How To Make A Bible Cake

How-do-you-do to all, Happy New Yr! Promise you all enjoyed your holidays and are settling well into 2016.

This is my first post this twelvemonth, so of course I had to keep a promise I made of sharing this tutorial on how to decorate a Bible block using round cakes as your base. Here we go!

I was in Nyeri for some fourth dimension and I got an order for a 2 kg bible vanilla cake and I had to come up with a style to make the cake without the bible pan. I remembered a picture tutorial I had seen shared on The Bakers Order Facebook grouping and I decided to requite it a effort. I was delighted to detect that it worked out very well and I decided to share my stride by step method in order to assist out whatsoever other bakers out there who might detect themselves in a demark.

Bible Block Decoration Tutorial using round cakes.

Directions:

First you lot need to bake 3 Vanilla cakes in viii″ round pans, then cool them completely.
Level each of the cakes and ensure they are identical in height, as close as you can become them.

Level the circular cakes to identical heights
Prepare your buttercream frosting ready to get started; I'll provide the recipe and exact measurements I used below.
Layer the iii vanilla cakes on top of each other, applying a coat of buttercream before stacking each cake on superlative of the other. Make sure they sit down on each other as equally as possible.

Stack the cakes on top of each other and fill up with buttercream
Using a large bread knife, slice the cake in equal halves. Place the inside halves, side by side to each other, on your cake board ready to frost.
Mold your block by shaving off the elevation as you see fit until they course a uniform bible-shape.
Spread a crumb glaze on the cakes, wait for the buttercream to set for about one-half an hour to an hr (or if you are like me and was short of fourth dimension ^_^ place in the fridge for about 15 minutes). Spread a layer of frosting on the block and cover the block completely.

Mold your cakes into shape then utilize a crumb coat
I added some other layer buttercream frosting to encompass some sections of the block that needed work.

Add a 2d and third layer of frosting

At this betoken you tin draw lines on the side using a toothpick, to brand the block await similar an actual volume.

Depict lines on the side, brand information technology expect like a book

I personally added some other sparse layer of whipped cream since my customer wanted a very white base of operations; yet, it is not necessary.
Your bible cake is now ready to get edge decorations and writing according to your customer'due south preference and writing too.

Bible cake with blue borders2 — Bible Cake is ready…

Finished Bible Cake — Go ahead and make it pretty ^_^

Butter-Cream Frosting

Ingredients:

Icing Carbohydrate (500gms) = 3 pkts
Margarine (or Butter) = 1 one/two cups
Vanilla Essence = 2 tspns
Milk = ane/3 loving cup

Cream the sugar, margarine and vanilla while gradually calculation the milk until the buttercream is of a creamy texture and whitish color.

If you have whatever questions, feel costless to ask beneath. If you lot attempt it out, please let me know how it turns out for you.

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