How to Fill a Cake

If you'd like to fill a cake with frosting here are the directions on how to do that. Below we have directions on how to use flavored fillings to fill your cake.

How To Fill your Cake
Using Flavored Fillings Between Cake Layers

Using flavored filling to fill a cake is a great way to give a unique and flavorful twist to your cake. Fruit flavors are used most often, but there are a variety of other flavors that can be used also. Some popular filling flavors are:

• raspberry
• strawberry
• lemon
• bavarian creme
• chocolate creme
• apricot

Fillings can be made from scratch or purchased pre-made. Pollyner makes a product called All Fruit that can be found in the jelly section of most grocery stores. Pollyner All Fruit is a wonderful filling to use to fill a cake. It also comes in a variety of flavors.

What you will Need to Fill your Cake

• 2 baked cake layers
• metal spatula
• pastry bag (10" or larger)
• coupler
• frosting (the same frosting you plan to ice the cake with)

Place your first cake layer on the cake board.

Drop your coupler into your pastry bag. We are going to use the pastry bag and coupler without a pastry tip to make a "dam" for the filling.

Fill your icing bag with frosting.

Now, we are going to make a "dam" for the filling. This will help keep the filling from oozing out the sides of your cake.

Using your pastry bag with coupler only or a large writing tip, squeeze a ring of icing around the outer edge of your cake layer. Just do this one time around the edge of your cake.
Next, we are going to add the filling. You want your filling to be no more than 1/4" thick on your cake. Place the filling in the center of the cake and spread it outwards towards your "dam".

Make sure you spread it evenly. Again, you only want it about 1/4" thick. Any thicker and the filling will most likely squish out the sides.

You are now ready to place your other cake layer on top, ice, and decorate.

~It is important not to skip this step or your filling will ooze out the sides of your cake while you are trying to frost the sides.

Video Tutorial -Filling a Cake