Torting, levelling,and layering a cake

Easy tutorial for beginners
Cooking Instructions
- 1
Bake your cake.. Let it cool before removing it from the pan. Mine was a 2 kg red velvet baked in two tins
- 2
Using a ruler, measure the height of your cake...mine was 4 cm so I put my tooth pick at the 2 cm mark
- 3
It is important to level your cake if it has a dome
- 4
Gently,saw through the cake with your saw knife..cut through the cake till the other end
- 5
I ended up with four layers...simple syrup them and get ready to assemble your cake
- 6
I use glucose syrup to hold the cake on the board... You can use butter or whipped cream
- 7
Apply a layer of frosting on the first layer
- 8
The second layer...followed by the frosting
- 9
Do so till the last layer.. Crumb coat and chill for about 10 minutes
- 10
Add second layer of frosting.
- 11
Smoothen and decorate as you please
- 12
Get creative...follow clients instructions if any
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