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Hello and welcome to Cupcake Addiction's Layered Scallop Frosting Tutorial where I'll be showing
you how to achieve this really pretty and very unusual style of frosting on your cupcakes.
I love this frosting because it can be used with any color combination. You can rainbow
it. You can use it with 1 color, 2 colors, as many as you like.
Tools and equipment that we will be using today:
I have 2 zip lock bags because I'm using 2 colors today. So you need as many zip lock
bags as the amount of colors you wish to use. A pair of scissors.
I've got some buttercream frosting. I do have a great recipe for this frosting on my channel.
So if you don't have a good frosting recipe, I will leave a link to that one in the description
box below. I've gone with a dark pink and a lighter pink.
I've got my cupcake here. And I've pre-frosted that in our flat tap icing style. So we do
have a whole tutorial on how to get your cupcake to this stage ready to decorate. And I will
also leave a link to that in the description box below.
I've got 2 spoons. And I've got a knife.
Let's get started. We're going to open up the zip lock bag. We'll
do both of them. And just fill them up with that really nice icing.
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So just taking your frosting there, pop it into your 2 zip lock bags. We can get that
out of the way. Now you just want to push your frosting down to the corner of the bags
before we seal them up. So sealing that up and just letting any excess air out right
before we seal that last little bit -- so with this one.
Okay. So you want to take both of your bags. And we're going to cut off quite a decent
little corner, so you sort of...about that much. But you want it to be piping {you on]
a circle or dot about that size. So you can see there. It's quite a nice little tip on
it. It's not as fine as we would usually do before we do detail work. And try to get your
2 points roughly the same size. Now I want the contrasting color for my flat
top frosting just because I wanted to mix it up a little bit. Pinks and purples always
go together. For this style of frosting, it is actually really simple. We're just going
to pipe a few dots along the edge so right next to each other so they're touching.
You just want to pipe just a few dots that look like that.
You want to take your knife and make sure that you've got a knife with nice, rounded,
sort of a flat edge on it. And you're just going to smooth it off. So you're smoothing
from about a halfway down the dots. So you sort of push the dot down and it bulges the
back of it out and then you smooth the front of it down into that frosting. Make sure that
you're wiping off your knife in between colors. Now from here, we're going to go one on the
end here. And you want to keep your dots on top of each other. So we'll go across here.
And next to one at the end as the cupcake gets a little bit bigger. And we're going
to repeat that step with pushing in our knife and swiping it down.
And back to our darker pink again. So basically you can see what we're going
to do here. We're just going to repeat this process until we've completely covered that
cupcake. I have seen this done with rainbow and it looks absolutely fantastic. And you
don't have to have all the same colors in the same row. You can go diagonally in rows,
depending on how mathematically inclined you are.
So we'll just continue on until we've covered that cupcake.
Alright, so when you get to about this stage, you're just coming out to your last, sort
of, row. Look, I'm definitely not going to say this is the quickest style of frosting.
It certainly does take a little bit of time but it's absolutely gorgeous. So with your
last row, you just want to make sure that you really really neatly finish those ones
off. So that they're quite sort of presentable at the top of the cupcake there.
And then you want to take your knife. Make sure it's nice and clean. And just swipe all
the way around the edges. So wipe it off in between each little, I guess, wipe around.
So we're just wiping it around that flat top. And that's just going to give you a really
nice finish at the top, keep all nice and circular.
Alright, so there you have your gorgeous layered scallop frosting technique. As you can see,
it looks fantastic in an array of colors and [it's] perfect for so many occasions. As always,
thank you very much for watching.