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Sour Patch Kids Cake
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Sep 6, 2024
This tutorial shows you how to make a SOUR PATCH KIDS CAKE! The recipe is here: www.britishgirlbakes.com/recipes/sour-patch-kids-cake 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! Instagram: www.instagram.com/britishgirlbakes Facebook: www.facebook.com/britishgirlbakes Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/britishgirlbakes Website: www.britishgirlbakes.com
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This colourful cake incorporates the distinctive tangy, fruity flavour of Sour Patch Kids by
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melting them down to make a flavourful syrup which is then folded into buttercream to sandwich
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between layers of cake and also uses frosting. The cake is then drizzled with a Sour Patch
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Kids drip and topped with piped rosettes of Sour Patch Kids buttercream. Yum
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Bake your cake. I'm using a quarter sheet cake to cut into square layers to make a square
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cake but a round cake would definitely work. Divide the layers in half if they're too thick
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or if you just want more layers. I'm using vanilla so the flavour of the Sour Patch Kids
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will be really noticeable but chocolate or lemon could be nice too
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I'm making a five layer cake with four layers of filling. Before you continue, decide how
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many layers you're going to have because that will show you how many layers of filling and
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how many colours of Sour Patch Kids you'll need. It's time to melt your candy! Mix 20 Sour Patch Kids of the same colour with a third
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of a cup of water and cook over a low heat for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. You
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can do this in the microwave instead for 30 seconds at a time, stirring and then heating
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it for another 30 seconds and it'll take about 4 minutes in total. Set aside 12 Sour Patch
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Kids of a variety of colours to use later. After 15 minutes, you'll have a few stubborn
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pieces of candy floating in the melted Sour Patch Kids syrup. Pour it all through a sieve
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pushing it through with a spoon or a spatula and scraping the syrup that clings onto the
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outside of the sieve. Repeat with the other colours of Sour Patch Kids. Whip up a batch
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of buttercream and set aside half. Divide the rest into as many bowls as you're going
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to have fillings. You'll have about one cup of frosting for each bowl. Mix one tablespoon
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of Sour Patch syrup with each bowl of frosting. I'm going to have 4 fillings so here are my
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4 bowls of frosting. You can add a few drops of gel food colouring to each bowl if you
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want the colours to be a bit brighter. Now we're going to build the cake! I'm using
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a square cardboard cake board as my base and securing it to my turntable with masking tape
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Use a dollop of buttercream to attach your first layer of cake and then spread on your
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first colour of filling. I'm using an offset spatula to spread it up to the edges, lifting
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it at an angle so it doesn't pull any cake with it. For more details on this part, watch
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my tutorial on how to build a cake. Continue layering your cake and filling, finishing
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by flipping your final layer of cake upside down. You want the part that was at the bottom
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of the pan to be facing up. Optionally, you can chill your cake for 30 minutes and then
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trim the sides to make them as even as possible before frosting. If you're enjoying this tutorial
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Now we're going to crumb coat the cake with a thin layer of buttercream frosting. Again
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this is easier with a chilled cake so it doesn't crumble. Use an offset spatula to apply the
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frosting and then a frosting scraper to smooth it. Keep it thin so you can see the layers
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of cake and filling underneath the frosting. If you're doing a square cake, it's easiest
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to run the frosting scraper from the edge to the middle and then from the opposite edge
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to the middle so you don't pull any cake off the edges with your frosting. Trim your cakeboard
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so it's the same size as your cake. Chill the cake to set the crumb coat and now we're
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going to apply the final coat. Put your leftover white and coloured Sour Patch Kids frosting
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into piping bags without tips. Pipe a ring of white frosting around the base of the cake
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covering up where the first layer of cake is. Then use your first filling colour and
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pipe over where the filling of the cake is. Continue with white frosting where the cake
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is and coloured frosting where the filling is, finishing with white over the top of the
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cake. Now use your frosting scraper to smooth the frosting, saving the frosting you scrape
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off. Put the cake on the turntable in the fridge to set the frosting. Put your scraped
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off frosting into a piping bag fitted with a star tip. I'm using a 1M tip but any star
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or open star tip will work. Take your cake out of the fridge and use your offset spatula
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to lift it off the turntable and put it on a plate or platter or a bigger cake board
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Next put the rest of your Sour Patch Kids syrup into little ziplock bags. If the syrup
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has set, heat it in the microwave for about 10 seconds to loosen it up. Sniff off a little
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piece of a corner of each ziplock bag and then hold one of the bags against the edge
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of the top of the cake. Squeeze out the syrup and move the bag along the edge of the cake
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creating a drip effect. Switch out the bags to use all of the syrups for the drip. The
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recipe for this cake is on my website, www.britishgirlbakes.com and the link is in the video description below
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Use your bag of multicoloured frosting to pipe rosettes around the top of the cake
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Place a Sour Patch Kid on top of each one for decoration. Then squeeze the rest of the
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Sour Patch Kids syrup out of the ziplock bags onto the top of the cake, squeezing all
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the way up to the frosting rosettes. And there it is! A cake that tastes just like Sour Patch
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Kids, fruity and tangy, with the light texture of the cake and the creaminess of buttercream
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frosting. And when you cut the cake, this is really fun, the colours of the filling
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will match the colours of the frosting. Please click the thumbs up button and subscribe and
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share this tutorial with a friend who loves Sour Patch Kids. Thanks for watching
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