Recently on Pinterest and Instagram I’ve been seeing lots of people trying out the trend of turning their cakes on it’s side. It creates this super cute almost circle or arch cake, which is becoming known as ‘Cake Top Forward’. I have been dying to have a go as this cake. So in this weeks video tutorial I’m showing you how I made this pretty pink arch cake.

You can watch how I made this cake below in my step by step tutorial ⇩
Cake Top Forward
Ok, so what does cake top forward mean. To create this cake it’s filled and covered in buttercream in exactly the same way as you normally would. I used my acrylic discs and I’ll talk a bit more about why I used those in a second. Once the cake is covered you then cut a small slice of cake from the bottom to give it something to stand on and turn it on its side. So the top now becomes the front of your cake.

This gives you such a fun shaped cake and means you don’t have to spend ages carving slices of cake into this arch shape.
When creating this style of cake I would suggest you keep your cake small. I used 3 layers of 6 inch vanilla sponge cake (I baked 3/4 of my normal vanilla sponge cake recipe). This gave me a width of 3 inches when it was turned on it’s side. The thing to remember when creating this kind of cake is usually we stack cakes we stack them one of top of the other and this keeps them quite secure. The taller your cake you would need to add dowels. It’s the same with this cake, the larger you go the more unstable the cake would be, but because it is turned on its side you wouldn’t be able to add dowels. So You need to have enough width that that cake isn’t going to fall over.
Using acrylic discs / ganache plates
You can cover your cakes in buttercream or ganache, I opted for buttercream and chose to use my acrylic discs. If any of you have seen my tutorial where I show you how to use these, they give such a lovely sharp edge, which is why I chose to use them for this cake.
You will see in this weeks tutorial that by using the acrylic discs it also allowed me to work on the back and front of the cake at the same time which made it so easy to create. Although if you don’t have any discs you can just ice your cake as you normally would and buttercream the back when you turn your cake on it’s side.

Creating the wafer paper leaves
To finish off the cake I added these buttercream vines with the LissieLou ‘falling Vines’ stencil and created this stem of wafer paper leaves. Dried flowers and leaves have become so popular recently and by using wafer paper it really allows you to create something that looks like real dried leaves.

I really hope you enjoy the tutorial and will find it useful if you want to make your own arch style cake, standing on it’s side.
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Tools I Used
I have put a list below showing all the tools that I used throughout this video or if you would like to see all my favourite cake decorating tools just click here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/cakesbylynz
Wafer Paper: https://tidd.ly/39URxsh
Turntable: UK – https://amzn.to/35u3QJB USA – https://amzn.to/3popmLj
Rose ColourMill: https://tidd.ly/2V2T8sj
Ganache plates / Acrylic disks: https://tidd.ly/3ysf5j7
Offset spatula (small): https://amzn.to/2yD7btn
Glass Cutting Board (similar): https://amzn.to/3u8t7E3
Spirit Level (similar): https://amzn.to/3e77VIY
PME mini pallet knife: https://amzn.to/2RgLOXW
Metal Scrapper Tool (small): http://amzn.to/2BNjf7v
White Floral Tape: https://amzn.to/30Q232P
24 gauge Wire: https://amzn.to/3poot5r
LissieLou Stencil: https://bit.ly/3B1yrfm
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2 Responses
I have made a top forward cake & it came out really nice.
They are so much fun to make aren’t they. I am so pleased it came out really well for you.