How To Make Butter Cream Real Smooth On A Cake
Decorating By Bon_Bon Updated 3 Jan 2010 , 9:10pm by janeoxo
I strongly recommend that you invest in Sugarshack's "Perfecting the Art of Buttercream" DVD. I promise you, you will not be disappointed. If you google 'sugar ed productions' you can go to her site and purchase the DVD there.
GL!
I asked for that for Christmas.....and we are opening tomorrow hehehehe......eeeh
Try Melvira's method. You can get the roller and the handle for less than $10 at Home Depot and it's so easy that my husband can do it 
http://cakecentral.com/articles/126/quick-easy-smooth-icing-using-a-roller-melvira-method
Try Melvira's method. You can get the roller and the handle for less than $10 at Home Depot and it's so easy that my husband can do it
http://cakecentral.com/articles/126/quick-easy-smooth-icing-using-a-roller-melvira-method
So easy your husband can do it lol.....thats not nice
So easy your husband can do it lol.....thats not nice
It's true though...he's usually strictly a member of the tasting committee but he saw me practicing with the roller and decided it was cool enough to try. He's proud of not having any cooking abilities (says he brings home the bacon so it's my job to fry it up 
) but he can now smooth a cake just right.
I just got the Sugarshack buttercream dvd a couple of weeks ago. I made the penguin cake in my photos after watching it once. It was amazing to me the difference following her method made in how smooth the sides of my cake were. I highly recommend it.
Hmm, I like working with fondant because I love the final look, but it does take longer. Maybe I should take my Christmas cash and get Perfecting the Art of Buttercream. Thanks for the suggestion!
Try Melvira's method. You can get the roller and the handle for less than $10 at Home Depot and it's so easy that my husband can do it
http://cakecentral.com/articles/126/quick-easy-smooth-icing-using-a-roller-melvira-method
So easy your husband can do it lol.....thats not nice
Well if HER'S isn't nice, I'll say this "mine can't do it even WITH Melvira's method..lol..and I'd tell him that to his face and you know what? He'd agree without a second thought! 
Put on WAAAY more buttercream that you think you'll need and use your spatula to smooth as you remove excess buttercream. I like to heat mine up using super hot water, then wipe it dry with a paper towel(the spatula, not the buttercream) then use the hot spatula as an iron of sorts. I use non crusting buttercream so the paper towel method and the melvira roller method don't work for me, but if your using just the wilton buttercream recipe those methods might work better for you, worth checking them out. Oh and crumb coating(were you put a thin layer of frosting all over the cake and either put it in the fridge or let it set and crust first before you put on your final, visible, smooth, main layer of frosting) if you're not already, makes a WORLD of difference!! Hope this helps a bit!
Put on WAAAY more buttercream that you think you'll need ....
This is key. I like to use a bench scraper (anything with a large blade) to smooth and remove the excess. Sometimes the bench scraper gets it so smooth I almost don't need to Melvira it (but I always do! Melvira's paint roller is dah BOMB!!!!!)
Do any of you use the icing tip?
I never have. It just seems like one extra step and I'm always crunched for time, just my good ol' off-set spatula and a bowl of butter cream and I'm happy
I've never used the big icing tip, BUT ....... !
When doing the 6" cakes (I hate 6" cakes), I've used like a big rose tip or just a bag of icing with the coupler to apply the icing and I'm amazed how fast it was and how easy to ice those stupid little cakes (did I mention I hate doing 6" cakes?). So I can totally see how using the big tip could go really fast. Give the turntable a big turn and squeeze away!
I like to use it for chocolate cake to keep the dreaded crumbs away, because I always always lift the darn spatula off the cake and BANG get crumbs grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Do any of you use the icing tip?
I use it on all my cakes. Personally I couldn't live without it. And I agree with the others the Melvira Method is the way to go 
Tammie
I just tried Melvira's method and omg, it was smooth on top in three seconds!
wow, I'm going to try the Melvira method, it looks so easy.
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