Cake Decorating for Beginners _ How to Fill, Ice and Crumb Coat a Cake 🍰

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Welcome to Man about Cake presents , cake decorating for beginners today .

I'm gonna take you back to basics and show you how to fill ice crumb coat and final coat of cake .

And I'm gonna finish it with some simple decorations .

Let's do it .

OK .

I'm gonna start by breaking down an eight inch chocolate cake .

So I'm gonna do this with a serrated knife .

And what I like to do is cut in a line first , I'm gonna use this hand to turn the turntable and then I'm gonna keep this hand completely steady .

I like to tuck my elbow in too .

So it keeps it level and then we just turn .

This is ninja level cake making watch .

Yeah , it is .

So once you get all the way around , then you can start making little cuts into the cake .

Hi .

He doesn't care .

That's garbage cake right there .

And that's in the show .

That's how you make garbage cake .

Sometimes you can soak your cake layers with a simple syrup .

My cakes are very dense as you can see .

So I don't soak them because they're already so dense .

Plus they don't really take the soak very well .

I don't like to be soaked .

They're not thirsty .

I'm not thirsty right now .

Perfect .

Let me just taste it .

You gotta taste your product right .

All right .

Now I'm gonna clean up my crumbs and we'll fill this with butter cream .

I used to be a car salesman .

I would take everyone out for a hot dog drive just to , you know , you got to test the product .

Sure don't do that .

I'm gonna fill the cake with vanilla butter cream .

I want this to look really nice when I cut it right .

So I want to make sure that each layer has the same amount of butter cream .

So I do this with a disher .

You could also use like a cup measure .

I think in between two layers , we're gonna do two dishes .

It doesn't feel like enough butter cream .

But as long as it's consistent in between each layer , then it'll look really nice when we cut it .

It looks like a big old Oreo .

Yeah .

Next layer on .

Make sure it's on their level .

Push down a bit and then we'll do the same thing .

Two scoops of ice cream .

Mm .

Well , to be fair , I use Madagascar Bourbon vanilla in my Swiss meringue butter cream and it tastes like ice cream .

When you're doing this , you don't have to worry about going over the edge because we're gonna trim the sides of this anyways .

Beautiful .

Now I'm gonna get this into the cooler and let it firm up completely for when I touch the butter cream like this , it's completely hard and then we'll trim the sides and do a crumb coat .

Let's go , buddy .

So now we're gonna trim the sides of the cake .

The reason why we do this is because I want enough room between the board and the cake itself to put the butter cream .

Plus we get more garbage cake .

Yeah , it's the best kind of garbage cake .

What do you call it ?

I call it garbage cake because a long time ago I worked at a bakery where we used to sculpt a lot of cakes .

So we always have just leftover cake scraps and we put them in this big bin .

It was a garbage can and they would turn it into like cake pops and stuff .

Oh , it's the garbage cake .

Does elephant sound like in my mind ?

They also sound like a volcano .

And what else do they sound like monster ?

The monster elephant then ?

That's more like , oh OK .

I'll keep trying here .

I'm an elephant .

You'd expect a big voice coming out of here .

But boy , would you be wrong ?

I like that better .

There we go .

I think you went on that one .

OK .

Now we're gonna give the cake a crumb coat .

This is just a very , very , very light coating of butter cream so that we can put it back in the fridge .

It traps all the crumbs in and then we can do the final coat and have zero crumbs start on the top , go all the way out to the sides .

And the motion is kind of like a , um , a figure eight that's on its side , like the infinity symbol back and forth .

Spread it out .

But the main thing is always use your turntable as well .

Always be turntable , check this out .

We're crumbs , we're trapped and now we'll do the side and then we're just gonna cover the surface right now .

I'm just gonna take a scraper .

You can use a bench scraper here and I'm just going to smooth the sides out .

Those are used for scraping benches .

Yes , a pastry bench .

And then we use both tools together .

I'm trying to , they're trying to learn here .

Ok ?

Sorry .

