The art of Cake Decorating is taking a plain Cake and enhancing its appearance, using icings, frostings, and other items. Cakes can be decorated for all occasions. Both edible and nonedible items can be used to decorate a cake. Learning how to decorate a cake is a worthwhile endeavour but not so easily accomplished at a first try. The different variations that are possible with icings, frostings, piping bags, decorations and designs takes accomplished cake decorators a lot of training to be proficient at their craft. Many may have went through an apprentice program at a well known bakery, or completed culinary classes in cakes and desserts. If you do not have the time or energy to go to culinary school, there are cake decorating courses available from different providers online that may help you to improve your cake and dessert decorating skills. There are many different decoration techniques, patterns and practices.

Some of the basics to be mastered and explored include, using fondant to decorate a cake, decorating cakes that are shaped, icing cakes the basics, advanced techniques of icing a cake, types of icing used for cake decoration, how to color icing and fondant for cake decoration and various cake decorating techniques.

1. Fondant is a sugar paste mixture which is rolled and applied to the cake
2. Decorating Tips are used to pipe icing
3. Cake Decorating became popular in the 17th century
4. Marzipan is be molded to make edible fruits, vegetables or animals
5. The Ace of Cakes reality TV show highlights unusual cake decorating techniques
6. The Cake Boss reality TV show features a real-life bakery making elegant wedding cakes and unique speciality cakes for their customers