How to Add Base Cake Frosting

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If you're working on an elaborate cake decoration, learn how to add the first base frosting to your cake with the help of an expert in this free cake decorating video.

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How to Add Base Cake Frosting
Hi, I'm Karen for Expert Village. Next we'll put a base coat of butter cream frosting on our cake to just to get it prepared for our sugar paste. The trick to frosting a cake is to use lots and lots of frosting and you can always smooth it out after. So you want to take a good glob of frosting on a nice big spatula and just kind of spread it on to the cake like that. You're not showing it in a good spot. Now the next thing is take another big glob of frosting, and you always want to frost on top of frosting. Don't start here, because you'll end up with a lot of crumbs in your frosting. You want to start here and just spread that frosting over. So frosting on top of frosting always and just spreading it over. Okay, when you come to the corner, more frosting and try to avoid pulling your knife straight away from the cake. You'll get a lot of crumbs in your icing and you always put a nice big glob on there, and frost on top of frosting. Now you want to keep your spatula very vertical. You want to always be watching. Don't tip your spatula this way and don't tip it that way. Because you want a nice straight edge. So you keep eying that. And your spatula also should go from edge, turn, to edge and you kind of do a smooth spreading motion. Like that, going edge to edge of your spatula. Turn the cake around. Another big glob. I'm starting at the corner and sort of rolling around the corner. When you pull your knife off of the frosting, you don't want to pluck it off, cause you'll end up with cake and crumbs in there. You want to smooth it off of the cake and you continue around. Working the frosting up high. This is a very high cake, being three layers. So you want to pull the frosting up high as well as. Now when you're frosting a cake you want to get a lip of frosting on the edge, like this. This is good, to have a nice lip. Because when we frost the top, you'll need that lip. So take extra frosting and just go ahead until you have a nice lip.

About the Expert

Expert: Karen Weisman graduated from Boston University with a degree in Hotel & Food Management. She helped a grocery store chain develop & launch a gourmet food division, and opened her own her restaurant. Read More