How To Write Beautifully On Cakes | Pattern Transfer Method | Karolyn's Kakes

[@FavoredJayda]

Three hours of searching and watching videos that claimed to show this technique to no avail, and I find you! Big up to you beautiful! Thank you for taking the time to share this amazing tip!

[@michelitasc]

Great technique! Tip: you can mirror the image before printing it and then you don’t have to rewrite the words with sharpie to be able to see them 😊

[@KarolynsKakes]

Someone else told me that, I have to figure out how to print backwards in Word, that makes much more sense!

[@dayanaalbaladejo9061]

Tip:Flip horizontal if you dont have the mirror option ☺️

[@glancypereira7410]

@@KarolynsKakes don't worry ma'am just google it and u shall find the method.... Love ur technique, it's awesome

[@TheHungarianmama]

You're so cute! I always have such a good chuckle watching you. Your tips are amazing!

[@KarolynsKakes]

Awwww thank you Christal! 😊

[@lamyaandadam]

Your channel is very very useful and surprisingly underrated. U are a treasure!

[@KarolynsKakes]

OMG that's so sweet! (Pun intended LOL) I really appreciate you taking the time to write to me. Thank you for your support!

[@vennad.8702]

It look beautiful because you have an artist gift. Thanks for sharing !!!

[@RB-bw7ed]

You are such a blessing! I am going to watch all of your videos, already watched a lot lol. They is something I learn in each one. Time for your own studio for a school.

[@KarolynsKakes]

Wow, thank you!

[@margesinclair451]

Thank you for explaining everything in a more simpler terminology.

[@tamiaa01]

This video was truly a life saver!! Thank you so much. ❤

[@marlettamcclain1950]

Very cool technique. I’ll definitely be trying this.

[@carolynmckee4295]

THANK YOU, Karolyn for giving me the confidence and technique to write on my next cake!

[@KarolynsKakes]

You got this Carolyn with a "C"! 💜🙏

[@carolynmckee4295]

@@KarolynsKakes Thank you! ❤At least this next cake doesn't have a Sasquatch on it like the last one!

[@betsyrogers-ho4fv]

Thanks!

[@KarolynsKakes]

Betsy! Thank you so much! 🙏

[@BayaChase]

Great technique!!! Thank you ❤

[@maggiesmith8261]

Once again a great tutorial. Thank you so much.

[@sombrerocordobes2256]

Thank you for your time and generosity!

[@tiffanythompson5925]

Look forward to the lettering with buttercream video!

[@KarolynsKakes]

I will film it next time I do it! :)

[@maryozoskey2299]

So simple but very useful! Thank you for sharing! It will help at the shop for sure :)

[@KarolynsKakes]

It's one of the first techniques I learned that I still use to this day. Makes writing so much easier! ☺

[@IAmGospel80]

Love love love this! You're the bomb girl!

[@lilisanchez2605]

Awesome! Thank you for taking the time to share. Oh and Thank you for leaving the bloopers 😂

[@KarolynsKakes]

You're welcome! And I crack myself up LMAO!

[@mecheleclasson]

Apologies for all the comments on all your videos.. Only found you recently, so I am working through your videos

[@cherylcarroll7916]

Thank you for this technique!

[@KarolynsKakes]

You bet!

[@icanseeyou688]

So this is literally the best way tysm ❤️

[@KarolynsKakes]

You’re welcome! ☺️

[@prophetalice]

Good video! Thank you! You can also spray the paper with oil, wipe off and it will show through

[@KarolynsKakes]

Duh!! Why didn't I think of that?! That's why I love KZbin. Thank you for the tip!

[@prophetalice]

@angela hogan any cooking spray will work, after you print, just spray the design, pat it with a paper towel. You should be able to see your design when you turn the paper over backwards.

[@janaabreu]

This is amazing!!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@KarolynsKakes]

Yassss girl! I love this technique!

[@waynen8490]

Amazing!! Thank you very much for Sharing!

