Cake Decorating
Prof. Vollmer
English 1113
Essay 3
Making a professional cake
Cake has always been a large part in our society. You go to a wedding and you leave with sugar gut. The only reason why we go to office birthday parties is for the cake. However just almost anyone can follow the directions on the back of a Duncan Hines cake box, so how do you get that “wow” cake, the cake that they’ll be talking about around the water cooler? You need a few things before you can even think about making a professional cake. Those things would be time, patience, and skill. A professional cake can take anywhere from five hours to five days. A very elaborate wedding cake might take up to a week to fully construct. In that time you will get very frustrated, so it is extremely important to have patience. If you don’t have patience, you had better find some or else your cake will suffer. Lastly skill is required. If you have no experience and you think “oh I’m going to make a 3 tiered fondant cake, and this will be my first,” then you will be sadly mistaken. The reason why those “professional cakes” are so much is because the baker has had years of experience. So sometimes you need to simply leave it to the professionals. Although this doesn’t mean that with the right instruction you can’t make a beautiful cake, it just takes time, patience, and skill. Creating a elaborate cake on your own is very fulfilling. Not only will it taste great, it’s a great bragging right, you can say, “ya, I made that myself”. Every job begins with tools, and when you are wanting to make a professional cake, it takes a lot of tools. First, it takes the tools to make the cake itself. You will need, cake mix, cake pans (several sizes for the tiers), cooling rack, cake leveler, Pam, a spatula, and toothpicks. Now that you have your cakes, tools start to gather the decorating tools. These would be butter cream icing, fondant, several spatulas, a rolling pin, a cutting wheel, decorating dust, dust
English 1113
Essay 3
Making a professional cake
Cake has always been a large part in our society. You go to a wedding and you leave with sugar gut. The only reason why we go to office birthday parties is for the cake. However just almost anyone can follow the directions on the back of a Duncan Hines cake box, so how do you get that “wow” cake, the cake that they’ll be talking about around the water cooler? You need a few things before you can even think about making a professional cake. Those things would be time, patience, and skill. A professional cake can take anywhere from five hours to five days. A very elaborate wedding cake might take up to a week to fully construct. In that time you will get very frustrated, so it is extremely important to have patience. If you don’t have patience, you had better find some or else your cake will suffer. Lastly skill is required. If you have no experience and you think “oh I’m going to make a 3 tiered fondant cake, and this will be my first,” then you will be sadly mistaken. The reason why those “professional cakes” are so much is because the baker has had years of experience. So sometimes you need to simply leave it to the professionals. Although this doesn’t mean that with the right instruction you can’t make a beautiful cake, it just takes time, patience, and skill. Creating a elaborate cake on your own is very fulfilling. Not only will it taste great, it’s a great bragging right, you can say, “ya, I made that myself”. Every job begins with tools, and when you are wanting to make a professional cake, it takes a lot of tools. First, it takes the tools to make the cake itself. You will need, cake mix, cake pans (several sizes for the tiers), cooling rack, cake leveler, Pam, a spatula, and toothpicks. Now that you have your cakes, tools start to gather the decorating tools. These would be butter cream icing, fondant, several spatulas, a rolling pin, a cutting wheel, decorating dust, dust