Ribbon Cake

A Ribbon Cake is a fun and girly design that has a rustic feel. The best part of the Ribbon Cake design is the imperfections in the piping. You don't have to be an experienced decorator to have fun piping away on this cake. Follow our Ribbon Cake Tutorial and get to it. Our Ribbon Cake is a three layer classic vanilla bean cake, with a strawberry filling, and vanilla buttercream frosting. As always, make the flavors that you prefer for your party goers.

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Recipes

For The Ribbon Cake

Vanilla Bean Cake (Recipe Coming Soon)

Strawberry Filling

American Buttercream Frosting

Tools

Used For The Ribbon Cake

Ateco Stainless Steel Cake Knife

The perfect knife to get even layers of cake

Ateco Cake Stand

For easy frosting and smoothing

Stainless Steel Scraper

For flawless frosting

Small Angled Spatula

For a sharp top edge of frosting

6-Inch Cake Boards

To build the cake on

Disposable Piping Bags

For easy piping

Petal Tip

For piping with

Tips

For The Ribbon Cake

Learn how to create your own ribbon cake design with Sweet Society's Ribbon Cake Tutorial

Crumb coat the cake with your preferred frosting and place it on the cake stand of your choice. From there, pipe the design according to the tutorial. This ensures that when you pipe the design, you cover the cake board without having to move your cake. You can also pipe the design and chill your cake until the frosting has hardened, and then move it onto the cake stand

Practice your piping technique with the petal tip on a piece of wax paper before piping on the cake. This will help you get used to the motion needed when piping

Crumb coat your cake in the color of icing you will be piping with. That way, if the cake is exposed in-between the piping, the color will be the same

If you are new to cake decorating and want to learn the basics, check out Joshua John Russell's Free Modern Buttercream Class on Craftsy. It's perfect for those who want to try their hand at some cake creations of their own

Presentation

Ideas For The Ribbon Cake

We placed our cake onto a scalloped piece of cardstock paper that we printed. Download the scallop template here

We used cardstock by Paper Source for the scallop template. Paper Source offers a wide range of color options, so feel free to choose any color that works for you

A simple printable dessert label can go a long way to completing the presentation. We offer free printable dessert labels, along with the rest of the Rustic Experience Printables, that you can download here. We recommend using cover weight paper which you can find at Paper-Source. We used Luxe Blush Cover Paper from Paper Source for these printables. We also used a Doily Lace Edge Puncher from Paper Source to add embellishments to our dessert labels