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There are now so many cake decorating designsout there that the days when all you needed was to put icing on acake are gone forever. There has been quite an evolution in cakedecorating designs in recent years. You can even find shows dealingwith this issue on TV, and this has sparked an interest for manypeople do decorate cakes in their own kitchens.

If you can't quite figure out the kind of design that you wouldlike to try, get yourself a cake decorating book and study thepictures in it to see what kind of design you really like. Thereare lots of complex designs out there, but all it takes is somebaby steps, if you will, to go for them.

There are lots of online sources for great designs as well.Should you be interested, you may even use a premade design.Chances are no one will know that you didn't make it from scratch.Then there are some easy ways to give your cakes a special lookthat will make them stand out from the rest of the crowd.

At this point there is an interest in making cakes forchildren's birthdays. It is not difficult to design a cake for suchan occasion provided that you stay with your current skill level.Read up on all the points you can find in your book and follow theadvice to create that special cake for a child's birthdayparty.

If you are not sure that you have the skill level to undertakecertain cake decorating tasks, see if any of your friends or familymembers have more skill than you have, and ask them to help you.Even if you can decorate a cake on your own, there may come a timewhen outside help could get you going with a more complex designthat you have tackled before. If and when you get the properassistance, you are bound to make a cake that shows a more complexand intricate design than you would have been able to give itwithout help.

The important thing is to realize that before you start on thisventure, there are quite a few basics that you will help to learnto begin with. Just keeping yourself at a skill level you feelcomfortable with can be a great help in your advancement with thishobby and art form.

So many people wish that they could come up with as many cakedecorating designs as the number of cake they bake but often getstuck for idea on how to go about achieving this. Do you findyourself in this number? Or do you have brilliant cake decoratingdesign ideas but simply do not know how to implement it? In thenext few minutes I will be showing you simple steps that you canfollow to start implementing any cake design idea that you may haveand how to find new cake designs.

If you are in need of a design, a quick place to get somewonderful inspiration is to search the web for sites that hostroyalty free images,photographs, vector illustration and designcommunity; here you will get an abundances of designs that you canuse as reference and templates for your design.

If are comfortable with free hand piping of the ice on the cake,then you can simply print out the design and practice tracing overthe design which is a pretty good approach for scroll work that isquite popular on wedding cakes.

However if you are not that comfortable with the free handpiping of the ice on the cake, then tape parchment paper over theimage and pipe the icing on the parchment paper while tracing theoutline of the image. Now put it in the freezer until it hassolidified then put in more ice and refrigerate again until itssolid. Now you can flip it on the frosted cake while you carefullyremove the parchment paper.

You may also cut out a template from rolled fondant from adesign printed on card stock and then you trace around the templatewith an edible marker. The resource box below will show you how totake your present knowledge and skill in the art of cake decoratingto the next level. Whatever your next level is.