Hey everyone and welcome to my channel Cakes by MK in today's video i'm going to be showing you
guys my way of creating this gorgeous origami trend which is going on at the moment and in
this case this accordion design made out of ganache.
Now this specific accordion design was brought to
my attention by a long time Cakes by MK supporter didalicious cakes and she sent me this photo here
now that photo is by an amazing cake decorator based in Russia I think and she makes amazing
origami cakes now when I first saw this photo I absolutely fell in love with it and I knew
I had to try it out so after about you know five different trials I spent so long trialling out this
cake I finally found a technique which worked for me and I really hope that it works for you guys as well.
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So the first step to making this origami technique is to make our origami pattern
Now the pattern that i'm going to be showing you guys today is
just a really simple accordion design. Now the way you make it is really easy so you just want
to start off with some normal pieces of a4 paper so this is just your regular 80 gsm printing paper
and what i'm going to do first is i'm going to start off with one sheet and i'm going to kind
of use the edges of the paper and the lines that I create as my guide to make sure that each crease
that i'm making is really nice and straight. So i'm going to start off by simply folding the
paper in half and i'm going to use that top half of the paper to make sure that i'm folding it
nice and straight.
And then the easiest thing to do is to simply roll your finger back
put a pinch in the middle of the crease over there and then just hold the top and make your line
now the next thing that i'm going to do is i'm going to create another crease
and i'm going to use that line that I just created in the middle
as my guide again to help create a nice straight crease
okay and now i'm pretty much just going to keep doing the exact same thing
until I have nice kind of really thin lines
okay so i'm at the point where I've got some kind of thick lines going on but I want to make them
thinner so now i'm going to start by simply folding these little pieces like this again
using the creases as my guide and then just making more lines. Now when they do
start to get smaller it can get a little bit tricky to kind of keep it nice and straight
so really easy way to keep it straight is instead of now kind of folding your paper over, what you
can do after you've created one crease like that is actually fold it under the paper like that
and then now use this next crease over here as your guide
okay so I've got a decent accordion pattern going on there
but I want mine to be really nice and thin and so i'm gonna go
one more time and fold it over so that my accordion kind of pleats are one size smaller
Now as you can see I've got some really nice thin pleats here and now the next thing that
i'm going to do is i'm going to simply keep pleating away until i've got enough to wrap
around my entire cake so today i've got a six inch cake here which i'm going to be wrapping my
origami around, so for me generally with a six inch cake I need about four pieces of a4 paper
so i'm going to go ahead and do three more pieces of A4 paper in exactly the same way that I've
done this one and then i'm going to come back and show you guys how I stick them all together
so i've made my accordion design on four pieces of a4 paper and now i'm ready to stick them together
so that they're all one sheet. So what I do first is I like to align two of the sheets so I put
one kind of edge over the top of the last pleat so that they're kind of sitting on top of one another
and then this part here which I've you know joined together that's the part
that i'm going to put the sellotape on and then you can push it down to make it easier
line it up and sellotape it on. Can be a little bit tricky and fiddly
and then just crinkle it back up.
