Cake Art - Material and Equipment

First of all you will need all the ingredients and materials to bake your cake and shape it. Once that is done, the fun of decorating can begin.

You will need icing, a spatula, piping bags and different shapes of open tips. If you like to determine the color of your icing, then icing colors can be bought to mix to the desired shade.

Brushes and maybe even an air brush might come in handy. Although I would say the latter is probably more for the experts among the cake decorators.

All of these cake decorating supplies are easily found and ordered online. For beginners there are starter kits available which contain all the basics, along with guidelines for decorating.

Ready to use decorations are offered as well. Those can be of great value in case you don't have much time to decorate a cake.

There is no shortage of hints, tips, classes, books, examples and experiences either. Since you will be working with icing, sugar decorations and fondant, I recommend you take the time to read some of them; they will benefit when decorating your own cake and turn it in to a piece of cake!