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Hello and welcome to Cupcake Addiction's Beach Umbrella Cupcake where I'll be showing you
how to make this great, simple and really effective beach-y style cupcake -- the perfect
accompaniment to our giant cupcake bucket and spade, our little cupcake bucket and spade
or of course our beautiful seashell cupcake. You can even put them all together and make
something along the lines of this gorgeous cupcake tower.
Let's get started. Tools and equipment that we will be using
today: I've got a pair of scissors.
I've got a cupcake. Mine is some chocolate with some lovely caramel chips in it today.
I've got some of our perfectly pipeable buttercream frosting. Now I've got a great recipe and
tutorial for that on my channel which I'll leave a link to below. Now, with your frosting
just color it any kind of a sandy color. You can use liquid color. It really doesn't matter,
paste, whatever, yellow, orange, somewhere in between, so long as it works with the kind
of a sandy finish. For our sandy finish, I'm just using shortbread
biscuits or any kind of a white-colored biscuit. As long as it's not chocolate or chocolate
chips, it's going to make us a wonderful little shortbread-y sand. And I've used a food processor
but you can also crush those by hand. Having a look at there, it's not really really finely
crushed. I've used like a sort of less chunks and lumps in there because I want it to look
really nice and sandy. So if you go too fine, they tend to get absorbed into the frosting,
I've got some little coke bottle lollies. Now, most people should be able to find these;
in some countries, maybe not. But I know they're really widely available here in Australia
and I think most people have them. I've got a sour strap. Now I've just chosen
red. You can do any color you like. You can also use fruit roll ups. You can roll up some
toffee or you can use fondant or modeling chocolate.
And I've got a cute little cocktail umbrella. I will be very surprised if you can't find
those in the country that you're watching this from.
Let's get started. I will also mention that I've got a butter
knife. Now, I'm going to take my butter knife and
I'm going to really just scoop it onto the cupcake. So this is a great one for no piping
bags or fancy equipment. As I'm scooping it on, I'm scraping it down into the patty pan,
not over the side- sorry the cupcake liner -- just into it so that it's really kind of
filling up any little gaps beside it, but not going too far over it to make it messy,
especially because I'm using a chocolate cupcake here. If you're using a vanilla, you've got
a little more flexibility so obviously the color is not so harsh as it comes through.
Just... You can see there, as soon as I get to a spot that's got a bit of that brown color.
I really just almost wipe my knife off on it. And it just kind of builds up the frosting
there and colors it nicely. Now I want to just do like a really... I'm just wiping my
knife back and forth. I want to do a really nice rough finish. You don't want it to be
too smooth. Now, to put on our sand, rather than rolling
it in your shortbread sand. I just like to kind of just dip it in there. If you roll
it, you're going to neaten it out too much and we don't really want it to look too neat
because beaches just aren't usually. Alright, so you should have something that looks like
that. Now I like to just go through with my fingers and just a couple of little (Inaudible
03:13) so that it's really nice and haphazard. And then I just sprinkle a little bit more
of that sand on top and tip it off. Something that looks along the lines of that. Beautiful!
So now it's time to make our little towel. For the little towel, I'm just going to take
that sour strap that I'm using. Cut off a little towel-sized portion. Now I found when
making this, normally I would just cut, if I was using fondant or something, I will just
cut these little tiny [nicks] out of it. But because I'm using a sour strap, you really
couldn't notice the [nicks] as much as you would out of fondant or modeling chocolate.
So as I cut along them, I'm going to go back and just take off a corner off each one. It
seems a little time consuming but it really just separates them it makes them a lot more
towel-look like. If you love our tutorials, please make sure
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we would love to have you drop by. Okay, so there's our lovely towel and you
can see there just by cutting off those little corners. It's made it look really [ratty]
on the edges and towel-like, which is really what we want. We're going to take our little
coke bottle. And these cocktail umbrellas, they normally have a little band that holds
them together. Be really careful with these little bands. I cannot tell you how many times
I've almost left one on the top of the cupcake. I'll just open up our umbrella. And it's ready
to put that one together. Now, I'm just going to lay down my towel.
Push it in so that it gets a little bit of that sticky buttercream in some of those finger
holes you've made. Because you've made finger holes there, see how it's sort of sitting
not too flat. It's nice and raised up. It's just looking more like a towel. Put down your
coke bottle somewhere beside the towel. It's a very large bottle of coke for whoever is
sitting on that little tiny towel. And then we've got our umbrella. That umbrella
is just going to get pushed into the cupcake. So there you have your gorgeous little beach
sitting cupcake, ready to go for your next beach party and perfect to pair up with all
of our other great beach-themed cupcakes and giant cupcakes.
Thanks very much for watching. I hope you've enjoyed watching this tutorial as much as
I enjoyed making it for you.