How to Pipe Frosting on a Cake

Hi I'm Tracy -- the test kitchen director at every day with Rachael Ray magazine. I'm gonna show you some simple techniques for decorating -- cake with frosting. I have couple of things you know I tell you about first is the baking sheet that's inverted and I taped some wax Paper on top this I'm gonna practice on. And I have a nice apple been Ellis was -- butter cream. I'm -- use and fabricate pastry bag which has a waxy coating on the inside. And coming called a couple of which helps keep the pastry -- in place. -- and medium -- start to this is a closed start tip. There's also an open starts at that that's shaped a little differently but they're very similar and they can you be used mostly interchangeably. And take the inside part of the Cutler put it into the pastry bag. And squeeze to get it way down at the bottom of the bag an insert. The bag into the tip. And screw on the cap. -- someone to -- with the frosting. Pulled down the sides to make sure that the icing doesn't come out of the Bagwell and using it. And also that the top -- doesn't get messy with Boston. But it's filled pastry bag that halfway full with frosting madness. First thing I wanna show you is how to do. A kiss decoration. You hold the tip of the pastry bag close to the surface. Of Japan -- for the cake and you just. These are a little bit that you can make them really full like that. Or make them little. This is a great decoration to use on the edge of -- cake or all across the top of the cake. Next. Is a road that again you're gonna hold that back up right and you're gonna start and just go around an answer call. These are great for putting candles and cake. And there are a lot of different ways that you can decorate the edge of a cake. One of the simplest is this -- is a shell border. Which.

You wanna have the bag a little bit slanted toward you and you always wanna use your dominant hand to squeeze the bag and your other hand to guided around. So on down near the surface I'm gonna go up and then toward me. -- and then toward me so these are separate. But as you get going faster it's almost like continual motion. Kind of look like a sideways com. And then lastly another edge that you can do which is a variation honest he is too. Do the shell would do it with ace side to side. Curving motion looks like a combination of the shell border in the -- that together. And this is really pretty.

And then as you as you learn these techniques you can do all kinds of other things that other tips so I'm gonna use the -- technique. And -- on the top.

Edge of the cake. In Canada squeezed gently pull up. Squeezed gently. Wants to get going you can. Move along pretty quickly just won a state where the into the cake. And if you want to you don't even have to -- the top of the kids could do these kisses all across the top of the cake. But because the pacing is already on makes it a little bit easier we don't have to worry about getting them super close and we just have to. Put a circle of the -- around it now I'm gonna. When a shell border around the bottom of the cake. Since we're working in a corner I have to speak a little bit tilted so I gonna squeeze and then pull back squeeze. -- back squeeze.

So I'm gonna tighten the bag so that the icing it down toward the bottom of the bag so I don't have that worry about losing control. Again once you get it going to get faster. -- So this has a nice top edge and nice bottom -- all the way around. Now I'm gonna do the other two techniques on the other -- Just gonna -- a few -- that's on top of the cake. So that we can put birthday candles in the rose that's and then curled. Curled as on the bottom. And going around. And my funeral set I'd like to make an even so I'm gonna do across. From myself. So you want a place -- acts as if you have portions in mind that you're cutting a pie or cake so that there evenly spaced on the cake. So go to work across from myself. And I -- turn. And the kick around. And -- one on the far side and then -- close to me. So I can do I'm gonna do aid packages for if you wanna do six you just have to judge what three on each side would be. Now I'm gonna do that curled shelled border on the bottom. Again this is like the streets --

Order only on when it curve out and then for about the other direction sort of like it S pattern taking the shell border and test pattern. Since I have a cardboard here I want a cover up the card war. When slightly up the side of the cake as night. -- And then again when you're getting to the end -- this sort of fake your way into the other --

And now I'm just gonna finish off the -- Birthday candles. And so we have to simply but beautifully decorated celebration cakes. I'm Tracy semen from every day with Rachael Ray thanks for watching I'll see you next time.