So after MUCH thought, requests, and procrastination time, I have decided to do my first cake tutorial installment. I know a few of you have already seen this video as I made it quite a while ago for a good friend. But I figure it is a good start until we get settled in Montana and I have my decorating weapons tools back.
The top tier of the cake pictured above is the cake that I am covering in the video. Now what I need from YOU…2 things, share this with your cake friends. You can Pin it on Pinterest, you can share it on your Facebook page, you could Stumble it. There are so may possibilities…if you like it…share it please. #2, let me know what other tutorials related to cakes and cupcakes you want to see from me….baking, sculpting, painting etc….let me hear it please so I know what direction you would like to see. 🙂
Be good sweet readers. But not too good. That’s boring 😉
Fields of Cake and Other Good Stuff 
I love your elephant skin comment! LOL Your knife trick at the end is awesome. What a great video!! Thanks!
Thanks Julie 🙂 Don’t forget to tell me what tutorial you’d like to see from me next. Feel free to browse through the cakes and cupcakes in my blog to get ideas 🙂 Oh! And share as much as you want 😉
Great video Carrie! Thanks for this, now if I can get brave enough to make fondant. Do you make your own fondant or do you use pre-made fondant? I have found I don’t like the flavor of Wilton fondant so have shyed away from making my own and covering a whole cake, I’ve used it mostly for decorations although I did cover some cupcakes a couple of years ago for tea cups & they weren’t very pretty. Another tutorial I would like to see is what your essential tools for decorating cakes are. I have a basic knowledge of cakes all of which is self taught and have some basic tools but know I am missing some other items. The other thing I would like tutorials on are sculpting anything, if I try to do 3D it’s not pretty, so at this point most of what I do is in frosting or last year I did try your candy clay and it worked well but I still had a few issues, the purse handle fell & then the whole thing slid off the cake taking the corner of the cake with it just as we were singing happy birthday. Can’t wait until you’re back & can do more cake stuff but also enjoying the simple stuff.
Ooo! Good ones Michele. I don’t’ make my own fondant anymore though I might start back up again in Montana. The climate was just too finicky in Maine. I used a few different kinds of fondant in Maine. for the warm, humid summer months, I would use Satin Ice and in the dry, cold winters I would use ChocoPan. I find that they both are great tasting (you can even add flavoring oils to them the change it up a bit if you like) and take on coloring well. I’ll put those suggestions on my To-Do Tutorial list. Thank you SO much!
I need all the help I can get in decorating cakes. Love your adorable cake.
your video is very helpful as I am just starting out and needed a great tutorial on fondant! I was also going to ask if you make your own fondant but you answered that in the previous comment. One question I have is how do you get your cake off the turntable you are working on? I would love to see a tutorial from you also on how to get your buttercream so smooth! thanks!
transferring the cake is actually quite easy. Just slide a knife carefully under the cake to tilt it up a bit, slide your hand under the cake and lift it. Easy peasy! I’ll put the smoothing buttercream on my to do list. Thank you Kim!!
I’ve covered a cake in fondant just once – a baby cake for my sister’s first baby shower in 2008 –
I forgot to pick up a cake board to fit it on, so it was brought to the shower on that pan with a silpat LOL That said, that was the first and last time, but you make it look so easy and beautiful, I have to try it again!
Wow, Thanks for sharing the tutorial! Its really very useful and so easy to understand! 🙂