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Sandy Sheppard shows you the basic techniques of cake Decorating.
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How to Bake and Decorate a Cake
Sugar Cookie Decorating Ideas & Cinnamon Roll Cookies Recipe
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Sugar Cookie Decorating Ideas & Cinnamon Roll Cookies Recipe
Making your next batch of sugar cookies stand out has never been so easy! Professional creative chef Cricket Azima for the Betty Crocker kitchens demos two adorable and fun ideas to add flare to your next batch of Sugar Cookies. Don’t forget to grab the kids for these recipes!
Recipes:
Pop Art Cookies
1 pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® sugar cookie mix
1/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 tablespoons Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
1 egg
12 wooden sticks with rounded ends
1 container (1 lb) Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy frosting (any white variety)
Food colors in desired colors
Assorted candy decorations
1.Heat oven to 375°F. In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, butter, flour and egg until dough forms. Roll dough on floured surface until about 1/4 inch thick. Cut with 3-inch round cookie cutter. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Carefully insert a wooden stick into side of each cookie.
2.Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 1 minute before removing from cookie sheet. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
3.Divide frosting among 4 small bowls. Tint frosting in 3 of the bowls with different color of food color. Reserve some of the tinted frostings for piping on designs. Frost cookies with remaining white and tinted frostings. For piping, place each tinted frosting in small resealable food-storage plastic bag; snip off tiny corner of bag. Pipe frostings on cookies in desired designs. Decorate with candy decorations.
Makes 1 dozen cookies
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Cinna-spin Cookies
Cookies
1 pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® sugar cookie mix
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ cup butter or margarine, softened
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
Glaze
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons milk
¼ teaspoon vanilla
1. Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, mix cookie mix and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Stir in butter and egg until soft dough forms.
2. On piece of waxed paper, shape 1 tablespoon cinnamon into a line about 5 inches long. Using floured fingers, shape 1 tablespoon of dough into a rope 5 inches long. Press one side of dough rope into cinnamon.
3. On ungreased cookie sheet, coil dough rope tightly, cinnamon side facing center, into cinnamon-roll shape. Press end of rope into roll to seal. Repeat with remaining dough. Place cookies 2 inches apart on cookie sheets.
4. Bake 7 to 10 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.
5.In small bowl, mix glaze ingredients until smooth. Drizzle over cookies.
Makes 2 1/2 dozen cookies
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Betty’s Daughter, Chelsea, and Grandson, Carter, Decorate Halloween Cupcakes
In this video, Betty’s daughter, Chelsea, and grandson, Carter decorate Halloween cupcakes. The cupcakes are Happy Halloween Cupcakes, which you will find here:
youtube.com/watch?v=mkw_cbUW5ws
The frosting is Rich Vanilla Frosting, which you will find here:
youtube.com/watch?v=7BvoVAZ5t_M
The toppings may be anything that is in the Halloween spirit! Enjoy!
–Betty 
Note; I have three projects (that you will learn about) that I am currently working on. I will let you know about them when I have dates and times. In the meantime, my family has been sharing some of their talents in bettyskitchen. I hope you enjoy the change of pace. We will plan to back on track for the holiday season! Thanks for your continued support!
–Betty ♥♥♥♥♥
Duration : 0:8:47
Cake Decorating: Fun With Fondant
Just got a sweet review from the Library Journal on the fondant DVD with Robin. This is what they said:
Robin Hassett, co-owner of and baker at the Dessert Tray in Portland, OR, shares in this lively and informative DVD her tips and tricks for working with fondant, that mix of sugar, water, and flavoring that is the foundation of many candies and icings.
After discussing the basic tools and techniques, Hassett provides a recipe for fondant and then goes through the step-by-step process of decorating two different birthday cakes. Excellent production values and a well-designed menu allow viewers to navigate the DVD with ease. Hassett proves to be an engaging and cheery guide to the world of fondant, making this program the perfect choice for beginning cooks who want to start turning out their own colorful cakes. A useful addition to any public library cooking collection.—John Charles, Scottsdale P.L., AZ.
more info here:
http://cookingupastory.com/cake-Decorating-fun-with-fondant-dvd
Duration : 0:4:39
Cake decorating ideas and piping tips – How to decorate a cake
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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
Decorating Cupcakes #38 : Sea Turtle
Found this idea in a Better Homes and Gardens cupcake magazine.
Recipe for butter-cream icing on my channel page on the left side near the bottom.
Duration : 0:4:55
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Decorating Cupcakes: #65 Cupcake Dinner (veggies, spuds, chicken)
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.
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Decorating Cupcakes #86: Pandas
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
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Decorating Cupcakes #46: Father’s Day “The backyard BBQ”
This will be the second (and last for this year) Father’s day cupcake. I saw a photo of a BBQ cake and then designed this cupcake, but then found “my” design on this website, not so original I guess, lol.
http://familyfun.go.com/fathers-day/fathers-day-recipes/grate-gift-for-dad-888883/
They give alternatives to different kind of food in this one (pork chops, skewers) and they use chocolate icing with orange sprinkles to make the “coals”. This is a good idea and I think was the missing “something” I was looking for.
They also use a toothpick and make “grill marks” on the food with black food colour, I also wish I would have done this too!
Apple Cupcake coming up tomorrow!
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Decorating Cupcakes #85: Monkey
How to make monkey cupcakes two ways.
Can easily be converted into “girl monkeys” or even into Abu the monkey from Disney’s Aladdin movie.
Found the ideas for the cupcakes here:
http://www.yanowhatimean.com/archives/003115.php
http://family.go.com/food/recipe-601550-abu-cupcakes-t/
How to make the little gumdrop flowers:
I know it is inevitable that I get the question, what if I don’t have caramels or nilla wafers?
You can re-create the monkey face shape with light brown frosting or you can use starburst candies for a funky coloured monkey. Fondant or gumpaste is also an option.
You can also use sliced almonds (with or without the brown “skin” on them) for the ears.
I also didn’t mention that I added eyebrows to the second monkey to soften his “glare” he was scaring me a little, lol!!
I also added some frosting details to Abu’s hat.
Duration : 0:3:46