Tips on How to Frost a Cake With No Stress || Step by Step Guide By @afunkycares

INTRODUCTION

Hello steemians, greetings to you from Nigeria. How's the weather over there? We are in rainy season here.
In this post, I will be sharing with us how you can actually frost your cake without stress.

FROSTINGS

There are different frostings that are used for covering cake. It includes buttercream, royal icing, fondant, meringue, whipped cream and whipped ganache .

MAKING BUTTERCREAM

For this frosting,I used the buttercream.

RECIPE
•Butter 300g
•Icing Sugar 1kg
•Water 4 tbsp
•Flavour : vanilla/ butterscotch extract ½tsp
•white vinegar ½tsp(optional)

First step
Measure butter into a dry clean bowl and cream till butter is soft and light. You can use spatula or handmixer.

Second step
Sift icing sugar into a dry clean bowl.
Add to creamed butter gradually and gently mix in.

Third step
Add the water and mix

Fourth step
Add flavour and mix.
Also add white vinegar if you want and mix. It's optional. I use it because it helps to keep the frosting a bit dry to touch,so it doesn't get messy especially when in transit.

NOW Your buttercream is ready. Let's begin frosting!

For this, you will need

•Piping bag
•Coupler
•Decorating Comb
•Small offset palette knife

•Nozzles (optional, except for designs and writing)

Before I frost, I usually crumbcoat. This is optional except you want to go pro.😊.

Basically,once you have your cake ready and it has cooled, you can begin frosting.

Frosting takes two major steps: applying the cream and smoothening it out

Below is how to easily achieve that without stress and without creating mess.

STEP 1

Get a piping bag ,put in a coupler. Cup it in your hand as I did it below,to prevent mess.

And Scoop handful of buttercream and twist the end.

STEP 2

Using a kind of zig-zag way , apply the buttercream to the side of the cake

You can also apply it round like the way I did this one👇

_{usually do this for a small cake or when combining colours or ombre design}

And For the top, apply in a circular way

STEP 3

Grab your offset palette knife and smoothen the top.

STEP 4

Get your decorating comb. Using the smooth side, smoothen the side of the cake.

the comb wasn't showing here,so I used this 👇to show it, it's the same way.

And You Are Done Frosting Your Cake!

I went further to design the cake

Doing a watermark design

Applying Ganache drip

Finished off with some rosettes and dropstars,added some cherries,dredges and used a cake topper.

Thank you all for reading. I hope you can now begin frosting your cake without any stress.

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