How Do You Get Your Corners Nice And Sharp Looking?
Decorating By mommak Updated 1 Jun 2009 , 5:24pm by shell62995
k8, I hate to sound like a dummy here, but I'm going to ask anyway.
When you shave/trim the edges, do you take off the whole side of the cake from corner to corner? Do you use a knife or is there a special tool to make sure it is straight up and down? This sounds great to me - I've tried the making it square with buttercream and it just hasn't worked. Thanks.
Earlier I had written that a cake decorator goes quietly insane trying to get that outside surface of the icing to be uber smooth if the under surface of the cake is not uber smooth but I erased it. But doncha though--go insane I mean!? Gawd, I have!!!
My son got me a beautiful 19" cake knife with a 14" blade and it is a thing of beauty. Doubles as my agbay too.
But but but--a cheap steak knife works great too--any nice serrated knife you might have.
Set your cake on the (footed) turntable and place a sheet pan underneath it. I shave from top to bottom in sections that are about an inch or an inch & a half wide, let the excess fall into the awaiting pan, turn the turntable and shave off the next skinny section--so you're just removing tongue depressor size shavings--or ruler width sections--even if I use my Zorro type cake knife, I just take off narrow pieces all the way around.
Like you wanna remove the brown carmelized edge--you're not slicing the cake just like potato peeling it.
You've just erased most of the stress and angst and difficulty out of icing your cake. You can use less icing--you don't have to build it out an inch thick to get it to cover without exposing some of the cake.
It's most efficient to moi.
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I noticed you are in Texas. Cake Carousel in Richardson carries ML pans and they will ship them to you.
I love cake carousel!!
I just wish I had someplace closer than 100 miles away ... I pretty much have to do all my shopping online. I would love to start using high ratio shortening, but can only order it in the winter.
me too! I went there when I was visiting my mom. It's 40 minutes from her house. It's 4 hours from me! It is fun to walk a real cake store but the prices are not any cheaper than ordering online + shipping for the satin ice. Some of the stuff is high. BUT being able to walk thru a store and touch stuff and talk to the assc. was a nice change than online shopping. Have you ever called a cake decorating class instructor? I went to a class and she told us about a store less than an hour away. i never would have found it or thought it was a cake store.
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