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Does anyone have any tips on ganaching and icing a spherical cake? The cake is to be a ball and have made it using Lakeland hemisphere tins, but being fairly new to cake decorating am not sure how to continue! Was wondering about making a slightly runnier ganache and simply pouring over top? Would be grateful of any help!

Hi aleast

At the base of the ball cut a small piece of cake away so the ball sits without falling over. Sit the cake on a cake card which will make ganaching easier. Let the ganache set, smooth any bumpy bits with a hot pallet knife and pop it in the fridge until the chocolate has completely set. Roll icing out in a circle large enough to drape the ball and smooth down as far as you can. Release the ball from the card, make two pleats from the excess fondant, smoothing down right to the base, cut off and keep smoothing flush at the bottom. Keep smoothing until the joins are no longer visible. Sorry so long winded! x

Just had a thought!!!! If you go to youtube and search ‘how to make Christmas bauble cakes’ there are a couple of good tutorials which show how to cover a sphere. Should have thought of that first x

Brilliant, thanks for your help!