This weekend i'm meeting with my bridesmaids to be, to watch the awesome Bridesmaids film, drink cocktails and have a gossip. Of course, i need a cake for every occasion! So i made a lemon sponge with blackcurrant jam in the middle. I tried out ombre icing for the first time - a gentle graduation of colour from light to dark. Here's how!
1. Firstly, cover the cake in white soft icing, this is called a crumb layer, and it smooths out your palette. I cheated and bought a tub of Betty Crocker ready made frosting, since you can't buy white butter in the UK (unlike the US) so you can't make white buttercream at home. If you do want to go fully DIY just make a cream cheese frosting, that way it will stay nice and white (and it's delicious!)
2. Put a generous spoonful of white icing in the middle, then in a seperate bowl mix a little red food colouring into your icing. It's best to use a gel colouring, so that it doesn't thin out the icing. Using a spatula place a messy circle of this light colour around the white, then add a bit more colour into your bowl, and do a final darkest layer
3. Get the thinnest rubber spatula you can find - mine is about 1" across, but i could have done with one 1cm across for a better effect. Starting in the centre of the cake do a spiral all the way to the outside edge, done!
This also looks amazing done around the outside of the cake too.
Now, i have cake to eat and cocktails to drink, bye!
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