Cake Decorating - Basket Weave Technique

Things needed to make this design:

• A cake

• Piping bag and nozzle

• Butter icing or royal icing

• First and foremost, prepare your cake. Fill your piping bag with butter icing or royal icing. Using a basket weave nozzle, pipe a vertical line on your cake. Then, mark small dots of icing all around your cake to guide you for the vertical lines. This is to make sure the lines are distributed all around the cake in equal intervals.

• Next, pipe one horizontal line across the vertical line piped in the above step. Mark a small dot of icing below the horizontal line. Pipe out another long horizontal line below the dot, across the vertical line. Mark another dot right below it. Repeat until the entire vertical line is covered with horizontal lines.

• Pipe a second vertical line using the marks marked in step one above as a guide. Make sure all the edges of the horizontal lines piped in the above step are hidden under this vertical line.

• Following that, you will need to pipe another set of horizontal lines as shown. Start each line from underneath the first vertical line right across the second vertical line until it reaches the third mark of the vertical lines.

• Pipe the third vertical line, again, making sure the horizontal lines piped in the step above are well covered underneath.

• Repeat another set of horizontal lines across the newly piped vertical one, as shown.

• Repeat the process until the end and your cake decorating basketweave frosting design is ready.

Want to learn another basketweave cake decorating technique? Click here to find out how to make basketweave design on your cake with just a fork.

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