And we'll just rake this off top .

Give this guy a little hair cut .

Like I said , it's gonna look messy and weird .

Don't worry about it .

We'll do a final cut and it'll look really nice .

Now , this goes in the cooler to firm up completely again .

Then we'll do our final coat .

Come on , dude , crumbs are trapped .

Ok ?

Now , the cakes out of the cooler and all of our crumbs are trapped .

As you can see it's firm to the touch and now now we're gonna give it a final go .

So we'll do it the same way .

We'll start with the top go all the way out to the edge .

Now , we're gonna do this side .

I'm gonna take the butter cream all the way out to the edge here .

Because that way when we scrape it , we'll get a perfect 90 degree angle like this , man , this butter cream is so soft .

All right .

Now , we're going to scrape the sides .

I'm gonna put this right up against the cake and at the bottom here , I can feel that board try to keep it at a 90 degree angle .

So we're building up this nice wall here that we can do a little haircut on getting a lot of butter cream .

So I'm gonna scrape this guy off .

Get one big turn here .

All right .

I think I took a little too much off the top here .

It's gonna fill in any gaps .

Right .

So once the sides are smooth , I'm gonna take and do the same thing I did before .

I'm just gonna take this edge off the top right now .

We're gonna get it in the cooler and let it burn up completely again and then I'm gonna cut through it and make it super nice and sharp .

All right .

Now the cakes out of the cooler and it's really , really nice and cold and I'm gonna cut through this and make it a lot more smooth .

So we'll start with the top here .

It's so cold in here .

The crumbs are all stuck freezing .

Oh my God .

The crumbs have been trapped for like days .

OK , dude .

Yeah , that's the crazy part by doing this .

It keeps the cake fresh for a super long time , right ?

Well , just putting icing on a cake , keeps it fresh .

Yes , because I've eaten some old cakes of yours and uh they still taste pretty good .

My cake is never old .

It is always fresh and always on point .

OK .

Thank you very .

It is always fresh .

Nice and tight .

So now I'm gonna get this on its final cake stand and we'll decorate .

Come on guy .

All right .

So now we're gonna finish this with a little bit of piping along the bottom edge here and on the top , we're gonna do a little drizzly drippy as I call it with some and then some fun sprinkles .

So it'd be like a fun little birthday cake .

So I got my bag here fitted with a star tip and we're just gonna do some uh piping some shells .

So this is very easy .

We're just gonna squeeze out , stop squeezing and pull down .

That makes a shell and then you just chain them together .

So if you want to buy the tip or the piping bags , you can find them online or usually any craft stores , they're pretty easy to find Home Depot .

No , the Lego store .

They should sell cake stuff .

Frank's Stained Glass Emporium .

All right .

Now we're gonna do a drippy on top .

So I've got a little bit of a here that's barely heated So it's not too hot to melt our butter cream , but , uh , just warm enough to be liquid .

Pour a little bit oop .

And then we're just gonna spread this to the edge and let it fall over to make our drippies .

Yes .

One more drip over here .

Here we go .

So , then we're gonna do some piping on top as well .

So I'm gonna space this out evenly .

So I'll do a dollop here , pull up , do one on the other side and then we'll split the difference there , split the difference there and then in between each one .

Cute .

Now we'll finish it with sprinkles , sprinkles .

My favorite just put a little bit on each floor and then I'm gonna put some on the bottom too and that could be where your candles go .

There we go .

How sweet is that little birthday cake ?

This could be something for a birthday party or just to make you a hero at any party because it's so simple to make .

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I'm gonna go to the party .

Let's go .

I don't like to be soaked .

They're not thirsty .

I'm not thirsty right now .

God , don't show that .

I'm gonna just spit on this cake .

Please don't show that I couldn't see it .

I went and I went .

Can you ever have too much drip ?

Never too much drip ?

Are you serious ?

Just put a little bit on each floor and then I'm gonna put something on the bottom too and that could be where your candles go .

This is perfect for an eight year old .