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Hi! I'm Emily of British Girl Bakes and I'm going to show you how I decorated
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this pretty stenciled cake. I'm starting with a chilled cake which has been in
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the fridge for at least an hour so that the frosting has set and will hold its shape while I decorate it. I frosted this square cake with my 4 Minute Buttercream
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and I cover every step of my simple technique for frosting square cakes in
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my online course on the basics of cake and I've put the link in the top of the
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screen and in the video description below. Now that the frosting has set I'm
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applying this bright purple buttercream with an offset spatula, spreading it in
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random patches around the cake and then smoothing it with my frosting smoother
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so that it lies flat against the sides of the cake. Because I've chilled the
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base coat of frosting, the coloured patches aren't blending with the white frosting beneath it. Now I'm adding my next colour, dark blue buttercream, and
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spreading this on randomly as well. I've used gel colours to tint my buttercream
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to get these bright colours without affecting the consistency or the flavour
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of the buttercream. If you're enjoying this tutorial please click the thumbs up
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Click the notification bell so you don't miss a tutorial! On the top of the cake
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I'm doing the same, spreading frosting on with an offset spatula and then
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smoothing it with a frosting smoother. I have a tutorial on how to make this
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buttercream and how to check the consistency and add different flavours and I've put the link in the top of the screen and in the description below
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I'm tidying up the cake board by scraping off any frosting smudges and
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I'm using a round cake board slightly bigger than my cake, which I've secured
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onto my turntable using a ring of masking tape. Because my cake has been
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chilled, the coloured frosting is setting quite quickly on top but to make sure
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it's completely firm and won't be damaged by the next step, I'm going to
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chill it for another 30 minutes in the fridge before I continue. Now that the
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frosting has all set, I'm pressing my stencil against the side of the cake and
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spreading white buttercream over the top, holding the stencil in place with my
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fingers. If you prefer, you can attach it to the cake using pins while you apply
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the frosting. I'm trying to spread the frosting with equal thickness all over
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the stencil, going over the whole pattern but not quite up to the edges of
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the stencil so it doesn't go on to the rest of the cake. This is a plastic
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stencil from a craft shop, nothing fancy but it works perfectly. When I peel the
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stencil off, I'm leaving this pretty pattern behind. I can see a smudge of
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buttercream over on this side where I spread the buttercream too far and because the cake is cold, I can scrape it off with my offset spatula without
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damaging the coloured frosting underneath. Over here I'm going to stencil over the
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edge of the cake, starting with half of the stencil on the side of the cake and
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spreading buttercream over it, peeling it off and then lining the stencil up so
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that the rest of the pattern goes over the top of the cake. I teach how to make
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your own stencils and how to use them with buttercream, gel colours and luster
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dusts in my online course on 10 Cake Decorating Techniques and I've put the
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link in the screen and in the video description below. You don't have to use
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the whole stencil every time. Over here I'm spreading buttercream over just a
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small part of the stencil, choosing a flower and some leaves that look like
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they belong together and when I peel it off there's a dainty design that doesn't
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look like it's missing the rest of the pattern. I'm doing the same in a few
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places on this side so that the pattern is different here than on the other two
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sides where I used the entire stencil. Another way to vary the design using the
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same stencil is to flip the stencil over to create a mirror image or you can
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cover up sections of the pattern with parchment paper taped down to block off
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parts of the pattern. You can cut parts of the stencil out if you don't plan to
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use it again in its entirety but with parchment paper you just temporarily
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alter it. I put my cake back in the fridge for a few minutes because the
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frosting was getting soft and sticky and I didn't want to damage it with my stencil but now it's set again so I'm holding the stencil against it, spreading
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on some buttercream, which is only going to fill in the parts of the stencil that
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aren't covered up with the parchment paper. And there's a slightly different
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looking pattern again. I'm using the same stencil with parchment on the top of the
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cake as well. And there's the finished cake! If you enjoyed this tutorial please click the
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