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Sponge painted cake tutorial showing step by step how to decorate a painted cake, using examples of cake painting on fondant and on buttercream.
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Sponge painting is a really fun way to decorate a cake because you can treat
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your cake as a canvas, playing around with the pattern and shading as you go
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You can do this on buttercream or fondant. I'm going to show you how for
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both. We'll start with buttercream. Build your cake and give it a crumb coat and a
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final coat of frosting. I'm stacking mine to be a two-tier cake. If you're new to this, click the link in
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the top of the screen to watch my tutorial on how to build a cake. I'm
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touching mine up and then chilling it for at least an hour in the fridge. This
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is really important because when buttercream is soft, the sponge will leave dents where you press on the cake but when it's cold it gets hard and the
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surface will stay smooth even after you've dabbed at it with a sponge. Now
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mix your colours. I want mine to match these flowers so I'm mixing pink with
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white to get different shades of pink. Whenever you're not working on your cake
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or whenever the frosting starts getting soft, put it back in the fridge for about
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20 minutes to harden up again. Dip a sponge in one of your colours to start
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I'm starting with my lightest colour. Decide where you want your colours to go
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I want a diagonal leading up to the top where I'm going to arrange some flowers
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Dab with the sponge until you notice the colour getting fainter because most of
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the gel has come off the sponge. Then dip the sponge back in the colour and
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continue. Don't rub with the sponge, just dab and then you'll get a nice textured
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paint effect on your cake. When you change over to the next colour, you'll
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find as you dab that the colours start to blend together because your sponge will pick up some of the previous colour. I'm putting my cake back in the fridge
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for 20 minutes to chill again and now I'm adding my darkest shade of pink down
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the middle of my diagonal. You can see as I keep dabbing, I'm blending the three
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pinks together gradually. I'm going to add a bit of pink to the rest of my cake
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dabbing with the lightest colour all over and adding a few dabs of the medium pink
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If you're enjoying this tutorial, click the thumbs up button and subscribe to my
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channel. I share a new cake decorating tutorial every week. To tidy up my cake
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board, I'm just using a paper towel. Now I'm preparing my flowers, making mini
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bouquets to arrange on my cake. For more details on how to do this, click on the
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link at the top of the screen to watch my tutorial on how to decorate a cake
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with fresh flowers. As a final touch, I'm adding some edible gold leaf, pressing it against the cake
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on the outside of my pink diagonal. Ta-da! You can achieve the same effect on
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fondant but instead of chilling your cake, just wait for the fondant to firm
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up, which usually takes about a day. I'm placing my cake on a bowl to make it
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easier to sponge the bottom edge of the cake. I'm using blue gel colour and
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Wilton white white icing colour to make different shades of blue for this cake
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mixing them on a plate. Then I'm dipping my sponge into my first colour and
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dabbing it onto the fondant. Fondant is easier to sponge paint than buttercream
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because you don't have to worry about keeping it cold. I'm starting with my
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darkest colour and with each colour I'm getting gradually lighter, adding more
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and more white, dabbing and blending, dabbing and blending to cover the entire
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surface of the fondant. When you're happy with the coverage, transfer it to a clean cake board
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securing it with a roll of masking tape. To finish decorating this cake, I'm covering it with fondant hot air balloons
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and clouds. Thanks for watching! Check out my channel for more cake decorating
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