I was a reading through an old cake decorating book I have in my collection and came across a note about icing square cakes.

According to the direction, you ice and smooth the top and two opposite sides of the cake, cleaning the edges up around the un-iced sides.

Chill the cake until the icing is firm, then ice the other two sides...the firmly chilled icing on the sides helps keep te corner nice and sharp.

Has anyone ever heard of or tried this?

I have the hardest time icing square cakes, I will give this a try next time.

No but I would LOVE to know if it actually works.

sounds like it makes sense! I will have to give it a try next time as well...although I usually try to push round cakes for that reason !! LOL I don't have too many requests for square but this may be helpful or at least something to try!

Wow that sounds like a good technique, definitely trying it for my next square.

Has anyone iced a triangle shaped cake....any pointers?

It sounds like it would work! I will try it when I bake a square cake.

I guess you can use the same technique for triangle cake. Ice the top and one side let it chill completely. Then ice one more side and let it chill again. At last ice the third/last side.

This sounds like it would really work. I want to make a square cake just to try it out.

What a great tip! Square cakes give me fits, and I have to do a lot of them. . .

Haha! I also charge way more for square cakes bc I hate them soooo much, but I am def gonna give this a shot!

@simplysouthern- I have a triangle cake in my photos that was iced in crusting cream cheese. I labeled it a drunkin cake so the fact the sides aren't straight kind of fits. LOL. I had to cool each tier several more times between smoothing that a square cake because the corners have far more icing basically freestanding.

I am definitely gonna try this new/old technique soon!

This is how I like to ice square cakes, it works really well to get nice sharp corners:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyKkLwTE9NE&playnext=1&list=PL22DAADE76AAF3626

Geez, fiddley.

I have officially stopped doing square cakes, unless it's a design where the corners are completely covered or it has to be fondant.

Awesome info, thanks!!!

Good to know I am not the only one who hates them!! LOL But then again, I don't do sheetcakes either