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How To Decorate A Cake With Fresh Flowers
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Sep 6, 2024
Step by step tutorial for how to decorate a cake with fresh flowers. My tutorial for the semi-naked frosting shown in this video is here: https://youtu.be/56iqwdZGVwo A step by step tutorial for the watercolour frosting in the pink cake shown in this video is here: https://youtu.be/hDPMoJHeiII The tutorial and recipe for my 4 Minute Buttercream Frosting is here: https://youtu.be/MFKfXbnU1Lw SUBSCRIBE to my channel for new cake decorating tutorials every week!
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Hi and welcome to British Girl Bakes! I'm Emily and I'm going to show you how to prepare
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and arrange flowers on a cake. Start by preparing your flowers. To avoid eating pesticides, buy organic flowers and
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rinse them well. Cut them a few inches below the head of the flower
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Using floral tape, we're going to make mini bouquets, a bit like boutonnieres
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Group your flowers together in small clusters and wrap floral tape tightly around the stems
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to hold them together. Floral tape is great because it's easy to tear off from the ream and it sticks to itself
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as you wrap, so you don't need sticky tape. Once you have your mini bouquets all taped up, use cling film or plastic wrap to cover
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up the tape. This is important to protect the cake from any liquid that comes out of
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the cut stems. Now you're going to insert the wrapped stems into a straw. I like boba straws because they're
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wide enough for most mini bouquets, but you can use regular straws if your stems are thinner
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Your straw should fit snugly around the stems. If you're enjoying this tutorial, please click the subscribe button. I upload a new cake
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decorating tutorial every week. Now for the fun part, decorating your cake! Decide where you want your flowers to go and
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then trim the straws so they're only slightly longer than the stems. Then push the straws
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into your cake. Be confident, you'll have to push quite hard, but if you're worried
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about your fingers slipping, you can use scissors to push them in instead
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Push them all the way in to cover the straw and any plastic wrap sticking out above the
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straw. I'm going to add another mini bouquet here because the flowers look like they're
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hovering above the cake. When you insert the straws, be aware of where your cake ends and the cake board starts
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because your straws obviously aren't strong enough to push all the way through the cardboard of a cake board
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So for this bottom tier, I'm pushing the straw in horizontally, just above where I
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know the cake board is. For the top of the cake, you're going to do exactly the same thing. Decide where you want
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your flowers to go and push the straws into the cake. It's a good idea to chill your cake
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before doing this, because if your frosting is soft, the flowers or leaves might smudge
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the frosting. Remember to check the back of the cake to make sure the straws aren't exposed. I'm putting
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in one final mini bouquet and there it is! Alternatively, if you don't want to stick straws into your cake or if you want to be
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able to put the flowers on top at the last minute, you can create an arrangement
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Use a cake pan the same size as your cake to make sure the arrangement is to scale
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Trim the stems of your flowers so they're a bit longer than half of the pan. Then take
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two bunches of flowers and wrap the stems together using floral tape. Do this for all
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of your flowers and greenery. For flowers that have leaves lower down on their stem, I like to pull the leaves off
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and arrange them myself so they provide more coverage at the top of the stem to frame the flower
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If your leaves are bigger than half of the width of your pan, you can cut the base of
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the leaves to give yourself room to wrap the floral tape. I'm planning out my arrangement and I'm going to place a single flower on top, so I'm not
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attaching that to any other flowers, but I'm still wrapping it with floral tape so the
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stem doesn't leak any liquid onto my cake. Next, wrap the floral tape with plastic wrap
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Then arrange your flowers and use more floral tape to group them together
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The front should be the prettiest, but make sure the back looks ok too
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You can cover any visible plastic wrap with flowers or leaves. Store your flower arrangement in the fridge to keep them cool and fresh
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And now you can just lift up your flower arrangement and place it on top of your cake
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This cake is for a rustic wedding. To see how to make the cake, watch my tutorial on
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how to make a semi-naked cake. Remember to subscribe to my channel for new cake decorating tutorials every week
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