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Home โ€บ Cake Decorating Basics

Updated on October 28, 2021 by Liz Marek Liz Marek ยท This post may contain affiliate links ยท

How to Cut a Cake

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Skill level: Newb

Usually a cake decorator is not the one serving the cake at an event but you might have to explain how to cut a massive cake to a caterer.

6:36 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • The different methods used to cut cakes for events
  • How big a wedding cake serving is compared to a birthday cake serving
  • Learn how to cut double barrel cakes

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Taking off the top tier 0:30
  2. Removing the structure 0:46
  3. Ways to cut the cake 1:40
  4. How to cut a double barrel cake tier 3:54

Cake Decorating Basics: Fundamentals

1. Cake Tool Review
2. Airless Space Buttercream
3. Leveling and Torting a Cake
4. Filling and Crumbcoating a Cake
5. Avoiding Blowouts
6. The Final Coat of Buttercream
7. The Upside-Down Method
8. The Secret to Small Cakes
9. Covering a Cake in Fondant
10. Sharp Fondant Edges
11. Easy Double Barrel Cake
12. Paneling a Cake in Fondant
13. How to Stack Cakes
14. All About Cake Boards
15. Boxing Cakes for Delivery
16. Cake Delivery Kit
17. How to Cut a Cake

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