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Hello, I'm Emily and I'm going to show you how to make a beautiful scalloped buttercream
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cake. All you need is an icing bag, a frosting tip with a round hole, an offset spatula and
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some paper towels. If you have a cake turntable that will make it a lot easier but it's not
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essential. Okay, let's get started. First we're going to build our cake. If you're new to cakes, check out my tutorials on how to
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bake a cake and how to build a cake. We're stacking the layers of cake with a layer of
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buttercream frosting between each one and then we're going to do a crumb coat over the top. The
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crumb coat is super important. It's a really thin layer of frosting that goes all over the cake and
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pulls off any crumbs that are going to come off the cake. That means that when you do the
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decorations the crumbs are already stuck to the frosting and they won't go into your decorations
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The crumb coat really doesn't need to be neat. You can see mine is super messy. My cake is on
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a cardboard disc which I'm going to trim so that it's invisible. I'm going to put it on a bigger
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board so that when I carry the cake I have something to hold on to. Now for the fun part
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we're going to decorate our cake. I'm going to do mine in different shades of blue so that it
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looks like the ocean. You can tint the frosting using gel colors or liquid colors. I really
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recommend gels because the liquid colors tend to change the consistency of the frosting and
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make it too liquidy. Hold the piping bag with the tip against the cake and squeeze out a dot
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of frosting. Now grab your offset spatula and touch the tip of the spatula to the dot and pull
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it sideways across the cake. Now you're just going to repeat this all the way around your cake. You're
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going to squeeze a dot and then swipe it with the spatula. Squeeze, swipe, squeeze, swipe. But what's
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really important is that your spatula stays perfectly clean. If it has frosting on it
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it's not going to leave a clean swipe. So each time you use it, just wipe it on the paper towel
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You can really play around with this technique and have fun with it. It doesn't have to be blue. You
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could do every row a different color, you could do every dot a different color, or you could do
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the whole cake one color and it will look really classy and elegant. The really nice thing about
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this cake is it's so easy to make. You can see what I'm doing, it's super straightforward, you
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can't really go wrong. But at the end of it, you have a cake that looks really impressive and it
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looks like you took a ton of time and that you're really skillful. When you finish the sides of the
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cake, you're going to follow exactly the same technique on the top. You can leave the cake as
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it is and it will look gorgeous or if you have a cake topper of some sort, you can stick it on top
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I'm going to make a whale really quickly using fondant and I'm going to put that on top of the
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cake. And there you have it! A beautiful scalloped buttercream cake that looks really impressive but
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was secretly super simple to make. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel for more cake tutorials and
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