Hey guys and welcome back to my channel Cakes by MK. In today's video i'm going
to be showing you guys how to get nice smooth sides and sharp edges on a whipped cream cake
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so the very first thing you want to do before building your cake is making sure that your
cake layers are nice and flat otherwise it's just going to be a lot harder to get those
really nice sharp edges on the top of your cake. So to trim the tops i'm getting a serrated knife
and holding it straight up against the cake at the height that i want to cut it
and i'm starting to make a cut into the cake as i turn the turntable. So my knife
itself is staying in the same position and my turntable is what's turning the cake
now once i get back to the initial cut that i made i'm going to start
slowly moving my knife towards the middle of the cake as i keep turning the turntable
and you'll know you're done when the top of your cake magically just slides off
now as you've probably already noticed my cake is a little extra brown on the outsides because
i was being lazy and didn't prep my cake tin properly so i'm just going ahead and trimming
some of those extra brown bits off. And now i'm just trimming off a really thin layer off the
bottom. The cake itself isn't over baked and it's still super moist so i didn't want to bake my cake
layers all over again. I guess you can take this as a tip on how to save an overly browned cake
and now i'm just leveling the tops and cleaning up the sides and bottom of my other two cake
layers that i'm going to be using as well. My cake layers actually baked up pretty flat
so i only needed to trim a really small amount off the top. Now for your whipped cream you want
to make sure it's really nice and super smooth. So i've got some non-dairy whipping cream here
if you're not quite sure what the difference between a dairy and non-dairy whipping cream
is or you want to know how i whipped up this super silky smooth cream then i'll post a link
to another video that i've done on this below but yeah you basically want to try and reduce
the number of air bubbles in your whipped cream and two ways to do this is to one make sure you're
not whipping your cream at too high of a speed and two you can also hand mix it after it's whipped up
in a back and forth motion like i am here and this will just help to smoothen everything out
now to build your whipped cream cake what you'll need is a cake board so i'm just using an acrylic
disk here for my cake. You'll also need an offset spatula so an offset spatula has like a little
dip before it extends out and this just makes it a lot easier when it comes to decorating your cake
and then you'll also need a cake scraper so i've got a steel cake scraper here you can actually get
so many different types, mine has a nice kind of handle on it, but yeah any material is fine
now you want to start off with crumb coating your cake and this is going to prevent crumbs
from reaching your outer layer of cream. So i'm just using my offset spatula to put a
bit of whipped cream in the middle of my cake board and this is going to help our cake stick
to our cake board so it doesn't move around as we're building our cake. Now next i'm placing my
first layer of cake onto my cake board and just making sure that that's in the middle
next i'm placing a generous amount of whipped cream onto my cake layer and then i'm going to
smooth it out. Now when smoothing it out i start by going in a back and forth motion from the top
to the bottom to spread the cream out and this helps prevent my spatula from touching the actual
cake and accidentally picking up any crumbs that might get into my cream and then i'm just holding
my spatula at a slight angle and turning my turntable which is smoothing everything out
don't worry about the excess on the sides because we're going to use that later on
now once that's done you just want to put your next cake layer on top and do the exact same thing
then i'm placing my last cake layer on top and i'm going to start smoothing out a thin layer
of cream on the top. Now with this top layer you want to flip it over so that the bottom
of the cake layer is the top of your layer cake so that it's really nice and flat on the top
now with your crumb coat it's good practice to scrape off any excess in a different bowl
to your original batch in case you have any crumbs in your cream. I forget sometimes but
yeah you don't want those crumbs getting into your nice batch of cream. Now once the top's smoothed
out you want to start using the excess whipped cream to start covering the sides of your cake
now if you've got some exposed cake simply get more whipped
cream and cover up the rest of your cake
now i'm just using my spatula to smooth everything out
and then to smooth the top i'm holding my spatula really straight and i'm pulling it into the cake
as i turn the turntable and this catches the excess buttercream on the top edges and just
smoothens everything out. Now just remember to scrape your excess cream off before you
go ahead and scrape the top of the cake again. Then i'm just doing one last smooth and then my
crumb coat is all done now this cake is going to go into the fridge for about half an hour
to help things firm up a little. Whipped cream doesn't really become hard like buttercream
but it still helps to refrigerate it because it does firm up a little making it easier to apply
our final coat of cream which i'm doing right now. So my cake is out of the fridge and i'm going to
start off by adding a generous amount of cream on the top of my cake and smoothing that out
and now i'm going to place a thick layer of cream all around the edge of the cake
now once that's done you want to start scraping the whipped cream really gently with your cake
scraper. Just remember that whipped cream is super soft and so you don't want to apply
too much pressure when scraping otherwise you're just going to take way too much of
the whipped cream off.
just remember to scrape off any excess cream before you scrape again
now once you've scraped the outside a few times you want to go ahead and start filling in any gaps
with more cream and then smooth it out again until you have a nice smooth layer of whipped cream
so once the sides are smooth you want to clean the top in the same way that we did with the crumb
coat so hold your spatula really straight and bring it into the cake as you turn the turntable
now once that's done i'm smoothing out the top again and as i do this you'll
notice some excess cream building up around the sides of the cake
so i'm just smoothing the sides out again and then cleaning up the top one last time
you may need to do this a few times until you're happy with the coverage on your cake
now to smooth out the top i'm placing my spatula directly down on the top of
the cake only applying like a feather weight of pressure and really gently smoothing out the top
okay and that is it my cake is beautifully covered with whipped cream
now i'm just finishing off by cleaning up the sides and then this cake is ready to decorate
so that is it that is how you get nice smooth sides and sharp edges on a whipped cream cake
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