[@crystalholloway4550]

Thanks for sharing this video ,I wish I found this video last week when I attempted to free hand writing on a caramel cake ….lets just say the word Birthday looked like a Blurrrrrrr 😂

[@KarolynsKakes]

Oh, I've been there! 😂

[@felicitykenter7748]

This is so smart!

[@patriciapatane7926]

Great video - thanks so much!

[@KarolynsKakes]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@bmscts]

Great tip! Thx 😊

[@KarolynsKakes]

You bet!

[@jibaromar2249]

That is one great way of writting on a cake, thank u.

[@KarolynsKakes]

You're welcome, glad I could help!

[@kathyg7763]

Hello!! I’m so happy I found this tutorial!! Do we add the letters to a chilled or room temp cake/icing?

[@KarolynsKakes]

I've done it on both. Sometimes if you do it on a chilled cake, the piping gel doesn't transfer right away. If that happens, I leave the wax paper on the cake for a few minutes, the color from the piping gel will transfer and you can still trace it!

[@belindadeas1974]

Thank you. I subscribed 😊

[@KarolynsKakes]

Thank you Belinda! :)

[@mariarugolo2487]

Beautiful job. Thank you.

[@janicebastian963]

Fabulous

[@itsmericci92]

Your videos are super helpful!! Your easy to watch and understand😁🎂

[@KarolynsKakes]

Thank you! Glad you like them!

[@jcm4923]

All your videos are great because they are not just educational but your energy gets us inspired to actually tackle new techniques! What do you think of this idea for St. Patrick's day: I want to bake a flat cake-- not sure what flavor yet-- but then pipe green, white and orange 'plaid' with different size tips...wide, medium, narrow, etc...then, pipe some 'fringe' down the edges with narrow lines in the matching colors...what do you think? ( I wish you'd do it first.. haha)

[@KarolynsKakes]

It's hard for me to figure out your vision, but it sounds like a cool design! Send me a pic when you make it, I'd love to see. 😊

[@Jagdragon]

Awesome! Big ups, I mean props to you:-)

[@hamidehorra4849]

Has anyone told you lately… your awesome ❤️

[@KarolynsKakes]

Awwww you're the sweetest, thank you love!

[@narobreeze5]

Genius!!Thank you!

[@lathamohanannair1031]

Thank you so much for the well explained tutorial 🙂...can we use melted white chocolate for doing the same instead of piping gel?

[@KarolynsKakes]

Melted chocolate probably won't transfer as easily as piping gel does.

[@lathamohanannair1031]

@@KarolynsKakes Thank you so much for the response 🙂

[@bish_puddin]

You could use white chocolate to write on the parchment paper, then let it dry. Gently pick up the letters and stick on your cake😁 That’s how I do it anyways and you can dye the white chocolate any color you want. You can also use buttercream and freeze it then peel off the letters off the parchment paper and place on cake

[@eileenmurphy2019]

My weakest point is writing on cakes. I've tried the pinprick technique from your video with some success. Does the gel ever drip? Thanks for sharing!

[@KarolynsKakes]

It dripped before when I used a brand that wasn't really thick. I prefer the wilton or CK brands of piping gel. The only thing is that plastic wrap will stick to piping gel, so be careful when you wrap up your cakes!

[@eileenmurphy2019]

@@KarolynsKakes Thanks Karolyn, I would love to see how you wrap and prepare cakes for delivery or pickup

[@KarolynsKakes]

@@eileenmurphy2019 Here ya go! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZ65o5ttj7OkiNk

[@connieadams6673]

I love you videos

[@ritag.3718]

Bravo karol

[@tjackson2882]

Karolyn, I love this piping gel technique. Will it also work if I apply the wording on a cake drum instead of directly on the cake?

[@KarolynsKakes]

Yes, absolutely! I’ve done that many times.

[@rejoiceolaleye]

Thank you so much!!!!

[@guneetshah9322]

Hi, U also use the letter stamps for the cakes. Can u link that if possible

[@KarolynsKakes]

I have a video on that coming up on Wednesday May 11th!

