Main Ingredients

1 chiffon cake

Whipped light cream in moderation

Steps to Basic Framing Tips

1. First bake 1 round cake. Recommended chiffon cake (replace 30% of the flour in the chiffon cake with cocoa powder to make a chocolate flavored cake; replace 8% of the flour with matcha powder to make a matcha flavored cake)

2. After the baked cake has cooled down and released from the mold, cut off the top part that is uneven and then cut it horizontally into three slices. (Skilled children's shoes can be cut directly into three slices; unskilled children's shoes can be cut into three slices with the help of a toothpick. PS: the finished picture of the cake is 8-inch chiffon cake blanks, animal whipped cream framed. The cake demonstrated in the process picture is a 6-inch sponge cake blank. Considering the hot weather, in order to demonstrate the process of clarity, the process picture of the whipping cream for vegetable cream.

3. There are two essential tools for mounting a cake: a mounting rotary table and a spatula. Hold the spatula as shown in the figure: index finger in the middle of the spatula face, thumb holding the spatula and handle junction, the rest of the fingers from the other side of the handle.

4. Place a slice of cake on the laminating spatula, and use the spatula to pick up some of the whipped cream and place it in the center of the slice.

5. Wiggle the spatula with your wrist and rotate the spatula so that the whipped cream spreads evenly on the cake slice (just try to spread it as evenly as possible, but don't bother smoothing it out at this point)

6. Put some diced fruits on top of the whipped cream as a centerpiece. (The canned blueberries in the picture are drained. The fruit for the sandwich can be chosen according to your preference, because many fresh fruits as a sandwich are easy to water, so it is more recommended to use canned fruits, drained sugar water can be used. (Yellow peaches, strawberries, cherries, etc. are good choices, large pieces of fruit need to be cut fine first).

7. Top with some whipped whipped cream.

8. Turn the laminating table to spread the whipped cream evenly.

9. Place the second cake slice.

10. Repeat the process of whipped cream spreading - fruit - whipped cream spreading.

11. If there is any excess whipped cream on the outside of the cake during the spreading process, scrape it off with a spatula.

12. Place the last slice of cake (it is recommended to save the slice that was the bottom for last and punch up the bottom side for the smoothest finish).

13. Until this step, the cake's "inner work" is all over, the next is the most important "face work", that is, how to spread the whipped cream to the surface of the cake flat and smooth.

14. Place the whipped cream in the center of the top of the cake. Hold the spatula in your hand at a 45° angle to the plane of the cake. Wiggle your wrist to rock the spatula from side to side as you rotate the stand.

15. While shaking your wrist, consciously reduce the angle between the spatula and the cake plane, and the whipped cream will slowly be smoothed out.

16. When the angle between the spatula and the plane of the cake is reduced to 0°, that is, when the spatula is flush with the plane of the cake, the surface of the cake is smoothed. The excess whipped cream will be squeezed to the outside of the cake, as shown in the picture.

17. Next, smooth the outside of the cake. Place the spatula at 1/2 the thickness of the cake from top to bottom (where the spatula is in the photo), and again, wiggle your wrist to make the spatula rock from side to side while turning the mount.

18. Once the top half of the sides are smoothed out, slowly push the spatula down.

19. As you rotate the stand and wiggle your wrist, the bottom half of the side is gradually smoothed out as the spatula is pushed down. If you run out of whipped cream during the process, use the spatula to pick some more from the bowl and put it on the side.

20. When the sides are completely smoothed out, the spatula is lowered to the surface of the counter.

21. Finally, all that's left is to finish the top. The only uneven whipped cream now is the part of the top edge that comes up high in the picture. Place the spatula against the top and smooth in the direction of the arrow in the picture. The smoothing motion should be dry and sharp, without dragging.

22. Switch directions and continue smoothing.

23. Repeat until you have smoothed out all the whipped cream at the high edges. There you go, you're done!

24. Next, we can put all kinds of fruits on the top of the cake according to our own creativity! However, in order to make the cake more beautiful, we can continue to do some small modifications. Take the finished picture as an example, in order to make the finished picture of the cake side of the horizontal stripes effect, you need to use a small tool: serrated scraper.

25. Place the serrated spatula against the side of the buttercream.

26. Turn the spatula in a circle and the horizontal stripes will appear. Turn the table smoothly, preferably in one motion, so that the stripes come out smoothly.

27. Fill a piping bag with whipped cream and select a small round hole piping tip.

28. Squeeze a circle around the top of the cake. Stick a circle of sliced almonds on the bottom of the side of the cake. Finally, put all kinds of fruits on the top according to your own creativity, and the beautiful framed cake is ready!

29. The end. Some tips about fruits. In principle, the cake surface decoration of the fruit you can feel free to choose their favorite. But pay attention to:

1, do not choose to cut the fruits that are easy to change color, such as apples, peaches, etc., otherwise the discoloration is very unattractive.

2, try to pick a few colorful fruits, a variety of colors with not monotonous.

3, seasonal fruit is the best choice. Especially in the strawberry, cherry appeared in the season. These two kinds of fruits decorate the cake have a good effect.

4, in order to make the surface of the fruit has a bright effect, you can brush a layer of mirror pectin.

5, the finished picture of the cake using fruit: kiwi peeled and sliced, watermelon diced and sliced, plums sliced, canned blueberries whole, mango cut grid. Mango back with a few small pieces of diced watermelon cushion, you can stand up ha.

Tips

1, the process of applying whipped cream to the cake, in order to let you see more clearly, the step-by-step picture taken many, many steps, but the actual operation is not so complicated, more hands-on practice a few times will be able to achieve proficiency. --That's right, the only way to achieve proficiency is to practice more.

2. Pay attention to the action of the spatula when smoothing out the surface, shaking your wrist to make the spatula move from side to side. Just shake your wrist, not your arm!

3, the final finish of the top surface, the importance of stability, each wipe knife in one breath. If the top surface is really some small flaws in the end does not matter, put the fruit a put up, it is all covered ha.

4, how to move the cake from the laminating table to the cake box? One of the easiest ways to do this is to use two kitchen knives, insert them flat into the cake from the bottom, hold the cake up, place it in a cake box, and then pull the knives away from it. Once the whipped cream is smoothed out on the surface of the cake, it can be moved to the cake box, and the steps for decorating the fruit can be done in the cake box.