Cake Decorating Basics: Fundamentals

Skill level: Newb

Every great cake decorator starts out as a newb. But where do you learn all the tricks and secrets needed to become a successful cake wizard? It can be difficult to find a comprehensive quality education on the basics, so we decided to create our own. Welcome to the Cake Decorating Basics series: Fundamentals. This series will teach you all the basics, from making airless buttercream, to fixing blowouts, and paneling fondant on a tricky double barrel cake. After completing this series, you will have the basic skills needed to move on to more complicated projects.

2:26:25 Minutes of Instruction over 17 tutorials

What You Will Learn

• Learn the types of tools you will need to become a cake decorator
• How to level and tort a cake to make clean cake tiers
• Learn how to cover cake in fondant for a clean finish
• How to cover an extra-tall double barrel cake tier in fondant
• Learn how to stack cakes and support them so they don’t crumble or fall
• How to make small 4″ cakes
• Liz Marek’s patented cake delivery kit and why you would need one
• An easy technique to cut wedding cake slices

Tutorial Chapters

1. Cake tool review 6:17 minutes
2. Airless space buttercream 2:04 minutes
3. Leveling and torting a cake 7:11 minutes
4. Filling and crumb coating a cake 11:47 minutes
5. Avoiding blowouts 18:08 minutes
6. Final coat of buttercream 10:11 minutes
7. The upside-down method 13:26 minutes
8. The secret to small cakes 10:04 minutes
9. Covering a cake in fondant 8:31 minutes
10. Sharp fondant edges 8:49 minutes
11. Easy double barrel cake 8:54 minutes
12. Paneling a cake in fondant 14:55 minutes
13. How to stack cakes 5:09 minutes
14. All about cake boards 9:51 minutes
15. Boxing cakes for delivery 3:20 minutes
16. Cake Delivery Kit 2:39 minutes
17. How to cut a wedding cake 6:36 minutes