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Skill level:
Easy
HD Lessons:
11
07:02
1. Common Decorations - Box lid
15:13
2. Common Decorations - Stripes
08:43
3. Common Decorations - Polka Dots
10:19
4. Common Decorations - How to make a polka dot bow
00:58
5. Common Decorations - Adding a Ribbon
01:34
6. Common Decorations - Glaze Spray and Dusts
03:15
7. Common Decorations - Glitter Balls
07:17
8. Common Decorations - How to Make a Rose
03:58
9. Common Decorations - Using a Stencil
18:57
10. Common Decorations - Using Cutters
09:50
11. Common Decorations - Using Molds
Just by mastering the common decorations in this course you will vastly expand on the amount of cakes you can create. Paul uses these decorations again and again on many different styles of cake. Take this free course and learn 11 different decorations!
Click here for printable tools and ingredients list
- Covered 12” (30.5cm) Round Cake
- 14” (35.6cm) Round cake drum
- Sugarpaste
- Flower paste
- Icing sugar
- Till roll paper
- Food pen
- Sugar glue
- Food bag
- Spaghetti
- Ribbon
- Royal icing
- PME Glaze spray
- Snowflake dust and lustre
- Edible pearls
- Palette knife (small)
- Rolling Pin
- Sharp knife
- Smoothers
- Turntable
- Scissors
- Roller Markers
- PME Tools
- Paint brush
- Ruler
- Air puffer
- Cutters: Round, rose leaf, sunflower, daisy, butterfly, blossom, love hearts, snowflake, calyx
- Texturised Sheets: various from Edible Creators and Stephen benson Sugar Artistry
- Moulds: Brooch – Karen Davies, Snowfllake Lace – Stephen Benson, Cames – FPC Sugarcraft
I love this tutorial
You made that look ever so simple and almost foolproof! The cake looks simply gorgeous! Can’t wait to try it . Especially that exquisite textured look on the bottom layer.
How do you place de stencil on a round cake?
Hi Aflow, I’m not sure myself but if you ask in the Q&A im sure someone will help you out : http://www.designer-cakes.com/questions
Cheers
Paul Doffman
Customer Support
Learned so much watching this
You are sooooo clever! I am soooo grateful. Thank you for sharing your talent..
🙂 Glad you enjoyed this let us know if you need any help at all: http://www.designer-cakes.com/contact
Cheers
Dear Paul,
I have never decorated a cake, let alone a wedding cake in my life and you have made this into very simple and very ease to follow instructions.
I am going to try your technics. This you for sharing your long life experiences with people like me.
Thank you
I’m really happy you found the videos so helpful 🙂
Let us know if you need anything!
http://www.designer-cakes.com/contact
Cheers
Looks great can’t wait to try, especially liked the way some times you have to fix a mistake, so we know how to do it when it happens. Thinking about coming to the classes with Paul in the New year.
Beautiful Cake for almost any occasion!
Thanks….,I loved this technic,simple and beautiful,. I never see one explication like this.
Your videos and your explications are perfect I loved all . You are a mago of the cakes. 🙂
Great! Really glad you found this so useful 🙂
This is awesome! I will be making a lot more roses from now on.
The polka dot bow technique is a WOW (clapping)
Fantastic cake. It looks so pretty too,
Love all your techniques! Will be trying them all, you make it look achievable !
Hi Pual,
Learned so much from you…….thanks for sharing your experiences with people like me…..
Probably the best rose tuition i have seen from anyone, your a talented man sir!
This is so beautiful I can’t wait to try it.
Wow off to buy some molds and cutters, can’t wait to start having a go, also think I’d like to play with an assortment of colours.
Gosh! The decorations look amazing and your tutorial makes it seem so simple and easy to do. I can’t wait to try it out. Thanks ever so much for sharing this.
once the rose is made, how would i store them, to place on cake later, and how long will they store for?
Hi,
I’m not sure exactly how long you could store them but I would think quite a while if you put them in a air tight container. I don’t see why they would not last as long as the sugar paste its self would last since that’s all they are made from. It might be worth asking in the Q&A
http://www.designer-cakes.com/questions
Hope that helps
Cheers
Thank you for giving me the confidence to decorate a cake! I love baking cakes but never dared to decorate them ! I believed cake decoration is an art that only a few can do. The videos and comments have simplified this “art” for me!
I’m really glad you found them helpful 🙂 Let us know if you need any help with anything:
http://www.designer-cakes.com/contact
Cheers
Beautiful!
Thank you paul..
I am learning a lot I thank you very much!!!!! I love these videos
Wonderful technique. By far the best tutorial for a rose I’ve seen yet. I will be trying this tonight!!!! Thank you.
Glad you liked it! 🙂
Cheers
Thank you to much.
Every single day, I put to use somthing I learned at the this school.
