Tiffi searches for some cake decorating tips

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Even though Tiffi has decorated cakes before, she never really decorated a cake with details like she saw on the Food TV channel. She loves to watch the cake decorating shows.

She wishes that she could decorate cakes like some of them on Google.  But she just doesn’t have the time for that with all that she does during the day. It’s time to do a Google search to get some good tips on how to decorate a cake.

‘Cake decorating originated in 17th century in Europe. During the 1840s, the advent of temperature-controlled ovens and the production of baking powder made baking cakes much easier. As temperature control technology improved, an increased emphasis on presentation and ornamentation developed. Cakes began to take on decorative shapes, were adorned with additional icing formed into patterns and flowers, and food coloring was used to accent frosting or layers of cake.

There is no official answer to who specifically began cake decorating. Cakes have been decorated for many centuries for special occasions. Wedding cakes have the longest traditions and are considered the most artistic form, and Christmas cakes being decorated began in the eighteen centuries, they were considered Twelfth Night Cakes and were only baked by the rich for the rich.

Even though baking from scratch decreased during the latter part of the 20th century in the United States, decorated cakes have remained an important part of celebrations such as weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, showers and other special occasions.

Decorating a cake usually involves covering it with some form of icing and then using decorative sugar, candy, chocolate or icing decorations to embellish the cake.

This has become a form of unique artistry, and ranges from a single-layer cake, decorated simply, to a multi-layered 3-dimensional creation, that is decorated with edible ribbons made of sugar. Early construction methods of cutting shapes out of cake and piecing them together to create a structure have been superseded by preformed character pans, and the shaping of cakes out of fondant and different forms of marzipan.’ (Info here) 

That is very interesting information but Tiffi really needs some good cake decorating tips so she continues her search. 

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