Damask Stenciling with Buttercream

Damask stenciled wedding cakes are outrageously popular right now!

Here's Martha Stewart's

"Something Borrowed"

Here's my creation with 100% buttercream.

Much more affordable and tastier ;)

Here's the tutorial video, enjoy!

Happy caking!

Teresa

Messy Ruffle Cake Tutorial!

It's FINALLY here!!!!

By popular request I give you my very first video tutorial . . . please be kind ;)

I will make this a button on the side bar of my blog for easier access!

Subscribe to my channel because more will come

Happy caking!

Teresa

Messy Ruffle Cake

I fell in love with a vertical ruffle cake then decided to play around with

other ruffling possibilities

I call this a messy ruffle

Use a petal/rose tip

and pipe with the fat side to the cake, and "swiggle" it.

tips 126 and 121

Happy caking!

Teresa

Vertical Ruffle Cake

My Sweet and Saucy made a ruffle cake, and my world has never been the same again!

Take a rose/petal tip and pipe vertical with the "fat" side to the cake

I also like to use one with a slight ripple to it

tips 126 and 121

Check out the "how to" video Sweet and Saucy was generous enough to make!

Happy caking!

Teresa

Damming a cake!

1. Start by anchoring your cake to a cake drum with a smear of frosting.

2. Place cake "face down" onto drum. Pip a thick border of frosting around the edge of your cake. This is a dam and will keep you filling from oozing out the sides.

3. Fill space with a filling that is thick!

4. Place next layer "face down" atop the filling and smooth out the dam frosting.

It is important to let a cake settle after damming and before frosting.

I let my cakes sit loosly wrapped for 2 hours prior to frosting.

Happy caking,

Teresa

Baking it perfect!

One of the most frustrating things is baking a cake and then having it fall apart or stick to the pan when you flip it out. Ugh!

Here's my tried and true method and I wouldn't do it any other way.

1. Coat your pans generously with my Pan Coating

2. Fill pans 2/3 full with batter

3. Bake SLOWLY and don't open the over door unless you need to.

I bake mine at 325 degrees

To get a perfectly smooth top and a guaranteed 2 inches WITHOUT cutting the top do this:

4. Lay a towel atop the dome and GENTLY press down with a cookies sheet.

Hold for a good minute. This compressed the dome and makes the cake an even 2 inches. No guess work here!

5. Look! No dome!

Let cake cool until pan is still warm but "touchable"

6. Turn pan over onto a clean towel (absorbs moisture) and GENTLY lift it off.

Stay tuned for tomorrow when I show you how to dam a cake.

Happy caking,

Teresa

Our very own cake wreck!

I LOVE Cake Wrecks!

My sister in law ordered a birthday cake for her friend from Target.

It was supposed to have the "U" from University of Utah and Happy Birthday on the top.

I love the lack of artistic placement! Where's the "happy birthday" you ask?

On the side with what looks like a "bloody" good aribrushing job ;)

My daughter devouring the cake. I think she got a high from all the red dye!

Teresa