How to Frost a Cake Top

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No cake is complete with a delicious layer of frosting. Our expert shows you how to frost the top of cake in this free cake decorating video.

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How to Frost a Cake Top
Hi, I'm Karen for Expert Village. Now we would frost the top of the cake and again you want to use a large dollop of icing to start. You can just ease it out to the edges like this. Plenty of frosting so that you get coverage without having crumbs in it. You can always take off if you feel that it is too much there. You just kind of again with a sort of a edge to edge motion fill in your frosting. Like that. Now this is where I'm going to take off a little excess. This is where your/that little lip of frosting all the way around. I'm just going to go around one more time to build up that lip of frosting on the edge. Now this is where the lip comes in handy. You are going to sweep the spatula sort of like catching the edge and rolling over and sweeping across. So you are taking that lip and you are going to spread it over the top of the cake. Like this up and that took a little bit of frosting off. Just put a nice huge dollop of frosting back on. You would have to fix that side again. What is nice about frosting is if you make a mistake you just can do it over again just put more frosting on. Take off what you don't like and add it where you want it. Let's try it again and you just take that edge and you sweep it into the center of the cake and see how nice you get a nice sharp edge. Again here. A little bit of my cake is showing there so I'm going to cover it up. Then you want to get down and eye the cake to see that it is leveled. You might want to add a little bit of icing here and there to level it off. Then just as a final touch, you are going to clean your platter, your tray, whatever your serving your cake on. You are just going to take a napkin and wipe off any extra frosting. Like this, just wipe that off and then we would be ready to put the sugar paste on the cake.

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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