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How To Become A Cake Decorator

If you want to become a cake decorator, you will need to acquire a whole series of skills that need precision and practice, and one of the best places to learn these skills is at a catering school. You will learn not only about icing, frosting and piping but how to make decorative cakes of all different kinds of shapes and structures. You'll learn how to use techniques such as sugar sculpture and marzipan moulding.

Skills and Techniques
To become a cake decorator, you need to learn about making cakes as well as decorating them. Then you will learn about frostings, fillings and icings. You will learn how to make them properly so they have the properties you need to gain the effect you want. You will learn how to make individual items for decoration, such as flowers, figures, animals and other items. You will learn how to map out designs on your cakes so that your ideas become a beautiful reality.

Most people consider using piped icing as the major task of a cake decorator, and this requires practice as well as learning the specific techniques for a professional finish. You can learn these skills on a course at your catering school, studying with the professionals to gain those particular secrets for a perfect finish.

Sugar sculpture is a specific skill that some cake decorators use for a particular effect in cake decoration. This is a skill that takes a long time to master, but it is remarkably effective when done properly.

If you want to become a cake decorator, you need to find one or more programs that will help you to develop both your skills and your design capabilities.
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The Art Institutes system of schools is a leading educator of students in the creative and applied arts, including design, media, fashion, and culinary programs. Every program of study offered to you is regularly reviewed by industry leaders, advisors, and employers for relevance in the marketplace. Changes are made, if necessary, to integrate subject matter into the curriculum so that our degree programs reflect the way things are done in the real world of work. Programs listed are not offered at all locations.

Programs and degree offerings vary by location and are subject to change without notice.
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  Baker College

Founded in 1911, Baker College has helped hundreds of thousands of graduates achieve career fulfillment over the years. We provide job-specific training designed to help students launch a more personally rewarding career right out of college. And with Baker in their corner, they do — 98% of Baker College's available graduates are currently employed. Choose from convenient campus locations across the state of Michigan.

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Clinton Township, MI Flint, MI Jackson, MI
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  Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts - Atlanta

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  The French Culinary Institute

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