Cake Request-Not Sure On Technique Used--Help
Decorating By lilsomethinsweet Updated 9 Aug 2007 , 9:24pm by lilsomethinsweet
I have a lady that has requested a cake she found on the internet. She only printed the picture without a website to go back to or anything!! 
Anyways, I am not sure the name of the technique but a fellow cake decorator suggested icing the entire cake, and then piping thick and big strips of icing up and down around the entire cake. Then taking a spatula or knife and puling it toward the next column of thick piped icing.
Am I making sense to anyone or does anyone know what I am trying to explain and have any suggestions from experience or a picture they can post to show other that may be able to help me.
I have tried looking for a cake decorated like this but haven't been able to find one.
Please, please, please help!!! 
this?
http://www.cakecentral.com/article58-How-to-Make-a-Contemporary--Basketweave-Marthas-New-Basketweave.html
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can you post the pic she sent -- would be way easier to advise if we could see the cake.
Nope. It isn't that one. I tried scanning the picture here at work but you couldn't see anything.
Thanks for trying to help though. I will keep searching the internet to see if I can find one similiar to it.
Yes!
This cake is a more uniform up and down technique. How do they get it uniform and do you have ay tips or directions?
I think I know what kind of cake she wants you can find this cake on The Knot Cake Galleries. I have done this cake, but did not even take a picture (not a very attractive cake in my opinion).
It takes A LOT of icing on the sides; pipe the thick lines with a big tip, then use a small spatula to smooth icing in between, thats it
To make sure your cake looks good, make sure the difference between tiers is 2 (6 +10 +14).
Hope it helps!
OK, this is not the cake I had in mind the one I described had the lines 1 1,5 deep!
Here is one I did simply by icing the cakes smooth with chocolate IMBC, then putting them in the fridge for about 15-20 minutes to get slightly firm...then removing them and running the back of a soup spoon up the cake's sides. It worked perfectly and took about 10 minutes to do the whole cake!!
Oh, how wonderful. I would never have thought of that!
Thank you so much.
I really appreciate you taking the time to help me and post your beautiful cake.
That is my original question. I use a crusting buttercream. I guess I will have to try one of the technique and see if it works unless someone else out here in Cakecentral Land can help!!
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