How Do I Make This Buttercream Design?
Decorating By texaskathy Updated 2 Aug 2007 , 7:59pm by notjustcake
I am so inspired by the cake by Cakesbyallison from this board. I was wondering if you all had any ideas to make the smooth maroon ring around the top? I was thinking to placing a smalller round pan on top as a template, piping in the maroon, then lifting the pan and piping in the choc. with an icer tip. And then doing the viva trick.
THANKS!
Kathy
I would suggest, icing the top of the cake with chocolate and then making the maroon ring with your icing tip. If it is too wide you can get the icing tip in smaller sizes. Here's a page with these tips. http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=3E30C1CD-475A-BAC0-5CDB07AA69762110&fid=3E3324A4-475A-BAC0-5ED544474B973201
I've seen a technique in which you would ice the whole top chocolate, then lay a wax paper circle in the center, then ice the outer ring in the other color. Lift the wax paper and you got it.
I've never tried it, but it looked like a very interesting technique.
we make cakes something like this at the bakery i work at.
you ice the whole thing in chocolate, ice a maroon ring aroung the outside(as large as you need it).
then take a very wet(hot) offset spatula and smooth it out.
that cake looks exceptionally smooth!!!!
Could it be an fbct? Maybe the whole top was frosted in the maroon color, then the fbct (the letters and the circular part) was layed on? I've seen where people have done the entire top of a cake-up to the borders- in fbct.
-Rezzy
this is how i'd do it 
I would do it the same way I did my baby face cake in my gallery, I piped the outside edge of the baby's face with tip 3 and then filled in with a bigger tip like a tip 8 then used a spongue that I only use for cakes, pat it on some corn starch then pat down the icing until smooth to remove ridges
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