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Stained Glass Jelly Cake Tutorial
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Sep 6, 2024
In this cake decorating tutorial I show how to use jelly to make a stunning (and delicious!) stained glass cake! I used my 4 Minute Buttercream frosting for this cake and you can get the recipe and tutorial for that here: https://www.britishgirlbakes.com/recipes/buttercream-frosting/ This tutorial is in collaboration with the following cake decorating channels. Click to check out their stain glass cake tutorials! Flour, Eggs and Yeast: https://youtu.be/Xq0MJwfqPZM Cakes with Lorelie: https://youtu.be/pjSMT2WlNCQ Five Two Baker: https://youtu.be/oKlMiLOX7sk MANCAKE: https://youtu.be/yN5uPTvfrSQ The Robyn's Nest: https://youtu.be/q-qU3ML3cws For the written out version of this tutorial (with photos!) click here: http://www.britishgirlbakes.com/stained-glass-jelly-cake-tutorial For my online cake decorating school click here: https://britishgirlbakes.teachable.com/courses SUBSCRIBE to my channel for new cake decorating tutorials every week!
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Hello! I'm going to show you how to use jelly to create a colourful, shiny design
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that looks like stained glass, but tastes wonderful too! This tutorial is in collaboration
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with flour, eggs and yeast, cakes with Lorelei, 52 Baker, man cake and the Robins Nest. And I've
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put the links for their stained glass cake tutorials in the video description. For my technique
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I'm using minimal ingredients, just buttercream and jelly, and a super easy technique that I hope
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you'll love. you frost your cake you'll need to prepare your jelly. Mix five little packets of
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unfavoured gelatin, which is about 35 grams, with half a cup of water. Leave it
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for three or four minutes to bloom which makes the gelatin smooth and strong. And
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meanwhile, heat one cup of water and half a cup of granulated sugar over a
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medium heat until the sugar dissolves and the mixture starts to boil. Take the
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pan off the heat and add the gelatin, staring until it dissolves. Lift out any hard
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chunks of gelatin that are floating around and try to skim off the foam around the sides of the pan
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and this will make the jelly more clear and bright. You can pour it through a sieve to catch
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any hard chunks of gelatin if you don't want to scoop them out one by one. Divide the
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jelly into a few bowls, however many colours you want to use. I'm going to use yellow
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orange and red for autumn leaves, brown for a tree trunk and branches, and blue for the sky
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Add small amounts of gel colours to each bowl to tint the jelly. If you want long
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light shades dip a toothpick into the bottle of colour to get just a tiny bit on the toothpick And you can see the difference between the pale shade of red this creates compared to this bold red made by squeezing out a whole drop of colour
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You can mix colours to create different tones, and using a toothpick for this is useful when you're using dark colours
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like using a tiny bit of red to get a darker shade of orange
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The jelly might start to set as you're colouring the bowls, and if that happens you can still mix in the colour now
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and then put the bowl in the microwave for 15 seconds and then. a time to gently reheat the jelly to make it liquid again. If you overheat the jelly
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you'll damage the gelatin and it won't set properly. As you're colouring your jelly, keep in mind
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what you're going to use that colour for, and how much of the cake it will be covering. I'm using
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blue for the sky on the sides and the top of the cake, so I need more blue than any other colour
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so I'm using the biggest bowl for this. Once you've made your colours, line a tray or baking
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tray with parchment paper and pour the jelly on. It's fine if the colours run
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into each other and if you pour similar colours next to each other, you might really like using
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the pieces of jelly where the colours blend into each other. If you're enjoying this tutorial
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please click the thumbs up button and subscribe to my YouTube channel for a new cake decorating
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tutorial every week. Remember to hit the notification bell so you don't miss one. Leave the jelly
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for about an hour to set, or you can put it in the fridge for 30 minutes and then peel sections
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off the parchment and cut them into little pieces. They might attach to each other or to your
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fingers a little bit but they're not sticky so it's easy to pull them apart and place
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them back on the parchment You can use a knife instead to cut the jelly scoring random lines and then pulling the pieces of jelly apart You can assemble and crumb coat your cake before you do this but it important to have all of your jelly pieces ready before you frost your cake with the final coat of frosting
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And I'll show you why in a minute. I'm using my 4 minute buttercream to frost my cake and I've put the link for the recipe in the top of the screen and in the video description
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But this will work with meringue buttercream, whipped cream or ganache as well
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Plain white frosting is best because any other colours will show through your jelly pieces, tinting them and changing the colours
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The frosting is going to be almost completely covered with jelly, but you still need it to be nice and smooth
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with straight sides on the cake and nice sharp edges on top
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I have a tutorial on how to get perfectly smooth frosting on cakes, and I've put the link in the video description and at the top of the screen
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As soon as you've frosted your cake, start creating your stained glass design with the jelly pieces
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Press each one gently into the frosting, and because you've put you first you've got to your stained glass design with the jelly pieces. frosting and because you've just rusted the cake, the frosting will be soft and sticky, so the jelly pieces will attach to it easily
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Leave a little gap between pieces of jelly, and when you have a space between pieces of jelly, look for another piece that has a similar shape to that space
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so that it fills in as much of the space as possible, while still leaving a thin gap between that piece and the pieces surrounding it
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You can trim pieces of jelly to fit into small spaces if you need to
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I like to build the basic shape first, so the tree trunk and branches for this design, and the tree trunk and branches for this design, and the
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Then fill in the rest of the design, starting with the narrowest areas because you need the smallest pieces of jelly for that
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and sometimes very particular shapes like a tiny triangle or a long thin piece Don worry if you nudge the frosting with a finger and cause a little dent because you can place a piece of jelly over that to cover it up This is my favorite kind of technique because you can be
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creative without needing to be perfectly precise. You don't need to measure
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distances between the pieces of jelly and if one piece doesn't quite fit, you
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can nudge the pieces around it to create a bit more space and since the frosting is still soft you can move the pieces slightly. You have to work quite quickly to
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place all of the pieces of jelly before the frosting sets, especially if your cake is cold
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because then your frosting will set even faster. If it does set and the jelly isn't sticking
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anymore, till the cake to set the frosting so it's firm and then spread a thin layer over the
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remaining part of the cake with no jelly on it, and press more jelly pieces onto that area
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Don't forget the top of the cake unless you want to leave it blank. Arrange the jelly in the
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same way, going as close to the edges of the cake as you can, so there aren't big open areas of frosting there
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In real time, the decorating part of this cake took me 34 minutes to place all of the jelly pieces to create the design
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And there's the finished cake! Store the cake in an airtight container in the fridge until 2 to 4 hours before you serve it
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If you put the cake in the fridge without covering it up, the jelly will dry out and get hard and peel off the frosting
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I'm excited for you to try this stained glass jelly cake technique, so please tag British Girl Bakes in your photos on Instagram so I can see them
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Thanks for watching! watching. For my free online course go to British Girlbakes.com and you'll also find
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all of my recipes and tutorials there, and my online cake school, with courses for every
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skill level on baking and cake decorating
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