спасибо огромное Melissa Diamond за МК
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Hi everybody! Today we had so much fun making this cake. I used a technique that was simple but elegant. I hope that you like it too— I’m not sure what to call it, so I’m calling it the petal effect…. :0) –
I started with vanilla buttercream, a smallish angled spatula with a rounded edge, and a piping bag fitted with a medium sized round tip (I used a Wilton Tip 12).










Now that you know how, grab a cake & beautify it! :0) — I crumb coated my tiers, stacked them, and then started piping and spreading. It takes a little while to make it all the way around, but the results are so worth it! I topped off mine with a gum paste flower—but really, it would have been fine without anything at all. We taped a video tutorial today as I decorated the cake–I’ll post it soon! I would love to do cupcakes sometime using this same technique. I’ll show you when I do! :0) —




One question….how do you do the last row and have the “swipe” go under the first row?

I should have included a shot of the back. You do have to fudge it a little bit where the first and last lines meet up—but it is a pretty forgiving design and most would not notice a difference. Still, I decide in advance what the back of my cake will be (if I have a preference), and that’s where I begin & end my piping for all of my tiers. If you pipe your first row of vertical dots, and flatten all the way across (rather than leaving the left side of the dot elevated as in all of the other rows), you’ll find it easier to pipe and spread your last row of dots in a way that disguises the beginning and ending point. Hope that makes sense! Also, if you are using a crusting buttercream, you’ll find that it’s easier to manipulate the icing once it crusts if you need to.