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Handle any emergency with Howcast’s First Aid app – howc.st Hi, my name is Amanda Oakleaf. I am owner, head baker, decorator of Amanda Oakleaf Cakes in Winthrop, Massachusetts where we do custom cakes of all kinds — wedding cakes, birthday cakes, sculpted cakes. Anything you can think of we can make it into a cake. And today I will be talking to you about cake decorating. And I have fondant and gum paste mix. Fondant to keep it pretty moist while you’re working with it. Gum paste dries hard once it has some time to dry. A little bit of cornstarch to keep it from sticking to the table. And for this we want to roll it pretty thin, that will make the flower petals more realistic. So now we have it rolled out, it’s pretty thin, that way it will look more realistic once we get it punched out. So we have 4 different sizes of this flower cutter, and that will allow us to get the 4 different layers to really make it frilly. So we’ll start with the big one. We’ll have the big one and then one of each. And then now we want to frill the edges, because right now we have this cut flat edge and it’s really not very exciting once it’s stacked up. So we want to have this tool. It’s graduated and it comes to a point on the end. And that’s the end we want to use to frill the edges. So we just want to roll it back and forth. And it will kind of flatten and ruffle the edges to make it more realistic, more like a real flower petal. So you just want to hold it in one spot. Give it a couple …
Check out this cool app and learn guitar – howc.st Hi, my name is Amanda Oakleaf. I am owner, head baker, decorator of Amanda Oakleaf Cakes in Winthrop, Massachusetts where we do custom cakes of all kinds — wedding cakes, birthday cakes, sculpted cakes. Anything you can think of we can make it into a cake. And today I will be talking to you about cake decorating. So, when decorating a cake, there’s two sets of tools. One for butter cream and one for fondant. Butter cream tools are used to shape the butter cream and push it around, move it around, squeeze it out. This is an offset spreader. That’ll help you spread around the butter cream in small detail, scoop up roses and put them on a cake. This is a piping bag. If you’re filling it, you want to turn it inside out and that way, you can hold it with one hand, use the other hand to scoop the frosting, put it inside. If you want to use the tips, you can easily change them out if you put in a coupler first.
Check out this cool app and learn guitar – howc.st Hi, my name is Amanda Oakleaf. I am owner, head baker, decorator of Amanda Oakleaf Cakes in Winthrop, Massachusetts where we do custom cakes of all kinds — wedding cakes, birthday cakes, sculpted cakes. Anything you can think of we can make it into a cake. And today I will be talking to you about cake decorating. And the head you just want to pinch off another size ball, and before you start shaping it, just make sure it’s the right size. You’d rather have it too big than too small. Then just fold it around so that all the wrinkles of the fondant are underneath, rather than right in the center of the face. So I’m just going to pick the best side for my face. So for the face, we’re going to do it like he’s sleeping so we’ll create just some eyelids, rather than drawing the whole eye. So we have a tip, imprint it only half of the circle, and it’ll be like he’s sleeping, and then we just want to give him a little tiny, the tiniest piece, into a little ball for his nose. And just a little bit of glue where it’s going to go, and then for the mouth, we’ll use a smaller sized tip, kinda like he might be snoring his mouth is open, and we’ll do that right underneath where the nose is going to go. And then we’ll cover him with a blanket of fondant, just make sure it’s the same thickness all the way around, and you want to use your pizza cutter to wheel out the right size. So start bigger than you think. Yep, so I think that’s …