.How to Ice a Cake
Source of Recipe
Cooking for Graduate Students & Other Beginning Kitchen Dwellers (James W. Cooper)
Recipe Link: http://wywahoos.org/wahoos/cookbook/cover.htm
Place one of the layers rounded side down on the cake serving platter. If you want to keep the platter from getting goopy, slip some half sheets of wax paper under the edges of he cake. Using a rubber spatula or metal spreading spatula, spread the filling on the top of the bottom layer. If the cake is crumbly or the day humid, the cake may start to crumble or tear. If this happens dip your spatula into a little milk and spread it over the cake surface before icing. Ice only the top of the middle layer. This can be a different flavor of icing than that on the outside and top of the cake.
Place the top layer on top of the icing, flat side down (rounded side up). Ice the top of the upper layer and then spread the remaining icing along the sides.
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