Ruffle Cake Designing Techniques?

This week’s cake decorating tutorial focuses on creating a beautiful ruffle cake by baking the cake layers and applying a thin base coat of frosting. The tutorial then shows how to pipe three different buttercream ruffle effects on the cake using various fondant cutters. Ruffles are a favorite effect on cakes, and this tutorial can be used to decorate both single layer and double tiered cakes.

The concept is simple: place the crumb-coated cake on a cake stand, fill a pastry bag with a 127 tip and your choice of frosting (preferably white) starting at the bottom edge of the cake. Use different piping tips to create ruffles out of buttercream frosting to decorate a classic ruffle cake.

In this free cake decorating video, the author demonstrates how to make a cute Flamingo Ruffle Cake, which is perfect for birthdays, beach parties, and more. The tutorial covers each individual step of creating classic straight ruffles, from cutting fondant strips to balling out curly ruffles.

To create ruffles, use cutters to add fondant shapes using a circle, square, and petal cutter. Place the cake on a cake board of the same size, fill, stack, and crumb coat it in buttercream icing, and hold the decorating bag at a 45-degree angle while keeping the wide end of the tip against the cake.

This tutorial is perfect for Valentine’s Day parties, birthdays, and beach parties, and is one of the most popular ruffle styles to date.