Piping Robin Birds

Let’s Celebrate Spring! and learn the art of buttercream piping with this beautiful Robin Birds elaborated with icing; and decorate wonderful cakes giving a nice touch of spring; Decorate a Birthday Cake, Wedding or Anniversary Cake or a lovely Mother’s Day Cake with this fantastic birds using a buttercream piping technique.

How to pipe a Robin Bird

Robin Bird, make bags with the different colors (white, brown, black, orange and royal blue.

Robin Bird Step one

Step One: Fill a bag with white royal icing and press a heavy tier drop, to the side, to make the body of the bird.

Robin Bird Step two

Step two: Add a tail using a piece of uncooked spaghetti.

Robin Bird Step three

Step three: Use a tip # 233 (grass tip), pipe with white around the body of the bird or tier drop.

Robin Bird Step four

Step four: Using orange icing pipe chest of the bird, with tip #233(grass tip).

Robin Bird Step five

Step five: Pipe feathers with Royal Blue icing covering the tail and top of the body.

Robin Bird Step six

Step six: With white icing pipe a ball to make the head of the bird, on top of the orange color (the chest).

Robin Bird Step seven

Step seven: Pipe with white on front of the head to make the face of the bird.

Robin Bird Step eight

Step eight: With brown icing pipe feather around the head covering all around and on front making a hearth shape.

Robin Bird Step nine

Step nine: With brown icing pipe half of the wings.

Robin Bird Step ten

Step ten: Now with royal blue icing finish piping the wings.

Robin Bird facing you.

It will look something like this.             

Robin Bird Step eleven

Step eleven: Pipe the eyes with black and the beak with orange, and your bird is done!.

Snowman Cake

•  You need to ice a single layer cake with white icing and give the details using the respective icing colors:
• In the first cake use black icing for hat and eyes, (trase the hat on the cake and pipe black icing), use orange for the nose, red for mouth and gree icing for the bow.
• On the second cake, use green and black icing to pipe the sun glasses, orange for the nose and black for the mouth.

Snowman Family

Let’s celebrate Christmas with this Snowman Family Cake, it is a simple and colorful cake, that any one can do,  it will bring Joe, and happiness  to anyone. Follow this easy step by step instruction to make this  Family Snowman Christmas Cake.

• You will need:

Round Cake Pan (9″)

Cake Boards (12″)

Buttercream icing

Decorating Icing Colors
(Golden yellow, royal blue, violet, Kelly green, red-red, pink, black)

Decorating Bags

Decorating Tips
( #2, #3, #5, #12, #14, #16)

Cake Icer Tip #789

Couplers

Decorating Spatulas

Cornstarch

• Instructions:

1. Bake a cake.
2. Put cake on card board.
3. Separate some butter cream icing and add a little royal blue color, to make a light blue color icing.
4. Get a large bag, put inside cake icer tip #789, cut the bag, and let the narrow part  of the  tip show true the opening.
5. Fill with the light blue icing, and ice the cake all  the way around and on top of the cake.
6. Smooth the icing with the spatula.
7. In another bag put inside the base from the coupler, cut the bag and let the thread from the base show out; slip tip #12, onto the coupler base, twist the coupler ring over the  tip and locking it in place.
8. Fill bag half way with white icing.
9. Start pipping the body of the Snowman family on top of the cake; pat smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch.
10. Prepare black icing.
11. Get a bag with tip #3, fill a little bit with black icing, pipe dot eyes noses and bottoms.
12. Change  tip #3, to tip  #2, and pipe mouth.
13. Make icing with the different colors.
14. Prepare bags with each color.
15. With tip #5 pipe the scarves to the snowman’s in different colors, (one green, another violet and last red).
16. Using tip #14 pipe hats, look  at the picture to  find there respective colors.
17. With violet color and tip #12 build up large stocking cap; with tip #16 covered using stars.
18. With pink icing and tip #14, pipe the dress.
19. Pipe snow with tip #12 and white icing.
20. Pipe a star at the end of the  large stocking cap, using yellow icing and tip #16; and add random stars in the sky.

And your project is done.

Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving Centerpiece Cake

Need ideas for Thanksgiving Day!

This beautiful Thanksgiving Centerpiece Cake can be on your dinner table on Thanksgiving Day. You can decorate this beautiful Thanksgiving Centerpiece Cake!.  It is a delicate cake, and will be the attraction on your table. It can be a  wonderful gift for your friends and family, telling them how much you love and appreciated them for  the  time spend together. Enjoy and said thank you  for all the blessing during this year.

