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10 Cake Decorating Trends To Try In 2020
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Sep 6, 2024
In this cake decorating tutorial I share my predictions and techniques for the top 10 cake decorating trends to try in 2020, broken down into styles that feature texture, colour and simplicity. The links for the tutorials and online courses for the cakes in this video are below. If you enjoy this tutorial, please click the thumbs up button and SUBSCRIBE to my channel for new cake decorating tutorials every week! 8 Ways To Use A 1M Piping Tip: https://youtu.be/waHzTfrEm3M 6 Easy Frosting Techniques: https://youtu.be/zclMW0E8nyo How To Make A Fault Line Cake: https://youtu.be/fAzGwshVatc Cake Carving Masterseries: https://britishgirlbakes.teachable.com/courses/cake-carving 10 Cake Decorating Techniques: https://britishgirlbakes.teachable.com/courses/10-cake-decorating-techniques Gold Drip Cakes: https://youtu.be/DKPuLzgDa5Q Squiggles and Circles Cake: https://youtu.be/we_JcpSteLg How To Make A Cake With Wrapping Paper: https://youtu.be/jwPNlIWgN9c 4 Secrets For Perfect Stripes On Cakes: https://youtu.be/Vz6gsiIYkVs How To Make A Number Cake: https://youtu.be/eNu1lFBDuc0 How To Make A Tray Bake Cake: https://youtu.be/JuZMzmQe2s0 How To Travel With A Cake In Your Suitcase: https://youtu.be/pDHJS8FpgsU I used my 4 Minute Buttercream Frosting to decorate all of the cakes in this video and you can watch the tutorial and get the recipe here: https://youtu.be/MFKfXbnU1Lw
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Going into 2020, the trends for cake decorating showcase generous use of texture and color
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and a welcome factor for most of us, simplicity. I'm going to walk you through the top 10 trends that I anticipate highlighting the cake decorating world this year
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which I've divided into styles featuring texture, color, and simplicity. We'll start with texture
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The easiest way to incorporate texture in your cakes is to use a textured frosting comb
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and the speed and ease of this technique is one of the reasons it's gaining so much popularity
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Crumb coat and frost your cake as normal, making sure the sides are straight
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and that you have quite a thick layer of frosting all over the cake, since you're going to take a lot of it off when you use the comb
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After smoothing the frosting, immediately use the textured comb, applying consistent pressure against the side of the cake as you spin your cake on a turntable
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going around several times, and touching up any gaps in the frosting with more butter cream
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keeping going until you have a defined texture with no air pockets
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These frosting combs are available in lots of different patterns, made of plastic or metal or acrylic
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and all of them work well, but it's easiest if the comb you choose is at least as tall as your cake
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You can play around with the colours of your frosting, like the ombre designs on these two cakes
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and add drips or piped frosting details or cake toppers as you would with any other design
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A more time-consuming but very forgiving way to add texture is with piping tips
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Even if you haven't been decorating cakes for long, you've probably experimented with piping tips
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or at least the standard star tip, also called a 1M tip
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which is the typical tip used to pipe a cupcakes well. But you can do so much more with this tip than just that
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Pipe these easy roses onto a cake by covering a cake with swirls
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Try piping a big rose to cover the whole top of the cake, and then pipe rows of texture around the sides of the cake to make this texture that looks a bit like layered fabric
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And the beauty of using piping tips to frost a cake is that you don't need to cover it in perfectly smooth frosting
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just a simple crumb coat to lock in the crumbs and the moisture. So if smooth frosting isn't your strongest skill
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then frosting a cake with a piping tip texture is a little bit of a little bit texture is a little bit of a little bit of the cream
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tip texture is a great alternative. And I share more ideas in my tutorial on eight ways to use
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a 1M piping tip, and I've put the link for that tutorial in the top of the screen and in the
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description below this video. Other piping tip textures include this ribbon-style frosting
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piped with a petal tip, like a number 104 or 125, these scallops which can be piped with a
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round tip or even a piping bag with no tip, and smoothed out with an offset spatchel
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or the back of a spoon. So many possibilities, and like I mentioned, they take a bit more time
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than using a textured frosting comb, but they're completely unique, and you don't need to
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smooth your frosting, so if you haven't mastered that yet, you can still make a cake that looks
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professionally decorated If you want step instructions on how to pipe all of the styles on this cake click the link in the top of the screen or in the description below for my tutorial on six easy frosting techniques One of the big trends in 2019 was the faultline cake which is still going strong and definitely worth trying before the trend dies out
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We've seen several variations of it, starting with the simple spreading of a second coat of frosting with a gap in the middle, hence the name the faultline cake
