In this tutorial I'll share five hacks to decorate cakes that will really wow your friends,
family or customers! Turn a cupcake into a cake with this fun trick: peel the wrappers off two
cupcakes and trim the tops so that they're flat. Cut the cupcakes in half horizontally
if you want more cake layers and then layer the cupcake halves with whatever filling you like,
piping it like you would on a cupcake or just spread it on, alternating between cupcake and
filling to assemble a teeny tiny cake! Put it in the freezer for 15 minutes before frosting
it so that it's more stable and doesn't wobble all over the place and then use two layers of frosting
for the neatest results because the first layer will trap any crumbs that come off the cupcake
layers and then the second layer will be crumb free and perfect. Add whatever details you like
to create a dessert that looks way fancier than a simple cupcake. Achieve incredibly intricate
details with flawless designs in seconds! Buy icing sheets online in thousands of different
patterns and I've put my discount code in the video description. Frost a cake as normal,
let it set and measure the height and then cut the icing sheet to be the same height.
Peel the icing sheet off the backing and wrap it around the cake and it will stick to the frosting.
Cut it where the two ends join and trim the top of the icing sheet anywhere it's sticking up
above the cake and then add a pretty border on top to finish it off. If you're enjoying this tutorial
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Make a cake gold by letting the frosting set and then peel open a sheet of gold
leaf which you can buy on amazon and press the gold leaf into the frosting on the cake.
Use the backing paper to push against the cake without touching the gold leaf with your hands
since it's very delicate and will stick to you instead of the cake.
When you peel the backing paper away the gold leaf will be left on the cake.
Repeat the process with several sheets of gold and they're so thin that where they overlap they'll
blend together and form a flat layer of gold all over the cake. Make homemade lollipops with just
one ingredient! Place some paper straws in a lollipop mold and add some sprinkles if you like
and then put a hard candy like a jolly rancher in each circle. Put the mold in the microwave
for 30 seconds or until the candy is melted and bubbling. Leave them to cool for a few minutes and
then push the lollipops out of the mold for fun, flavoured, colourful treats or cake decorations!
Here's a secret ingredient to create really bright and bold colours with chocolate, which
will seize if you use more than a drop of gel colours intended for frostings like buttercream.
Let's rewind. Melt chocolate in the microwave at 80% power for 30 seconds at a time so it
doesn't overheat. Add cream if you're going to make a drip or don't if you want to just
make chocolate decorations. Now add colour but use oil-based colours, sometimes called candy colours,
which have no water in them so they won't make the chocolate seize up.Yyou can add as much of
these colours as you like to make shades like these. This will work for chocolate drips,
chocolate spheres, sails, any chocolate details on cakes. Learn all sorts of skills you can use
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hundreds of classes on skills like illustration and painting to improve the designs on your cakes.
I've taken classes on acrylic painting to learn how to layer colours and textures, on animation
to make fun effects in my videos and productivity for creativity by Thomas Frank and they've all
helped me up my cake decorating game. Skillshare is designed specifically for learning so there are
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you can explore and get inspired. So now you can turn cupcakes into cakes, make cakes gold,
create jaw-droppingly bright and bold colours with chocolate, turn candy into cake toppers and
achieve flawless, intricately patterned designs... what cake superpower do you wish you had? I'd love
to be able to decorate at time-lapse speed! Tell me yours in the comments. Thanks for watching!