How To Practice Piping Cakes

Now that you know where to get the lessons from the next step would be to practice what you have learned.

How to practice piping cakes. There are various ideas available online. My mother-in-law is a professional baker and recommended using a thin flexible cutting board or wax paper with the desired design underneath and practicing piping that way. We had already bought the ingredients so I made a practice run.

It doesnt taste as good but that doesnt really matter if you just use it to practice. Once you have tried out all the different styles and designs you scrape it off the board or work surface mix it well and practice again. You would have if you have attended a cake decorating course.

It tends to be a bit soft. You can just scrape it up and put it back in the bag when youre done and then practice again. I read about this for the first time in The Cake Bible by Rose Beranbaum.

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You can probably use styrofoam shapes to provide a fondant practice surface. NOT so good for the thicker type of buttercream decos like roses or thick shellrope borders. With piping it is all about practice he explains.

Make a batch of very simple buttercream frosting to practice with. Before doing anything you need to develop a detailed plan of how you want your cake to look when it is finished. Ingredients makes 3 cups approximately.