That’s really great to hear! Let us know if you need any help at all!
http://www.designer-cakes.com/contact
Cheers
Oh my life, absolutely brilliant! x
Thanks, hope you’re enjoying the courses! x
I think I love you lol. You are a true inspiration for beginners like me. Thank you sooo much x
Hi Olivia,
We are really glad you are enjoying these videos! Let us know if you need any help with anything! 🙂
http://www.designer-cakes.com/contact
Cheers
Hi,
I notice that you use icing sugar when working with your fondant! Im in Australia and have been taught to use corn flour, do you have preference and why.
thanks
Leanne
p.s what is your expandable cutting tool called, I think I need one of those 🙂
Hi Leanne71, it’s personal preference which you use in this situation – you may find that cornflour is actually a little easier to wipe any excess away.
The expandable cutter is known as a ‘dough divider’ and searching amazon or similar sites should show some results. Hope this helps!
Kind Regards,
Andy
Customer Support
Omg you make things look so easy. Giving me plenty of ideas for the family christmas cakes. Only eight this year. Thank you so much for sharing
Thanks Druscilla,
You can find even more Christmas ideas with the courses here for premium members. Enjoy the courses! x
Love to try it out, the best rose tutorial
oh wow brilliant now i know how this is done very clever thank you paul 🙂
Awesome
You make everything look so easy….I have tried a few of these but they stick, slip and fall off but now I have watched this I am determined to keep going…Thank You
Try a little less of the glue / water and leave it a bit longer to go tacky before applying! Good luck x
ur great …i like it
I am a real newbie to cake decorating.
I came across this site whilst searching for help and I am so glad I did.
Wow in just a couple of hours since joining I have learnt so much its unbelievable.
All the tutorials I have watched so far have been extremely helpful especially the large spotted bow and the rose.
Thank you so much for sharing your talent.
Once I have mastered these tutorials and feel confident to move on I will be joining the online course.
Diane x
Hi Diane, We’re thrilled to have had such a positive impact on your cake decorating skills, don’t forget you can currently watch the horse cake course for free too – http://www.designer-cakes.com/online-cake-decorating-courses/horse-cake x
gracias , muchas gracias
Wow amazing, im new to cake decorating. And Paul makes it look so easy. Iam making my mother in law a cake soon and will be giving the rose a go.
I’m sure it’s not as easy as it looks . I’m confident that I will get the wobbles when I’m cutting .
Just think confident thoughts Debbie, I’m sure you’ll manage it just fine!
Omg wow I am so happy that I found you on the other hand I don’t think my husband will be as I have done nothing all day other then watch this tutorials. Big thx u
Hehe thanks for the kind words Debbie, hope you’re enjoying the courses x
Thanks for all of them !
You’re mixing the sugar paste with something else, can you give me a reference of this other paste ? Thanks
Hi Cendre,
Thanks for getting in touch! We are glad you are enjoying the online tutorials! I believe we are mixing the sugar paste with the flour paste.
I hope this helps! 🙂
Many thanks,
D xx
Hi guys. Sugarpaste is a joy now i have found you guys! I am facing a bit of a challenge using the fine silicone lace moulds. Any helpfull tips for using those, or maybe a tutorial for those? I have looked on the net and it seems to be an area of frustration for many of us 🙂 thanks Ann
Hi Ann, if you’re a premium (paid) members of the site you might find the following lessons will help – Gothic Lace Cake – Lesson 1 & Box of Chocolates – Lesson 2 x
This site is amazing!!! I was taught techniques, some similar, some different. First of all it is great to learn a variety of ways to achieve similar results and here everything is so straight forward. And as others have mentioned it is wonderful to see that a super professional does have slips now and then that he does have to fix up. It makes me feel less clumsy when I’m trying to do stuff.
And you, madeitwithlove, are no less amazing!!! Never ever have I gotten such super quick responses to my many questions … and directly to my mail …and all for free!
I am super impressed and so glad that I happened to stumble upon this site.
Thanks Franke glad your learning some new techniques from us! Also, I agree madeitwithlove is awesome!
What’s the other paste u mixed in sugar paste…. And can both these pastes be made at home, or we have to buy from outside…
Hi !
Thank you for your question.
There are various things that can we add to sugar paste to make it easy to model or make flowers out of etc.
I have found a question that was asked on our Q&A section of our website, where a member asked a similiar question to yours. This may be of some help to you.
http://www.designer-cakes.com/questions/fondantcmc-gumpaste
Thanks D xx
Is the bottom of the “box” just buttercream or is that also fondant?
Hi Cakermom,
The bottom of the box is also fondant! Hope this helps. D xx
you make it look so easy can’t wait to have a go at making a rose
Hi! Thanks for all the great info and videos!
I’m just starting and where i am there is no ready sugar paste can you please give me a fools proof recipie? 🙂
Also when you say mix some flour paste with the sugar paste to make it stronger what is flour paste? Thank u soooo much!!!!