[@kawaiideer8082]

Hello!! Thank you so much for all your helpful videos, I'm new to cake decorating and I've been learning a lot from you! I know this is an older video but I was wondering if you had any advice on what I'm doing wrong here lol. So I like to decorate with Italian Meringue Buttercream, and I've been trying this method because i suck at free handing the writing (I have the wilton brand piping gel since the one you have linked was out of stock) and I let my cakes sit in the fridge/freezer for about 30 mins to harden, trace the reverse writing on wax paper, trace it in piping gel, go to stick it on the cake and *some* of the writing does stick, but not all of it, and even worse the wax paper always inevitability messes up the smoothness of the icing on the rest of the cake :/ If you see this and respond, thank you in advance!

[@KarolynsKakes]

Hi! Unfortunately I haven't worked with meringue buttercream, so I don't know too much about it. However, sometimes the writing doesn't stick to the American buttercream. So when that happens, I keep the wax paper with the piping gel on the cake for about 10 minutes. The gel may not transfer, but the color kind of does so I can see a fine line that I can trace. Sorry I don't know more about IMBC!

[@nancyvan8716]

Nice!!

[@VeronicaJones58]

Thank you ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[@KarolynsKakes]

You're welcome Susie!

[@kenzleelandry8204]

I Have Learned SOOO MUCH From You!!!!!!!, Would You Please Answer My Question, When Using This Technique Would You Cake Have To Be Room Temperature And Crusted???? Not Cold and Out Of the Fridge Right??? Please Help Me

[@KarolynsKakes]

You can do either one. If it is just crusted, then you have more of a chance of messing up the icing because the icing is soft. I personally prefer to do it once it is cold out of the fridge. If it is too cold, sometimes the letters don’t transfer that quick, so I leave the letters on the wax paper stuck to the cake for a few minutes before I peel it away.

[@kenzleelandry8204]

@@KarolynsKakes I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU!!!!!!!, I LIVE FOR YOUR VIDEOS !!!!! GOD BLESS YOU FOREVER!!!!!

[@crystalholloway4550]

Please send a link for the piping gel thanks

[@KarolynsKakes]

amzn.to/3V6TnhQ Here ya go!

[@virginiaarceo45]

Can we re-use the colored left over piping gel for another cake?

[@KarolynsKakes]

Yes! I keep the piping gel in the icing bag and store that in a ziplock bag until I'm ready to use it again. (It doesn't have to be refrigerated.)

[@marikoflores7347]

Thanks for this video! Can I use buttercream instead of gel?

[@KarolynsKakes]

Buttercream doesn't transfer like piping gel does. I have a different technique for buttercream that I show in this video! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJCbqaKYgM5-kMk

[@МаргаритаТэтчерова]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@louiselemon9717]

I’ve had some horrible writing, mainly because (now I know) I didn’t have support to prevent shaking. Thanks!

[@KarolynsKakes]

Yes! And also don't drink any coffee before you do it!😂

[@mecheleclasson]

I have never seen anyone pipe with piping gel. Is there a reason why you don't use royal icing in black?

[@KarolynsKakes]

I've been doing it like this for so long, piping gel transfers really easily from the wax paper to the cake. You could trace it with royal icing, but I just trace with piping gel because I already have it in the bag and it's just easier for me! It's kind of old school, you'll see it a lot on ice cream cakes.

[@mecheleclasson]

@@KarolynsKakes that's very helpful. Thank you, I will try that in future

[@lamyaandadam]

Hi! Great great tutorial, thank you Can you please advise me on how to do this in gold if possible? Thank you xx

[@KarolynsKakes]

I haven't done it in gold yet, but you can try to add some Rolkem Super Gold dust to the clear piping gel and see if that works! I get mine from SugarDelites.com.

[@lamyaandadam]

Thank you x

[@reenie38]

Nice, if you extremely lightly oil your paper the font is on it makes it see through and shows the print reversed when flipped.

