The colors of Christmas are red and green. A season of love and affection. Happy holidays, there’s Christmas and new year in the air. Decided to show you the easy steps to decorate a cake for your friends and family. I made this cake with a student of mine and I’d like to acknowledge her for the photo credit. Thanks, @peculiarcakes.
Step 1: Arrange your worktable.
So I’m using my pallet knife, turntable, cake board, buttercream frosting, cake color(I use acabado) naked caked(I have a previously baked vanilla cake 2 single layer 2and half inches), plain royal icing
Step 2:Place your board on the turntable apply some buttercream frosting on the board just a little. Use the pallet knife to spread the frosting on the board, then place the naked cake on the board. (the buttercream frosting is to ensure the cake doesn’t slide off the board, check my previous posts on other ways to achieve this)put a buttercream frosting for the middle layer and place the second cake on it.
Step 3:Crumb coat the cake. This is covering the cake with a thin layer of frosting. This is done to ensure there are no crumbs when coating the cake.
Step 4:Mix the cake color with frosting in separate bowls according to the proportions needed, so a smaller amount of color green buttercream frosting and a large amount of color red buttercream frosting
Step 5:Cover the whole cake with red buttercream. It’s like your plain canvas. You can decorate it any way you like
Step 6: Use the white royal icing to make drips on your cake. Add vinegar to royal icing till it’s runny. Test the consistency on a cake pan before making the drips on the cake. I prefer to use a spoon to make drips, you could use a drip bottle or piping bag(Check my previous posts on how to make drips)
Step 7:Make rosettes with a 1M Wilton nozzle on the edges of the cake. You could trace an imaginary “e” and follow its course to achieve a rose.
Step 8:add toppings to the cake as you like. You could put chocolate, candles, sprinkles you like.
How did you decorate your cakes this holiday? I’d be glad to hear your comments.
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