Azi
Hi Azi,
Thanks for getting in touch. We buy all our sugar paste but we have a question in the Q&A were our super hero Made it with love gives a really good answer to this! You can check it out here: http://www.designer-cakes.com/questions/how-to-make-sugarpaste-from-scratch
Let me know if that helps!
Cheers xx
Hi Azi!
Thank you very much for getting in touch and for your kind comments:)
Here is also a link to explain what flour paste is ! We hope this helps:)
http://www.designer-cakes.com/questions/flour-paste
Many thanks x
Maravilhosoooooooo, muito obrigada por compartilhar.
Não tem problema nós estamos contentes que você está desfrutando os nossos cursos ! xx
i love decorating cakes…and thnks for giving me such extra knowledge..love ur videos. u r best tutor.
Hi,
Thank you for getting in touch and for your lovely feedback! We are so glad you enjoy the tutorials! D xx
Muchas gracias
eres bienvenido! x
Wow thank you for the tutorial, for years I have used cutters. and the ball tool, this is so simple, and easy . Thank you so much.
Have tried my very first attempt at a rose today not as perfect as Paul’s but not bad for a first try many thanks x
Well done for trying your very first rose, it is definitely not as easy as it looks! Feel free to share your pictures of your rose on our facebook page, Paul loves to see them!! x
amazingly steady hands.. LOOOOVE the way you move your hands Chef Paul :)))))
Hi! Thank you for the lovely compliment:) I am glad you are enjoying the tutorials! x
That looks so good…..who wants a cake box lol i think i have the bug good job i have a big family i can practice all these fab techniques
Hi Jackie! Hehe I completely agree, feel free to post your pictures of your cake experiments to our facebook page! We would love to see them all:) https://www.facebook.com/PaulBradfordSugarcraftSchool xx
OMG I love it!!! i feel inspired to ban the kids from the kitchen and go bake some cakes haha
Hi Jackie72! Thank you for getting in touch. Hehe banning the kids maybe helpful !! I found this tutorial really useful when I first started out baking, I hope it becomes useful to you too! Best of Luck!:) Danielle xx
Hi , I have just discovered this site and as a complete beginner would like to thank you for the many tips I have learnt already! Can’t wait to get started. Wish me luck!!!
Hi Traey-Mary
I am glad you have found some useful hints and tips! Enjoy the rest of the tutorials:) D xx
loved how you did your bows, as well as the roses. Have never seen a rose made the way you did, it looked so easy. You’re a great teacher
Hi Honeyb! Thank you for the fantastic feedback:) I am glad you enjoyed the tutorial! D xx
thanks a lot, all the way from zimbabwe. i am really enjoying the lessons. i had no idea that cake decorating is not very complicated like i used to think. thanks for being such a good teacher. the way you do it makes it easier even for the slowest learner to follow. many thanks again
Hi Junique, I am glad you have found it useful and find Paul to be a good teacher! I hope you enjoy many more of our courses:) Thanks Danielle x
i enjoyed this lesson. this helped me to understand how to emboss the designes on wedding cakes and designs. very interesting. thankyou for your time.
Hi Jeannette, I am glad that you are enjoying the tutorials and that it has helped you with your designs. Hopefully you will find more of our tutorials helpful too! 🙂 D xx
Hi,
i have really found this site very educative and interesting,
can you kindly put me through the basics of baking a cake, i am a starter i really need to educated
thank You.
awais your response.
Hi Sweeter15, thank you for getting in touch. We have great baking tutorials, by one of our Accredited Tutors – Mrs Jones! You can check them out here – http://www.designer-cakes.com/online-cake-decorating-course-category/baking
Do you do comfort blankets as a decoration ……my grandaughter has a rabbit comfort blanket and I’d love to do one hanging over her cake 🙂
Hi Playmrsc6,
Thank you for getting in touch.
We do not have a tutorial that is dedicated to comfort blankets however, we do have a Monsters in Bed cake tutorial, which features Brenda, doing the bed spread, which may be able to be of use to you.
Let me know if this helps at all.
http://www.designer-cakes.com/online-cake-decorating-courses/monsters-in-a-bed-by-brenda-walton/
I hope this helps.
Many thanks! x
Well informative and easily described. Splendid
Hi Shallycakes22, thank you for the great feedback! 🙂 You can learn more about cake decorating with our memberships, starting as little as £9.95 per month with no contracts:) For more information check out our different membership options – http://www.designer-cakes.com/membership-options
I’m really enjoying your tutorials and I have picked up some very useful tips. I love the little errors that have not been edited out and you show how to fix them. It makes it much less intimidating. It has certainly improved my work.
Hi Elainebatty,
Thanks for the fantastic feedback. I am glad you found the tutorials helpful, as well as the little mistakes. I think these are often very hand to learn from to allow yo to watch out for them yourself:)
I hope you enjoy many more of the tutorials.
Kind Regards,
Danielle x
I have been baking cakes for a few years. And have always seen gorgeous roses and have wanted to try to make one. I have always been so nervous about it. I can’t wait to try this technique!