[@KarolynsKakes]

Never heard that, what a great tip! Thank you!

[@reenie38]

Picked that up from another decorator who uses it to make name plaques in chocolate on fondant cakes, but your idea so rocks , look forward to trialling it on my next cake.❤️

[@muslimgirl6782]

Hi there, can I use this method for buttercream cakes. Thank you

[@KarolynsKakes]

Yes you can! The cake that I demonstrated on is iced in buttercream. You can do it on fondant as well.

[@meganvera2221]

can you do the same thing with buttercream instead of the piping gel?

[@KarolynsKakes]

Yes! So the reason why I use piping gel is that it transfers onto the cake easily. If you want, you can use clear piping gel to transfer the words on the cake and trace the clear piping gel with buttercream instead of more piping gel.

[@mehi29]

have you done this is gold? i have a babyshower cake to make and she wants gold name and butterflies.

[@KarolynsKakes]

I haven't done this technique with gold, but I have done it this way: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3TIlY2gqLiMapY

[@thomaxinedixon9852]

Aw🎉

[@kimtee8961]

If I have no piping gel, what else can I use?

[@KarolynsKakes]

This method is really for piping gel, there is another way to do it with buttercream, I will have to make a video on that. It's a long process. You can look up piping gel recipes and try to make it yourself?

[@kimtee8961]

@@KarolynsKakes thank you, I didn't consider that option. I'll look out for your buttercream method when you make it 👍🏽

[@KarolynsKakes]

@@bigmarcusstephen Hmmm, that could work, I've never tried that before though. Have you?

[@thomasfernandes6336]

Hi could u tell me how do I place fondant letters on the base of the cake.i just can't seem to judge how much space I'll hv where to begin n end.

[@KarolynsKakes]

Do you mean you want to place them on the cake board? What I typically do is take a ruler and measure how much space I have to fit the letters. Then print them out the size you want them to be.

[@thomasfernandes6336]

@@KarolynsKakes thanks a lot dear

[@angelicapreciado7427]

Thank you

[@KarolynsKakes]

You're welcome!

[@angelicapreciado7427]

I will be teaching a simple cake decorating class and we will be implementing your method. Wish us luck.🙂🍰🎂

[@KarolynsKakes]

@@angelicapreciado7427 That's awesome!

[@lisab2367]

Do use the black gel to write on your cakes, or just transfer then use black icing

[@KarolynsKakes]

I write with the black gel with this technique.

[@chubbiturtles9818]

The font is called incree?

[@KarolynsKakes]

It's called Ink Free allyourfonts.com/font/ink-free-font/

[@debbiepenalber1369]

Why did you use piping gel and not buttercream

[@KarolynsKakes]

I do a different technique for buttercream, here's that technique: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6SteoGOd993oqc

[@twistedsprinklescakes3750]

Do you make your own piping gel? I have to write on a cake. My permanent is horrible

[@KarolynsKakes]

I buy piping gel, usually Wilton brand amzn.to/3MPQTA6

[@IraQNid]

Your transfer method isn't that dissimilar from how decals are applied to glass, wood, ceramic, plastic, metal, etc. Why didn't you also show the edible inks in mirror mode for an alternate transfer method?

[@Dolcevita_bakes]

Why ARE YOU SCREAMING IN THIS VLOG?

[@KarolynsKakes]

I tend to get excited when I make videos and sometimes my voice gets out of control. I'm trying to be more aware of that and not scream when I'm talking. Sorry about that!

[@scentjunkee]

@@KarolynsKakes I didn't think you were screaming at all. This video was so helpful! You are a great teacher.

[@KarolynsKakes]

@@scentjunkee Thank you!

[@debbiehall7016]

You're shouting :-(

[@KarolynsKakes]

This is one of the videos I made in the beginning when I was starting out. I cringe when I watch them! Sorry about that.

[@missedtheeggmcintyre417]

That's a hard way of doing it i always trace on cake then write over top

[@KarolynsKakes]

How do you trace on the cake?