Susana+M.

**Introduction**
===Cake decorating is something that bakers use all over the world. it is something that can be used anyone and you can make different designs with the cake frosting.in other words there are different designs you can make when decorating a cake you can make a rose, flowers, leafs out of frosting.there are many different colors we can make frosting and you can combine then and make a different color.the process of decorating a cake is to get all your supplies together like the cake a pastry bag the tips for the pastry bag and the frosting.then you will choose the tip of tip to make a different design.===

===The time when cake decorating started was in the mid-19th century. It was in the period when the french began to serve desserts as a separate course at the end of the meal. Decorating cakes have always been important in part of celebrations. Also cake decoration has changed over the years first they started decorating from scratch then they used frosting and now they use fondant which has became popular. We cant think about a party without a cake every celebration has to have a cake. When decorating a cake you can make different designs you can make polka-dots or very fancy designs for special occasion. i wanted to learn how to make the frosting roses they seem easy and I would like to try it one day i will just need a nail, wax paper, pastry bag, tips and frosting. decorating cakes is a topic that can interest anyone. when it comes to decorating a cake it might take a long time or less it depends on how many things your going to put in the cake and if ur going to have more than one cake.===


 * Research Questions**
 * 1) =====How do you make the frosting roses?=====
 * 2) ===== How do you make homemade frosting from different colors? =====
 * 3) ===== What is the history of decorating cakes? =====
 * 4) ===== How long does it take to decorate a cake? =====
 * 5) ===== What supply do you need to decorate a cake with flowers and designs? =====
 * 6) ===== Were do you get the frosting and decorating supplies? =====
 * 7) ===== What kind of designs can you make when decorating a cake? =====


 * Vocabulary**

Pastry Bag: It is a coned shaped bag with different nozzles, through witch pastry, icing may be squeezed for decorating.
=**presentation Plan**=
 * i will introduce my topic and show some examples of decorated cakes.


 * talk about what intrest me about this topic.


 * show some examples of people decorating cakes and making frosting.


 * show a few supplies for decoraring a cake and how they are used.


 * **talk about were to get the supplies.**


 * == **talk about how to make frosting and frasting roses.** ==


 * ==talk about the famous cake decorators and show pictures of there cake decorations==

Topic:How to Make Homemade Cake Frosting
 * May 11th, 2011**
 * Annotated Bibliography**

Bryant Resnick, Patricia. "How to Make Homemade Cake Frosting." //eHow.com.// eHow, 24 April 2011. Web. 2 May 2011
The main purpose of this website is to give cake decorators all over the world a chance to to learn how to become better at decorating a cake. It is a site created by a contributor called Patricia Bryant Resnick. It has eight clear steps you have to follow in order to make the frosting the correct way. The eight steps give tells you a little more information on different colors you con make frosting. The page on this website was the most useful to me because it tells you what supply you are going to need and the steps to make it. I learned that there are only eight easy steps and i thought it took you more than only eight steps to make homemade frosting so quick. Frosting decoration is very often used by cake bakers and other people that may know how to decorate a cake. So what Im basically saying is that you can make your own frosting at home with eight easy steps and a little supply i don't think it will take so long to make frosting because it has only eight steps that sound easy to complete.

Peliegrinelli, Carroli. "Homemade Frosting." //About.com.// About, n.d. Web. 2 May 2011
The main purpose of this website is to give bakers all over the world a chance to become experts at decorating cakes and other things they bake. It has a video that tells you how to make it and what supply you will need to make the frosting. It tells you how to take the steps very carefully so you don't mess up also if your frosting is to dry you will need to ad more water. The page on this website was the most useful to me because of the video and the way it explained each step clearly and the ingredients you will need to make your own frosting. I learned that you can put the frosting in a plastic bag and cut the bottom piece and squeeze the frosting to start decorating your cake. This cake decorating is used by many bakers like one that comes out in t.v. called cake boss. this can take a while for you to become an expert at but with this it is an easy way to start and begin learning something new.

"Art of Making Roses out of Icing" //Cake Decorating Center.com.// Cake Decorating Center, 9 April 2008. Web. 16 May 2011
The main purpose of this website is to give bakers all over the world and people that want to learn a chance to learn how to make a flower out of frosting/icing. This website also tells you the supply you well need to make the roses this website has pictures that show you step by step how it is going to come out and how it is going to look. It tells you how to use the steps very carefully it goes by do this and then take this and so on the steps are very clear and you well get how to make the flower in the first tome you read the steps. The page on this website was the most useful to me because it gives me pictures on how the flower is going to start looking and it has other pages that have videos but to me this page was the most useful it made more sense. I learned that you have to put a wax paper in the nail to make the flower and that you can put as many petals as we want. This decoration of flower is used by many people including bakers and some that are barley learning.


 * May 2nd, 2011**

Today im going to research my question:how do you make homemade frosting?

one site i found how to make the frosting was**:**

@http://www.ehow.com/how_4882507_make-homemade-cake-frosting.html This website has alot of information it tlls you how to make the frosting step by step but it doesnt have any pictures and doest tell you how mony tbsp or cups**...**it tells you wat to use like a blender and other things.

the second site i found how to make frosting is:

@http://video.about.com/baking/Frosting.htm This website has a lot of information in the video it tells you what you need...it also tells you what to make it with also if you want to make differen colors and how to decorate the cake..this website seemed very helpful.


 * April 27th, 2011**

Today I'm going to research my topic: cakes with frosting decorations The question Im going to research is how can I make the frosting roses?

one site i found is:

@http://candy.about.com/od/candybasics/ss/frosting_rose_6.htm

Not sure if it has all the information i need but it seems helpful It has alot of pictures that show you steps on how to make the frosting roses.