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Frosting For Beginners: Tips

The first thing that you will need when you begin decorating is to ensure that you have all of the tools that you will need to decorate your cake.

Tubes or Tips will be an integral part of the process of decorating your cakes. Tips are just small simple metal cones that are used to squeeze the icing or some other type of medium through to form different shapes and designs.

To get a particular size or shape for your design you will have to look at the opening of the tip. The tip opening will give you an idea of exactly what you can expect once you start to pump out your icing.

There are really just 7 basic decorating tip groups that you will need to familiarize yourself with initially. They are: round, star, leaf, drop flower, rose, basketweave, and specialized.

As a new decorator you will want to ensure that you have at least two tips from the first five groups that I mentioned.

As you become better at icing your cakes you will naturally want to expand your collection to include tips from the other groups.

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Candy Favors

I've just posted a new article over at hubpages.com. It's some tips on how to use candy favors for your favor bags. Candy favors are a great treat for your guests.

Check out the article here on candy favors at http://hubpages.com/hub/Candy-Favor-Tips-for-Your-Party-Favor-Bags

This Takes the Cake

Wedding cakes are a very important part of any wedding day. It is part of the tradition, and also part of what the couple and the guests tend to remember about the day. Wedding cake decoration used to be fairly standard - white cake with white or off white vanilla frosting and a plastic bride and groom on top. These days, cakes show far more variety and imagination. Color, themes and flavors are now restricted only by the imagination and tastes of the bridal couple. An imaginative baker can assist the couple in designing a cake that will truly top off the day.

For tips and tricks about Wedding Cake Decorations go visit our online cake decorating guide at http://BestCakeDecoratingIdeas.com