Cake decorating basketweave

Here is another simple cake decorating idea using chocolate ganache – cake decorating basketweave with chocolate ganache.

This is a very simple and easy cake decorating technique. With just a fork and no other special tools, you can create this cake decorating effect perfectly.

Things you need for this basket weave cake deco:

A cake

Sufficient chocolate ganache

A fork

A palate knife

Here are the step by step instructions to make basket weave cake decoration with chocolate:

Prepare your cake. Level it and clean it of loose cake crumbs.

Pour chocolate ganache on cake and smoothen

Pour slightly thickened chocolate on the cake and spread it with a palate knife. Cover the whole cake with the chocolate ganache evenly. For this cake design, you don’t have to get a perfectly smooth surface.

Using a fork, mark long vertical lines of design as shown. Make sure the space in between each set of fork lines are of the same width as the fork teeth.

mark one row of short horizontal lines on the cake

Next, mark one row of short horizontal lines in between the vertical lines on the cake as shown.

mark another row of short horizontal lines

Following that, make another set of short horizontal lines, this time one row above the earlier horizontal lines but right on the vertical lines made in step one above.

Fill up the gap between the newly marked horizontal lines with short vertical lines, as shown.

Moving on to the next row, mark horizontal lines in between the existing vertical lines.

Again, make another set of short horizontal lines, this time one row above the earlier horizontal lines but right on the vertical lines made in step one above.

Fill up the gap between the newly marked horizontal lines with short vertical lines, as shown.

cover whole cake with basket weave design

Repeat the steps above until the whole cake is covered with basket weave design. Do the same for the sides of the cake as well.

This is how a completed basket weave design will look like.

If you like, you can even make broader basket weave designs, like in the picture below. All you need to do is to make two sets of fork lines instead of one set as shown in the instructions above

Want to learn another technique of making cake decorating basketweave? Click here to learn how to make piped basket weave design using butter icing or royal icing.

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