Foods II-Cake Decorating January 2011
Instructions for home:
You will need a white cake mix (eggs and oil), and two-two pound bags of powdered
sugar, milk, and Crisco to make your cake and icing.
Bake a two layered round or heart shaped white cake. Remember to grease and flour
cake pan and insert wax paper in the bottom so the cake will come out easily. After
baking let the cake sit for ten minutes to cool, them turn upside down on wax paper and
remove from pan. Carefully remove crumbs from sides of cake. Let the cake sit for 24
hours uncovered. If the cake has a round hump on it, carefully press it down with your
hands.
Make two recipes of the cake decorating icing, one to ice your cake at home and two, to
decorate your cake at school. Remember to use only CRISO vegetable shortening, sift
your powder sugar if possible for the second recipe, follow instructions carefully. Do not
put vanilla in your recipe unless you have the clear.
When icing, always keep a lot of icing under your metal spatula or knife. Put a small
amount of icing between layers, not too much. Do not put any decorations on your
cake.
Place your cake on a large round tray, plate, or cake stand. You may also take some
heavy cardboard and cut out a circle and cover it with aluminum foil and set your cake
on it. Then find a box or container that you can sit the cake in to transport it to school.
Instructions for School:
We will make icing at school for the roses, writing, and leaves. The icing that you bring
to school will be for your shell borders.
Design: You must have a shell border at the top and bottom of your cake, at least five
roses on your cake, and you must have writing on the cake. Your cake must be
decorated as a Valentine’s Day cake.
Decorating: We will make icing at school for the roses, writing, and leaves. The icing
that you bring to school will be for your shell borders. You will learn how to make a
shell border, how to write, make roses and add leaves to them. Once you make some
roses you like you may keep those and freeze them. You will have two days to decorate
your cake. Cakes will be judged after school and winners will be announced the next
day. If you miss one of these two days you will need to make up the time from study
hall or before school or after school.
Evaluation: In this unit you will be evaluated on following directions, bringing items
to school on time, how well you use your time. Part of your grade will be the skills that
you learned in this unit, and your effort and your organization and time management in
decorating your cake in each lab session. Everyday you will need to use hot soapy
water to clean up the icing. Drawers need to be kept neat, you need to keep track of
your equipment, and leave your kitchen clean everyday. If there is icing on the floor
that needs to be cleaned up with brown paper towel so no one slips and falls.
Cake Decorating Schedule
Group #1--- 5th Hour and 6th Hour
Monday, January 10 Make practice icing
Tuesday, January 11 Shell Border
Wednesday, January 12 Writing and leaves
Thursday, January 13 Decorate graham cracker, practice, come up with design
For cake, Clean up all tips
Friday, January 14 Roses, save the ones that you like
Monday, January 17 No School
Tuesday, January 18 Clean up all tips and bags. Make icing for roses, writing,
Leaves.
Wednesday, January 19 Bring cakes from home and one recipe of the icing
Thursday, January 20 Finish decorating, judging after school
Friday, January 21 Take your cake home and enjoy it or freeze for
Valentine’s Day!
Group #2---5th Hour
Friday, January 21 Shell Border
Monday, January 24 Mrs. Daggett gone to FCCLA Foundation meeting
Tuesday, January 25 Writing and leaves
Wednesday, January 26 Decorate graham cracker, practice, come up with design
For your cake, clean all tips
Thursday, January 27 Roses, save the ones that you like
Friday, January 28 Finish roses, clean all tips, make icing for roses, writing,
Leaves.
Monday, January 31 Bring cakes from home and one recipe of the icing
Tuesday, February 1 Finish decorating, judging after school
Wednesday, February 2 Take your cake home and enjoy it or freeze for
Valentine’s Day!
Cake Decorating Icing
Ingredients Needed:
1 ½ pounds of powdered sugar (6 cups)
½ cup of milk
1 cup regular Crisco solid vegetable shortening
1 ½ teaspoon vanilla (clear-if you don’t have clear just leave the vanilla out)
To get successful results with this recipe be sure to measure correctly and to follow the
directions!! And do not substitute generic shortening for the Crisco.
Directions:
1. Place 6 cups of powdered sugar in a large mixing bowl.
2. Pour the ½ cup of milk over it. LET SIT FOR one or two MINUTES!
This will allow the sugar to absorb the milk and makes it easier on the mixer.
If you have a small hand held mixer you will have to be careful not to burn up the
motor on the mixer.
3. Using the electric mixer, mix up the sugar and milk. Mix until all the sugar is
dissolved and the mixture is creamy.
4. Mix one cup of Crisco solid vegetable shortening into the mixture.
Do not substitute any other brand for the shortening. Mix completely.
5. Add the vanilla and mix.
To store, place icing in a small plastic bowl with a tight lid.