Cake Decorating Frosting - Smooth Icing With Butter Icing

Here are the step by step instructions for both the methods:

Method 1: Smoothening method

• Fit a star nozzle into your icing syringe or piping bag and pipe out long lines of icing on the cake.

• Press the icing down gently with your fingers. Once the whole cake is covered, use a spatula to gently stroke the icing to smoothen it.

• This method is able to give a very smooth finish to your cake and is a considerably easy method for a beginner so long as the icing consistency is correct. If your icing is too hard to pipe out, you can thin it by adding some butter.

• The texture of the icing used to cover cakes should be firm. Icing of firm consistency should not stick to your finger when pressed lightly. If it does, add more icing sugar until the right consistency is achieved. Avoid adding too much sugar as it will be extremely difficult for you to pipe the icing onto your cake.

Method 2: Star nozzle method

• Fit a medium sized star nozzle into your icing syringe or piping bag.

• Carefully pipe stars to cover the whole cake. If your cake has designs which need to be outlined, outline the borders of the pattern first before piping the stars.

• This is by and large the easiest and simplest way of frosting a cake. However, the stars piped on the cake should be close to each other so that no part of the cake could be seen after piping.

• Just make sure the icing is not too hard and not too soft, or else the stars you pipe will not hold shape.