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    Home » Recipes » Elegant Cakes

    Elegant Swan Cake-Cake Video Tutorial

    August 13, 2017 By Melissa Diamond 14 Comments

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    In today's cake video tutorial, we're going to show you how to make an elegant swan cake.

     

    Elegant Swan Cake

     

    This cake features a pair of beautiful swans as well as a tier covered in tiny buttercream ruffles, and a beaded pearl & silver dragee border.

    Although this is not a difficult cake to create, the end result is so impressive and we love its romantic, vintage feel.

     

    Elegant Swan Cake Video Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com (member section). This cake is perfect for anniversaries, wedding cakes, Valentine's Day, and more!

     

    This swan cake design would be perfect for weddings, but you could also use these techniques for cakes of all occasions.

    The swans would be a wonderful addition to any anniversary, bridal shower, or Valentine's Day cake! We hope that you enjoy the video!

    *Disclosure:  If  a purchase is made using one of the affiliate links on our website, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. 

    Materials for Swan Cake

    *Today's swan cake consists of 8 inch and 6 inch stacked tiers, each on their own cardboard cake circle cut down to size. For our supports, we used 4 bubble tea straws beneath the top tier. The tiers are frosted and decorated with our Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream Frosting recipe.

    Fondant (we used fondant with a small amount of tylose kneaded into it for the swan bodies and border. You could also use straight fondant but it will take longer to set up. We used Liz Marek's recipe for fondant but any fondant is fine!)

    Buttercream to fill, crumb coat, and apply ruffles to the cake. (We used Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream but Classic Vanilla Buttercream is a good choice also.)

    Piping Tips: We used a 101 tip for the small buttercream ruffles, tip 350 for the feathers, and tip 3 for the border.

    Food Coloring Pens- for the black and orange markings on the swans faces. (You could also just paint on a little food coloring mixed with vodka if you don't have food coloring pens.)

    Extruder for creating the necks (If you don't have an extruder, you can roll the necks by hand.) We use Makin's Ultimate Clay Extruder. (affiliate)

    Oval Cutter- Ours was approximately 2 ¼ inches long. You can easily make due with what you have on hand, the swans' bodies were covered with buttercream feathers and so the cut outs were used more as a guide than a decoration.

    FMM Multi Ribbon Cutter- I use this often for borders. You can also cut the strips by hand.

    Sugar Pearls and Dragees (We used Wilton Sugar Pearls and India Tree silver dragees.)

    Miscellaneous: Piping gel for "glue", small paintbrushes, waxed or parchment paper, cookie sheet (helpful when adding beads to border), sharp knife or xacto, two cardboard cake circles, 4 bubble tea straws/supports, bench scraper & turntable are helpful)Elegant Swan Cake Video Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com (member section). This would be perfect for wedding cakes, anniversary cakes, Valentine's Day cakes, and more!

    More Ruffle Cakes

    We love cakes with ruffled tiers! The cake is today's tutorial has tons of tiny ruffles piped on a diagonal with a tip 101.

    We also have ruffled buttercream cakes with larger ruffles as well as different patters. Don't miss these other favorites!

    Ruffled Buttercream Cake with Striped Bow

    Buttercream Ruffles in Shades of Teal

    Shabby Chic Buttercream Roses Cake

     

     Flamingo Version of our Swan Cake

    We loved this design so much that we made a flamingo version of it as well! Its a bit more casual and fun, great for Valentine's Day, anniversaries, beach themed parties, and more! 

    You can find it here: Valentine's Flamingos Cake

    Valentine Flamingo Cake

     

    Enjoy the Video

    We hope that you enjoy our Swan Cake video! If you give this design a try, we would love for you to leave a comment and photo below!

     

     

     

     

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    1. Raneen Sibany August 23, 2017 at 3:45 pm

      So beautiful and elegant. Love it
      Which cake you baked

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    2. Sadia Wasim August 27, 2017 at 9:29 am

      This is amazing! I love the way the look of the cake turned out. Good job ladies!

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