Hey everyone!
What do you all use for smooth icing on a cake?
I find American buttercream great for piping but when it comes to smooth spreading it’s too thick?
Modes anyone have a receipt specific for spreading or any tips??
Thanks
Wilton makes a BIG tip that is flat on one size w/serrated edge on the other. It's about 2" wide and sometimes refered to as a quick icer tip. Just 2 swipes all arond the cake then take an off-set spatula to lightly smooth it out. OR you can use a bench scraper. You don't want to scrape much icing off, just smooth it down. I'm sure there must be videos on YouTube that show it being done :)
Gosh, smoothing an American Buttercream cake is so annoying to me, and time consuming, that I learned to use textured & piped sides like the ones above in Kakeladi's photo. If it needs to be really smooth I put fondant on it and It's smooth. The best I could do was either to use the foam paint roller or paper sheets to smooth AMBC. I could never make a living making cakes.
I use a bench scraper and it helps to warm the scraper in hot water (dry before touching the cake, of course). But don't use me as an example because I cannot get a pretty, sharp finish.
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