Demonstrative Speech - Decorating Cakes

How to Make a Basic Decoration for Professional Cakes.
Jennifer L Heaton
July 6th 05
I.Fundamentals
A. Choosing your decorating bag
1. Featherweights, disposables or parchment
2. Couplers
3. Filling and holding the bag
B. Three main essentials of decorating
a) Icing Consistency
(1) Thin-For writing, making vines, leaves and icing the cake. 2 Teaspoons-water
(2) Med-Stars, figure piping, borders and flowers with petals that lies flat. – 1 Teaspoon-water
(3) Thick- Decorations such as roses and upright petals and sweet peas. Has to be stiff enough or they will droop. Cracking – too stiff/Droop – not enough
b) Correct Bag Position
(1) Angel 90 degrees, 45degrees Right Hand
(2) Same angles just opposite Left Hand
c) Pressure Control
(1)Light, Med, and Heavy
C. Color
1. Do not use regular food coloring
2. Icing colors

II.Procedures
A. Shell border
1. Tip 21, Med icing, 45 degrees at 6:00, Hold tip slightly above surface
2. Hold the bag in the 6:00 position so that you can pull the bag toward you. The tip should be slightly above the surface.
3. Squeeze hard, letting the icing fan out generously as it lifts the tip – do not lift the bag. Gradually relax your pressure as you lower the tip until it touches the surface.
4. Stop pressure and pull the tip away, without lifting it off the surface, to draw the shell to a point.
5. To make a shell border, start the end of your next shell so that the fanned end covers the tail of the preceding shell to form and even chain.
B. Sweet peas
1. Bag: 45° angle 6:00Tip: wide end touching surface, narrow end straight up
2. Squeeze, raising tip slightly
3. Stop squeezing, lower tip
4. Pull away
a) Calyx
(1) Thin consistency, tip 3, position bag 45 degrees at 6:00, tip needs to be in the base of the center petal.
(2) Squeeze, letting icing build up
(3) Relax pressure, drawing down and away.
(4) Stop squeezing, pull away.

(a) Credentials go to Wilton.com for the actual procedure for the shell

III. REVIEW
A. Questions
B. Reference: Wilton, Michael’s, Hobby Lobby etc…classes