1. How to decorate a layer cake
LMA Baking block 7

2. Cut the layer cut into 3 pieces
Be careful not to ripe or break the cake.
Use the 2 flat pieces for the top and bottom.

3. Soak the layers with a syrup
- Syrup helps keep the cake moist
- Can flavor the syrup

4. Fill the layer cake with filling
Icing or frosting
Pastry cream
Ganache
Fruit filling
Whipped cream
Buttercream

5. Crumb coat or dirty ice the cake
- Crumb coat catches all the crumbs so they don’t show on finished icing

6.
Video how to crumb coat

7.
Video how to cover cake

8. Recover the cakes with final icing
Ensure all of the cake is covered.
- no crumbs showing

9. Decorate the cake