Blue Ombre Cake Frosting

Remove from freezer and place cake on a cake turntable.

Blue ombre cake frosting.

Tint third with 5 drops blue. Thinly frost the top and sides of the cake with white frosting. This blue ombre cake is a chocolate layer cake filled with milk caramel chocolate buttercream and covered in a vanilla though very blue cream cheese icing. Using an offset spatula smooth the frosting in one direction around the cake to create and ombre effect.

Crumb coat the cake with a thin layer of untinted frosting. Measure 2 cups frosting into fourth bowl. Wrap the cake layers in plastic wrap freeze for about 30 minutes or until ready to use. Refrigerate the cake for 30 minutes.

Step 2 divide batter evenly into 4 small bowls. Repeat with additional layers if necessary. Beat cake mixes water oil and eggs whites with electric mixer on medium speed in large bowl 2 minutes. A cake s a cake though until you dress it up and this one had a pretty simple dressing up with some balls of rolled sugar icing maltezers and white chocolate drips.

Frosting the blue ombre cake. Mix well with whisk or fork. Freeze for another 30 minutes. 4 add a little more food color to the next bowl of frosting to get a shade darker.

Spread a generous layer of buttercream between each layer of cake and apply a crumb coat of buttercream to the outside. This technique involves gradual change in color of frosting fondant cake batter from dark to light. Tint fourth portion with 1 drop blue. Mix 1 8 teaspoon blue food color into the 2 cups frosting with whisk or fork.

I first saw an ombre cake about three years ago in a magazine and ever since i have wanted to make a blue ombre cake. Slide a few pieces of waxed paper beneath the cake to help keep frosting off the cake stand. I had no idea that these cakes would become such a hot cake decorating trend. Frost the top of the cake layer then place the second cake layer on top of the first.

Easy cake decorating tutorial to make blue ombre cake.