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So today I'm going to show you a really great way to decorate a simple but beautiful kid's
birthday cake. So you can see I'm just starting with just a nice clean, white surface with
my buttercream. This is a two layer cake. I have my same buttercream in the middle,
I did a crumb coat first, and I did a nice layer of frosting. Now I'm going to come in
and do my design.
So the first thing that I did was take a little bit of this gel color, you can also use liquid,
but I just love that this doesn't make my icing runny at all. I could use a little bit
and get a really intense result, which is great. So I took a little bit of my gel color,
added it in to my buttercream, and you could see I have this beautiful purple color, great
for little girls' birthday parties. And I'm going to do the same thing with a little bit
more frosting, but I'm going to color it yellow. Obviously you can do any color that you like.
If your son loves blue, make it blue, but you could see I just take, you could really
take a toothpick or anything, take a little bit of your gel color, and just add it right
to your frosting, and you can always add more later. I like a really intense color, so just
a little bit of a dollop, and then don't get this on your hands.
So now all I'm going to do is stir my yellow color right into my frosting with my rubber
spatula, you could do this with a spoon too. But you could see as I spin it around it's
going to get a beautiful, intense yellow, like sunshine. Isn't that fun? So easy. Remember
you can make this frosting at home, you can buy the frosting if you just don't have the
time, no one will know. Done.
All I'm going to do is take my piping bag, this is a disposable piping bag with a tip
inside, I have a little round tip here, perfect for writing happy birthday, if you're interested
in doing that, a larger round tip and a star tip for my border. So I think for my border
I'm going to start with purple. So you could see I fold the edges down on my and I push
the bag into the tips, so this way when I fill it with frosting the frosting will not
smush out the bottom.
So I take my rubber spatula with my purple frosting, and just a nice dollop, don't overfill
your bag. Not only because the heat from your hands kind of melts the frosting, but also
because, especially when you're piping your border, you have much more control if you
have a good handle on your piping bag. So too much it's going to be very hard to move
it around. If you have a big air pocket, just push and you're ready to go. If you could
see, I kind of, I twist halfway down and I hold the other end with my hand. If you try
to do this, all over you, so.