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Here are some fun ideas for a cake for a husband, dad, uncle, teacher or friend that require simple
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tools and won't take hours and hours to decorate. Incorporate a hobby into a cake like piping a fish
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onto the cake for someone who enjoys fishing and you can do this by spooning coloured frosting into
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ziploc bags and then cut a corner off to pipe the frosting through. If you'd like step-by-step
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instructions for any of these cakes check the video description for the link to the full tutorial on
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youtube or the class on my cake school. For someone who likes stargazing or is into space
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make a galaxy cake by covering your cake with black frosting and then spreading on a few dabs
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of brightly coloured buttercream and smoothing the frosting to smear those colours around the cake
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Add some constellations by dipping a paintbrush into silver luster dust mixed with vodka or use
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white icing colour and flick the paintbrush towards the cake to spray out stars. For an
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outdoor enthusiast use wafer paper coloured with food gels mixed with vodka to create a river or
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lake on a cake and for an easy cake topper use a toy kayak instead of spending hours sculpting one
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out of fondant. This one's a bit more time consuming but if you want a cake any poker player will rave
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about and always remember. Use a cake comb to indent grooves into the frosting on two cakes
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and then attach pieces of fondant to create markings on the top and sides. Stack the cakes
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and you'll have a cake that looks just like a stack of poker chips! Keep things simple with a
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favourite colour, piping rows of frosting onto a cake and smoothing them to make neat stripes
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or make a mirror glaze cake using different shades of their favourite colours
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For a sports fanatic use the colours of the team to spread texture onto a cake or melt and tint
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white chocolate, spread it onto parchment paper, scatter some matching sprinkles over the top
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and then cut or break the chocolate apart and press the pieces into a cake
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Use the birthday boys favourite foods in their cake, for example oreo cookies can be crushed
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and folded into buttercream to use as the filling or frosting on a cake and you can use more oreos
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to decorate the top of the cake too. Nutella makes an indulgent filling for a cake and cooked raspberries
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can be stirred into buttercream to make a delicious frosting for a cake. If their favourite food doesn't
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pair well with cake like tacos, pipe it onto the cake as a decoration instead. A pet or favourite
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animal can be painted onto a cake like this elephant I'm painting using coloured buttercream
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and a paintbrush or if you're nervous about making mistakes pipe the design onto a piece of parchment
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paper, tracing an image underneath and then press the design onto the side of a cake to transfer it
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Peel the parchment off and voila! I hope you've seen some ideas you like! Check out my cake school
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for lots of cake designs and courses on different buttercream techniques. Thanks for watching
