Basic Cake Decorating – Preparing Your Cake For Decoration

Cake decorating basics – Preparing the cake board

Cake boards refer to the board or plate on which a cake is place and presented. Typically, a cake board is made of thick cardboard and wrapped with foil.

A general rule of thumb in choosing the right size for a cake board would be to have it 2 inches larger or wider than the cake.

The thickness of the cake board, on the other hand is to be determined based on the weight of the cake. If you have a heavy cake or tiered ones, your cake board has to be thick enough to support the weight. In such circumstances, you will need to stack together 3 or 4 cake boards together and wrap them in a foil of your choice to make a thick cake board.

Cake boards come in different shapes and sizes, depending on the shape of the cake it is going to hold. Most widely available shapes are round, square and rectangle. If you are baking a cake of a shape which is not easily available, you could use a round, square or rectangle shaped cake board, depending on which one is the closest to the shape of your cake. Alternatively, you could make your own custom shaped cake board.

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Cake decorating basics – Preparing your cake for decoration

Once you have the cake board ready, the next basic step would be to prepare the cake for decoration. Do you know that before you even start covering your cake with icing or frosting, there are a few important things you need to do to your cake to prepare it for decoration? Those things are :


- Cooling a cake
- Leveling and layering a cake
- Patchwork for an even cake height
- Removing loose crumbs on the cake


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