Cake Decorating!

My all time favorite craft to do is cake decorating! I use to teach the Wilton classes at our last base, and I loved every minute of it. My students were all so creative, exciting, and inspiring! I enjoyed helping them grow as a student, and I even helped some start their own small business! 

I had a cake order the other day and I wanted to put together a tutorial on how to crumb coat and icing a cake. In this tutorial I am icing a rectangular cake (or sheet cake) which has two layers (not tiers) of cake. You can do this with multiple layers of cake, or just one. 

Step 1:

First place your cake on the cake board, and center it. You can even put a little icing under the cake to keep it from sliding around. Then place a HUGE pile of icing in the center of the cake.

 Step 2:

Spread the icing over the entire top of the cake, pushing the icing slightly off the edge of the cake. Make sure the icing is even.

 

 Step 3:

Place the next layer of cake on top of the first layer. Center the cake over the bottom layer. Place another large pile of icing in the center of the cake.

    

Step 4:

Push the icing over the top edge of the cake, as you ice the top. Slowly use that icing to cover the sides of the cake. When covering the cake use a thin amount of icing. Make sure you fill in any holes or open gaps between the two cakes.

Step 5: 

Let crumb coat sit for about 5 minutes or until slightly firm.

 

Step 6:

Place another large pile of icing in the center of the cake. Begin to spread the icing over the top of the cake and slightly off the top edges.

Step 7:

 Using a thick amount of icing (on your spatula) place it on the sides of your cake and work around the cake sides. Note: I work from top to bottom, this helps because I use the icing thats hanging off the top edge to keep a clean flow with the side icing. 

Continue icing with a thick amount around the base of the cake.

 Step 8:

Continue to work all sides and top until smooth. Take a napkin or paper towel and remove any extra icing around the base of the cake (on the cake board.) Let your icing sit for about 5 minutes.

Step 9:

Use a VIVA paper towel (dry) to smooth the cake. Place the towel on the slightly firm icing and LIGHTLY place our hand on the towel and rub back and forth. Remove the towel slowly and move to the next spot. Continue this until the entire cake has been smoothed!

Step 10: 

Decorate your cake as you please!

(I have done this cake twice, yes I know!)

I hope you enjoy this tutorial and feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions! Also, feel free to check out my other cake creations at my website or facebook page!

Ill be back soon with even more crafts and baking tutorials, ideas, and inspiration!

Sarah

A New Idea

Hello Everyone,
I figured that making a fun family blog would be a great way for everyone to keep up with our busy lifestyle. Being military and having a child (+ one on the way) keeps me busy, but I thought this would be a fun way for me to share all our adventures and even my little adventures in sewing, cake decorating, and anything else I get my hands in too.

I would like to just say I can not believe its the end of January already! Where has the month gone? Have any of you set a new years resolution? Mine is simple, have this baby, and get back to pre-baby weight (before I had B) before the end of the year. Thats only 337 days to get fit again (well kind of). My other New Years resolution was to start this blog, and get all my crafting ideas out there for everyone to see. I sometimes wonder if anyone wants to know how I did certain things, or if they want to see a tutorial for some of them. Well, heres your chance! Now if you all like something I make you can ask questions, and I can possibly make tutorials on them! 

Well, if you dont know me and you are just a random follower then i'll give you a little background about my family and myself. I married my high school sweet heart 5 years ago, and have been with him for 10 years now. We have one son and a small one baking right now! My husband joined the military around the same time we got married. We lived in Okinawa, Japan for several years, and enjoyed every second of our time there. I started my Pitcher's Bakery while out there, and learned so much about sewing as well. I am a self taught cake decorator as well as a self taught sewer! I do some scrapbooking, but not as much anymore as everything is so digital these days! We are now stationed back in the states in New Mexico at Cannon AFB in Clovis and it is a real adjustment from where we were. While in Clovis (about 6 months now) I have been self teaching myself even more sewing skills with the use of the internet. I have really enjoyed all the amazing new sewing adventures I have taken on and can not wait for my next project. 

I hope you all enjoy this blog as much as I enjoy posting in it. I will aim for at least 4 posts a month, but with a new one o the way, I might slow down when we get closer to my due date! 

Happy adventures and keep an eye out for a new post soon!
Sarah