Become a Professional Cake Decorator | Cake Decorations

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Hi, my name is Amanda Oakleaf. I am owner,head baker, decorator of Amanda Oakleaf Cakes
in Winthrop, Massachusetts where we do customcakes of all kinds -- wedding cakes, birthday
cakes, sculpted cakes. Anything you can thinkof we can make it into a cake. And today I
will be talking to you about cake decorating.And today I will be talking to you about cake
decorating. I actually grew up baking withmy mom and both of my grandmothers. We did
baking and we did desserts, cookies, pies,cakes. I don't remember ever having store
a bought cake for anyones birthday. We alwaysmade it a big deal to design everybody's cake
special for their birthday. So I grew up doingit so I was very familiar with it. I didn't
feel like I had to learn it very well. Andthen I went to college. I went to the College
of Massachusetts college of Art and Designwhere I majored in painting took a lot of
classes in ceramics. So I got both aspects,
dimensional structure related training. Andthen while I was in college I had a part time
job. A couple of them, one as a cake decoratormaking ice cream cakes, and another one as
a gift basket designer and party planning.So after I graduated I kind of combined all
three: growing up baking, art degree, andpart time jobs into one and said, "I can do
this on my own!" This article is from web site cake-for-you.com