Icing Boards Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

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Icing Boards
with Paul Bradford
Skill level: Easy Cake Decorating | Cakeflix - Beginner Level Courses
HD Lessons: 6
Decorating time: 15 mins
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1. Icing Boards - Why to ice a board

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2. Icing Boards - Icing a round board

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3. Icing Boards - Icing a round Board Throw over

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4. Icing Boards - Icing a square board in panels

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5. Icing Boards - Icing a square board throw over

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6. Icing Boards - Adding a ribbon

This is an often under appreciated aspect to cake decorating but getting nicely decorated boards really gives your cake a professional finish and edge on the competition – and it’s pretty easy when you know how!

Click here for printable tools and ingredients list

  • 10” (25.4cm) Round and Square covered cakes
  • 14” (35.6cm) Round and Square cake drums
  • Sugarpaste
  • Ribbon (15mm thick)
  • Pritt Stick
  • Smoothers
  • Paint brush (small)
  • Turntabl
  • Rolling pin
  • Sharp knife
Paul Bradford

Paul Bradford

Paul Bradford´s mission is to ‘Empower people to achieve their cake decorating dreams’ by providing a range of cake decorating courses and online tutorials through their website, which currently teaches 195,000+ students.  

Comments

  1. tabbycat17

    Oh my goodness I’ve learnt so much in just 5 mins so far! Thank you so much for these tutorials they are amazing!

  2. Shazbaz

    Im really getting a lot out of these posts, thank you thank you thank you!

    • pauldoffman

      glad you like it!

      cheers

      Paul Doffman
      Customer Support

  7. oceana

    I always wondered about how to cover a cake board with sugar paste.
    So your information really helped. Thank YOU.

  9. AnnMccayna

    How long in advance should the cake board be iced before putting the cake onto it

    • pauldoffman

      It should be fine right away. There are lots of different ways to ice a board though and a lot of the time there is no icing under the cake. If you watch all these videos you should get a pretty good idea of the different techniques.

      Cheers

      Paul Doffman
      Customer Support

    • pauldoffman

      Glad this is helping you out 🙂

      Cheers

      Paul Doffman
      Customer Support

  13. idong40

    Hi Paul, thanks again for this class, does it mean you can only use panel icing to cover a board for square cake?

    • pauldoffman

      Hi,

      I don’t see why you could not do this with a round board but maybe its not the best technique. Maybe the throw over would be better. You could always ask in our Q&A

      http://www.designer-cakes.com/questions

      Cheers

      Paul Doffman
      Customer Support

    • pauldoffman

      Your welcome! Hope you enjoyed all the videos

      Cheers

      Paul Doffman
      Customer Support

  16. jackiemott

    Can’t wait to try the over hang method thank you

  17. daba327

    Hi!!!

    REally nice tutorials!! I would like to what kind/brand of sugar paste you use. IT seems to be so flexible and nice to work with it. I make my own paste because the place were I live the only options are satin ice or wilton… and I dont like… any suggestion to have a soft and flexible paste?

    Thanks a lot

  18. clayberrycakes

    why did the icing get slimmy after the cake sat on it for a day?

  21. cakesntoppers

    Thank you very much. I am learning so much from your tutorials. Excellent. I can’t wait to try the hang over method.

    • Paul Doffman (Staff)

      Great glad you like it 🙂 good look giving it a go !

  22. glynismw

    That’s a great way of doing it and saves so much paste!

  23. Rose2312

    I am really enjoying these tutorials. Throwover such a good idea, will save paste! You make it look so easy. Going to make a disney frozen cake for granddaughters 6th birthday, will be first attempt so fingers crossed

  25. Asdaf

    Hello,
    I thank you from the bottom of my heart for these free videos!
    But as long as I remember, there were subtitles for videos which we could download or copy paste in word documents…where are they now?

