How To Do Birthday Cake Decorating

Now, we're going to show you how to do easy birthday cake decorating. We've premade a cake here and we've put an initial layer of buttercream on it. And we're going to do that to adhere the sugar paste to it.

Now, we're going to roll out the sugar paste. We've chosen white, but of course, you can use any colour you want. You can pre-colour it or you can purchase it coloured.

So we put icing sugar on our work surface so that the sugar paste does not adhere to the surface. Turn the sugar paste as needed, to get a nice circle. Use the icing sugar liberally.

You will need to make sure it's big enough to cover the top and the sides. Now, you're going to roll it over the rolling pin. Bring the cake towards you.

Now, you're going to unroll it over the cake. Pat it down and make sure that it adheres to the sides of the cake. Make sure there are no bubbles of air.

You can take a pallet knife and cut the sugar paste, the excess off. Of course, you can use the sugar paste for another time or for decorations. Now, you've got your cake covered.

You're going to apply border piping. Using a very small star tip, you're going to pipe along the edge, finish off where the cake meets the board and here we're just going to do some dashes, one meeting the next one. Okay.

Now, we're going to colour a little bit of buttercream. As a stirrer, you can use a cocktail stick and apply a little at a time. You can always add more later.

Once you're happy with the colour, you can put that in a piping bag that's going to have straight tip, for writing. We're going to add just a couple of roses to dress it up and a little bit of edible glitter. Just take a pinch of that and you can use it very sparingly over the top crushing it as you scatter it.

You get lots of colour and that is how we do easy birthday cake decorating. .