A Brief Overview Of Cake Decorating By: Dakota Webster

Outline Of Presentation A brief overview of cake decorating Research paper Physical Project What i have learned through the process SUCCESS!!! Challenges Mentor Reflection Conclusion

Research Paper Thesis :Cake decorating has a long and evolving history. For those interested in cake decorating it is important to learn the proper techniques. Facts From Paper 1.Cake around the years 1700(Ancient times) was more we would consider bread, it was spongy and had a bread like consistency 2. In the 19th century technology made the cake bakers life a whole lot easier in many ways, One by making the temperature of ovens more accurate 3. Tradition of placing candles on birthday cake is attributed to early Greeks who used place lit candles on cakes to make them glow like the moon, Greeks used to take the cake to the temple of Artemis-the goodness of moon

Physical Project ▪2.5 hours :making chocolate cupcakes with strawberry cream cheese icing and chocolate G’nosh. ▪ 3 hours: made a cake from homemade cake mix,decorated it with fondant, Minnie Mouse theme baked cupcakes and used pastry bags to apply the pink homemade icing for birthday party ▪ 2.5 hours: my mentor baked a cake with the homemade blue cake mix we made. We made the cupcakes into safari animals for my cousins baby shower. ▪ 2.5 hours: I made my own homemade cake mix and baked my own cupcakes for the first time all by myself. ●2.5 hours: baked a homemade camouflage cake by dying the batter two shades of green and two shades of brown and spooning it into the cake pan made homemade vanilla buttercream icing and dyed it orange. ●3 hours: learning how to make a checkerboard cake with blue and red dyed home made yellow cake with home made chocolate cream cheese frosting. ●1.5 hours dying icing and using piping bags

Homemade cake and cupcakes a B- Day party!

Homemade Cupcakes made for a baby shower I went to

Homemade Camouflage Cake I made

Homemade red and blue velvet checkerboard cheesecake

What I've learned through the process how to make homemade cake mix by myself. How to bake the cake/cupcakes properly when it is a tier cake. how to make my own homemade icing that actually turned out to be really good. how to properly apply fondant/ gum paste to a cake using all the proper tools needed. how to properly decorate cakes/cupcakes using different candies etc. and homemade icing.

Success I am proud of finding a mentor that I can work with learning the new skill of baking and decorating. learning how to make my own homemade cake mix learning how to make my own homemade icing learning how to decorate a cake using fondant learning how to decorate a cake/cupcake properly

Challenges The challenges that changed was me worrying that I would be to impatient but I wasn’t, because I actually enjoyed it It was hard to learn how to use the piping bags because it isnt like using a pencil. I had a hard time icing the cakes it always got pieces of cake stuck in it. I wouldn’t do anything differently about my project

Mentor Reflection The reason my mentor is a good mentor for me is because she has had experience working in a bakery at ingles for almost 2 years, and she has took cake decorating classes at Jo-Anns in Asheville My mentor has taught me how to make my own homemade cake mix and icing. She has taught me how to properly decorate a cake with fondant and mostly all the techniques to use while decorating cakes

Conclusion In the future I hope to make this skill I have learned a hobby with my family on birthdays or just on special occasions This project showed me that I enjoy making cakes and I actually have the patience for it also I’m glad I stepped out of my comfort zone and tried something new.

A Brief Overview Of Cake Decorating By: Dakota Webster