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10 Cake Decorating Trends To Try In 2021
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Sep 6, 2024
In this cake decorating tutorial I share my predictions for the top 10 cake decorating trends to try in 2021 and also show how to achieve each technique. 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! For my online cake decorating school click here: https://www.britishgirlbakes.com/online-courses For my 4 Minute Buttercream frosting recipe, which I used for every cake in this video, click here: https://www.britishgirlbakes.com/recipes/buttercream-frosting/ For the tutorials showing how to achieve the techniques in this video click below: 5 Tips for Perfectly Textured Frosting: https://youtu.be/WvtQmhfVO2I Under The Sea Jelly Cake: https://youtu.be/H_WGB34fTak 6 Ways To Decorate Cakes with Parchment Paper: https://youtu.be/Nq1Y1km99HU How to Frost a Square Cake with a Cardboard Box: https://youtu.be/GYsTpCjgxlQ Frustration-Free Mini Cakes: https://youtu.be/e1yY9rEhraI How to Turn Cupcakes into Cakes: https://youtu.be/SdqjIGoAw_Q Cake Sails 5 Ways: https://youtu.be/umhNWdeiVkE How to Make Homemade Doughnuts: https://youtu.be/LFAzLDyumEc Hot Chocolate Bomb Tutorial: https://youtu.be/po8eJL2T6zE How to Decorate a Cake Without Tools: https://youtu.be/HXMldKy1Adw 10 Ways To Use Chocolate Chips to Decorate Cakes: https://youtu.be/o6OxMH2OERg To read a transcribed version of this tutorial (with photos!) click here: http://www.britishgirlbakes.com/10-cake-decorating-trends-2021 For 15% off sprinkles from www.fancysprinkles.com use the code BRITISHGIRL15
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Trending cake styles going into 2021 feature bright and cheerful, hopeful colours
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shrinking cakes with growing decorations, prints stolen from fashion trends, and techniques using just basic kitchen tools and pantry ingredients for surprisingly
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intricate designs. This is going to be a year for bright and bold color
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combinations, including neon colors and rainbows but not limited to them. Think happy
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cheerful colours, moving away from the striking but quite ominous black cakes that were popular
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for a while in 2020. To make rainbow swirls, pipe strips of each colour of frosting onto a piece
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of cling film or saran wrap, and then roll it up into a log and cut off one end, dropping that end
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down into a piping bag fitted with a star tip, like a one m tip. Then pipe your swirls and hold your
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bag in the same position for each swell so that the colours face the same way all the way around
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the cake. To achieve really bold colours, use gels, which are very concentrated, so with just
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a few drops you can get intense colours without affecting the consistency of your frosting. I teach
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how to tint buttercream and share the drop count for 43 colours in my online course on the basics
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of buttercream, and the link for the course is in the video description and in the top of the
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screen. Jelly can be used to create an underwater effect, and cakes can be partially or completely
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covered with jelly to create oceans or aquariums. To create an under-the-sea cake, first carve
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and frost your cake and create any creatures or plants or other decorations you want to put in
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the jelly. You can use melted chocolate or jelly in moulds to do this. Wrap your cake in
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acetate within a spring form pan wrapped in cling film or saran wrap to stop the jelly leaking out
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Pour the jelly in, let it set and then peel off the acetate. I have a detailed tutorial
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on this if you want to try it. Some jelly island cakes have started to emerge and since jelly is so easy to make and the transparent effect is so striking
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I think we'll see some stunning jelly cakes in 2021 and I think it will be used to mimic more
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than just water like colourful stained glass. Leopard print is already trending in fashion but it's coming to the cake world. I think we'll see
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all sorts of animal print but particularly leopard print cake designs, incorporated into frosting
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toppers and other details. For quick leopard print frosting, cut a piece of acetate that you can wrap around your cake and pipe random squiggles of buttercream onto it for the leopard spots
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Pipe a darker colour around the dots or just use a larger round tip to pipe blobs of buttercream over the top of the first colour you piped and then put the acetate in the fridge to set the dots
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Spread your frosting colour on top, completely covering the acetate if you want to frost the whole cake with leopard print
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or just do a section of frosting as an accent. Before the buttercream sets, wrap the acetate around your cake, chill it again and peel it off
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You can do this with parchment paper instead, but acetate is thicker and steadier, so it is a buttercreen setter, so it is a butterympers
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and sturdier, so it makes the frosting a bit smoother and neater
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You can scrape around the frosting with a frosting smoother to even out any imperfections
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Textured frosting was big in 2020, and cakes moved away from rustic, uneven texture
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created with an offset spatchelor or the back of the spoon, becoming neater by using textured cake combs, and more elaborate with carved details
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Texture isn't going anywhere in 2021, but expect to see it taken to the next level with double texture
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which you can create by chilling your first layer of textured frosting before applying your second layer
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For neatly textured cakes, start with a smooth layer of frosting and make sure the sides of your cake are straight
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so the grooves of the textured cake comb will imprint the cake evenly up and down the sides of the cake
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Go around the cake several times with your textured comb next, pressing the comb down on the cakeboard to keep it straight, and as you go
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touch up any gaps in the texture by spreading on some more frosting and then go over that area again with your comb
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I think we'll see cakes with half and half texture, where the frosting is divided, down the middle or at a diagonal
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I teach how to create half and half cakes in my online cake school
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Another texture that's growing in popularity is pointillism, where designs are piped onto cakes with hundreds or thousands of tiny dots of frosting
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It's a simple concept and fairly easy to execute, but the result can be truly jaw-dropping
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We've been seeing more and more square cakes, which are instantly eye-catching with their sharp angles and smooth flat sides
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and they're even more impressive to cake decorators who know just how time consuming it can be to frost a square cake compared to a round one
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Having four distinct sides on a square cake allows you to easily divide your cake into different themes or techniques
