CAKE DECORATING'S STYLES & METHODS

Cake decorating's style are made from :

1. airbrushing
2. buttercream
3. fondant
4. ganache
5. marzipan
6. royal icing
   
   To make a cake decorating usually involves covering a cake with some form of icing and then using decorative sugars, candies, chocolate or icing decorations to embellish the cake. But it can also be as simple as sprinkling a fine coat of icing sugar or drizzling a glossy blanket of glaze over the top of a cake. Icing decorations can be made by either piping icing flowers and decorative borders or by molding gum paste, fondant, or marzipan flowers and figures.

   The precursor to most styles of cake decorating is the European style, which entails covering a cake with a smooth layer of icing, either royal icing or rolled fondant, and then using royal icing to pipe flowers, borders and decorative stringwork to adorn the cake. Traditionally, the wedding cake is a graduated multi-tiered cake stacked in Victorian style or separated by pillars with flowers and other decorations applied to each tier.

   To make cake decorating with The Lambeth Method uses intricate dimensional overpiping of borders on a fondant covered cake.
   

   To make cake decorating with The Australian Method also uses intricate royal icing piping over fondant-covered cakes, but then adds delicate lacework and detailed extension and curtain work.

   To make cake decorating The Wilton methods use buttercream icing to both cover the cake and then pipe flowers and decorative borders.
   

   To make cake decorating The Wafer Mache Method, a new dimension in cake decorating, created by Donna Horn of New Jersey,uses edible rice paper to create three-dimensional figurines, animals, and other imaginative cake decorations.