How To Decorate The Sides Of A Wedding Cake. Lazy susan to use when decorating the cake. Learn how to decorate a wedding cake with fondant frosting flowers candy glitter and other embellishments in these Howcast videos.
Essentially youre just crumb coating the sides of the cake. You can simply stack the cake layer--still on its cardboard cake round--onto the layer beneath it but the cake will be easier to disassemble and cut if you use cake supports which give your spatula a little extra room to maneuver between the cardboard and the buttercream. Tried tested and turned to time and time again tying ribbon around each layer is an easy and effective way to spruce up your wedding cake.
While this type of cake decorating is pretty minimal dont forget to give your cake a little extra finish up top so it looks complete.
Fruit crushed candy or sprinkles can give it the finishing touch. Use flowers to cover the base of each tier like a border or edge. Place the cake on a cake board with about a half-inch clearance on all sides you can always trim the cake board down if you dont use that much frosting. Pipe a circle of frosting around the circumference of the cake and then neatly pipe in your filling.
