Cake Decorating Ideas

If there’s a little girl in your life with dreams of being a pop star, then this blue jean cake will defiantly set the right mood. It’s a fun cake for almost any girls birthday theme. Dress up, make up and even Karaoke.

All you need is a 13×9 regular baking pan. What I would recommend first just to get started and set up is to actually mix your colors and set them aside and start to cut. So you can use just store bought coloring and drop in drop by drop so you don’t make it too dark, because it can be concentrated. We can see it’s already getting darker. Like I said, just keep adding the color. It was probably about a teaspoon of color.

Now we’re also going to add the yellow. So I’m just going to add the yellow, just a couple of drops. Then stir it, and then add a couple of drops to make it darker to really stand out against the blue. So it’s like a few more drops. Let’s see if that gets us to a nice, bright yellow. That looks good.

Blue Jeans Birthday Cake Video

We’re going to move right into the cutting of the cake. Now you’ll notice it as a dome. We’re going to slice that off just going around, you can put your hand on top just to support it, just make sure you don’t cut your hand.

Now we’re going to flip in over. Now we’re going to cut a one inch slice down this side. This is going to be the belt. I’m going to just eye ball this. If you want, you can use a template, or you can mark where you’re gong to cut with a toothpick just like this. Slice that down, remove your toothpicks and cut this right down the middle.

Now it’s time to arrange it. We’re going to place this right down and use this as a little flare on the jean. We’re making bell bottoms. Now this extra piece that I had, we’re going to place this across the top and cut it to the size right across the top.

Now we have this down in the place that we actually want it and you can use this as a kind of glue. I’m going to take a little bit so the cake doesn’t slide while I’m icing it. And it can also be the glue to the pieces that you’ve already cut. The next step is to crumb coat your cake. A crumb coat is just a thin layer of icing that covers the entire cake that seals in any crumbs that might pop up.

So I’m just going to continue around all the sides and the top and cover the cake completely with the frosting. For best results after you have this all crumbed, chill it for a while and that will firm up the frosting a little bit. I already have one chilled that we can start decorating.

So now we’re ready for the final coat. I’m going to spoon some of the frosting on and I’m using an off set spatula to spread it. Use whatever you can find in your home to help you out. Now I’m going to smooth the edges. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just as long as the whole cake is coated.

And now the fun part, the decorating. We have out yellow frosting and we also have an assortment of candies that we’re going to decorate our cake with. So I’m going to take a little bit of the frosting and put it into a pastry cone. The first thing I’m going to do is pipe little stitching on the cake. Cut a tiny hole in it and then we’re going to do the stitching on the pocket.

Now the candy. We have fruit roll ups, these are great for belts. Open them up, take it off the paper and then we’re going to cut it to the size that we need. What we’re gong to do is laying it down into the frosting. You can use scissors or a knife and just trim it. And this one makes a sort of tassel. It’s cut out already. So you can just drape it down. Now what we’re gong to do is apply some candies. To make them stick I would use little dots of frosting.

You can also put little patches on, this is also a fruit roll up. You can go to the candy shop and use whatever candies you like to use. I think our jeans are done.