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Ruffles

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I was delighted to be invited to celebrate and to create a 1st birthday cake for my friend’s twin girls.

It was fairly quickly decided that chocolate was the cake flavour of choice.  This was paired with a simple vanilla buttercream that was tinted pink.

I’m pretty lucky that my friends and family give me free rein when it comes to decorating so I felt this was the perfect opportunity to attempt a new technique – ruffles.  I’m not going to lie, I hated my first attempt. The layering of the  ruffles looked fine but the width of them was a little too wide so I scraped them all off and started again.  The second (and final!) attempt was by no means perfect but I was really happy with how the cake looked in the end.

The following video tutorial helped me a lot to understand how to create this stunning effect:

 

  • What a beautiful cake, Sandi! It looks so good! I’m a tad jealous of a pair of 1 year olds!

    • Sandi

      Thanks!

  • Woooooow! Love this cake so much – it’s so pretty!
    Doing the icing this way, does it mean there is a lot more icing than normal / more sweet?

    • Sandi

      Thanks! I really like this cake and want to make it again.

      Yes, you’d use more icing than if you were just doing a simple iced cake but the amount is probably comparable to doing a cake covered in rosettes (more icing but not so much that you’d want to vomit). The cake recipe I used is not super sweet and balances the extra icing used too.

      This cake was three layers high so it was huge (and heavy)!

      • Wow! Three layers – that’s huge dedication!