May 15th, 2010
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Learn to cake decorate with Darci. Darci’s warm and “can-do” personality has a wonderful way of breaking down the steps so most anyone can learn the art of cake decorating. Darci covers everything from start to finish with fun & easy step-by-step instructions including baking, filling, frosting, writing, bordering and decorating cake. This DVD even covers how to make roses! Learn About:
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Darci Decorates Volume 1 is just….okay. I don’t know what else to say about it. I learned more about cake decorating on youtube videos. I’m a beginner so I appreciated that she took everything super slow, but sometimes it was TOO SLOW and boring. It’s like they didn’t have an editing department over at the Darci Decorates office. It sort of dragged on a bit.
She shows you how to make various cakes, but somehow, they all ended up looking the same. She never introduced any new or interesting borders. It was always the shell border. I would have loved to learn more about different variations on more imaginative borders and maybe something other than ALL WHITE icing.
I liked how she shows you how to “dirty ice” or do a crumb coat, but when it came to actually icing the cake, sometimes it looked sloppy. The borders she did were sort of sloppy as well. I expected her to have more of clean and elegant approach to writing on cakes like how to space things evenly and how to avoid atrocious empty white spaces or conversely, how to stop writing from looking smushed and crowded.
This video felt like I was sitting in the kitchen with a friend and she was just showing me how to do some simple every day bakery cakes…but not very well. While I do appreciate learning something from someone who isn’t absolutely perfect (so that I don’t feel so overwhelmed), I felt that I could have learned more from other sources–like when I watch Cake Boss or Ace of Cakes on television.
I may be speaking prematurely and maybe my criticisms are a bit harsh if this is part of a series and there will be some other things introduced in the future.
I just felt that she lacked imagination at some points, HER CAKES LOOKED GENERIC, and she could have done some things in a less sloppy way.
I know I might be nit picking, but it really bothered me that when she made her rainbow cake, she didn’t do the colors in the correct rainbow order. She did red, orange, yellow, green, purple and then blue. Um…last time I checked blue comes after green. Like I said, it’s a small thing, but it really bothered me.
Another thing that bothered me were the camera angles. CAMERA MAN, I CAN’T SEE WHAT SHE’S DOING WHEN YOU’RE NOT FOCUSING ON IT! It wasn’t her fault, it was the director’s fault, who supposedly is highly acclaimed….really? Wow. Quite interesting.
If you’re a total beginner, you might like or hate this video. I can’t really say either way. I’m a beginner,but I expected a little bit more from it.
But then again, this is just my opinion.
Rating: 3 / 5
This is a very elemental cake decorating presentation with not much going for it. Looked like sloppy work to me. Not at all impressed.
Rating: 2 / 5
Darci does a great job teaching basic cake decorating techniques. She covers everything from how to bake the cake, to making the perfect icing, to applying the icing, and then shows several decorated cakes. This is perfect for a beginner. Her bubbly personality only adds to the DVD.
Rating: 4 / 5
Darcy gives tips on making a marble cake with mixes. She doesn’t give instruction on scratch cakes. She gives clear instructions. The background information she gives about equipment is helpful. The video is reasonable quality.
Rating: 5 / 5
The dvd was fine but i expected a little more indept instruction my fifteen year old a beginner baker loved it so all is not lost.
Rating: 3 / 5
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