Impress your family and friends with a beautiful red velvet cake and learn how to decorate it with expert tips in this free recipe video.
Expert: Jamaica Crist
Contact: www.jamaicascakes.com
Bio: Jamaica Crist is the owner of “Jamaica’s Cakes” in West Los Angeles, CA. Her store specializes in original birthday cakes, elegant wedding cakes and many other fine desserts.
Filmmaker: Traci Holsey
Duration : 0:2:32
Cake decorating David Cakes MacCarfrae http://www.davidcakes.co.uk/ princess castle cakes, revolving carousel cakes, Christening cupcakes and more..David also shows how to make a gum paste fondant teddy bear and how to pipe letters on a cake.
Sharing his knowledge of cake decorating, award winning cake decorator and TV judge David MacCarfrae offers an insight into how to expand your own creativity while helping you develop your own skills technically and innovatively as a cake artist. For more cake designs visit his cake Decorating websites http://www.davidcakes.co.uk/index1.html
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Duration : 0:12:11
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Flip flop cake – How to decorate a flip flop birthday cake
Having a beach party or a summer birthday party? This flip flops cake is guaranteed to make everybody smile. And its quick and easy to make, if you follow the instructions from baker and author Liv Hansen for Betty Crocker Kitchens.
Download the flip flop cake template:
http://www.howdini.com/resources/flipflop_cake_instruction.pdf
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Duration : 0:6:36
Check out our easy step by step guide to making this tasty Christmas treat. For loads more hints and tips head to www.goodtoknow.co.uk
Duration : 0:7:18
The petal technique was found in the book “cupcakes, cookies & pie, oh my!” by Richardson and Tack.
http://www.hellocupcakebook.com/
Buttercream frosting recipe and tutorial video:
Candy melting wafers come in all sorts of different colours but all taste about the same, a bit like white chocolate (except for the chocolate coloured ones that taste like artificial chocolate).
They can be purchased at the Bulk Barn if you live in Ontario or other provinces in Canada (see their website for store finder).
They can also be found at certain craft stores and at stores like Walmart in certain areas.
They can also be purchased online.
Examples:
http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?sku=pg_candymelts
http://www.bulkfoods.com/drops.asp?referrer=yamelwaf
They cost about $6 a pound here in Canada at he Bulk Barn.
I melt mine at 50% power in the microwave and will sometimes add a bit of shortening to the mixture to thin it out.
You can dye white chocolate and white candy melts but you must use oil based colours (available in certain craft store and online)
Like here: http://www.globalsugarart.com/cat.php?cid=1045&s=&name=AMERICOLOR/Americolor%20Oil-Based%20Candy%20Colors
Leftover candy melts can be reused, just let them harden and melt them again. I let mine harden in a plastic bag in a thin layer, then just break of the pieces from the plastic and put it into a container.
****WINNERS OF THE 100TH CUPCAKE GIVEAWAY****
There were over 1100 entries!!! Amazing 
This is the first time that I try using the email method for a contest entry. It worked very well and was very easy to organize and pick the winners, however, I forgot to ask people for their youtube usernames so that I could announce them publicly!
I have sent emails to the five winners asking for their usernames and as soon as get them will be able to share them with you all (if they say it is okay of course).
Thank you to all of you who have entered !!
Duration : 0:5:23
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Decorating a cake is easier than you think. Watch baker and author Liv Hansen for Betty Crocker Kitchens demonstrate how it’s done. After you practice a little, you’ll be piping like a pro.
Cake decorating ideas and piping tips
How To Make A Pastry Cone
1. Roll out a square of parchment paper. Fold bottom edge up in a triangular fashion until it meets the top edge. Cut parchment from the roll. You will be left with a triangle.
2. Open the parchment. Use the crease as a guide to cut your triangle out.
3. On the long side of one of the triangles, draw a small line along the top of the parchment in the middle. This is where your point will form.
4. Take one corner of the paper and roll it in on itself until the corner lines up with the bottom point. Repeat with the other point, folding the point down and to the back. The two sides will line up down the middle of the cone.
5. Wrap clear tape around the tip of the bag to prevent the point from opening as you use it.
6. To fill the pastry cone, hold it in your hand. Put frosting on a spatula, and place spatula slowly into the bag. Pinch your fingers down on the spatula and slide the spatula out, keeping the frosting in the bag.
7. Fold the edges of the pastry cone into the middle, and roll the top of the pastry cone down to pack the frosting tightly.
8. Snip a small hole in the tip of the bag so you can pipe the frosting.
How To Work With A Pastry Bag
1. You can use either disposable or reusable pastry bags.
2. Open the pastry bag and place a coupler inside.
3. Select the cake decorating tip you want to use. Place the tip on the outside of the bag. Put a ring over the tip and screw the tip onto the bag.
4. To fill the bag, turn the top edge over. Cup your hand like a C, holding the bag, and place the edges of the bag over your hand.
5. Use a spatula to scoop the frosting inside. Fill the bag half full.
6. Bring the sides of the bag back up. Twist the sides of the bag to squeeze the frosting down towards the tip. Squeeze a little frosting back into your frosting bowl to eliminate any air bubbles.
How To Practice Piping
1. Lay a piece of parchment paper onto your counter top.
2. Prepare a pastry bag using a round cake decorating tip.
3. Twist the pastry bag and hold the bag at the back edge. Squeeze this edge to control the flow of frosting.
4. Practice making straight lines. Keep your hand moving at an even pace, and keep even pressure on the bag to ensure you have a solid, straight line.
How To Make a Shell Border
1. Place a star tip on the pastry bag.
2. Hold the bag at a 45-degree angle. Touch the bag down to the paper. Squeeze and hold in place until the design starts to bulge. Release the pressure, pull down onto the paper and release the frosting.
3. Repeat, overlapping the edge of your first scallop with the next scallop.
How To Make A Rosette
1. Place a star tip on the pastry bag.
2. Hold the pastry bag perpendicular to the surface.
3. Squeeze, rotate the bag and tail off. When you stop the flow of frosting, you are tailing off.
How To Make Bubble Letters
1. Use a pastry cone filled with frosting.
2. To make a letter H, make a dot, squeezing and holding the cone in place. Pull straight down, squeeze and hold to make another dot, and then tail off.
3. Repeat, making another line next to the first.
4. Connect the lines in the middle to complete the H.
5. If you want thicker lines, cut a larger hole in the tip of the pastry cone. Keep your scissors perpendicular to the bag when cutting to ensure a nice, neat line of frosting emerges from your pastry cone.
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Duration : 0:5:44
How to make rose designs with icing; get expert tips on homemade cake recipes in this free baking video.
Expert: Linda Leon
Bio: Linda Leon was a professional cake decorator for a number of years. She learned the trade from her mother and later attended cake Decorating school to further develop the skill.
Filmmaker: Linda Leon
Duration : 0:2:21
Visit http://www.cakebaker.co.uk to bake a great cake from over 200 recipes and videos. To contact Kim call 01928 732988.
Duration : 0:4:5
Found these cupcake ideas in “Hello Cupcake” by Richardson and Tack
Peas and carrots at: 00:23
Mashed potatoes at: 00:51
Corn on the cob at: 01:38
Chicken leg at: 02:32
Starburst candies melt after a few hours in contact with frosting so add the starburst details just before serving.
Duration : 0:3:55
How to make two kinds of panda cupcakes.
I based these on photos I found on the internet combined with my own twists.
Hello Cupcake uses a mini cupcake for the panda head, that’s cute too.
Bright white buttercream frosting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLGDPYcrOnI
Duration : 0:8:37