Quick side bar: I’m trying to get away from using fondant. I’ve become quite good at producing a smooth buttercream cake with sharp edges and I hate to cover up that hard work with fondant. So when it came time to make this cake with a birch effect, I was kind of at a loss when it came to ideas.
I iced the cake with buttercream and chilled it. I took one of my pointy tools and tried to make those lines in the cake and it didn’t look great. So I added another thin coat of buttercream and smoothed it out. And when I finished, I had the perfect look…completely by accident!