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To do this, apply your first coat of frost. and let it set completely by chilling it in the fridge for at least an hour before
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applying the second coat to the top of the cake and on the sides to cover just the top
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and bottom leaving the middle section without a second coat so you can see that first colour
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Smooth the frosting as normal, leaving an uneven jagged edge above and below the gap in the
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middle. If you're enjoying this tutorial, please click the thumbs up button and subscribe to my
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channel for a new cake decoration tutorial every week. If you want to paint the edges of the
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fault line, chill the cake for another hour to set the frosting and then mix gold or silver luster
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dust with vodka or any other clear alcohol or lemon extract and then paint along the edge
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of the fault line. This is how the fault line cake originated but the trend has already
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evolved in several ways. The first variation was filling the fault line with
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with sprinkles, which you achieve by pressing sprinkles into the middle section of the crumb coat
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letting them set, and then piping or spreading frosting over the rest of the cake, and smoothing it
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to leave the sprinkled gap in the middle. Another fun evolution is to decorate the fault line
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with stripes, and I'll cover stripes in more detail as a trend on its own later. Other emerging
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variations include adding that second layer of frosting to only the bottom of the cake
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and you can spread it on or use parchment paper to have more control over the placement of the frosting
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Try adding texture to the second layer of frosting with a textured frosting comb or an impression mat
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and take it even further by painting the second layer of frosting or adding details like the brick wall cracks of this Halloween cake
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Jazz up the edges of the fault line by adding sprinkles to it or edible glitter
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instead of the original style of metallic paint. My favourite new trend is the carved buttercream trend
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which has endless possibilities for texture and colour on your cakes. This trend uses clay modelling tools
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which are very cheap and easy to find on Amazon or in arts and crafts shops
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And you can use the tools to carve out patterns, images, shapes, textures
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Carving is an incredibly versatile technique, and I spent a few months experimenting with it and created an online course teaching the techniques
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and several styles of carved designs, including four themed cakes showing step by step from start
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to finish how to create the design. If you're interested in that course, just click the link
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in the top of the screen or in the description below this video. Another trend that adds
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color and texture to cakes is to use sprinkles to create or highlight your design. This can be as a
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as simple as pressing sprinkles into the sides of the cake which is easiest if you dip your finger in water and tap off any excess before pressing it into a sprinkle so that the sprinkle sticks to your finger
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and then when you press it into the frosting of the cake, it transfers to the cake for perfectly accurate placement
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Hide sprinkles in the middle of your cake for a sprinkle explosion, also called a pinata cake
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by cutting a circle out of the middle of all of your cake layers except the top one
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which creates a chamber that you can pour sprinkles into, and after sealing the chamber with the top layer of cake without a hole in it
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you frost and decorate the cake as normal, and when you cut into it, a cascade of sprinkles explodes out for a fun surprise
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You can buy or make your own sprinkle mix, and I cover a lot more ways to use them on your cakes in my online course on 10 cake decorating techniques
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and I've put that link in the top of the screen and in the video description. With all of the fun sprinkle mixes you can buy, which incorporate every colour and lots of metallics
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I think cake colour schemes will continue to be inspired by sprinkles and will be seeing a lot of metallics on cakes
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This will include edible gold leaf, which is bought in sheets and sticks easily onto buttercream by pressing it gently against the cake on the sheet it came on
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or using a paintbrush to carefully lift it off the sheet and transfer it to the cake
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Edible gold paint will be popular too, which is made easily by mixing gold luster dust with vodka
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or any other clear alcohol or lemon extract. To get the strongest, most opaque shade of gold
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use high-proof alcohol like Everclear 190, which makes a thick gold paint like this
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Another way to incorporate gold is a gold drip, which is most easily achieved by applying a ganache drip
