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Hello, I'm Emily and I'm going to show you how to make a polka dot cake using buttercream frosting
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Start by tinting your frosting using gel food colours. Use a piping bag with a round tip
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Grab a piece of parchment paper or a parchment circle and pipe dots of different sizes by squeezing different amounts of frosting onto the parchment paper
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Try to get the dots as thin as possible. Don't worry about them being neat, we're going to flip them over when we use them
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This is a great technique if you're not confident to decorate straight onto your cake
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Put the frosting dots in the freezer to chill. Now we're going to frost the cake
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I'm doing a crumb coat first. Check out my tutorial on how to frost a cake for tips on frosting
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Once the cake is frosted, we're going to add the dots. You could pipe the dots straight onto the cake, but this way you can be sure you won't make a mistake
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The frosting dots will get soft about a minute after coming out of the freezer, so you have to move fast
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It's a good idea to do two trays of dots, so you can take one out, stick a few dots onto the cake, and then put the tray back in the freezer and take the other one out
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You can place as many dots as you like on the cake, onto the top, around the sides, and of course you can choose whichever colours you prefer
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I'm lifting the cake off the turntable to put it onto a clean board, and now I'm going to pipe a border around the base of the cake
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And voila! www.circlelineartschool.com
