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Reindeer Cake
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Jan 30, 2025
This adorable reindeer cake is easy to make using chocolate chips, an Oreo cookie, and some parchment or wax paper! In this video I'll show you step by step how to bake, assemble, decorate, store and serve this cake. 📄GET THE RECIPE https://www.britishgirlbakes.com/easy-reindeer-cake/ 💫Start your FREE 7 day trial on my cake school https://britishgirlbakes.teachable.com/p/all-you-can-cake/ 🎂LEARN The Basics of Cake and The Basics of Buttercream in my most popular online courses! https://britishgirlbakes.teachable.com/ 👩🏼🍳My 4 Minute Buttercream recipe https://www.britishgirlbakes.com/recipes/buttercream-frosting/ 👍Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to my channel for a new cake decorating tutorial every week! 💬 SAY HI! Website: https://www.britishgirlbakes.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/britishgirlbakes
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this adorable reindeer cake is so easy
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to make using just an Oreo cookie
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chocolate and some parchment or wax
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paper I started with my perfect
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chocolate cake recipe baked in four 6 in
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pans to make a nice tall cake while the
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lay is cool make your filling and
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frosting I'm using chocolate chips and
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cocoa powder to make a really chocolaty
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buttercream for the frosting or the
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reindeer's fur adding hot water to turn
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the cocoa powder into a paste so it
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mixes well into the buttercream and
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melting the chocolate chips in the micro
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wave or a double boiler let the
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chocolate and cocoa paste cool before
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stirring it all together so that you
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don't melt the buttercream this is my
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4minute buttercream and the recipe for
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this and the whole reindeer cake are in
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the video description and on British
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girl bases. comom mix it all together by
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hand or with a mixer you can use this
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for the filling as well as the frosting
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or for my cake I'm blending three
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peppermints these are delicious mixed
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into my 4minute buttercream with a
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spoonful of cream cheese to make it less
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sweet spread a bit of buttercream onto
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the middle of a cakeboard and press your
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first cake layer down onto it to attach
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it there spread on a layer of filling
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then Place another cake layer on top
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more filling more cake more filling and
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the final layer of cake put this in the
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fridge for 30 minutes or the freezer for
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15 minutes to set the filling and then
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spread half of the chocolate buttercream
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onto the cake covering the top and the
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sides this is a crumb coat and it's
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going to be covered up so it doesn't
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need to be really neat it just needs to
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cover the cake so there's nowhere for
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crumbs to sneak through it's much easier
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to do this when the cake is cold so the
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layers don't slide around pop the cake
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back into the fridge for another 30
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minutes or the freezer for 15 minutes
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and then spread on another layer of
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frosting which is the final layer so you
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want to get it as neat as possible I
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have lots of free tutorials on how to
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get smooth frosting and the link for
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those is in the top of the screen save
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your leftover chocolate buttercream for
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later now for the fun part making the
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rainer's face for the ears cut an Oreo
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in half and push a toothpick into the
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filling in the middle spread some of
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leftover chocolate buttercream to cover
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these and then place them on parchment
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or wax paper and put them into the
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fridge to harden draw the antlers onto a
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piece of paper or print an image of clip
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art cartoon style antlers and then melt
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half a cup of chocolate chips and to
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prevent it from seizing or burning or
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getting these ugly White markings after
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the chocolate sets microwave for 30
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seconds at 60% power stir and repeat
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spoon the chocolate into a Ziploc bag
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and cut a little piece of one corner and
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then put a piece of parchment or wax
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paper over the antler outline and
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squeeze the chocolate through the hole
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you cut to trace the antlers fill them
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in and then use a spoon to smooth the
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chocolate and then push a wooden skewer
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into the bottom of the antler and cover
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it with more chocolate do the same for
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both antlers and then put them into the
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fridge to set when they get cold you'll
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be able to lift them up and push the
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wooden skewers into the cake ignore
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these ears I tried a few methods and
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these did not work for the Oreo ears
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once they've set in the fridge push them
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into the cake just like the antlers and
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the tooth picks will hold them in place
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next make stencils for the Eyes by
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tracing around something round like a
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large piping tip onto parchment or wax
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paper and cut out the circle leaving the
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paper around it intact leave a bit of
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space around each eye for your stencils
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put about 2 tablespoons of the leftover
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chocolate buttercream into a bowl and
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add some black gel coloring and then
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press the stencils against the cake and
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spread the black buttercream over them
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the cake needs to go into the fridge for
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about an hour first to chill and set the
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frosting so it's not sticky spread the
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black buttercream to take off the excess
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to leave a thin smooth layer behind and
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then peel off the stencil do the same
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for the other eye you can touch up any
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smudges around the edges of the eyes
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with a toothpick I'm carving a smile
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using a petal piping tip because my
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hands are really shaky and I don't think
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piping it would be neat but you can pipe
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yours if you prefer if you carve it a
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toothpick is great for picking off any
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crumbs of buttercream along the carved
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lines make another stencil for the nose
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over shaped instead of round I just drew
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this one instead of tracing anything I
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set aside a little bowl of plain white
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buttercream before adding the chocolate
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at the beginning and added red gel to
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make this red buttercream smooth the
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buttercream and peel off the stencil and
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finally use the last little bit of plain
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white buttercream in a Piping Bag with a
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small or medium round piping tip to pipe
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little white dots in the eyes with the
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rest of the chocolate buttercream I'm
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piping some SRS onto the top of the cake
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using a star-shaped tip a 1 M this
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chocolate buttercream is really
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chocolaty it's so good the cake is safe
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to transport because the ears and
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antlers are secured with toothpicks and
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wooden skewers so they won't topple over
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but I do recommend keeping this cake in
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the fridge to keep everything fresh and
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stable take it out of the fridge about 2
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hours before you serve it so the cake
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and filling and frosting come to room
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temperature and that's when they taste
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the best this reindeer cake is so cute
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and also so delicious quick tip for
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serving if you have any leftovers press
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cling film or Saran Wrap against the cut
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surfaces to seal them so they don't dry
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out and then put the cake into the
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fridge and it will stay moist for up to
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a week get the recipe on British
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gals.com and you'll find my cake school
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there too where you'll learn hundreds of
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cake decorating techniques and Designs
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thanks for watching
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