Anyone can make a beautiful and delicious cake.
Tomorrow is my husband's birthday. I told him I would make any kind of cake he wanted.
As a general rule, Brent loves any recipe by Paula Deen. A quick online search led me to this recipe by Paula Deen. Brent looked through the list of ingredients and said "this is the one."
This tutorial is mainly to help you ice a cake without cake crumbs being dragged into the frosting.
Looking at the three finished cakes I knew right away it would end up with red crumbs unless I dirty iced the cake.
In a matter of minutes, I whipped up a fresh batch of very simple buttercream. Unsalted butter, vanilla, meringue powder, powdered sugar, and water.
Make it thin consistency for easy spreading.
Dirty icing, or crumb coating, is a baker's secret to pretty cakes. Spread on a thin layer of buttercream and do not worry about cake crumbs, it can be all speckled and that is ok. Once the cake is dirty iced, take a damp paper towel and wipe off icing that may have found its way to the edge of your cake plate.
Place the cake in the fridge for about 30 minutes so the icing hardens.
Then gently spread on your final layer of frosting, crumb free!
For Brent's cake, I piped on some of the buttercream around the bottom edge in random cloud like swirls and garnished it with pecan halves. Looks good enough to eat.
2 comments:
What a lucky guy!!!!
p.s. I LOVE carrot cake with cream cheese frosting :)
It was yum yum yummy! I sound like Pooh Bear. A smackeral of frosting.
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