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Hi, I'm Kelly Delaney and I Own Cakes For Occasions in Danvers, Massachusetts. We are custom-design cake and pastry shop. I like to teach you today how to decorate a cake with a gymnastics theme. These days with decorating is so quick and easy to go to Google, you can actually print out any kind of image that you want. In this case, we've printed out a silhouette of a gymnast. We did all in black on purpose 'cause we're going to show you how easy it is to make a transfer of this. Taking your paper, you're going to want to tape it to any piece of cardboard that you may have. This is just a cardboard circle that we put cakes on. Then, we're going to take a piece of parchment; I just hand cut out a rectangle; then I'm going to place right over the silhouette. Then, we're going to tape the parchment right over the silhouette. This is important to do, this way your parchment now doesn't slide off the silhouette and then change the whole design of what you're trying to accomplish. So, I've got a triangle piece of parchment. I'm going to make a disposable parchment piping bag for our white chocolate. Having the corners, I have a, b and c, I'm going to take the a, bring it inside and bring it down to c. Taking my other hand, I'm going to grab b, bring it p and around back. And I'm just going to move all the corner pieces to make a cone. So, now, I've melted some white chocolate over a bain-marie and I'm just going to fill my bag with the white chocolate. You want to fill it just about halfway up if you can see that. We're going to fold up the bag now and then I'm going to then fold in the corners so I can then pipe it. And it gives me a lot of room up here if I'm going to write or if I'm going to do my transfer. Filling it too much will just make it super sloppy. Using a pair of scissors, we're just going to cut off a tip of the bag and we're going to pipe out the white chocolate onto the silhouette. And we're going to start off by just outlining it. Once we've outlined there, we go back in and then what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to fill in the area with the white chocolate, but don't overfill and I'll explain why. White chocolate will spread and you don't want to throw it all off if you over fill it because we're going to need to bang it down in order to get any kind of air bubbles out. We're just going to go and we're going to bang it and see how it fills it in nicely. We're going to take this and we're going to put it in the refrigerator 'cause we definitely need to have this white chocolate harden. So, while the white chocolate's hardening, we're going to decorate our cake. What girl doesn't like pink and purple? So, we've got two different shades of pink and then we've got a nice purple. So, we're going to do a fun little swirl design throughout our cake. You always want to pipe on your design first. Then, you go through and add your accents as well as your borders. For different shape, just add some fun little filigree into the cake. Take some purple and do little accents, starting with like a bigger of a dot and then a medium size and a small one, changing our direction each time we go. Now, we're going to add our border. I'm going to change the tip, tips come in many different sizes. So, when you're doing your artwork, you want to keep it small, the small numbers and then, as you do your borders, kind of go with the larger numbers. A general rule of thumb, but anything goes in decorating. You can do the pink and then go with the purple. We're going to save doing the top border until we actually finish decorating the top of the cake with our gymnastics decorations; using a small little offset just to release from the parchment. So, there you go, there's your gymnast. We're going to put it right back onto the parchment. We're going to use this as far as to decorate it. So, we're going to give our, a nice colored leotard and you're going to want to fill in the whole are with the butter cream, unlike what we did with the white chocolate 'cause the butter cream does not spread. Whatever you're doing for a transfer with white chocolate, you're going to want to pop it and I usually always like to outline the whole thing with chocolate. So, we pop the, here back in the refrigerator just for a second 'cause I want to remove the chocolate stragglers. I think with the gymnast, it's going to be a great idea to do a popped up 2D. So, I kind of envision her in a beam. So, it can be a floral mat, it can be a, but I think it's going to be a beam. We're going to pipe a beam not directly in the middle, we're going to bring it up at about a quarter across the cake. Using a lollipop stick, we're going to use this, this as support. So, I'm going to, this is the front side, we're going to glue this at the, on the back side. But, just to give you an idea, we're going to measure out that, from her knee down to her foot, knowing that that's the length of the, the gymnast leg. The rest we're going to insert the cake. So, we're going to take some more white chocolate and we're going to use this as glue and we're going to pipe right up the lollipop stick. Pipe down her leg and quickly adhere her. Then, we're going to add the top border. And I'm Kelly Delaney of Cakes For Occasions in Danvers, Massachusetts. And that's how you decorate a gymnastics theme cake.