OMG!! I did the Upside Down Icing Technique for the first time tonite! It was awesome!! So easy!! This technique has changed my icing a cake for ever!!!
Thanks CC for all the info you provide us!!

http://www.cakecentral.com/article6-Upside-Down-Icing-Technique-for-Perfectly-Smooth-Icing.html
Michelle

Glad to hear you had such success with this method....I'm too chicken to try that method!

I looked at that this morning and I think I will give a try too....

It takes a while... but the results are great!!!

I think my brain is melting. I've seen the directions before, but can't remember where to locate them. Can someone point me in the right direction?

http://www.cakecentral.com/article6-Upside-Down-Icing-Technique-for-Perfectly-Smooth-Icing.html

..there you go!

I am soooo chicken to try this technique....ack.... how would you manage doing a large cake like this????
I love how the finish looks...I'm just tooooo chicken..

I can't wait to try this technique! Fascinating!

Has anyone tried it around the sides? I heard that you can do that too, I just don't know how difficult if would be. I have not tried the top yet, But I want to. You have inspired me to try something new! Thanks. Keli

Never had much of a problem getting the top smooth, but I might try it just to see how bad I can screw it up tying to flip the thing. I think though, the secret to a good smooth frosting is to name your spatula. It probably has to be snazzy name, otherwise it wont work. Remember grasshoppers...Be one with with your buttercream.

Yeah, well the only time I'm one with my buttercream is when its goes straight to my hips after a few spoonfuls!

I'm going to try this one soon.

Traci

I've done this to a few of my cakes and it so much easier for me. I use an extra cake board and pray as I flip it...

I have tried it before and I liked it, my only problem is that I don't have freezer space so I can't do it all the time. Christmas is coming soon and hopefully I will get that freezer.

Wow! That looks really interesting. I might have to try that some time.

that just seems like way too much work. Knowing me I'd flip it over some kinda backwards way & my elbow would end up in the cake or something..

I think I'll just take Dale's advice & try naming my spatula..lol

I tried it a few months ago. Love it!!!!! Won't ice a cake any other way.

Well, I just tried it. Seemed to go ok except when the final reveal happened and I o-h--s-o--c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y peeled the parchment back, there were bubble holes all over the top. I guess I didn't spread the icing quite smooth enough on the parchment at the beginning. Of course, that meant going over the top with a spatula to fill and smooth it, defeating the entire point of the project.

Other than that bubble problem, it does give you a perfectly flat top. A more careful application of the top's icing would doubtless solve that. And it's not that complicated a process.