Smoothing icing

Ice the sides of your cake with a icing tip.

Ice the top of your cake with your icing tip.

Viva paper towels is what your going to use to smooth with.
If you would like to have designs in your frosting you can use a paper towel that has prints in the towel and not smooth like the Viva is.

Smooth your cake like normal with an icing spatula

Smooth the sides with your icing spatula

Now you can see that the frosting is covering the cake.
You want to let the frosting crust a few minutes before you start to smooth the cake.

Your going to use a fondant smoother to help you smooth on the paper towel.

You can use your hand to smooth with unless you have hot hands then you make indents in to the frosting with your fingers that is why I have to use the fondant smoother my hands are too hot..

Smooth your sides first

You can see how the side is smooth

What you will do is lay the paper towel on the cake if the cake is a larger cake your going to move it just lift it up and place it down. Watch your middles that you don't get the edge of the paper towel you will leave a mark in the frosting down the center of your cake. If this happens just place the paper towel where the problem is and smooth there again.. If there is an area you don't like once you have smoothed the whole cake you can go back over that area.

Smoothing the top of the cake.

Showing how I just move around the cake with the fondant smoother.

This is what the cake looks like when your done..
(This is an old photo steps I hope to be able to update them sometime soon. its not as smooth as I get them now.)

This is what the finished cake looked like after Scott attacked it.

Here is a couple up dated cake photos the steps are still the same you can just see how smooth this one is ....