Hi all. How is it that some of us have such clean straight lines and your cakes look so prim and proper and others of us are so...clunky? Would you mind sharing your process? What's your secret?

I'd say practice, practice, practice. I'm still more on the "clunky" side myself, but I can see a marked improvement from when I first started.

i'd like to know too

Off topic here, but that Dracula castle cake is GREAT, yamber!

oh! thank you!!!

sweetlayers....your cake in your pics is very cute and I don't think its clunky at all!

LOL - I was just frosting a 1/4 sheet, and somehow managed to plop my bench scraper right onto the top of the cake! Talk about clumsy!

But, try the bench scraper - it really does give nice, clean edges.

Experience.

You learn something from every cake you do and take those lessons to the next cake, and so on, and so on.

I've been doing this for 11 years and still learn things all the time.

Nothing *clunky* about your beautiful purple and white wedding cake.
Gee, your swag is just lovely - well done on the whole cake.


LOL LOL i post all my cakes - and hopefully by the time i get to page 647324676 i will be able to look back and say - yes, i have come far because of what i have learnt here -

I haven't had any call for a BC covered cake - but i do ganache all my cakes under the fegalice i use - and my scraper is wonderful for smoothing - even doing edges of the regalice.
I have a plastic one and a metal one - both excellant tools to have.

Again - your cake looks lovely -
Bluehue.

I'm still a "clunker" But I have seen a huge improvement since I started picking up tips from this site. my buttercream "smoothness" has changed the most, and I credit that to the buttercream DVD by Sugarshack--amazing. I feel the most clunky when I'm making fondant/gumpaste figures......it's like I have these big sausages for fingers that won't work when I watch experts like Aines2 she molds so beautifully and makes it look so EASY! SOMEDAY.........................!