Painted Buttercream Flowers

Hi, I'm Emily from British Girl Bakes and I'm going to show you how I painted these flowers onto a cake

The only things I'll be using are a few plates as pallets, some plastic palette knives, and some gel food colours

I've frosted my cake with my four minute buttercream and I've put the link for that recipe in the description below

I'm placing my cake next to my flowers for reference and I'm using a turntable but it's not essential

I'm using the same buttercream as my frosting to make the same buttercream as my frosting to make

my paint but I've added a little bit more milk so it's a more paintable consistency

I'm dividing the buttercream between my plates and I'm using a variety of gel food

colours to create all of the shades of these colourful flowers. I'm using a maricolor gel

food colours for this, adding a drop at a time to mix my palette of colours. I'm using violet

royal blue, orange, soft pink, fuchsia, teal and yellow. It's time to paint. I've chilled my cake for an hour in the fridge, so the frosting is firm and won't get damaged as I paint

And now I'm going to use little plastic palette knives to apply the paint onto my cake

I'm going to start with these little round leaves, putting some dark green butter cream onto my palette knife

and dabbing it onto my cake with little swiping motions to make round leaves

This oil painted style is fun because you're not trying to create a photo of the flowers, just a representation

just a representation of them so you can play around with the colors and shapes to create something similar but you can be creative with the design I spreading on some lighter green over the top to create some shading layering it on top of the green to give it a bit of texture too Because the cake has been chilled

the first shade of green has already set, and this lighter colour is sitting on top

instead of completely blending into the darker green. If you want to mix your colours

completely, it's better to do it on your plate instead of on the cake

because you can mix the colours as much as you want when the colours are all at room temperature. Next I'm going to paint a Gerberra, or in America these are called gerber daisies

These are my favourite flowers and this fuchsia is my absolute favourite

I'm putting it right next to these leaves to make a bouquet on the cake

I've got bright pink buttercream on my palette knife and I'm swiping from the outside to the inside

or the inside to the outside, in a ring, to make my petals, pushing my cake to the edge of the turn table so I can get a better angle with my wrist

I'm doing a few layers of petals to mimic the real flower

and then using darker pink to do another smaller ring of petals in the middle

and then dark purple in the centre, placing a blob of buttercream on

and then using my palette knife to swipe it out to make petal shapes

Each colour of buttercream sets quickly onto the chilled cake, so if you get any paint where you don't want it

you can scrape it off straight away and it won't damage the colour beneath it because that colour will have already set

I'm wiping my palette knife off on a paper towel so I can use it with my next colour

I doing a dark green stem coming up from the bottom of the cake and then painting on an orange carnation starting with a pale orange and spreading it on by swiping outwards to make the little frills around the flower and then adding a few dabs of dark orange putting more pale orange on my palette knife and then spreading it on over the top of the dark orange to blend it subtly into the flower

A bit more dark orange in the centre, and next I'm going to do this spiky purple flower. I'm using violet mixed with a bit of fuchsia, and spread

spreading from the center of the flower to the outside to make these petal shapes

Letting them be spiky around the edges and then doing the same thing with another shade of purple over the top

This is violet mixed with royal blue. Then a lighter purple in the middle, which is just mixed with a bit of white buttercream to make it paler

And then the darkest purple in the center, all applied by swiping on the petals

Now some more green, spreading on little dabs of frosting to make a bushy stalk of leaves

that go up the side of the cake and onto the top. And I'm going to put some little purple flowers in amongst these leaves, but I'm going

to wait until the green has completely set so I don't blend the colours, so I'll come back

to this in a minute. Meanwhile, I'm going to paint on this little pink flower, spreading the buttercream on with the

same swiping technique to make the petals, continuing until I have a whole circle covered

with pink petals and doing another one next to it with lighter pink so that it doesn't all merge together

and then using that same light pink to create some shading on the first flower and then painting on another one making the centers with some bright green and texturing the butter cream a bit Another orange carnation and another one over here

Some more greenery with round leaves in dark green and then some light green over the top

And now my green up here has set so I'm going to paint on some little purple flowers

Starting with the dark purple outer leaves and then painting on some white in the middle

I'm adding the white straight. away so that it blends slightly with the purple as I swipe. So the petals change

color gradually like in the real flowers. Then some brown in the center, made by mixing

purple frosting with orange, and I'll keep adding flowers until I've covered as much as I want

of the cake. Doing another pink gerbara, a white flower with a green center, another orange

carnation, and another one hidden behind this white flower, painting around the white flower

and then adding some more white petals on top to conceal the orange carnation

T'da! I'm putting the cake back in the fridge so that the flowers set completely

I'm preparing some of these fresh flowers to arrange on top of my cake. I have a full module on decorating cakes with fresh and artificial flowers in my online

course on 10 cake decorating techniques, and you can sign up by clicking the link in the screen

or I've put the link in the description below. And there it is! A cake painted with buttercream flowers. Subscribe to my channel for new cake decorating tutorials every week