I get paid to decorate cakes. Or, rather, I get paid to teach other people how to decorate cakes.
A sweet deal, no pun intended. Helping others do what I love is a real hoot, and this summer's class really churned out some nice ones.
Cake decorating is simple:
You need desire. You need drive. You must be able to focus. And your short term memory must be somewhat intact.
If you have all of the above, you're good to go. Find yourself a book, a teacher, the necessary equipment, and get started. What you don't already know, you'll learn along the way.
You can start with this, the basic white cake recipe for the cakes we decorate in my class.
This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2009.