Cupcake Decorating Lab

CUPCAKE DECORATING LAB offers dessert enthusiasts and easy, accessible, and fun way to learn techniques for making stylish decorated cupcakes. Step-by-step color photographs illustrate basic techniques, such as frosting cupcakes with an offset spatula, using a piping bag and tips, flooding cupcakes tops with icing, frosting with chocolate ganache, and how to tint buttercream.

The labs cover a wide variety of exciting decorating ideas, such as how to make sugared and candied fruit and flower garnishes, stamping, stenciling and piping on fondant, and scroll work, writing and borders. You'll also find fun designs for children, weddings, holiday entertaining nature themes, and more. Plus Bridget Thibeault, author and pastry chef of Luna Bakery & Cafe, shares all of her favorite cake and icing recipes!