Making Ruffles on a Princess Cake

Video Transcript

"Now I'll show you a few different ideas for making flounces in your skirt. There's a couple of ways to do it. You can build up the, a little bit of butter cream icing to make a flounce. Then you just put a glob of frosting on the cake and then sort of in a diagonal motion smooth it out. So you put a line of frosting like this and then just kind of smooth it out and taper it up to the top so that it sticks out pretty thick on the bottom. And then, as you get to the top, it just disappears. Okay? This is the base you make these flounces or bumps in the cake before you put the fondant on and it will give it a nice ruffly look to the skirt. Another way to do it is to take some of those cake pieces that we cut off, this is cut from that little bit of dome that we cut off of our round cake, our ten inch round cake, and just cut a piece like this with a little diagonal cut to it. And you can stick that on to the cake and then lightly frost over that. Just a light coating of icing over that and kind of taper it into the cake. Okay? And then there's one more way to create these flounces and that is to use some of the rolled fondant. And, if you take a piece of the rolled fondant, you can either do it in white or do it in the color of the skirt that you're making, and roll it about three-quarter inches tube and then taper it up at the top and then you can put that on to the cake like this and just kind of press it down and shape that and the fondant will lay over that and you'll get a nice flounced skirt instead of a straight skirt. Now I've made about eight flounces in our skirt base and before we cover the whole thing with fondant, we're going to just clean up the plate a bit. And you can just take a paper napkin or a paper towel and put your finger, wrap your finger in it and just wipe off any of this excess frosting here and then just keep turning the, to a clean spot on your paper and wiping around to get that plate nice and clean so that you won't have any frosting mess while we're doing our fondant."