How do you get square edges like in the pic below? Are there any tutorials? Thanks in advance.

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1257831

That looks to me like a meringue based buttercream. I use SMBC and work away from each corner on all sides with a bench scraper. Still more of a pain than a round cake, but not too bad.

This should help! It helped me! Good luck!!!


Amy


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyKkLwTE9NE&feature=related

I use a meringue based buttercream, but either way it doesn't matter because I chill my cakes very well so the fat in the icing gets firm, then I square off with a mini offset spatula. Once the icing is firm, you can make corners so sharp you could cut yourself lol

i get my edges crisp by using a large putty knife i got from home depot. it worked great for me and i use a standard buttercream recipe.

No it doesn't pull the icing off the cake at all.

Remember this is just for final smoothing and squaring off of your edges, not moving gobs of frosting around. Sometimes it helps to warm the spatula (or a bench scraper) slightly if you need to do heavier smoothing, but otherwise I just use the mini offset to make my edges and touch up any spots that came out less than perfect when I iced it to begin with. No special technique, really.