb scraping
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around a cake to leave a textured
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pattern imprinted into the frosting
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striped cake combs are also textured
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cake combs but the technique is a bit
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different because after using a striped
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cake comb you chill the cake in the
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freezer for 15 minutes before spreading
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or piping another color into the grooves
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between the stripes and then you scrape
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off the excess with a straightedged cake
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comb or a frosting smoother to leave
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perfectly neat smooth and flat stripes
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behind on your cake if you want to add
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metallics to your cakes a small stiff
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paint brush is a great tool to have buy
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edible metallic paint or make your own
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by mixing edible metallic luster dust
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with a few drops of vodka or any other
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clear alcohol just enough to make a thin
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paste and then dab this onto cold
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buttercream using your small paintbrush
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you can paint piped buttercream that's
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been frozen for 5 minutes and then
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attach the details to a cake with a dot
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of fresh buttercream or imprint letters
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into cold buttercream and paint into
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those imprints those letters you just
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saw are called sweet stamp letters and
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they come in lots of different fonts and
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sizes they can be used on fondant or
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buttercream but for buttercream you'll
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get the neatest results if you chill a
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frosted cake in the fridge for at least
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an hour to set the frosting and then
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leave it out on the counter for 30
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minutes so that the frosting stays firm
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but softens slightly which will allow
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your letters to leave their shape in the
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frosting without pulling the buttercream
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away with them when you lift the letters
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off finally a cake caddy is a great tool
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to have as a beginner because if you're
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making a cake for friends and family
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instead of buying specialty cake boxes
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for each one you can reuse a cake caddy
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hundreds or thousands of times choose
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one that's tall enough for your cakes i
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like this one that pops up to make lots
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of space for tall cakes or cake toppers
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having a well organized workspace will
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save you time finding and putting away
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your cake tools check out my video on 14
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baking organization hacks for more ideas
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on how and where to store your tools i
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hope this has been useful visit my cake
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school on britishgirlbakes.com and
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you'll find my free course on 10
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frosting techniques there you'll also
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find courses and memberships teaching
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hundreds of cake decorating techniques
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and designs to take your cakes to the
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next level i hope to see you there
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