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using white chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate, letting it set, and then painting the drips with edible gold paint
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This is a lot easier than it sounds if the drip is the right consistency. And I have a full tutorial on gold drips on my YouTube channel, and the link is in the top of the screen and in the description below
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This next trend uses acetate or parchment paper to apply colourful designs to cakes
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wrap the acetate or parchment around the cake and add a few inches to leave space for the design you're going to apply to it
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And then cut the acetate and cover it with the design. Here I'm using candy melts, or you could use melted chocolate colored with gel colors if you like
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And then take your chilled cake and wrap the acetate tightly around it
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pressing the design against the cake, and then putting it back into the fridge to set against the sides of the cake
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When you peel the acetate off, you'll leave the design behind, attached to the frosting
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and this lets you create designs that gravity wouldn't normally allow. You can also do this with buttercream, piping on a design that you freehand
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or you can trace over a pattern or design, like this gift bag
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And after pressing it against the cake, chilling it and then peeling it off
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use a frosting smoother dipped in hot water to smooth the design, and then you can add details like buttercream boarders
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shadowing with more buttercream applied with a palette knife and sprinkles for some texture or to cover up any air pockets I put the links for my tutorials on these cakes in the description below the video
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Apart from being simple, this technique is great because you don't need any special tools or materials
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just some acetate, which you can buy on Amazon, or you can do this with parchment paper instead
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Here's another acetate cake design I made a few months ago, and I've started to see
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more cake designs appearing with the same technique, so I think this trend will grow this year
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and will be seeing lots of creative designs using this simple material. A trend that became huge in
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2019 is striped buttercream, created with a striped frosting comb. And although these have been
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popular for over a year now, I don't see the trend going away anytime soon. You can buy a striped
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cake comb for a few dollars and get these stunning designs which make beautiful cakes on their own
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or with very little extra decoration. I have a very detailed tutorial on four secrets for perfect stripes
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which I highly suggest watching before you start, and the link is in the top of the screen and in the description below this video
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Now for the trends featuring simplicity. Firstly, if you haven't made one yet
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jump on the number cake bandwagon. These are great because you don't need to be confident with smooth frosting
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since you layer cakes with piped buttercream and don't frost the sides
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You can show off the flavors of the cake because they aren't hidden by covering the cake and frosting
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and they're easily personalized with a birthday boy or girl's favorite chocolate
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candies, flowers, or even toy figures. The most eye-catching designs have a colour scheme
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even if it's just brown from the chocolates placed on top. I have a tutorial on how to make number cakes
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and also for this one, which has a rainbow colour scheme created by rainbow-coloured marangs
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and macarons. Finally, another ridiculously simple cake to make is a tray bake cake. These are
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baked in deep baking trays or a casserole dish or disposable cake pan, and decorated and served within
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the same pan, so there's no need for layering or crumb coating or anything complicated or time
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consuming. All you need are a few piping bags with different tips and different colors of frosting
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and you can cover the top of the cake with whatever piped patterns or textures you like
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for a fun, unique design that only takes a few minutes. I have a full tutorial on these if you're interested in some ideas for piping styles
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like these rosettes and wiggles and piped flowers using Russian tips. These are the ten trends I think we'll see in the cakes of 2020
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and as a side note, if you want to show off your cake decorating skills
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why not travel with your cake when you visit friends or family? You can travel with a cake in a car or even on an airplane, following a very simple method
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which I've explained in my tutorial on how to travel with a cake in your suitcase
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and I've put the link for it in the description below. Which of these techniques are you excited to try this year
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Or is there another trend you're curious about? Tell me in the comments below
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