In many of my posts, I mention smoothing out a thicker butter cream icing to create a smooth, almost fondant, look to cakes.  If you happen to ever wonder what kind of tools to use to do that, I have some pictures of the tools that I use.  A plain white paper towel with no [...]

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This was a very special cake…I made it a couple of years ago for my Brother and now Sister-In-Law’s wedding shower.  It was a rather large cake, enough to feed a small army.  Each size was a two layer cake with a Bavarian cream filling.  The icing was firm buttercream that was smoothed out to nice finish. [...]

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This was made for an adult birthday party.  It is a standard 2 layer 8″ square cake with Bavarian cream filling and butter cream icing.  The bow and ribbons are made out of fondant (a few of the things I use fondant for), all other decorations were from butter cream icing.  The bow had to [...]

Tags: birthday cake, butter cream icing, cake, fondant bow, fondant ribbon, gift box cake, kids cake, party cake
Filed under: Cake Decorating, Kids Cakes, Party/Celebration Cakes