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Add berries to your cakes with these nine ideas that are beautiful and delicious
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To mix berries into your frosting, simmer fresh or frozen berries with a bit of sugar until they
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soften and thicken. Blitz them in a food processor or blender and doesn't that look delicious? You
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can strain this through a sieve if you like. Let it cool completely and then stir it into your
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frosting. This is my 4 Minute Buttercream and the recipe is in the video description and on
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britishgirlbakes.com. Berries give frosting a gorgeous colour and the flecks make it look
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absolutely delicious! To use fresh berries to decorate a cake, you can pile them on top of a
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cake and if you don't smooth the top edge of the frosting on the cake you'll have a wall to hold
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the berries in place. If the frosting has set, you can spread some fresh frosting onto the top
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of the cake to act as glue to attach the berries. Add berries to piping for some extra height and
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colour but if you're using buttercream make sure you do this immediately after piping because if
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you wait too long and the buttercream sets it will crack when you push the berries down and they
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won't stick to the piped buttercream after it sets. Another fun way to use berries on top of a cake
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is to place them between swells of frosting. You can use them as guides for even spacing around
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the cake by pushing the berries into the frosting on the top of the cake and arranging them opposite
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each other so that there's the same distance between each berry. Then pipe your swirls or
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ruffles or whatever in between the berries. If you count to the same number as you pipe back and
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forth or round and round all of your piping will be the same height. The berries add a burst of
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colour to this lemon cake. Berries make a nice border around the bottom of a cake or if your
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cake is a tier cake you can place berries around the bottom of each tier to decorate them very
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quickly and easily. Use berries as cake toppers instead, spacing them around the top of the cake
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and using a bit of fresh frosting to attach each one if the frosting on the cake has already set
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You might choose to use the berries as a guide of how to slice the cake so that each slice has
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a berry on top. This one is the most time consuming but also the most dramatic. Press berries into the
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sides of a cake starting at the very bottom and working your way up and going in the same order
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for example blueberry, blackberry, raspberry. Then offset each berry by one berry in the next row and
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you'll end up with diagonals going all the way up the cake. If that last one seemed a bit over the
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top try placing berries as accents on the cake, making clusters or groups of different types of
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berries to create variety of colours and shapes and sizes. To attach the berries, if you haven't
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just frosted the cake and you're using buttercream it might have already set and in that case you'll
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need to pipe or spread a bit of fresh frosting wherever you want the berries to go so that they
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stick. To create some bright texture on your cake, spread some jam or cooked berries around the very
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bottom of the cake straight after frosting it before the frosting sets. Use your offset spatula
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to spread the jam upwards in diagonal strokes around the cake, overlapping each stroke slightly
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so that there aren't any gaps between them. You can do this with the back of a spoon for even more
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texture. And now here are some bloopers in case you think it's possible to decorate cakes as
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quickly and effortlessly as in this video so far. And yes, I only had the patience to decorate the
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front side of this cake. I hope you've seen some ideas you like! Subscribe to my channel for a new
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cake decorating tutorial every week, visit britishgirlbakes.com for all of my recipes
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and tutorials and visit my cake school for hundreds of cake decorating techniques and designs
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