Using a stencil is an easy way to add a touch of glamor and elegance to a cake.
For Goldie's 102nd birthday I wanted something elegant but not too fussy. I also wanted something quick and easy because I accidently booked another cake for the same day. (I hate it when that happens!) The cake is a 7" double barrel cake that stands about 9" tall.
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The stencil is called GLAM and it is sold by Lacupella Cake Designs. I really like the Lacupella stencils. They are expensive, but they are made with high quality plastic and the cutouts are precise and detailed. On this particular stencil, some of the tiny circle cutouts were a little too small for buttercream, but I still think the cake shows a lot of the details. This particular stencil design would probably work better with an air brush or aerosol color application.
To use the stencil I just held it in place with one hand and then started applying the buttercream in the center. Once a little buttercream was applied, the stencil stayed in place and I could remove my hand and start applying more buttercream out toward the edges of the stencil. The stencil does have cutouts where you use push pins or a strap to hold the stencil in place, but for me it was just easier to secure it with buttercream.
Once everything was coated in buttercream, I just peeled off the stencil. I had to go through the same process 3 times to cover the entire cake, but the pattern matched exactly along the edges, so you really couldn't see the line where I matched up the stencils. In hindsight I should have used more buttercream on top of the stencil. The sections with the thicker coating looked much better than the areas where the buttercream was thinner.
To finish the cake I added a buttercream layer to the bottom using a simple fault line technique, and then painted the fault line edge with some edible silver paint. I also added some silver glitter flakes to give it added sparkle. The Goldie and 102 toppers are made of glitter cardstock and cut using my Cricut Air Explore 2. The font for the name is called Amarillo and the font for the number is called Forte. I get my fonts from the website DAfont.com
So here is Goldie with her birthday cake. She wasn't too happy with me. She was telling everyone she was 87 and then she saw the cake with a big 102 on the top.
Oh well, she was happy once she started opening her gifts!
