Fault Line Cake with Flowers: Step-by-Step Decorating Technique

What is a Fault Line Cake? 

A fault line cake is a cake design featuring a deliberate “crack” or crevice filled with decorations like sprinkles or flowers.

Fault line cakes are one of the most popular cake decorating trends, known for their dramatic “cracked” design that reveals a layer of texture, color, or flowers underneath. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to create a fault line cake with flowers step-by-step.

How to Create a Fault Line Cake with Flowers

1. Coat the area of the later fault line all around with cream. 

2.) Coat the cake thickly with cream, avoiding the fault line. Smooth out the cream.

3.) Pipe buttercream flowers in the fault line. If desired, decorate the edges of the fault line with golden food coloring.