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Pink Textured Cake
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Sep 6, 2024
In this cake decorating tutorial I show how to decorate a buttercream cake with textured buttercream using an offset spatula, a frosting smoother and some piping tips. I decorate the top with frosting wiggles and macarons and if you're in the United States you can buy the macarons at www.ma-ka-rohn.com I used my 4 Minute Buttercream Frosting for this cake and you can watch the tutorial on how to make it here: https://youtu.be/MFKfXbnU1Lw To find out more about my online cake decorating courses, go to www.britishgirlbakes.com This cake design was inspired by a stunning creation I saw on instagram a few months ago by @starbirdbakehouse. SUBSCRIBE to my channel for new cake decorating tutorials every week!
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Hi, I'm Emily of British Girl Bakes and I'm going to show you how to decorate this pretty textured cake
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I've started by mixing a few shades of pink using gel colours, mixing pink, red and a touch of violet
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I've frosted my cake and chilled it for about an hour in the fridge so the frosting has set and it's nice and firm
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Using an offset spatula I'm spreading frosting over a few areas of the cake, not too thickly but enough to cover up the white butter cream
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butter cream, and I'm overlapping the colours in a few places, but it's mostly a single coat for now
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Now with a frosting scraper I'm smoothing out the frosting, scraping off any excess to leave a thin
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flat layer behind, cleaning my frosting smoother after each time I use it, so it doesn't smudge the
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colours together. Because the cake is cold, I'm not damaging the white frosting underneath these pink
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patches. I'm using my offset spatula to spread some frosting on the top of the cake
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and smoothing that with my frosting scraper too, tied to the top. up the edges where the frosting has spread out over the side of the cake. The pink frosting
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patches have already set onto my cold cake so I can layer other colours now. But if they're
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still soft and sticky you can put the cake back in the fridge for ten or twenty minutes so that they set With my offset spatula I wiping on some of this very pale pink spreading it sideways to make little swishes on top of the other pinks I doing the same
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thing here but vertically instead of horizontally, going over them a few times with a bit more
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frosting until I get the texture I like. I'm doing this in a few places around the cake and I
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love the contrast of this raised pale pink frosting over the flat dark pink frosting. Over here I'm
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Over here I'm doing something similar but in a more random patch, not such a neat line
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And over here, applying the frosting and then patting it with my offset spatula so that as I pull the spatula off
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it pulls little peaks of frosting out with it to make a texture like stiffly whipped cream
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Here I'm doing more horizontal swishes but I'm doing three rows. If you're enjoying this tutorial, please click the thumbs up button
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I have a large area of white frosting over here, so I'm going to spread on another patch of reddish pink frosting, flattening it with my offset spatula
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So if you have empty areas after you finish using your frosting smoother, don't panic, you can use your offset spatula in narrow areas as well
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I have a module on painting on cakes with buttercream in my online course on 10 cake decorating techniques and I put the link in the screen and in the description below where you can find out more and sign up
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I've mixed a few different shades and sizes of pink bowl sprinkles together and I can pinch and press the large balls into the frosting
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but for the smaller balls it would take forever. So I'm dipping my finger in water and then pressing it into the sprinkles so that they stick to my finger
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and then I can push them into the frosting wherever I want them to go, angling my finger around to get more covering
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adding some more of the bigger sprinkles around the cake and now I'm going to pipe
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frosting onto the cake with two round tips starting with this 1a tip and piping a
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triangle of dots then with this little number 8 tip I'm doing the same
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triangle formation and also some little lines of piped dots To decorate the top of the cake I fill two piping bags with different shades of pink and both have 1M star tips
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I'm going to be using these gorgeous pink macarons and I've put the link for where to buy them in the video description below
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Using my small round number 8 tip I piping a little line over here at 6 o and pressing a macaron into it and then another line of frosting opposite it at 12 o to attach another macaron Now two more lines opposite each other in between these macarons
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So now they're at 12 o'clock, 6 o'clock, 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock
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This is a great way to space things equally around your cake
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Now with a line of frosting in between each macaron I can place the final four macarons
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and there's the same distance in between each one all around the cake
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In between the macarons I'm piping buttercream wiggles, starting with one shade of pink and holding the bag vertically with the tip just above the cake
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And as I apply pressure to the bag to push out the buttercream, I'm wiggling my hand from side to side to make the buttercream fold over itself
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I'm stopping when I reach the height of the top of the macarons so that all of the wiggles are the same height
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I'm using this colour between every other pair. between every other pair of macarons and then switching to the other colour
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filling in the gaps so that the wiggles alternate colours. And that's it! A pretty pink textured cake topped with buttercream wiggles and delicious
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macarons. I love this technique because it's so versatile. You can really have fun with it
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playing around with different colours and textures and create a truly unique cake
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