Knitted Buttercream Cake
Making your buttercream cake look like a knitted sweater is a huge trend in cake decorating right now. And it's not all that difficult, either. This is how I made it. I'm using two small star piping tips today. And I placed them in piping bags with white buttercream. I frosted my cake. Then I took the larger of the two tips and piped a few v-shapes in a vertical line. And I did this at regular intervals around the cake. Then I piped a vertical line between the v-lines. Then between the vertical line and the v-lines, I piped another v-line with the smaller piping tip. Then, wherever I had gaps, I piped stars. Finally, I piped the top. I piped a rope border along the edge, then another v-line in a circular formation next to it, a row of dots and finally a swirl in the middle. But a had a couple of spots I was annoyed with. I just wasn't completely happy with them. So I scraped off a bit of the piping. An...