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

You will need:

Round Cake Pan (6″, 10″)

Round cake board (6″, 12″)

Dowels Rods

Decorating Bags

Decorating Tips
(1,2,4,12,18,67, 789)

Decorating Couplers

Decorating Spatulas

Decorating Icing Colors
(Ivory, yellow, orange,brown,red)

Buttercream icing

Fall ring candle holder (3)

Fall colors candle (3)

Instructions:

1. Bake the cakes.
2. Put cakes on top of card boards. ( 6 in cake on 6 ” card board. 10 in cake on 12″ card board.
3. Separate in a bowl some icing to cover the cakes and add a little bit of ivory color to the icing with a toothpick and mix, it have to be a light ivory color.
4. Get a big bag and put tip 789 inside the bag, cut the bag a little to let the tip show out of the bag.
5. Fill the bag, half way, with the ivory color icing.
6. Get the bag already fill with icing and using the flat part of the tip to toward the cake, start icing the top of the cakes on  in a circular motion; start icing the cake all around and smooth with the spatula.
7. The small cake will be on top of the big cake, parallel with the big one,(no on the center of the big one) ,so be careful and put the cake lightly on top to mark a circle where that cake will be on top of the big one, Take the cake out, don’t let the cake rest on the big one yet.
8. Insert one dowel rod on the center of the small circle that you did on the 10in cake,make a little mark on the dowel where the icing start to measured, them  pull out the dowel rod and cut the dowel on the mark that you make, cut around 6 pieces of the same length.
9. Starting on the center where you try the dowel first, put the others five dowel pieces previously cut,  around the a circle, live around 1 inch between the circle mark and the inside.
10. Make triangular mark at the side of the small cake, they need to connect one with other.
11. Get another bag and put inside the base of the coupler and put tip #1and tied with the ring;  fill the bag with white icing and start decorating the small cake with Cornelli Lace technique on top and on the side of the small cake following the triangular mark previously marked.
12. Put the small cake on top the big one where you put the dowel.
13. To the bag with white icing change the tip#1  to tip #4 and pipe small balls around the border of the cakes, top and bottom of the big cake and on the border of the triangles.
14. On the top border of  the big cake pipe some Cornelli Lace technique on top of the ball borders.
15. In a small bowls mix icing and the rest of the color individually, in a bag put tip #18 and inside the bag add three stripe of icing with the color yellow, orange and red, and pipe  3 flowers (stars), this will simulate fall flowers with the three color together, do this around the borders of the cakes, around four inches separate one another.
16. Prepare bag with green icing and tip #67 and pipe two to three leaf where you previously pipe the flowers (stars).
17. To pipe the turkey you will need a bag with brown icing and tip #4, to pipe the shell shape feather; pipe the center of the shell by pressing  and pulling down the icing, it will look like a tear drop up-side down.
18. You will continue pipe the shell shape feather making a semi-circle; on top of the pointing area of the shell you will pipe a tear drop to shape the body.
19. With white icing and tip#2, you will pipe feather tips using zig-zag motion.
20. With tip #2 tuck into top of body and pull up to form the neck, squeeze harder to form a ball for the head.
21. With brown icing and tip #2 pipe curved shell on either side of the body for wings, add two legs, feet.
22. Using white icing, with light pressure and tip #1 pipe dot for eyes.
23. With yellow icing and tip#1 pull out beak and finish with red icing tip#1 the wattle.
24. To finish decorating the cake, put one ring candle holder on the middle of the small cake and the other two at each site of the big cake, and inside each ring put the candles.

There is your masterpiece, the center of your Thanksgiving dinner table!

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Thanksgiving Turkey Cake!

Thanksgiving Day is a day to said thank you for all the good and bad thing that happen in our lives, it is a day to share what we have with families and friends and give to other less fortunate as much as we can. You can share this Thanksgiving Turkey Cake with others, this cake can be the center on your table on Thanksgiving Day; to do this cake I used a snowmen and shell cake pan. It is a fun cake to do, and it’s not difficult to make and decorate it. The shell will be split into two parts and in the middle will be the snowmen, then will be decorated with Buttercream icing in different colors to make it look like a turkey.

