Cake Decorator

Cake decorators are employed to decorate cakes, pastries of all shapes and sizes with coloured icings or pastry cream and using food colours.

Cake decorators may be required to perform the following tasks:

  • Cake decorators will mix the icing or other decorating mixtures, e.g. butter, royal and plastic icings, pastes, creams and frostings
  • spread icing or other mixtures with brushes or spatulas
  • tint the mixture using food dyes to achieve the desired colour
  • place decorative mixture into an icing bag fitted with a nozzle of a specified size and shape
  • shape cakes to create various forms which are then decorated
  • form and shape various shapes and decorative figures onto cakes, e.g. lines, letters, figures or flowers, by using hands or tools such as icing bags or cutters.

Required Skills - Cake Decorator

  • enjoy artistic and creative activities
  • artistic and design flair
  • able to undertake detailed work using a steady hand
  • free of skin diseases, chest complaints and notifiable diseases as required by law

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