Feathering on Chocolate Cakes

This is a popular and pretty design for cake decorating, and works for any kind of chocolate cake recipe.

Melt a contrasting chocolate to the chocolate icing or covering being used. Spread the chocolate icing over the cake. Place the contrasting colour into a piping bag, and pipe lines or a spiral over the chocolate covered cake.

With a skewer, draw lines across the cake, first one direction, then the other; this creates the feathered cake decoration.