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6 Parchment Paper Cake Hacks
Sep 6, 2024
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Partiment paper or wax paper or baking paper can be used for so many different cake decorating techniques for stunning and unique designs
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Let's start with one of my favorites, a buttercream transfer. This technique will let you replicate any design, even super complicated ones, onto a cake
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Choose an image you like, online or on a notebook cover or wherever, and draw it or trace it onto parchment
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You'll find it much easier to draw with pencil than with pen. Tint buttercream the colors you want to use and brush
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buttercream is the best kind of frosting for this particular method because it gets so firm
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when it sets, which you'll see an action in a minute. Put each color into a piping bag with a
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small round piping tip or you can just put your butter cream in a Ziplug bag and cut the
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corner off for a homemade piping bag. Outline and fill each colored section of the design except
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the biggest section. Freeze the design on the parchment for five minutes to set it and then
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pipe on the final color and spread it over the whole design so that it's flat
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and also to create a sticky surface on top of the parts of the design that have set
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Lift the parchment up straight away and press it against a cake, and the frosting on the cake should have set so that that frosting is firm too
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and then you won't damage it. Put the whole cake in the fridge for 30 minutes or the freezer for 15 minutes and then peel the parchment off and voila Another great use for parchment paper or wax paper or baking paper is for piping details that you can pipe directly onto a cake
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and then transferring them onto the cake. Cut your parchment into little squares and attach one to a flower nail with a dot of buttercream
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I'll show you another option if you don't have a flower nail in a minute. Pip your detail onto the parchment and for these flowers I'm squeezing out the buttercream as I twist the nail between my thumb and finger to pipe
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petals. I'll pipe the middle later. Slide the parchment off the nail and onto a plate and put that
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in the freezer for five minutes to set. If you don't have a flower nail, you can pipe directly onto
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parchment paper, like this, turning the parchment around as you pipe to find the easiest angle for
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each part of the flower or pumpkin or whatever you're piping. Put the parchment into the freezer
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for five minutes to set the buttercream and then peel the buttercream off the parchment
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and to attach it, you can either pipe some buttercream onto the bottom and press it onto the
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cake or pipe some buttercream onto the cake wherever you want to put the flour and then
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press the flour into that dot. The frozen flower or pumpkin or whatever will chill and set
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the dot of buttercream quickly and that dot will act as glue to hold the flower in place on the
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side or the top of the cake. It's useful to pipe the centres of flowers now at the end so that before
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this you can push against the middle of the flower to attach it to the cake without damaging anything Partiment will give you neat sprinkle borders by covering up the cake where you don want the sprinkles to go
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And this way you'll have an even band of sprinkles with a straight top edge
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because the sprinkles will only attach to the frosting below the parchment paper
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The frosting on the cake needs to have set before doing this, so chill your cake for at least an hour in the fridge first
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A tray is useful for catching falling sprinkles so that they don't go everywhere
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Parchment is a cheap way to make absolutely any stencil design you like
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by cutting a shape or design out of the parchment. If your parchment came on a roll, it will curve
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and that's ideal because when you wrap it around the cake, it will do most of the work for you
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Pull it tight and press the ends of the parchment against the cake to keep the stencil flat
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and then spread buttercream over it, being gentle, so you don't push the buttercream underneath the parchment
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The frosting on the cake needs to have set before you wrap the stencil around it
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so chill the cake in the free. for an hour first. Scrape off the excess buttercream with your offset spatula or a cake comb
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and then peel the parchment off and ta-da! For a bit more bling, follow the same steps with a fun
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addition at the end. Cut your shape out of parchment, wrap it around the cake, spread buttercream
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over it, scrape off the excess, peel the stencil off and then press sprinkles into the buttercream
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on the stencil The sprinkles will attach easily since the frosting within the stencil is soft and sticky but they won stick to the frosting on the cake because that has already set You can press the sprinkles in before peeling off the stencil
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but I find that the edges of the design are neater this way
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You can brush off any unwanted sprinkles with a paintbrush to tidy things up
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With parchment, you can create patterns on a cake, using a sponge painting technique
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Just cut the parchment into strips or circles or whatever shapes you want
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and these will be the color of the frosting on the cake. If you chill your cake first
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when you take it out of the fridge, some tiny drops of condensation will form, which will attach the parchment to it
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or you can use a pin to secure the parchment if you prefer. Tint, buttercream, or any other frosting
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to make paint, and you'll need to add milk or cream to buttercream to thin it out a bit to be able to use it for this
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Dip a sponge into your paint and then dab it over the exposed parts of the cake
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and when you peel the parchment off, you'll have a colourful, slightly textured pattern
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I hope you've seen some ideas you'd like to try. Tell me in the comments, which is your favourite
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and check out my cake school for hundreds of cake decorating techniques. And you can take individual courses or join my club plus for access
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to all of my mini courses, master courses, and life workshops. The link is up here in the top of the screen
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or go to British Girlbakes.com. Thank you for watching
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