Hey everyone and welcome back to my channel Cakes by MK. In today's video I'm going to be
showing you guys how to create this gorgeous cascading effect on your cakes using isomalt
What I really love about this technique is that it's super easy to do
you can really improvise with it so you can literally shape the isomalt however you want
and three it prevents you from poking a million holes into your cake to try and
get all your kind of flowers and leaves or whatever you're decorating your cake with
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So the first step in making this cascading isomalt deco for your cake is to melt some
isomalt. Now isomalt is basically a type of crystallized sugar which is used to make hard
candy and just be super careful with it when you're melting it because when you
melt isomalt it becomes really really hot so up to 300 degrees which can give you third degree
burns so just be really careful with it and I would highly recommend wearing gloves for this
as well especially if you're a beginner. So what i'm going to do is i'm simply going to get my
isomalt so i've got about a cup here and you can easily just increase or decrease the quantities
based on how long or small your kind of isomalt decoration thingy is going
to be, i'm not quite sure what to call it, and yeah i'm simply going to pour it into
this pot that i've got here and heat it up on a medium heat until it's completely melted
Okay now once your isomalt is completely melted you should be left with a clear liquid
and it will have some air bubbles in it but don't worry about that because we're going to pop it
aside now to cool down just for about a minute or two. We want to be really quick now once the
isomalt has melted because it sets quite quickly so if it sets too fast then we're not going to be
able to wrap that beautiful isomalt around our cake so i'm just going to pop it aside now and we're
going to quickly move on to the next step of our isomalt decoration. Now for the next step what you
want to do first is you want to measure how long you want your kind of cascading isomalt to be so
the way that I like to do that is I just get a string and I just wrap it around the cake the way
that I want to wrap my isomalt once it's ready and then that will basically tell me how long
my you know isomalt needs to be once I come to pouring it out and then putting my
flowers on top. So what I've got here is I've got a cake which is covered in fondant now this can
also be done on a buttercream cake so if you don't work with fondant that's fine.
This cake is quite poorly covered in fondant by me I just quickly did it before this video but
it's okay we'll just pretend we can't see the imperfections in it so what i'm going to do is
i'm just going to start on the bottom here so i want mine to kind of wrap around like that
and come around and kind of finish up the top like that so that is how long my string should be
so that is how long my isomalt should be so i'm just going to kind of hold it there
and then cut my string off and then just pop this aside again for now and then i'm going to
get some baking paper you can use a silicon mat for this as well and i'm simply going to
just take out enough that is going to be long enough to put my string on. That much seems good
Now by this point the air bubbles in your isomalt should have disappeared as well so you should be
just left with a nice clear liquid and it will be slightly thicker too because your isomalt
is starting to set. Now the next thing that you want to do is you just want to pour a really
thin line of isomalt across your baking paper or silicon mat whatever you're using
and then you want to really quickly start to put all your little decorations onto that piece of
isomalt before it becomes too hard. So today I've just got some fake roses, some little gold
leaves and some white leaves as well which i'm going to use for my cascading isomalt.
Now remember you don't need to pour too much because it will spread out a little bit
I might just put a little bit more here
Yeah so in some places where it seems a little bit thin you can put a little bit more
Then i'm just going to quickly check it against my string and I do need a little bit more
Okay and now i'm just going to quickly start adding
all my deco onto my isomalt and it should just stick right on it
and just make sure not to touch the isomalt just yet because it will be quite hot
and you want to make sure that every piece that
you're adding on is touching some of that isomalt otherwise it won't stick
If you are doing this on a buttercream cake then
just make sure that your buttercream is really nice and cold otherwise if the
isomalt is too warm then it might melt your buttercream which you don't want
okay so my isomalt I think is getting quite hard now so I need to hurry up a little bit
okay now i'm just going to check my isomalt. Yep so as you can see it's starting to come off
but it's still you know i'm still able to bend it so that's where you want it to be so just check it
um you know every now and then to make sure that it's not setting too quickly
And it can still be a little bit hot so you just need to be careful with it. So i'm just releasing it from the baking paper
and now i'm just going to very quickly wrap it around my cake
okay and then when you've got it where you want it you just want to hold it there for about a
minute or so for it to set into place. Now my one is a little bit short so i should have made mine
a tiny bit longer but it still looks really nice. Okay so my isomalt has set now so if I
kind of move my cake around it's not going to go anywhere because it's nice and hard now
and that is basically how you create this beautiful cascading effect using isomalt
now what i really love about using isomalt for this kind of cascading look is it's really
easy and you don't have to worry about poking all these holes into your cake to get all your little
flowers or whatever you're using to decorate your cake into your cake and it also allows you
to have this really cool kind of effect where it looks like your flowers are almost kind of
floating above your cake so my one wasn't as long as i wanted it to be but that's okay so
it just ends there but it was a little bit longer you could almost make it end up kind of here so
it looks like your flowers are kind of flowing off your cake which is a little bit harder to achieve
if you were simply just doing it by poking flowers into your cake but yeah that's basically it that's
how you create this gorgeous cascading effect using isomalt. I hope you guys enjoyed this video
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