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Easy Terrazzo Cake
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Sep 6, 2024
In this cake decorating tutorial I show how to create an easy terrazzo cake by painting a design onto buttercream, topping the cake with a homemade doughnut with the same design! I used my 4 Minute Buttercream for this cake and you can find the tutorial and recipe here: https://youtu.be/MFKfXbnU1Lw For my tutorial on how to frost a square cake click here: https://youtu.be/QSc-c-MMPXA and for my tutorial on how to make homemade doughnuts click here: https://youtu.be/LFAzLDyumEc SUBSCRIBE to my channel for new cake decorating tutorials every week!
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Hi! In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to paint a taratsu design onto a buttercream cake
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topping it with a matching doughnut. You can create this design on a round cake or a square cake
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It just needs to have a final coat of frosting that has set, and I'm going to leave this one in the fridge for about an hour, so the frosting is very firm
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I have a very detailed tutorial on how to build and frost a square cake
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and I've put the link for that tutorial in the top of the screen and in the video description
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While your cake is chilling in the fridge to set the frosting, prepare. your palette. I'm using edible paints and these are made by a company called
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sweet sticks. You have to shake the bottle quite aggressively before you squeeze
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the paint out since the paint tends to separate in the bottle. And you only
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need a few drops for this because the colors are very opaque. It's helpful to have a
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variety of sizes of paintbrush for this, but I'm going to use just one very thin
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brush to show you how you can vary the size of the elements in your design with
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minimal tools. This is a brush by sweet stamp and the size is zero over three and it's a very
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very fine brush. I'm dipping it in the paint to get a generous amount on the tip of
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the brush and then pressing it gently against the side of the cake. And the harder I press
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against the cake, the bigger the dot. And the more paint on the brush, the more transfers onto
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the cake, so that makes the dot bigger as well. As I continue painting, even if I use the same amount
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of pressure, the dots will get smaller because there's less and less paint on the brush. I want
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the dots to be all different sizes, so I'm intentionally varying the pressure as I go
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If you enjoying this tutorial please click the thumbs up button to like it and subscribe to my channel for a new cake decorating tutorial every week It mindlessly therapeutic piping these tiny dots but I an impatient person so I getting bored and switching to another edible paint colour this blue which I using to paint random shapes onto the cake The paints are thick
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enough that you don't need to paint several layers to build up the coverage, but I do find
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that painting lots of tiny dots to outline and fill the shapes is more effective than painting
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with long brush strokes, because the paint pools as I create these little dots next to each other
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and this way the paint is more thick and bold. I'm painting triangles and rectangular shapes all over the cake
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varying the size and the direction they're pointing to keep the pattern completely random
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It's actually best to do these random shapes before doing the dots, since the dots are going to cover the entire rest of the cake and if you did the dots first
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you'd have to make sure you left space for these shapes. This is the same paintbrush I used for the tiny yellow dots
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but by using a different technique I'm creating larger shapes with it instead
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You should wash the paintbrush in hot water and dry it on a towel or paper towel in between colors
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otherwise you'll dull the colors by blending in some of the previous color
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My next color is a metallic candy floss pink and I'm using the same dabbing motion to
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fill the shapes with little dots of paint, but the metallic colors aren't as bold as the other ones
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So I'll decide later if I want to paint a second layer onto these shapes
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Switching back to yellow to pipe some more dots, and you can keep painting until the frosting softens
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which will happen if you're in a warm room and the frosting starts to warm up
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If that happens just put the cake back in the fridge for 15 to 30 minutes to set the frosting again before you continue painting The paint takes a while to dry maybe 30 minutes at room temperature
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and once it's dry you can paint another layer of color over the top if you want a bolder color
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and that's what I'm going to do for the metallic pink shapes now
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When I've finished painting all of the blue and pink shapes, I'm filling in the rest of the cake with the little yellow dots in varying sizes to complete the design
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This is time-consuming, and the only of the only of the same other way I thought of doing it was to splatter the paint onto the cake by
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flicking the paintbrush a few inches away from the cake to spray the cake with dots
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But I wanted to have more control over the design and I didn't want the yellow dots to be
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on top of the pink and blue shapes, so I'm painting them on one by one instead
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Like I mentioned earlier, the more paint is on your brush, the larger the dots will
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be, even with a minimal amount of pressure. So it's a good idea after dipping your paintbrush
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into the paint to paint dots all over the surface of the cake, not just in one small
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area at a time, so that you don't end up with groupings of the same size of dots. So when
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you've just dipped your brush into the paint and the dots you're creating are quite big
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those big dots are spread out all over the cake and then as you continue and there's less
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and less paint on the brush, so the dots get smaller and smaller, those smaller sized
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dots are also spread out in different places on the cake. To make the doughnut
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topper I'm piping my perfect chocolate cake batter into a silicon donut mould. I have a
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full tutorial for these baked donuts and I've put the link in the top of the screen and in the video description Bake the donuts and let them cool on a wire rack and if you like you can freeze these in a Ziploc bag for a month I made a white chocolate ganache with three parts of white chocolate to one part of heavy whipping cream
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called double cream in the UK, and I'm adding just a drop of pink gel colour to make this pretty bright pink ganache
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Dip a doughnut into the ganache, twisting to coat it and lift it up, flip it over
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and place it on the wire rack to let the ganache settle. You can bang a rack on the counter a few times if you need to
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and I'm doing that to pop the bubble of ganache in the hole in the doughnut
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Put the donut in a Tupperware in the fridge for about an hour to set the ganache
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and then use the same paints to paint the Tarata design onto the donut
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Don't worry if the ganache coating isn't perfectly smooth, because once you've covered it in the design, you won't notice any small imperfections
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These paints behave in the same way on the ganache as they did on the buttercream on the cake
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and I love the way the design looks on the doughnut. the doughnut. To attach the doughnut to the cake, poke a wooden skewer all the way down to the
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bottom of the cake, or at least halfway down, to hold the doughnut steady. Put it slightly off
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center, since it will poke into the left or right side of the donut, not straight up the middle
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Check that the skewer goes at least halfway up the donut, but make sure it won't poke through
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the top of the doughnut. Now lower your donut on, and you should do this with a chilled donut so that the
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Ganesh is firm and won't be damaged by your fingers. And the paint should be dry too
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so that you don't damage that. And there it is. A beautiful painted tarasso cake
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