• You will need:

Snowman Cake Pan

Shell Cake Pan

Decorating Tips
(1A, 2, 2B, 4, 5, 12, 18, 19, 352)

Decorating Bags

Decorating Couplers

Decorating Spatulas

Decorating Icing Colors
(Orange, Christmas Red, Leaf Green, Golden Yellow,Royal Blue, Black)

Cake Boards

Buttercream icing

Instructions:

1. Bake the cakes.
2. Cut the shell cake in half lengthwise.
3. Position the pieces of cake alongside the snowman cake on the board; the snowman will be lithely on top of the shell pieces.
4. Get one decorating bag, put inside the bag, the coupler base, get the tip #2B, and slip it  into the coupler base and twist the coupler ring over the tip, locking it in place.
5. Get some buttercream icing and add brown color, need to be a lite color.
6. Add that mix inside the bag and start decorating the shell with that color; smooth the icing with a decorating spatula.
7. Get some of the icing in separate bowls  and add individually the color red, yellow and orange.
8. Prepare a bag with a red color, get the decorating tip #18, pipe scalloped outlines of the shell cake. Repeat the same step with the other two color, to make three lines of scallop outline the cake.
9. With orange icing, ice pumpkin area and smooth.
10. With black icing and tip #2B, pipe band on the hat.
11. Using tip #4 string outline around collar and eyes.
12. Pipe-in with white icing using tip #5 the eyes.
13. With tip #4, and black icing pipe eyeballs.
14. Fill-in the collar with white icing using tip#18 stars.
15. With blue icing, and tip #19 stars, fill-in the hat.
16. Using dark brown icing and tip #19 stars  fill-in the head, over pipe eyebrow area and add pull-out stars at forehead.
17. Pipe with tip #12 and yellow icing hat buckle.
18. With tip #4 and black icing pipe eyebrows and string bow.
19. Pipe lines on pumpkin using tip #2 with orange icing.
20. Using tip # 1A with green icing, pipe using heavy pressure, an elongated ball of icing for steam.
21. With green icing and tip #2 pipe vines; change the tip for tip #352 and pipe leaves.
22. Add  beak  with yellow icing and tip #12, with  heavy pressure pipe a ball shape for bottom beak, tapering off the end as you gradually  decrease the pressure.
23. Tuck tip on top and pipe a ball shape, tapering off the end decreasing the pressure.
24. Using red icing with tip #12, using light pressure, pipe a line of icing alongside beak for wattle.
25. With dark brown icing and tip #352 pull-out wing feathers.

And you are done with your Turkey Cake.  Enjoy!

Halloween Wolf Cake!

You want something different for Halloween this year and don’t have to much money to spend, this is an easy and inexpensive cake; this is an egg cake, decorated with chocolate icing to make the fur from the wolf!, it is a fun, delicious project. If you love  chocolate you will love this cake, it is all covered with delicious chocolate, easy, and fun to do.

• You will need :

Egg cake pan

Chocolate Icing

White Icing

Color Paste Icing

Decorating Bags

Couplers

Decorating Tips(#21,#12)

Cake cardboard

Angled Spatulas

• Instructions:

1. Bake the cake.
2. Remove the cake from pan and put it on the cardboard.
3. Get a decorating bag, put  the base of couplers inside the bag, mark the bag,  where the bottom thread is outlined against the bag, take the base out and cut the bag where you did the mark.
4. Push the coupler base back, one tread should be showing. Take the tip #21, put in inside the ring of the coupler and twist the ring to the base, locking the tip on place.
5. Get the bag with the tip fold down the top, hold the bag beneath the cuff. With the spatula fill the bag with chocolate icing, about three tbs of icing at a time. To remove the spatula , hold the bag between your thumb and fingers, and put the spatula out the bag, squeezing the bag with your fingers to squeeze the icing off.
6. Unfold the cuff and twist the bag to close, force the icing down, squeeze some icing out on a bowl before you start decorating, this is to take the air out.
7. Start pippin, on the bottom of the cake, all around  by squeezing the bag to make long tips of icing. Keep doing the same process all around the cake starting bottom to top,  the cake will be covered with  spiky chocolates icing.
8. Get another bag put the couplers with no tip, and fill with  white  icing and  pipe the eyes , put now the tip #12 and pipe the long tooth.
9. With black icing pipe the center of the eyes, nose and ears.
10. To finish the wolf, pipe the mouth with red icing.

I hope you have fun making this wolf cake. Enjoy!

Friendly Ghost BOO!

This is an egg cake, easily decorated as a ghost. You can use the football cake pan too, to do this Halloween Friendly Ghost!. It is an easy and fun project to do with kids; they will enjoy decorating their cake for Halloween.

Halloween Happy Mummy!

This is another egg cake, covered with white icing and decorated as a mummy!

Halloween Happy Pumpkin Egg Cake!

This egg cake is decorated as a pumpkin, very easy to do.

Halloween Witch Cake!

This is another egg cake with a witch face.

Halloween Witch

Halloween “Carved Pumpkin”

Halloween Surprise Pumpkin

Halloween Pumpkins and Ghosts Cakes and cupcakes