Cookery and recipes - the complete step by step guide to cake decorating

Madhur Jaffrey Indian Rice Pudding Recipe with recipe video instructions from the BBC.

Note: Video available for UK access only!

Contents

Introduction

Baking basics

• Cake sizes and portions

• Baking tins

• Lining a cake tin

• Lining a cake tin for fruit cake

• How to calculate how much mixture is needed for an unusual shaped tin

Cake recipes

• Madeira sponge

• Pudding bowl, sandwich and fairy cakes

• Chocolate cake

• Special effects with sponge cake – chequered sponge – stripy sponge

• Fruit cake

• Microwave cakes

Number and letter cakes

• Numbers – guide to cutting numbers out of square and round cakes – decorating number-shaped cakes with buttercream – numbers with holes – decorating with sugarpaste

• Letters – guide for cuting letters out of square and round cakes

Basic equipment

• List of 25 items

• Ribbons

• Instant decorations

• Candles

• Pillars and stands

• Cake stands

• Using pillars on sugarpaste or buttercream cakes

• Using pillars on royal-iced cakes

Buttercream icing

• Recipe

• Colouring buttercream

• Freezing buttercream

• Filling the cake

• Covering with buttercream

• “Setting up” and avoiding crumbs

• Special effects – combing – marbling – multi-coloured swirls and piping

• Piping

• Templates

• Celebration cake

• Silver wedding cake

• Teddy bear cake

• Pretty butterflies cake

• Take the train - easy to make kiddies cake made from supermarket bits, stuck together with buttercream

• Buttercream flowers cake

• Puppet on a string cake

• Candy house cake

• Summer flowers cake

• Baby face cake

• Bouquet of hyacinths cake

• Spring blommom cake

• Buttercream beauty cake

• Who's looking at you? cake

Sugarpaste

• Recipe

• Using sugarpaste

• Quantity guide

• Covering a cake with sugarpaste

• Covering cake boards with sugarpaste

• Colouring sugarpaste

• Different effects with colour – woodgrain effect – marbling – multicoloured effects – painting on sugarpaste

• Easy sugarpaste effects – crimping - twisting strands – quilting and embossing – sugarpaste cutters - lettering

• Modelling with sugarpaste

• Templates

• Party ballons cake

• Fearsome dragon – dragon protecting fairy cakes ...

• Frosted flowers cake

• Scary halloween cake

• Hearts and ribbons cake

• Christmas parcel cake

• Happy gardener cake

• Christening cake

Marzipan

• Recipe

• Quantity guide

• Covering a fruit cake for sugarpaste or swirled royal icing

• Covering a round fruit cake for smooth royal icing

• Covering a square fruit cake for smooth royal icing

• Colouring marzipan

• Modelling with marzipan

Royal icing

• Recipe

• Colouring royal icing

• Peaked and swirled effects

• Royal-icing a square fruit cake

• Covering a square cake board

• Royal-icing a round fruit cake

• Covering a round cake board

• Piping bags :- washable polyester piping bags – disposable shop-bought bags – homemade greaseproof paper piping bags

• Making a piping bag

• Different piping effects – number 2 – number 4 – star – petal – leaf – snail trail

• Piping without a nozzle

• Multicoloured piping

• Piped flowers

• Piping lettering

• Freehand

• Using a letterpress

• Templates

• Christmas bows cake

• Wedding star cake

• Christmas stars cake

• Baby's cradle cake

• Piped flowers cake

• Snowflakes cake

Chocolate

• Types of chocolate – dessert or eating chocolate – couverture – baking / cooking chocolate – chocolate flavoured cake covering

• Melting chocolate

• Covering a cake with melted chocolate

• Chocolate ganache – piping with ganache

• Chocolate leaves

• Chocolate runouts

• Chocolate shapes – solid shapes – squiggles or shape outlines

• Chocolate modelling paste

• Chocolate truffles

• Templates

• Quick chocolate cake

• Marzipan chocolates

• Easter cake

• Cake with cocoa painting

• Chocolate feathers cake

• Chocolate shapes cake

• Monster cup cake

• Chocolate extravaganza

• White chocolate ring cake

• Choc 'n' nut cake

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