- Attach
To secure royal or buttercream icing flowers or plastic decorations, pipe dots of icing to "attach" the decoration to an iced cake. Royal icing dries hard and is more permanent than buttercream. Use your icing to glue or attach.
- Border
A continuous decoration used around the top, side or gase of a cake.
- Elongated
When we use the term elongated shells, leaves, etc., it means to taper an icing decoration by relaxing bag pressure and moving before stopping the technique.
- Figure Piping
Decorating technique used to form figures out of icing.
- Filling
Frosting, preserves or pudding that's spread between cake layers and holds them together.
- Leveling
Removing the "crown" of a cake to provide a flat surface for frosting or decorating.
- Outline or Strings
When the outlining method is used, the icing that flows out of the tip to follow contours of a shaped cake or to cover pattern design marks are called "strings" or outlines.
- Piping
Squeezing icing out of a bag to form decoration.
- Score
Using your spatula edge to make a mark in icing by gently pressing it against the surface.
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Ice Cream Cake
Make your childs birthday the talk of the town with this easy to follow ice cream cake recipes.
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