Okay so that was a little bit tricky and it is a little bit hard
to explain so hopefully you're understanding what i'm doing through the video and now i'm
simply going to do the exact same thing with the other two pieces of paper that i've got
now once you've got your pieces of paper all nicely stuck together and you're left
with one nice long sheet of origami the next thing to do is to check the sheet up against
your cake to make sure that it wraps completely around your cake so i'm just going to test mine
and yep that looks pretty good and then the next thing you want to do is you also want
to check the height of your sheet now you don't want your sheet to be too high you only want it
to be a little bit higher than the top of your cake so i'm going to hold mine up against here
and my one is pretty high so i'm just going to make a mark about over there with my fingers so
it's just slightly above the top of my cake and what you want to do is simply
just cut a straight line right across so that your sheet is all the same height
and now the next step is to make our chocolate ganache which we're going to pour over this
beautiful origami that we just made. Now when it comes to making chocolate ganache for this origami
technique it's slightly different to when making say a chocolate ganache for ganaching a cake or
say adding a drip to a cake. So the difference here is that you want your ganache to be slightly
firmer so we're going to be using less cream than normal. So the ratio that I found works really well
after many many trials is one parts heavy cream to four parts chocolate for white chocolate and
what i'm going to do first is i'm going to melt this together until it's all nice and smooth and
the way that i'm going to do that is i'm going to first pour my heavy cream over my chocolate
and then i'm simply going to place this into the microwave for around 15 second bursts
making sure that I mix in between each burst because white chocolate can burn very easily
so just make sure that you are mixing it and then basically i'll be back once it's all melted
so my ganache is nicely melted now it's a pretty thick consistency but it's still nice and runny
and now the next thing that i'm going to do before I pour it onto my origami is to try and get the
same colour that I've got on my cake. So the way that I got this colour if you watched my previous
tutorial on how to ganache a cake that's that cake right here, I started off with some white
to get rid of that yellowy colour and then I added some green, blue and a little bit of black
now normally what you would do is when you come to making your ganache you just make
extra in the same bowl which is the same ganache that you'd use to cover your cake so that they're
exactly the same colour. I think i'm pretty close so i'm just going to stick with that now
and now the next thing that i'm going to do is i'm going to start pouring this ganache over
my origami. Now before you pour your ganache over your origami there's a few things to keep in mind
now firstly the consistency of your ganache so when you pour it onto your origami
sheet you want to make sure that it's just kind of slowly falling into place and eventually stops
so you don't want it to be too runny that it's kind of running off your sheet so just make sure
that you know if it does seem slightly runny and that it's not kind of just staying in place
then just let it cool down for a little longer to thicken up a little bit more and then go ahead and
start pouring it or let's say the opposite thing happens where you're kind of you know pouring it
onto your sheet but it's just like a complete blob which is not kind of smoothing out then that means
that it's probably too thick so just heat it up a little bit and then you should be able to
you know pour it out smoothly. So what i'm going to do is i'm going to start pouring my ganache
over my origami sheet and i'm going to use an offset spatula to help me smooth it out
now once that's nicely spread out over your origami sheet
the next thing that i'm going to do is i'm just going to clean up the little
edge here which is going to be the bottom of my origami sheet when I wrap it around
the cake and i'm just going to do that by sliding my offset spatula along the bottom
now the next thing to do is to simply let this set now before we go and wrap it around our cake so
what you want to do is you want to make sure it's set enough that when you lift it up it's not going
to kind of drizzle off your sheet of paper or anything like that but you also don't want it to
be too hard that you can't actually kind of wrap it anymore because the ganache is too firm so it's
like a delicate balance so i'd recommend checking it after say about an hour or so and then going
from there. So yeah now i'm just gonna let this set and then we'll be back once we're ready to wrap it
around our cake. So my ganache has been setting for about two hours now and it's just about ready for
me to start wrapping around my cake. Now what I've got here is I've got my leftover ganache which I
have reheated so that it's not so thick and what i'm going to do first is i'm going to put some of
the ganache around the edge of my six inch ganached cake right here and the reason for that is so that
there's something slightly sticky for my origami sheet to stick to when I wrap it around my cake
okay now i'm just going to smooth it out. Okay and now i'm going to start grabbing my origami sheet
and start wrapping it around my cake. Now this part can be a little bit tricky and if it does
