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6 Christmas Cake Ideas With SPRINKLES
Sep 6, 2024
In this tutorial I share 6 ideas for decorating Christmas cakes with sprinkles. For 15% off your sprinkle order at www.fancysprinkles.com use my code BRITISHGIRL15 To read a written version of this tutorial (with photos!) click here: http://www.britishgirlbakes.com/6-christmas-cake-ideas-with-sprinkles For my brownie cake topper recipe click here: https://www.britishgirlbakes.com/recipes/brownie-cake-toppers/ For my free online course and my cake decorating school click here: http://www.britishgirlbakes.com/online-courses SUBSCRIBE to my channel for new cake decorating tutorials every week!
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In this tutorial I'm going to show you six ways to decorate Christmas cakes
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using sprinkles for fun, colourful, textured designs. Make your own stencil with parchment paper, cutting a shape out of the middle
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but keeping the surrounding paper intact. Press the stencil against the side of a
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cake and the frosting needs to have set before you do this so I like to put my
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cakes in the fridge for at least an hour or preferably overnight. Spread some more
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frosting over the stencil and this frosting will be soft and sticky which
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is what we need for the next step. Choose your sprinkles and gently attach them to
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the side of the cake. It's easiest to add bigger sprinkles individually but you
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can press handfuls of smaller sprinkles into the frosting and they'll stick easily. Once you've covered the whole shape with sprinkles, peel the stencil
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off and voila! If there are any gaps in the design you can add individual
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sprinkles and for finishing touches try pressing sprinkles into the bottom of
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the cake to make a sparkly border and you can scatter a few sprinkles on top
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of the cake too. Another way to use a homemade stencil is to tape it onto a
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pre-made stencil with whatever pattern or design you like and then spread
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frosting over the top to add a design within the shape you're creating on the
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cake. You can scrape off any parts of the design you don't want with an offset
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spatula and this works because the base frosting on the cake has set so it's
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firm and you won't damage it. Get your sprinkles ready and you don't have to
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use an entire mix so for example for this cake I'm only using the large round
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sprinkles. Add some bling and you've got a fully decorated Christmas tree! You can
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pipe some swirls of frosting on top of the cake using a 1M star tip and these
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look a bit like Christmas trees so you can add sprinkles to decorate these too. If you're looking for more cake decorating and baking ideas, tips and
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recipes, follow my page on Amazon to watch free live videos of my kitchen
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adventures and the link for my page is in the video description. Using a leaf
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tip you can pipe poinsettias, the traditional Christmas flower. The frosting comes out of the triangular gaps in the sides of the tip and if you
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hold the tip still as you start to squeeze the frosting out, you'll get a
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nice wide base for each petal and as you finish your petal, stop squeezing the
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piping bag at the same time as you swipe it off the cake and that will give you a pointed tip on the petal. After doing one ring of petals, pipe another ring on top
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overlapping the petals by piping each petal in between two of the petals on
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the previous ring. Use some silver or gold sprinkles to make the middle of the flower
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To make a sprinkled chocolate cake topper, meld any kind of chocolate and
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use a cookie cutter shape and place it on a piece of parchment paper or a silicon mat. Spoon the chocolate into the shape, pushing it right up into the
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corners and then pour sprinkles on top and press those gently into the chocolate
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so that they stick. Leave the chocolate to set for about an hour or put it in
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the fridge or freezer to speed up the process and then carefully push the chocolate out of the cookie cutter, pressing all over the shape just a bit
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at a time to ease it out gradually so it doesn't break. These make beautiful and
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delicious cake toppers! If you're enjoying this tutorial please click the thumbs up button and subscribe to my YouTube channel for new cake decorating
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tutorials every week! Remember to hit that notification bell so you don't miss
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one! Another way to use cookie cutters is to make cake toppers out of brownies
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My brownie recipe that's stable enough to be able to cut out shapes that will
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stand up on a cake is on britishgirlbakes.com and the link is in the video description. Push a paper straw into the brownie and
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then you can pipe frosting onto it to add some colour. Here I'm using a leaf
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tip, starting at the bottom of the tree and overlapping each row to completely
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cover up the brownie. Add some shiny sprinkles and then push the straw into a
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cake and your cake topper is ready! Finally poke a paper straw into a
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marshmallow and dip it into melted chocolate, twisting it around to cover
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the whole marshmallow in chocolate. Let the excess chocolate drip off and then
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dip the marshmallow into a bowl of sprinkles, again twisting it around to
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completely cover the marshmallow with sprinkles. Frost and decorate your cake and try adding a sprinkle border around the bottom of the cake to match the
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marshmallows. Stick the straws into the cake and you've got some glitzy marshmallow cake toppers! I hope you've seen some fun ideas you'd like to try
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You'll find all of my recipes, tutorials and online classes on britishgirlbakes.com as well as my free online course on 10 Frosting
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Techniques. Thanks for watching
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