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and having flat sides instead of the curved sides of a round cake, make it easier to apply buttercream transfers or icing sheets and stencils
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If you're intimidated by these angular beauties, don't be. Try my cardboard box method for a free and stress-free method to get perfect results every time
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After social downsizing in 2020 cakes are downsizing too Perfect for small gatherings or to sweeten up a quiet night at home mini cakes are just enough cake and they adorable
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To make these, use a mini cake pan or cut the layers out of a bigger cake layer
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using a round cookie cutter, or you can even use cupcakes. There are a few secrets to frosting these without them toppling over or sliding around
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around and I have a full tutorial covering the whole process but the most important parts are to use
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a dollop of frosting to secure the cake to the cake board, to chill your cake layers so they firm up
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before you attempt to frost them, and to use a loose consistency of buttercream, less stiff than normal
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so that it glides easily over the cake as you spread it on and smooth it. These individual
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or couple-sized cakes are also a great way to experiment with cake decorating techniques without
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wasting large amounts of cake and frosting. Just because cakes are getting smaller doesn't mean that
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the decorations have to. Expect to see larger-than-life cake toppers in 2021. Top-heavy sails made
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with chocolate or sugar, doughnuts, and shapes cut out with cookie cutters from chocolate, brownies
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or cookies. To make a chocolate sale, melt chocolate or candy melts, and then pour them onto
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parchment paper or a silicon mat. Or you can drizzle different colors to create a marbled
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effect. Drape it over a bottle or bowl and wait for it to set, or put it in the fridge or
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freezer to speed up the process. Peel the paper away from the chocolate and press
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the sail into the top of a cake. For softer baked choppers like brownies or
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doughnuts you can push paper straws into them and use those to attach them to a
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cake. Or you can bake marangs or cookies with the straws already inside them
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Another way to attach toppers is to pipe some swells of frosting on top of the
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cake and press the topper into them and when the frosting sets it will secure the
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topper in place. With the hot chocolate bomb trend of 2020, anyone who made them has a sphere mould or several of different sizes
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And as the hot chocolate bomb trend inevitably dies, I think we'll be seeing those moulds
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repurposed in lots of unique ways. Forget about the marshmallow filling. You can just fill the mould with melted chocolate, attach two halves together by dropping
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one half onto a hot plate or pan to melt the surface
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And you've got a pretty round chocolate. Add a pattern or design by painting it onto the mould with coloured chocolate, letting it set
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then adding more melted chocolate over the top to cover the whole mould
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I'm confident we'll see a lot of spherical chocolate toppers on cakes in all sorts of colours and patterns
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placed on swells of frosting or creating gravity sculptures on top of cakes Combine three trends with leopard print on an oversized topper made with a hot chocolate bar mold I sure we see the molds used to
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create balloons on cakes, planets on space-themed cakes, and lots of other clever decorative ideas
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People learn to be really resourceful in 2020 and I think we'll see that reflected in
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cake designs in 2021, created with very minimal cake decorating tools, like makeshift turn tables using
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microwave whales. I have a tutorial on cake decorating with no tools that exploded with the
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rise of homemakers who couldn't, or didn't want to, rush out and buy a bunch of tools for a new
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hobby. I think people will be using basic materials like parchment paper to make homemade
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stencils, as well as parchment paper cake wraps. And if you're looking for ideas of things you can do
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with parchment paper, I have a tutorial on six ways to use it on cakes. Another example of a resourceful
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cake technique is creating texture with kitchen utensils, like cutlery, forks, spruce
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spoons, knives, even chopsticks. As well as cakes made and decorated with the tools available, I think we'll see an increase
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in cakes featuring pantry staple ingredients, like marshmallows, cookies, and chocolate chips
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instead of special materials like icing sheets or isomalt. Check out my tutorial on 10 ways to use chocolate chips to decorate cakes for ideas of all
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the things you can do with just a simple ingredient. You'd be surprised at how elaborate and intricate cakes can be using the most basic tools
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materials and ingredients. The final trend? Sprinkles. Sprinkle designs have been gaining momentum
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over the last two or three years, and with the growing availability of colorful
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metallic, and thematic sprinkle blends, we're bound to see them continue into 2021
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We've seen increasingly creative uses of sprinkles to decorate cakes that are shared on social media
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to inspire other sprinkle fanatics, so I think sprinkle cakes are here to stay
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Try pressing sprinkles into the bottom of a cake to make a colorful border, or into a
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stencil to make a sprinkled shape, or add them to your caketoppers for some extra sparkle
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If you'd like to learn new techniques and cake decorating ideas, check out my free
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course on my online cake school. It's called 10 frosting techniques, and I have lots of other courses and classes, and if
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you join my club, you'll get access to every class, including all future classes that I add
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so you can keep on top of all the cake trends, get inspired with new cake designs, and learn new techniques
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You'll also be able to join my members-only live cake demonstrations, where you can vote for
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the cake I demonstrate and you can ask me any questions you have. I've put the link for my
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online cake school in the video description and at the top of the screen and I hope to see you there
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