Hey guys and welcome back to my channel Cakes by MK. In today's video i'm going to be showing
you guys how to make a super gorgeous golden strawberry cake, but the best part about this
video is i've got a mind-blowing trick coming up to show you guys how to make your strawberries a
beautiful golden color. If you're new to my channel welcome and if you enjoy this video
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So i'm starting off with crumb coating my cake. So i've got a 10 inch cake board, i've got some
vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream which i'm going to be using to ice my cake with
and then i've got three six inch cake layers that i'm going to use to build my cake. Now i'm
starting off by placing some buttercream onto my cake board so that my cake doesn't move around
then i'm putting my first layer on top which is my chocolate cake layer
followed by some more buttercream which i'm smoothing out with my offset spatula
then i'm placing my next cake layer on top and this time it's my vanilla
cake layer and then i'm smoothing out some more buttercream on top of that
then i'm finishing off with my final chocolate cake layer and
then i'm going to cover the entire cake with a thin layer of buttercream
now i'm just finishing off my crumb coat by running my spatula around
the cake to smooth the buttercream out and then cleaning up the top
okay so that's my crumb coat done and now this cake is going to go into the fridge for about
30 minutes for the buttercream to firm up. So my buttercream has firmed up now and i'm ready to put
another coat of buttercream on. Now i'm just giving my buttercream a mix as this helps to remove air
bubbles when your buttercream has been sitting for a while. Now i'm just starting off by smoothing out
the top of the cake and then i'll cover the sides and smooth it out with my cake scraper
Now i'm just filling in any gaps with more buttercream before i
smooth out the cake again and clean up the top
okay now this cake is going to go into the fridge for about an hour for the buttercream to firm up
so it's been an hour now and i'm going to go ahead and very gently scrape the cake again so
that everything becomes super smooth. Now with this technique you're basically scraping cold
buttercream and a thin layer comes off the top of the buttercream. This is one of my favorite
ways of getting nice sharp edges on a cake too. Now you just want to keep in mind though that
this cold scraping technique doesn't work with all buttercreams, but i can say for sure that it
does work with meringue based buttercreams and ganache. Now when you're using this technique
it also helps to wipe off your scraper before you scrape your cake just like i've done here
now next i'm adding another layer of buttercream which is going to be the layer that my drips come
off of to give me this cool halfway drip effect. So i'm just starting off by placing buttercream
all around the bottom then i begin shaping the top so that i've got a wavy kind of pattern
now once i've gotten all my icing on i'm just smoothing it out with my cake scraper
next i'm using my offset spatula to smoothen out the ridges that
have kind of formed on the top of my outer layer of buttercream and
this is going to create a nice flat surface for my drips to fall off of
now once i've done that i'm scraping the excess buttercream off and cleaning up the cake
so as i was flattening that top part of the buttercream i kind of scraped
into my inner layer of buttercream so i'm just smoothing it out again
by applying some buttercream on the cake and then smoothing it out
okay now this cake is going to go into the fridge for about an hour because our buttercream needs
to be cold before we add our drips to our cake. Now in the meantime we're going to work on our
strawberries so what i've got here is some white melted chocolate that i'm going to
cover my strawberries with, then i've got my strawberries i've also got some toothpicks
because these are going to help with handling the strawberries and i'm just dropping them everywhere
and then i've got some scissors in a tray with some parchment paper on it
now the first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to trim the tops
of the strawberries so they're a little neater
now next i'm going to poke a toothpick into the top of the strawberry where the stem is
now to coat my strawberries i'm simply going to dip one right into my melted
chocolate and i'm just moving it around in a circular motion so that it's fully covered
now once you've lifted up the strawberry give it a little twirl and shake to get
rid of any of that excess chocolate and then place it onto your parchment paper
and now you're just going to do the same thing with the remaining strawberries
now don't get too excited like me and shake it around too much otherwise it's going to fly off
your toothpick. Now once all your strawberries are covered they're going to go into a freezer
for about 10 to 15 minutes until the chocolate is set. Now you know your chocolate is ready when
it easily comes off your parchment paper and is solid when you tap the chocolate. Now this is
the exciting part, so to make your strawberries golden all you need to do is pour some sprinkles
into a bowl, i'm just using some good old hundreds and thousands, and then what you want to do is add
in some luster dust so i added in about half a teaspoon and then just give it a good mix
now once that's all mixed up simply grab a strawberry and move it around in the
sprinkle mixture and you will end up with the most beautifully coated chocolate strawberry
i mean how gorgeous does that look and how easy was that to do
and then once all your strawberries are
done we are going to set them aside while we work on our chocolate drip
so my buttercream is firm and cold now but before i add my chocolate drip i'm just using
the cold buttercream scraping technique to get everything really nice and smooth
now for my chocolate drip i'm using a white chocolate ganache which i
have in a sauce bottle and i'm going to start off by doing a test drip
now if you're a little clumsy like me then you want to watch out for
any excess getting onto your cake and i've just cleaned mine up with my offset spatula
so i'm happy with my first drip so i'm going to go ahead and start adding the rest of my
drips onto my cake. Now if you're not quite sure how to make a ganache for a drip cake
then i do have a more in-depth tutorial on this which i'll post a link to below
i think drips are probably one of the most satisfying things to watch
okay so this is going to go into the fridge again for about an hour
to let the ganache drip set so we can paint them
so to paint my drips i've just made a simple paint
out of lustre dust the same one that i used to cover my strawberries with
and a little bit of water and i'm using that to paint my cake. I do have a more in-depth tutorial
on how to make edible gold paint and i'll post a link to that below if you want to check it out
so i'm just starting off with a first coat now if you accidentally get some
on your buttercream like i do all the time you can just get another brush
that's been dabbed in some water and use that to clean up some of that extra paint
now i'm just going over the drips again with a second coat
now i don't know why but i randomly thought it would be a great idea to
start painting the top of the cake and i usually only do this with lustre dust when
i'm painting a buttercream cake, not a paint, but i instantly regretted it
and then frantically started to try and rescue my cake. I started wiping off the
paint and then scraped off the buttercream which thankfully worked out really well
now i'm just finishing off by smoothing out all the edges and then my gold drip is done
so to finish off decorating i've just got some buttercream in a piping bag
with a 1m star tip on it and i'm going to do some piping on the top of my cake
now once that's done i'm simply going to place a strawberry on top of each of my buttercream swirls
and then once all my strawberries are on my golden strawberry cake is all done
now just before i finish i wanted to really quickly tell you guys that my new website
is finally up and all my courses can now be directly purchased from my website so
that you don't have to kind of go to any other platform to you know have access to my courses
and i'll post a link to those courses below. Apart from that hope you guys enjoyed this video
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