Messed Up the Icing on your Cake? No Problemo!

How many times have you messed an icing on a cake? Well, I have, quite a few times. And since it is a cake it should look good, you should have to be able to remedy that.

Here is one way:

It is always good to crumb coat cake. The first coat helps to hide the cake especially of you are using a bright or dark colored cake like red velvet and a lighter colored icing.

I am trying to go for layers of icing - something simple. 

It went well for a couple of layers but it soon became crooked on some parts. 

What you can do is take a popsicle stick or a small spatula and make short spiral strokes across the layers of icing. This is cream cheese frosting, by the way. 

I used short up and down strokes to achieve this kind of pattern. 

Continue and do the same in the upper half of your cake. 

I used a toothpick to create swirls on top. 

And there you have it. Simple and easy trick to save your cake! :)