Multi-tone cake and swirls

Facebook: www.facebook.com Link to all my videos: www.youtube.com Ow, my arm is still aching, it was getting better but my girls and I were goofing around last night and it’s right back to down to my knees again. In the beginning of the video when I’m wrapping the board, I have a sweater wrapped around my waist, that’s the weird black thing you see on the right side of the screen. My kitchen is like an icebox in the winter! Great for caking though ;D If you haven’t already, check out tonedna1’s video on how to frost a cake: www.youtube.com I started trying this method and I really like it! I’ve always used the icer tip because I was never able to frost a cake without getting crumbs in the frosting. Even with a crumb coat, I still would get crumbs! I read on many sites, saw it on tv, that you should never let your spatula touch the cake. Well, my spatula wasn’t touching the cake but still the crumbs. What I recently discovered is that yes, your spatula shouldn’t touch the frosting, but also there should be a little bulge of frosting that you can push across the cake with the spatula. Watch the my video again, there’s always a little bulge just in front of the spatula and that’s what’s keeping the crumbs from getting mixed in. If you’d like to buy the scraper I used in the video send me an email: me@seriouscakes.com Here’s a link to the site where I first saw this kind of cake: www.eatcake.ca A picture of one of their versions: www.eatcake.ca I love their work, it’s nearly …