feel like your origami sheet is starting to kind of completely fall apart then just place it back
down and let your ganache set for a little bit longer but what you want to do as well is you want
to make sure that you're kind of really getting your hands underneath as much of the sheet as
you can before you lift it up and then you kind of lift it up and then just wrap it around the cake
and then just kind of use your fingers to place the sheet nicely onto the cake. Okay now
I've actually ended up with quite a bit of extra sheet here so i'm just going to cut the excess off
the next thing that i'm going to do is i'm going to get my remaining ganache
and i'm going to pour it around the edges of the top of my cake just to
cover any little kind of gaps which there may be between my origami sheet and my cake
now once the top of the cake is nicely covered and there are no gaps between the cake and the origami
sheet up the top, then the next thing to do is to pop this cake into the fridge for at least kind of
eight hours or so, preferably overnight because you want the ganache now to become really nice
and firm and then what we're going to do is i'm going to come back and then show you guys how to
remove your paper from your ganache and reveal this beautiful origami texture on your cake
so my cake's been sitting in the fridge now for about kind of 12 hours or so so I left it in
there overnight so it's had a good amount of time to really nicely set and now the next thing that
i'm going to do is i'm going to start removing the white paper around the edge of the cake
now the way that I do that which I actually discovered by accident and i'm not sure if
anyone else really uses this method or not but basically I get a spray bottle with some water in
it and then what i'm going to do is simply spray the outside of the cake so where the paper is and
then just let that sit for a few minutes and then i'm going to start gently removing the paper off
now i'm just going to wipe any excess water on the bottom of my cake. So i'm starting to remove
my paper now and it should come off pretty easily now because the paper's not so kind of firm
and stuck to the ganache. Now don't worry about the bottoms too much because it is a little bit stuck
because of that ganache you've got on the bottom but we'll come around and fix that a bit later
okay so most of the paper is taken off now and we can already see that beautiful
pattern which is coming through and now the last thing that i'm going to do is i'm just going to
clean up the bottoms. Now the way that i'm going to do that is you can use like a sharp knife or
maybe like a thin spatula or something like that and i'm just going to scrape away some of this
excess ganache and then just simply remove the rest of the paper that's on the bottom
now next what you want to do is you just want to make sure that there's no kind of
little pieces of white paper left and if there are just give it a little spray and
then we're going to run our fingers with a piece of tissue paper through every single
line around the cake to make sure that it's all really nice and clean and smooth
okay now once all the sides are nicely cleaned up
the next thing that i'm going to do is i'm going to clean the top of my cake
now the way that i'm going to do that is i'm just going to grab a small knife
and i'm going to really gently start scraping off the top in a really nice straight line
now before i come back to smooth the top of the cake my ganache is getting a little bit soft
and to get the super sharp edges you need your ganache to be really nice and firm
so i'm gonna go pop my cake back into the fridge for about another half an hour or so
and then i'll come back to smooth it out. So my ganache has firmed up again so i'm gonna
go ahead now and start smoothing out the top. Now the way that i'm going to do that is i'm
going to be using my cake scraper to start scraping off the top and that should start
kind of removing that first layer that's on there and start to reveal a nice smooth finish
and now the last thing that i'm doing is i'm just using my little finger with a piece of tissue
and i'm just sliding up the little ganache on the edges of the kind of top just to remove any
excess ganache which may be interfering with my beautiful pattern on the top
now i'm just going through and cleaning the bottoms of my cake and i'm just using
a small piece of tissue to help me get into those little corners
so i've cleaned the bottom of my cake board the top is really nice and smooth and as you
can see we're left with a beautiful origami cake. So to finish off decorating my origami cake I've
got a smaller four inch tier here which I have pre-prepared which i'm going to be placing on top
of my six inch tier here and then i'm going to be placing a few roses on the side and then i'm done
now the first thing that i'm going to do is i'm going to be placing some dowels into my bottom
tier. Now usually I would also place a central dowel in the middle of my cake but because i'm
not transporting this cake anywhere i'm just going to be placing the support dowels in my bottom tier
now i'm just putting some buttercream on the bottom to secure my top tier to my bottom tier
and then i'm just smoothing that out with my cake scraper
okay and I think i'm just going to keep it nice and simple like that
so my origami cake is all done
I hope you guys enjoyed this video on how to create this gorgeous accordion design
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