How to make an origami cake

A short time in the past while scrolling via Pinterest totally different crafting and cake pictures I received onto the theme of origami. I’m undecided how I received onto origami however I noticed a picture of an origami cake and instantly knew I needed to strive it (let me know within the feedback if like me you possibly can free hours simply scrolling via pictures on Pinterest).

Over the previous few weeks I’ve made this cake fairly a couple of occasions, testing out one of the simplest ways so as to add this design across the aspect of my cake and testing out what to make use of to get the very best end. I’m so excited to share this weeks video tutorial with you exhibiting how I made it.

The cake I used on this tutorial is a 5 inch sponge cake, 4 layers excessive, measuring 5 inches in peak. One of many first issues to consider when making this cake is the general measurement of the completed cake. The origami design across the edge made this cake simply over 6.5 inches in width, so that is one thing to think about, particularly if you’re going to be including this impact right into a tiered cake.

Utilizing Ganache

For this cake I used white chocolate ganache (discover my recipe right here) and colored it pink utilizing the Color Mill Raspberry with a touch of rose. You will note that within the tutorial I really whipped my ganache, which made it really easy to pipe into my template as the feel was much like that of buttercream. However because the chocolate permits the ganache to agency up it gave a greater end when the template was eliminated. After I first made this cake I used buttercream, now you should utilize buttercream, however I discovered while you pealed off the template from across the edge buttercream was at all times left on the parchment paper and it simply didn’t look as neat as I needed.

As soon as the template was eliminated I did need to fill a couple of holes and easy a couple of of the panels, however total I used to be so happy with how this cake seems to be. It makes such a placing design and I’ve seen pictures of individuals folding their templates in numerous methods which at all times offers such a unique and distinctive end.

The Template

Within the tutorial you will note that the template is made by folding thick paper or a skinny card to create the design. The cardboard I used was round 170 – 180 gsm, so the template would maintain its form beneath the load of the ganache. I did strive it with a thinner paper (120gsm) and located that the template would collapse and never maintain it’s form, so undoubtedly a skinny card labored higher. I then coated my card in a layer of parchment paper, fixing this into place with some double sided tape. This helped me take away the template from my ganache and in addition made it a little bit extra meals protected, as you had been making use of the ganache to the parchment paper slightly than onto the cardboard. You can additionally use kitchen wax paper which is analogous to parchment paper.

For the template I really created 4 separate panels, this allowed me to take time on every panel and maintain it in my hand to raised maintain it’s form as I smoothed out the ganache. It additionally meant I solely had a small panel to raise into place every time. For me I discovered this labored very well. The primary time I created a template I created one lengthy piece and wrapped the entire thing across the cake in a single go, it was so messy and a template with that a lot ganache simply misplaced its form. It needed to open out, so utilizing smaller panels gave me a lot extra management.

I feel this cake seems to be wonderful whether or not its saved easy, possibly with a cake topper added and even as a part of a stacked wedding ceremony cake. I feel this might look wonderful with a easy 4 inch tier on the highest and a 9 inch tier on the underside. I actually hope you benefit from the tutorial and can be capable of use this system on certainly one of your individual truffles. Let me know within the feedback when you strive it?

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Instruments I used

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