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Of course you can use a cake comb to smooth the frosting on your cake but in
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this tutorial I'm going to show you all of the other ways you can use your cake comb for cake decorating
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Before piping onto a cake it's a good idea to mark where you're going to pipe
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to keep things straight or level or the same width or height. A cake comb is
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great for this because it's straight and thin so you can easily score up and down
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or around a cake. Then just pipe along these lines for the neatest results. I
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decorated this cake with my new facelift frosting technique and I'll show you how
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to do this later in this tutorial. When you've smoothed the frosting on the
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sides of a cake you'll have frosting sticking up around the top edge and you
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can use your cake comb to smooth that, pushing sideways to swipe it off. Clean
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your comb after each scrape for the sharpest edges. For an even sharper edge
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cut the frosting. Put the cake in the freezer for 30 minutes first to chill
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and set the frosting and then dip a metal cake comb in hot water to heat it
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Dry it off on a towel or paper towel and then use the edge to slice through the
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frosting that's sticking up around the top of the cake. Work your way around the
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cake, dipping the comb back into the hot water if it cools down and you'll create
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a neat razor-sharp edge around the top of your cake. The hot metal cake comb
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method works for the frosting on the sides of the cake too. After scraping
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around the cake to smooth it, if you have air bubbles or indents or unwanted
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texture just heat the comb and scrape again. Use hot water or even a blowtorch
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for this and the hot metal will melt the outer layer of frosting, dragging it to
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fill in any gaps in the frosting and leaving it super smooth. If you have a
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metal cake comb you can use it for the facelift frosting technique where you
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pipe details and set them in the freezer and then frost over them to cover them
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up completely, then chill again. Heat a metal cake comb in water or with a
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blowtorch and then scrape around the cake again and again, taking off layer
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after layer after layer of frosting and revealing a cross-section of the piping
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creating a colourful design or pattern that is completely flat on the cake, as
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if it's been printed or painted onto the cake but it's just frosting. The link for
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the tutorial for this is in the video description or just Google facelift frosting. Transfer your cake from its cake board onto a cake stand for prettier
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photos or a classier way to display the cake on a dessert table. A cake comb is a
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great tool for this because it's thin so it's easy to slide between the cake and
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the cake board and it's wide so it's easy to balance the cake on it as you
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move it. The cake needs to be chilled in the fridge before doing this so that the
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frosting gets cold and hard and then you can touch it without damaging it. When
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frosting or chocolate or cake crumbs get onto your work surface, if you wipe
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them off straight away they'll smear and smudge and make a mess but if you wait
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an hour or so for them to dry out and set you can clean them off with hardly
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any effort using a cake comb. Scrape across the table or a counter and your
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comb will dislodge any ingredients, leaving a clean surface behind. After spreading frosting onto your cake you probably use a cake comb to smooth that
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frosting, which is what it's intended for, but a cake comb is also a useful tool to
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scrape off frosting smudges from your cake board, leaving the board smooth and
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clean and pretty. A comb is especially useful if the frosting has already set
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for example if you've had the cake in the fridge because with a solid tool
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like this you don't need much pressure at all to loosen and remove the hard
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frosting. Visit my cake school on britishgirlbakes.com to learn hundreds of cake decorating techniques and designs and join my Club Plus membership
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