    • Andy (Staff)

      Hi Asdaf, Thanks for your comment and I’ll take a look into the missing subtitle text for you and hopefully it will be back up soon – happy cake making x

  26. andygail2003

    Thank you so much!!! I have learned new techniques! 🙂

    • ValAppleby333

      Paul, thank you sooooo much for all the time and effort you’ve put into these videos!!! I’ve learned so so many helpful tips and hints and have just plain learned how to do a lot of things! I am so grateful for the learning opportunities and it is a real pleasure to watch you work!!

  30. marisa40

    I have made the cake layers for my friends wedding cake (some chocolate, some madeira) and I have frozen them (double wrapped) to save me time as it was quite a lot of cakes to make at once. If the wedding is one week today (sat 20th), when would you suggest I defrost them. Any tips for how to do this (ie let them defrost in their wrapping or unwrap them??) advice greatly appreciated.
    Marisa

  31. Amisha

    Hi… Did u do ganache to the cake before using icing….the cake looks very smoother…

  32. Amisha

    Do we get ready sugar paste of all colours in market, or can we use white colour n change the colour according to our preference…

  34. ValAppleby333

    Also wanted to say that because you are so talented and experienced you make everything look easy enough that I’m no longer afraid to try some of these things!! Thank you!!!

  35. karanimarion

    hi,i have joined the community but i cant still watch the videos. how do i go about it.

  39. kamjackson

    I’m new to cake decorating and always appreciate the tutorials!

  40. pisky64

    Good morning

    I hope you are well, I’ve just joined but can’t seem to see the free tutorials. Am I doing something wrong please. I am using an I-phone 6 plus.

    Many thanks

  41. Fatherlygirl

    I just joined today. Although I am not a professional baker, I look forward to learning the tricks of the trade so that My kids’ birthday cakes and eventually wedding cakes turn out beautifully. My mom baked and decorated cakes for several occasions as a hobby and I am carrying on that tradition with my own kids as I allow them to help me with baking and decorating cakes and cookies. Thank you for these free videos that will help to improve my skills.

  42. titch1

    I can’t see the full videos it as if it is zoomed in? I’ve tried everything please can you help I’m using my mobile. Thank you.

      • Danielle (Staff)

        Hi Titch1,

        Thank you for getting in touch, some android devices are not compatible with our website at the moment and that is why you are only able to see have the picture. If you are able to watch it from a tablet or laptop device you will be able to see the whole picture. We are working on making our website more mobile compatible and hopefully this will be available soon! Any other questions please feel free to drop us an email at [email protected]

    • Danielle (Staff)

      Hi Titch1,

      Thank you for getting in touch, some android devices are not compatible with our website at the moment and that is why you are only able to see have the picture. If you are able to watch it from a tablet or laptop device you will be able to see the whole picture. We are working on making our website more mobile compatible and hopefully this will be available soon! Any other questions please feel free to drop us an email at [email protected] Many thanks Danielle x

  43. DonnaCheek

    Thank you ,I’ve learned so much. I really love the throwover i’ll be using that next time I do a cake with fondant, it looks so much nicer. 🙂

    • Danielle (Staff)

      Hi DonnaCheek,

      Thank you for the feedback. I am glad that you enjoyed this technique and hopefully you will enjoy many more of our tutorials:)D xx

  44. Beauty1234

    What a lesson, I truly appreciate you Paul for sharing this great tips.

  45. dianekay

    Wow i only joined a couple of days ago and have learned so much in that short time, can’t wait to use the other tutorials thankyou

    • Danielle (Staff)

      Hi Dianekay,

      Thank you so much for the lovely feedback, I am so glad that you are enjoying the tutorials and finding them useful! I hope you enjoy many more:) D xx

  46. j4

    Great I am learning a lot. My birthday is on 27th Mar. I am looking forward to icing the board

    • Danielle (Staff)

      Hi J4,

      Thank you for your fantastic feedback, great to hear you are learning a lot!

      Happy Birthday in two days time! Hope it is a good one:) xx

  47. CarmenLRodriguez

    Thanks I,m learning so much you teach in such peace y love it

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