Before icing the
cake.
Soak a pastry brush in the sugar syrup and dab it
lightly onto the cake. This keeps the cake moist.
If you prefer you could also add some liquor to your syrup.
Ice the cake using a spatula.
Even though the cake will be covered with the flag design, the cake still
needs an undercoating of icing, otherwise the star design will be hard
to decorate.
The undercoating layer of icing doesn't need to be perfect, as it will not be visible after
we piped the flag, but try to get is as even
as possible. If the icing is not smoothing out clean your spatula
and wet with water. This will smooth it down. |