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Hi! I'm Emily and I'm going to show you how to frost a cake with this pretty ombre with a simple but effective technique
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We'll do one cake from dark to light and another from light to dark using slightly different steps
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Start by building your cake. I'm making a two-tier cake with a six-inch chocolate cake with strawberry
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filling and a ten inch vanilla cake with strawberry filling. For help with this step, watch my tutorial
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How to Build a Cake. Crumb coat your cake with the lightest colour you're going to be using for your
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Then chill your cake for at least 30 minutes in the fridge to set the frosting
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Now start with the colour you're going to be using for the top of your cake. You can mix the rest of the colours as you go so just have lots of plain buttercream ready to go
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Place a few dollops of buttercream on top of your cake and smooth it onto the top. Now spread that colour around the top of the sides of your cake using an offset spatula
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To make the next shade of buttercream, either add some white frosting to your colour or add some of
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your colour to a bowl of white frosting depending on how much lighter you want the next shade to be
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I want mine to be quite dark so I'm adding a bit of white to my turquoise. Spread a layer of this underneath the previous layer and keep a bit of this shade for later
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Mix the rest with white buttercream for a lighter shade. Spread a layer of this around the cake and keep a bit of this colour for later too
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Keep going until you get to the bottom of your cake. I'm using white for my final layer
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Now use a frosting scraper to smooth your frosting. Doesn't that look pretty
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Use the buttercream you saved to fill in any indents in the frosting so it's all the same thickness around the cake. If you want your ombre to be gradual
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use frosting that's a little lighter or darker so it softens the line where the colours blend
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Do you see the difference? On the left, the colours are in quite a bit of white
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do you see the difference? On the left, the colours are in quite distinct bands around the cake but on
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the right, after adding a few dabs of lighter and darker shades of frosting, the colours blend more
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subtly into each other. Make sure your frosting comes up all the way around the sides, above the
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top of the cake. Keep smoothing your frosting scraper and filling in any indents until you're
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happy with the sides of your cake. Then smooth out the top and you have an ombre buttercream cake
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for new cake decorating tutorials every week! If you want to apply texture, do it straight away
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before the frosting crusts. I'm using an offset spatula, holding it against the cake and applying
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a light pressure to indent it all the way around. As the frosting builds up on my spatula, I'm
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wiping it off on my bowl of frosting and then continuing, going up a little bit each time
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This texturing technique makes the colours appear to blend together even more subtly
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Now I'm going to frost my second cake, but for this one, I'm going to blend the colours in reverse
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I'm starting with white at the top of my cake and then for each layer of frosting, I'm adding a bit
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more colour into my bowl. Instead of saving buttercream to apply randomly at the end to
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blend my shades gradually, I'm going to do it as I go along. I'm putting a few dabs above and below
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the band of colour. This makes the line between the white and purple less distinct. Now I'm adding
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more colour to my frosting and spreading on another layer of frosting and then adding a few dabs above the band
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More colour and the final layer of frosting. The white frosting isn't spread on as thickly as the
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other colours so I'm adding a bit more, making sure it goes above the top of the cake
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and now I'm smoothing it with my frosting scraper. I'm smoothing out the top and I love how it is without any texture but I'm going to add it to match the top tier of my cake
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If you're new to tier cakes, check out my tutorial on how to stack a tier cake
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A few touch-ups and my cake is decorated in a beautiful ombre. To see how I finished decorating this cake, watch my mermaid cake tutorial. Thanks for watching
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