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How To Decorate Carved Buttercream Cakes
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Sep 6, 2024
In this cake decorating tutorial I show how to decorate carved buttercream cakes with sprinkles. This video is a snippet from my online course, the Cake Carving Masteseries, and you can find out more information and sign up here: https://britishgirlbakes.teachable.com/courses/cake-carving SUBSCRIBE to my channel for new cake decorating tutorials every week!
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Hi! I'm Emily of British Girl Bakes and I'm going to show you a few fun ways to
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decorate carved cakes with sprinkles. I'm going to be using these cakes and I show
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step-by-step how to carve them in my online course, the Cake Carving Master
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Series and I've put the link in the top of the screen and in the video
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description in case you'd like more information about the course. I'm going to show you how to add sprinkles to your cake to fill in carved
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designs and outlines, add texture and colour and put finishing touches on a
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cake. To fill in a carved shape the cake will need to be chilled. Use a paintbrush
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to brush water into the carved area you want to fill with sprinkles and then dip
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your finger into water. Room temperature is fine and then tap off any excess
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water and dip your finger into the sprinkles you want to use. This is gold
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sanding sugar or edible glitter. The sprinkles will stick to your damp finger
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and then you can transfer them to the cake, angling your finger to cover the
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whole carved area. You can use a slightly damp paintbrush instead if you prefer. If
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you get sprinkles outside of the carved area you're trying to fill, use a clean
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slightly damp paintbrush to gently brush them off the frosting on the cake and
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into the carved area. Whenever you're decorating with sprinkles it's a good
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idea to place a tray underneath your cake to catch any falling sprinkles so
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they don't go all over your kitchen. Brush the area with water where you want
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to stick the sprinkles. For this cake I'm going to stick nonpareils, also called
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hundreds and thousands, onto the outline of the star shape. You can do this by
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dipping a damp finger in the sprinkles and then pressing your finger against the cake wherever you want the sprinkles to go or you can use a
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slightly damp paintbrush. It's important to tap or brush most of the water off
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your finger or the paintbrush otherwise water can drip onto the cake and make
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the frosting colours run and stain the cake or the colours of the sprinkles can
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bleed onto the water and will also stain the cake. This is a fairly tedious
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time-consuming process but the results are spectacular! To fill the carved outline of a shape with sprinkles, use a damp paintbrush to
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outline the shape and then dip a damp finger into the sprinkles and then press
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them against the cake. You'll probably get sprinkles on both sides of the
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outline but after applying all of the sprinkles to the approximate area you
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can push any stray sprinkles onto the carved outline with a paintbrush
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You If the sprinkles bleed colour onto your cake you can brush the stains off with a
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damp paintbrush or chill the cake and then dip a carving tool with a flat edge
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into hot water, tap it dry and then gently scrape off any stained frosting
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around the shape. As a reminder, if you'd like to learn the techniques and tricks
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for carving buttercream cakes and how to decorate the carvings by painting
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sponging and filling them with gel colours, edible metallics, buttercream and sprinkles, I demonstrate all of this on 18 different cakes in my online course
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the Cake Carving Master Series and the link is in the top of the screen and in
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the video description. On this cake I'm pressing sprinkles into parts of the
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rose design to give the impression of dew. With a damp finger I'm applying the
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sprinkles to the frosting and then I'm using this rubber tool, which came in one
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of my packets of carving tools, to push the sprinkles where I want them to go
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You can use a damp paintbrush for this instead. Over here I'm pressing gold pearl sprinkles into some dots that I've
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carved and filled with buttercream and this is the only technique that I
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recommend doing when your cake has been sitting out of the fridge for a while and the frosting has started to warm up and soften, so that you can easily press
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the sprinkles into the cake. If the cake is cold you'll have to use a lot more
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pressure and you're more likely to create bulges of frosting around the
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areas where you push the sprinkles in. Just be careful when you press the
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sprinkles in that you don't knock the frosting with your hand because if the
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frosting is soft you'll indent it and leave an imprint. These sprinkles add some
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nice texture to the cake on top of the buttercream filling within the carved pattern. It's easiest to add sprinkles to a carving that's on the top of the cake
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rather than the side because you can direct the placement of the sprinkles
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more easily by pouring them into the carving using a packet of sprinkles or
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by putting the sprinkles on a piece of paper and folding it in half so that the
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sprinkles come out of the paper where the crease is and go directly into the
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shape or letter you've carved. If your cake is properly chilled you can brush
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the sprinkles into your carvings to create eye-catching messages on your cakes
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As with any cake you can add finishing touches with sprinkles like this quick
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border on top of the cake where I'm pressing big round gold sprinkles
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evenly spaced around the outer edge of the top of the cake
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and doing the same around the bottom of the cake as well
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For this mermaid cake I'm pouring sprinkles onto the top of the cake which
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is walled in by an uneven top edge of frosting. It's a quick, easy way to add
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height, colour and texture to your cake to complement the carved design on the
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sides. Thanks for watching! I hope this snippet of my Cake Carving Master Series
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has given you some ideas to try and if you'd like to learn how to frost, carve
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and decorate cakes in much more detail click the link in the video description
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to find out more information about my online course. Thank you
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