The frog also needed lily pads to sit on.
Marble icing effect.
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It s called marbling feathering or swirling which is basically when one or more colors of icing are applied to a base coat of icing and then a toothpick cake tester pin or skewer is dragged through the icing to create a marbled or swirly effect.
For my latest cake project a christening cake with a froggy theme i needed to make the cake look like a pond for the frog.
How to create marble cake icing using buttercream frosting.
Press pieces of coloured fondant icing roll out icing together.
Carefully transfer to your cake smooth down the surface starting at the top then trim the base with a small sharp knife.
Each combination of colors creates another look.
Make sure your cake has been correctly crumb coated and chilled.
Dust your worksurface and rolling pin with icing sugar then roll out the icing.
By making this with icing was able to achieve the beautiful marble effect.
Use a toothpick to create a marble effect.
Wrap a colourful ribbon around to finish.
For a mostly white spaced out marble look like ours take roughly 100g of white sugarpaste and colour it using a little peacock blue food colouring then knead to fully distribute the colour.
Knead briefly to blur the colours.
Feel free to play around with the quantities to achieve your desired marble effect.
Marbled buttercream is a popular cake decorating technique lately and i love how easy it is to create with a few simple steps.
Dip cookies in the marbled icing shake clean the edges using a knife or simply a toothpick and place on a rack to let the icing set.
If icing seems too thick add about tsp of water.
To make this marbelized cake as easy as possible and with the least mess opted to create the drip with icing.
Easy steps to creating a beautiful marble cake finish.
In this free video tutorial i m going to show you how to create a beautiful marbled buttercream effect using strips of acetate.
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Place the white icing into a bowl and drizzle some red and green icing on top.
There are a lot of chocolate drip cakes out there but if they get too warm you have a mess on your hands.
Cake decorating tools to make a marbleized cake.