Dirty Ice...Stack & Then do The Ombre Rose Swirl

Finally! I have been waiting for this day, we are going to start off by making the Butter Cream Frosting, then fill in the layers & then dirty ice. Dirty Ice aka Crumb Coat is where we frost the cake, so we don't get crumbs all over the completed cake. You then put on more frosting and frost your cake. Since, we are doing Ombre Swirl Roses, I only did the crumb coating. You can use any type of frosting.

Classic Butter Cream Frosting (I had to Double the recipe)

4 Cups (2 lbs)- Powdered Sugar
1 1/2 Cup- Butter (room temperature)
2-3 TBS- Whipping Cream
1-2 tsp- Vanilla Extract- you can use (almond, lemon & coconut)

Start off, getting powdered sugar, and butter blend, until it all comes together. Mix the butter and powdered sugar until it is crumbly. As we are mixing it, we want to gradually add the Whipping Cream. Mix all the ingredients until it comes together. Once the frosting comes together, add in your Vanilla extract. Mix it in.

**If your frosting is too stiff, you can add more whipping cream, if it is too thin, then you can mix in more powdered sugar.

What We will need:

• Cake Board 8 inch or 9 inch.
• Offset Spatula
• Butter Cream Frosting
• Cake Layers
• Tall Glass
• Piping Bag's ( I used 3, for the Rose Swirls)
• Wilton #2D Tip 
• 3 Mixing Bowls ( to mix in our colors, for the Ombre effect)
• Wilton Food Get Coloring (I Chose Blue, I used 2 different types of Blue)

This is how we do it.

• Gather all your items
• Make your Butter Cream
• Dirty Ice your cake
• Divide your frosting in to 3 bowls; in your first bowl which will be the lightest color add a little bit more frosting, than the rest of the bowls.
• Start adding in your color's, we will start from lightest to darkest. Add a little bit of gel coloring at a time. A toothpick dip of food coloring is more than you think.
• Cut the end of your piping bag, and put in your tip. Then grab your glass and place your piping bag inside. This is a trick that I used to keep it clean, while I add my frosting inside the bag.
• Now let's start Rose Ombre'ing.
• Dab & Swirl around... Wallah you have a rose.

Let's Dirty Ice
Okay here we go. Grab your cake board ( I used a 9 inch board), and slab a little bit of frosting on it. This holds our cake in place, while we frost so it doesn't move all over the place.
Put your first layer, which is your lightest color. Then add some frosting, and spread it around. If it goes over the edge it is alright. We will use that to spread on the outer layers of the cake. Keep stack and adding frosting until, your layers are complete. Put a cup of frosting on top of the cake and frost around the edge and turn your cake as you are doing it.

Final results, from Crumb/or Dirty Icing the cake.

**It's easier if you have a Lazy Susan. It's like a cake stand on wheels.

** You can also place parchment paper's on the bottom layer's of your cake, it catches all the frosting that falls off your cake. Once you are finished frosting you just remove the parchment paper gently.

It's time to start mixing the colors. Choose the color you desire . I used two different tones of blue. (It made it easier to tone out the blues.)

Ombre* Ombre* Ombre

I divided the frosting into 3 bowls. I added 1 1/2 cups of frosting in 2 bowls, in one of the bowls I added about 2 1/4 cup's of frosting because that is going to be our lightest color.

This is a technique I use, to put the frosting in the piping bag. I grabbed a nice tall glass. Cut the end of the piping bag, enough to fit the tip in. Start adding the frosting & it's time to Rose Swirl.

Rose Swirls: Dab, Swirl, Twirl

I started with the darkest blue, then the next blue & the lightest blue, was the third and top of the cake.

Wait we need to see what our Ombre Cake looks like when we cut into it. I know it's too pretty, but we have to try this; delicious moist pink cake... yummy I can't wait.

We don't want to overload on sugar right?? Once a week, we will be having a wind down Wednesday and; "Relaxing our sweet tooth". I am going to talk about savory dishes, and I will be cooking some dinner with you and sharing some recipes. See you on Wednesday!