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10 EASY Cake Decorating Techniques
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Jan 30, 2025
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everything on social media looks like
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easy cake decorating ideas but they're
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usually trickier in reality in this
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video I'll show you 10 techniques that
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really are easy no matter how much
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experience you have this first technique
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uses a spoon and you could even do this
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without a turntable spread frosting to
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cover your cake ideally doing two layers
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so that any crumbs get stuck in the
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first layer don't worry about getting
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this frosting smooth because you're
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about to add texture hold a spoon
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sideways and spin the cake to make these
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horizontal grooves moving slowly up the
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cake or if you don't have a turntable
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use the spoon to make curved Arc shapes
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in the frosting or turn the spoon so
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that the handle is pointing upwards and
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drag it up to make these vertical
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grooves you can leave the texture at the
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top or flatten it by pushing sideways
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with an offset spatula for quick and
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easy color choose a few different
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sprinkles different shapes colors sizes
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and mix them together put your frosted
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cake on a tray to catch any falling
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sprinkles and spoon or pour your
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sprinkles around the cake push your
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sprinkles in to make a pretty border for
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the easiest flowers that also happen to
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be my favorite use a closed star tip
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like a 2d layer different colors of
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buttercream in the Piping Bag to make
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flowers that will change color use a
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cutting board with a piece of parchment
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or wax paper on top something non-stick
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and rest the tip of the piping tip down
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on the paper as you squeeze the bag to
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pipe the buttercream twis in your wrist
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to make the buttercream fan out sideways
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to make petals as you pipe the higher up
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colors in the Piping Bag will push
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through the lower down colors and you'll
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see the colors of your flowers gradually
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change put the flowers into the freezer
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for 5 minutes to get cold and hard and
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then pick them up and press them onto
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your cake if the frosting on the cake
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has set use a little bit of buttercream
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or melted chocolate as glue to attach
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the flowers since you've piped the
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flowers onto paper you can choose only
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your favorites to add to your cake I
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love the way the red comes through the
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flowers more and more as you go down the
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cake ombre frosting starts with a bowl
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of colored buttercream and you just add
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more color or some plain white
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buttercream to make darker or lighter
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Shades that you'll blend together on the
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cake spread the colors around the cake
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with the darkest on top and the lightest
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at the bottom or the other way around
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this is one of the techniques I teach in
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my free online course 10 frosting
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techniques and the link to that course
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is at the top of the screen and in the
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video description or go to British
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ges.com these zigzags in the frosting
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will blend the colors together to make a
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gradual ombre instead distinct bands of
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color like stripes the result is so
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simple but stunning make your own cake
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stencils by drawing a shape onto
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parchment or wax paper cut the shape out
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by snipping the middle and poking one
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scissor blade through that hole and then
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cutting around the shape keeping the
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paper around the shape intact because
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that will be your stencil wrap it around
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a cake after chilling the cake in the
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fridge for at least an hour so that the
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frosting is cold and firm not sticky and
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then spread buttercream over the stencil
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pressing against the cake to hold it in
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in place or you can pin it into the cake
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instead smooth this frosting with your
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offset spatula or a cake comb or add
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some texture by pressing gently and
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dragging your spatula or a spoon upwards
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then peel the stencil off and voila for
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the easiest assembly and frosting of a
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cake bake the cake in an ovenproof dish
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like these and then Frost and decorate
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it in the dish if you have piping tips
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the easiest way to decorate these is to
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cover them with lots of texture using
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different piping tips and colors but if
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you don't have piping tips or haven't
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got the hang of piping yet you can just
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spread frosting onto the cake instead
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smoothing it with the side of your
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offset spatula or pallet knife leaving
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it like this or adding a border or
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whatever design you like on top I love
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this fun calendar design for a birthday
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cake one of my favorite easy cake
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decorating ideas for a birthday cake is
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to cut the birthday number out of a
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sheet cake twice so you have two
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identical numbers use Blobs of
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buttercream to attach one of the numbers
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to a cakeboard or plate or platter and
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then pipe buttercream on top lower your
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next cake layer down positioning it on
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top and then add another layer of piping
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butter cream is best for this because if
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you use softer frostings like whipped
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cream in between the cake layers it will
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get squashed by the top number cake
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decorate this with flowers or chocolates
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or candies or cookies or fruit or
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whatever you like for the easiest way to
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pipe neat swells onto the top of a cake
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drop a star-shaped tip like a 1M or 2D
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into a Piping Bag and and Spoon some
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buttercream in and twist the top of the
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bag so it's pushed tight against the
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buttercream which will mean you don't
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need to squeeze as hard to pipe the
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buttercream so your hand won't get tired
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or crampy pipe a ring of buttercream and
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then overlap that ring with another one
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right on top and then stop squeezing the
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bag and pull away and when you pipe the
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next swirl start at the same place pipe
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in the same direction I always go
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anticlockwise or counterclockwise and
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then pull away in the same direction as
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the previous SWR so that all of your
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swrs are unifor form it's much easier to
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make these short swrs look neat than
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taller swrs which tend to lean to one
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side or be different heights to each
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other and these short swrs give the cake
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some height without adding a huge amount
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of buttercream to each slice use a petal
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piping tip and whatever buttercream is
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left after frosting your cake to add
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pretty textured details in seconds press
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this wide end of the piping tip against
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the cake with the pointed narrow end
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facing outwards away from the cake and
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starting at the bottom of the cake
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squeeze the bag to push the buttercream
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out as you pull slowly upwards wiggling
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a little bit to make these Ruffles
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overlap a few of these to make a little
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accent or cover the whole cake with
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layers and layers of Ruffles this is
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another technique that I teach in more
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detail in my free online course 10
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frosting techniques which over 20,000
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people have taken join by clicking the
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link at the top of the screen or in the
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video description or go to British
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bak.rr.com decorating let your kids
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decorate the cake for you frost the cake
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and then optionally melt some chocolate
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chips and Spoon them into a Ziploc bag
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and cut a little piece off one of the
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corners squeeze the bag to draw a simple
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design with the melted chocolate like
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something you'd see in a children's
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coloring book make a color palette in a
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cupcake pan using labels because it will
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be difficult to see what the colors are
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in the dark pan you can use liquid or
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gel colors but if you use gels you'll
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need to water them down to make a liquid
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give your kids a paintbrush and let them
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paint the cake they'll love the activity
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and have extra fun eating their
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Masterpiece I hope you've seen some easy
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cake decorating ideas you'd like to try
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ask me any questions in the comments and
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go to British gal bak.rr.com
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