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Edible Balloon Cake
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Sep 6, 2024
In this cake decorating tutorial I demonstrate how to decorate an edible balloon cake, covering a cake with ombre buttercream frosting (click here for my tutorial on my 4 Minute Buttercream: https://youtu.be/MFKfXbnU1Lw), using chocolate to make the balloons and then painting on a rat for Chinese New Year! If you enjoy this tutorial please click the thumbs up button and SUBSCRIBE to my channel for new cake decorating tutorials every week!
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Hi and welcome to British Girl Bakes! I'm going to show you how to decorate this
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ombre buttercream cake with chocolate balloons and a painted rat for Chinese
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New Year or of course you could paint another animal or a person or whatever
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you like! First you'll need to make the balloons so that they're ready by the
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time you frost your cake. These are Wilton candy melts and I'm melting them
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at 50% power for a minute in the microwave so that they don't burn and
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seize. Or you can use white chocolate and add gel colours after melting. This is a
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silicon mould and I'm spooning the melted candy melt into the spheres, spreading them around to cover the sides and scooping out a bit if it pools at
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the bottom. They need to completely cover the mould and be relatively thick so
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that they don't break later. When I finish each colour I'm scraping off any
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excess from the mould with an offset spatula. I'm using a few different colours
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and two different sizes and it doesn't matter how many I do of each because
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I'm not going to stick them together. I'm going to use them as they are. If you're
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enjoying this tutorial please click the thumbs up button and subscribe to my channel for a new cake decorating tutorial every week! Put the moulds in
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the fridge for about 30 minutes until they set and then push the spheres out
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of the moulds, ready to use after the next step. Now you'll need a crumb coated
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cake and at least two colours of buttercream. I'm starting with white to
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cover up the top and most of the sides of the cake and next I'm going to add
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blue and I haven't completely mixed in the gel colouring so that it's already
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made up of several shades of blue. I'm spreading this at the top of the sides
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for the sky, smoothing it and adding a few dabs of it lower down so that the
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cake fades down to white a bit more gradually. Smooth the frosting as normal
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around the sides and the top and I'm leaving the top of my cake like this so
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it resembles a cloudy sky instead of making it completely blue. Now
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immediately add your balloons while the buttercream is still fresh and sticky
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You won't need to use much pressure to push the chocolate into the frosting
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since the frosting is still so soft and you can alternate colours and sizes of
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balloons to make the bunch more realistic. Don't worry about making sure
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the balloons touch and block off the whole section of frosting because real balloons float around and you can see patches of sky in between them. Around
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the top edge of the cake, try to fit the balloons so that most of them are stuck
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onto the frosting because if too much sticks up over the top of the cake it
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won't stay in place and will fall off now or later when you move the cake. Place
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a few chocolates on top of the cake to continue the bunch of balloons and to
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add some dimension and make the balloons stick out by layering them, fill a
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chocolate with buttercream and press it gently against some more balloons so
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that the buttercream acts as a glue to stick them together
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When you're happy with it, put the cake in the fridge to set the frosting so
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that the chocolate balloons stick and stay in place. Meanwhile prepare your
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paints! I'm using three gel colours, pink, brown and black and I'm mixing them with
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vodka to thin them out so I can paint with them and adding white white icing
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by Wilton to one of the pinks to lighten it a bit. To paint my rat I'm
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starting by outlining the body with brown and filling it in with downwards
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brush strokes to make it look like fur. I'm using the same brown for the arms and then adding the feet with a lighter
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shade of pink and two hands. It's quickest if you have a few different
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paintbrushes so you don't have to clean them after each colour and it's
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essential that your cake is properly chilled so that the frosting is hard and
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holds its shape, which takes at least an hour in the fridge. This way the
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paintbrushes won't texture the buttercream and the gel colours will sit on top of the frosting instead of mixing with it. Now I'm outlining the ears and
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head and filling them in with brown diluted with a bit more vodka so that
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the colour is a bit lighter and you can still see the outline of the head in front of the ear on the other side of the head. I'm adding a pink dot for the
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nose and filling in the ear on this side of the rat with pink as well and dabbing
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on some black for the eyes. Next I'm adding the balloon strings and the
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thinner the paintbrush you have for this the better. The ends of the strings are
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going to show down here below the rat's hand and I'm adding a few more strings
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going up but just a few, going to different sections of the bunch of
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balloons so that it doesn't look too messy. Finally the rat's tail! It's long and curly and I'm adding some little lines
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of darker pink all along it to mark out the ringed sections of the tail. And it's
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finished! If you found this tutorial useful please click the thumbs up
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button and subscribe so you don't miss out on future tutorials. Thanks for watching
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