Ice Skater Cake Topper

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How to make an ice skating birthday cake with free ice skate topper template: Step 1: Bake ice skating birthday cake layers – 2 round, 2 square Now roll a little bit of white fondant into a skinny rope. Cut pieces of the fondant rope and wiggle into the laces. Repeat until the entire ice skate cake topper is fully laced up. Depending on how tall your cake layers are, you’ll want to cut either two or three number 1 cake layers from the square birthday cake. You can also add more cake layers to the ice skating cake to serve more guests. Here’s how the cake looks with just the sanding sugar. You could really stop here and have a nice, pretty 10th birthday cake.

And guys, I love how Elise’s ice skating cake turned out. I got to try a couple new easy birthday cake decorating techniques on this ice skating cake: silver luster dust (super fun!) and sanding sugar (looks fancy and covers up all icing mistakes, yay). Keep reading below for step-by-step images and photos to make your own ice skating birthday cake.

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Print my free printable number 1 cake template and place onto the frozen cake. Use a serrated knife to cut out the number 1. Here’s a photo of the first cake layer. Add icing between the layers to make a taller cake. I ended up using three layers for my number 1 cake and two layers for my number 0 cake. And by the way, here is the icing recipe that I used. If you’re adding sanding sugar like I did, you’ll want to make a less sweet icing recipe or else the birthday cake will be way too sweet. I thought this icing recipe was OK but you may want to find another not-so-sweet icing recipe. I love the fun snowballs on this cake. You can make them out of dough or make cake balls using the recipe from the snow ball fight cakes above. I played around with cutting out tongue pieces and in the end, I thought the ice skate looked most realistic by sculpting the fondant a bit with a knife; sometimes the simplest technique is the best. Lay the tongue piece on top of the fondant ice skate cake topper and trace lightly with a knife — and be sure to avoid cutting all the way through the topper. Here’s what the ice skate cake topper looks like fully laced. You’ll notice that I have a bit of plastic wrap in the upper corner. I like to cover up the fondant ice skate cake topper so that it remains pliable.

Lay the upper piece of the ice skate cake topper template onto the white fondant and cut out with a sharp paring knife. Keep brushing on the silver luster dust until it’s solid silver. Then let it dry completely. Be careful not to bump it while it’s drying or you’ll need to touch up some places.

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Sanding sugar is a really easy and pretty way to decorate birthday cakes. First, you’ll want to ice your cakes. I usually make the Cakegirls buttercream recipe but because the sanding sugar is also sweet I wanted to use a less-sweet buttercream recipe. I used this buttercream icing recipe, but I have to say, you could probably find a better one out there that tastes less like butter. As a huge fan of anything coconut, this snow ball themed cake is one of my favorite cakes on this list! Paul introduces us to his fantastic 3D Ice Skate Cake. By constructing a stand that allows the cake to stand upright, Paul really has taken this design to the next level. Let Paul guide you through woodworking techniques – a skill that will make sure your designs stand out from the crowd.