Baking Heaven April 2020

YOU WILL NEED
TO DECOR ATE

• 15cm (6in) cake, finished in
  buttercream


• uncoloured buttercream


• gel colours of your choice: I used
  orange (Christmas Red and Yellow),
  yellow (Sunshine Yellow), olive green
  (Green and a drop of Ivory) and dark green
  (Blue and Sunshine Yellow), all by Wilton
  EQUIPMENT


• piping bags


• scissors


• small palette knives


• cocktail stick

TECHNIQUES

PALETTE KNIFE PAINTING,

COLOURING BUTTERCREAM

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By Neetha Syam from

Buttercream Petals

Art School

1 Prepare a piping bag with green

buttercream and cut a small hole at the

end. Pipe strands of buttercream resembling

the stems of a bouquet onto the cake.

2 With a small palette knife, scoop out a little

buttercream in the desired colour (I used

yellow) and paint narrow petals. You only

need to apply very gentle pressure so you

don’t upset the buttercream layer on which

you are painting. Gentle and clean strokes

are what we are aiming for and a good stable

buttercream is key for this process.

3 Add more layers in a different colour – I

used uncoloured buttercream. Finish off by

putting a dot of buttercream in the middle of

the flower (I used orange) and by piping

details (I used green) in the middle.

4 Pipe more petals in various hues of yellow

and orange around the main flower. You can

pipe small white dots to define the middle of

the flowers, if you like.

5 Paint leaves in the same manner, but use

a cocktail stick to define the veins of

the leaves.

6 Finish off by piping more white dots

scattered around the flowers and leaves,

adding texture using cocktail sticks.

Tip For online or face-to-face workshops,

go to http://www.buttercreampetals.com

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