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In today's video i'm going to be sharing with you guys a life-changing
hack which is going to make your bright buttercream problems a whole lot easier
What I absolutely love about this hack is one, it's going to save you so much time so you don't
have to wait hours or even overnight to allow the gel colors in your buttercream to develop
and two is that it's going to save you some money because you don't need to use so much gel color to
get a beautiful bright buttercream. Apart from that if you're new to my channel please click
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So first up i'm going to start off with some red buttercream. So what I've got here is I've got some
vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream and then I've also got some gel colours here which i'm going to
use to colour my Swiss meringue buttercream. So what i'm going to do first is i'm going to colour my
buttercream a subtle pink colour and this is going to help amplify that red colouring once I put it in
I'm going to put in a few more drops of the pink
So now that I've got this subtle pink colour the next thing that i'm going to do is i'm
going to add some red gel food coloring to my buttercream and i'm going to keep mixing it
until I reach a decent red colour
So i'm just starting off with a generous squirt of red
Now after mixing in all of that gel food colour so I did add quite a few squirts because this
is a big batch of frosting but even though i did add quite a bit we're still only left with
this kind of pale red color so it's not kind of you know a nice bright red that we probably want
so the really easy trick here which totally goes against anything that I would normally
do is to pop your bowl into the microwave so yes your buttercream is going to melt
so the consistency that you're looking for is kind of like a liquidy consistency so anywhere from 10
to 20 seconds depending on how much buttercream you have should be fine so I would pop it in first
for about 10 seconds see how it is and then if it's still quite thick and not maybe so liquidy
yet pop it in for another 5 to 10 seconds and then you should be good but what you'll notice as
soon as you take it out of the microwave is that color already is going to be so much darker so i'm
going to pop a little bit aside so that we've got something to compare it to for before and after
and then yeah i'll be back once my buttercream is out of the microwave. So I've just taken out
my buttercream from the microwave and the change in color is just absolutely incredible it's just
like magic so if you take a closer look you can see it's just turned into this really beautiful
rich red color and if you compare it to the other buttercream that we made earlier you can see that
the change in colour is quite drastic and that's simply from heating it up in the microwave so I
didn't add any extra food color or anything like that so yeah it's a really magical transformation
so what you need to do now you know you might be worried thinking oh my gosh this is so liquidy
how am I supposed to ice a cake with this but what we are going to do next is to pop this
into the fridge just for about half an hour to an hour. My one is quite a large batch so if you
are you know if you're making a smaller batch then you know maybe half an hour will be fine
and then we're going to come back and whip this up and it's going to turn into a beautiful Swiss
meringue buttercream again except it's going to be this gorgeous deep red colour. Now while this is
cooling away in the fridge i'm going to show you guys the exact same technique with green and blue
so with the green and the blue i'm going to be doing the exact same thing so i've
got some vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream here, I've got two bowls one for each colour
and i'm simply just going to add some green food color into one bowl and some blue gel
food color into another bowl mix that up and then we're going to pop it into the microwave
okay so i have mixed in my blue and my green food color and now the next thing that i'm going to do
is i'm going to pop a little bit of each aside into a bowl so we can do a before and after
and then i'm just going to pop these into the microwave and i'll be back once they're done
so i've just taken my blue and my green out of the microwave, they were in there for about 15 seconds
and as you can see they've really developed in color
so the blue is a lot deeper in color now as well as the green
now just like I did with my red buttercream i'm going to pop these two into the fridge
and then we're going to come back and whip them up into a beautiful buttercream again
so my red buttercream has had a little bit of time to cool it was in the fridge for about 40 minutes
or so and now it's thickened up a little bit and it's ready for me to whip into some beautiful
Swiss meringue buttercream so i'm just going to be using my hand mixer for this you can also pop
this into your mixer if you like and i'm just going to whip it up on a medium to high speed
and then once you've whipped that up really nicely you should be left with a beautiful red
buttercream. Now because I used a Swiss meringue buttercream today initially it does look like
it's curdling but don't worry that's what's supposed to happen and just keep mixing and
it will slowly come together so as you can see i'm left with a beautiful bright red stable Swiss
meringue buttercream and now i'm going to do the exact same thing with my blue and my green
so as you can see from these before and after shots there is a massive change in the color
and the great part about it is that it didn't take too much time so we didn't have to wait
kind of a couple of hours or overnight for the color to develop and two it also helped to save
some money because we didn't have to use so much food coloring to get that nice deep dark color
so that was the life-changing hack that I wanted to share with you guys. I hope you enjoyed this
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