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10 EASY Cake Decorating Ideas for Beginners
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Jun 24, 2025
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here are 10 simple techniques that don't
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need fancy tools or hours of practice
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and you can use them to decorate cakes
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for birthdays parties or just because
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you're in the mood to make something
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beautiful if you struggle with smooth
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frosting add texture to it so it doesn't
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need to be smooth you can use the back
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of a spoon for this or an offset spatula
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or angled pallet knife pressing it
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gently against the cake while you spin
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it on a turntable or just twist it
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around on the countertop you'll leave
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grooves behind in the side of the
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frosting you can do this vertically
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instead pulling upwards and this is a
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good choice if you don't have a
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turntable because you don't need the
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cake to be spinning as smoothly as you
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do this this is my four-minute
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buttercream and it takes on texture so
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nicely use random movements instead to
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create beautiful rustic texture with
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these little arcs and any of these
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textures not only avoids smooth frosting
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it also creates a stunning base for any
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other decorations you add to your cake
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like flowers use cookie cutters to make
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your own stencils choose a simple shape
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like this star and trace around the
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cutter onto parchment paper or wax paper
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and then cut the shape out leaving the
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paper around it intact that's your
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stencil press it against a cold cake
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that's really important this one's been
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in the fridge for at least an hour and
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then spread buttercream over the stencil
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scrape off the excess so you're left
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with a thin even layer peel the stencil
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off and you'll have a beautiful
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buttercream shape on your cake you can
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leave it just like that or add some
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extra detail by piping little dots
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around the edge or pressing sprinkles
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into the outline after frosting a cake
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spread or pipe a thin layer of another
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color or flavor around the bottom of the
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cake use the tip of an offset spatula or
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pallet knife to swipe this buttercream
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upwards in a diagonal all around the
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cake you only need really light pressure
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for this this is a quick way to decorate
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a cake with a simple color scheme to get
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sprinkles inside your frosting after
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assembling your cake and giving it a
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crumb coat which is this thin layer of
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frosting to trap any crumbs that come
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off your cake pour sprinkles into your
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bowl of buttercream and mix them in
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spread this sprinkled buttercream to
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cover the cake and as you smooth it
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you'll notice sprinkles dragging around
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with your cake comb and leaving trails
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behind spread more buttercream over
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those trails and also any indents or
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gaps or shallow areas in the frosting
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and then scrape around again and again
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and again until the frosting is smooth
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this sprinkled frosting is so
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eye-catching for a border to give any
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cake some more height spoon some
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buttercream into a piping bag fitted
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with any star- shaped tip this is a 4B
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choose which part of your cake will be
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the front the part that looks prettiest
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and start piping 90° to the left or the
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right of that so that the start and end
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of your border is tucked away at the
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side hold the piping bag just above the
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cake squeeze and push slightly away from
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yourself before pulling back that
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creates a wave that folds over itself
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overlap the tail of the wave with
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another one and repeat all the way
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around the last wave won't be overlapped
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by another one and that's why you start
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and finish at the side of the cake so
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that this awkward part is the least
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visible but you can use a toothpick to
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tidy it up this chunky border makes the
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cake look so much more fun to use fresh
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flowers for decorations wait until the
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day you're serving if possible so that
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the flowers don't wilt and group flowers
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together in little bunches and wrap the
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stems in plastic wrap or cling film to
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prevent floral juices leaking out poke
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them into straws like these wide boa
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straws trimming them to the length of
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the stems which should only be 1 or 2 in
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and then push them into the cake instead
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of taking hours to make your own cake
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toppers use toy figures and attach them
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to your cake with a dab of fresh
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buttercream on the bottom to act as glue
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to stick them in place or use a cake
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topper message or artificial flowers
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pushing them into the cake to keep them
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upright here's another piped decoration
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this is a 1M star tip and after chilling
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the cake to set the frosting pipe a
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spiral of one loop with another one on
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top swiping away at the end to leave
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these pretty swirls on the cake it's
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best to put the cake in the fridge for
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at least an hour before you do this so
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that the weight of the piping doesn't
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cause the frosting underneath to droop
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or bulge this is an attractive way to
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guide portion sizes if you need a cake
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to serve 10 people pipe 10 swirls and
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slice on either side of each swirl maybe
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the easiest way to add decorations to
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the top of a cake is to press chocolates
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down just after frosting the cake while
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the buttercream is still soft and sticky
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these are Ferrera Rocher bowls for my
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chocolate Nutella cake and they stick to
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the soft buttercream frosting easily
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let's combine the last two easy cake
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decorating ideas with this one arrange
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cookies or macarons on top of a cake so
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that they stand upright and go up to the
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edges of the cake and so that they're
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spaced evenly apart and then adding more
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into the gaps between the cookies now
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for the fun part pipe swirls between
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them going out to the edge of the cake
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and all the way up to the cookies or
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macarons on each side the cookies or
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macarons will guide you so that each
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swell is the same width and height you
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can keep cakes in the fridge for two to
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three days but take them out a few hours
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before serving so that the cake and
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buttercream come to room temperature and
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that's when they taste the best if
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