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Amateur baker- please help me make this cake look nice!

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Erythrosint · 14/02/2024 08:25

Im not loving the cool tones of the teddy against the buttercream. My yellow buttercream mixed with pink food colouring has gone too peachy...should I add flowers to the cake...piping? Please help!

Amateur baker- please help me make this cake look nice!
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inappropriateraspberry · 14/02/2024 18:17

Erythrosint · 14/02/2024 17:16

@Avocadosandwic I dont have any white chocolate in the house but definitely will do it next time!

@Quitelikeacatslife thats a great idea...for the future...!

@inappropriateraspberry thank you, thats so sweet of you to say as a professional baker.

@AmaryllisChorus thank you, my husband just bought me a packet..
Gosh! So much buttercream goes on cake, I used 2 quantities of my recipe! I think next time I will make sure to crumb coat really well.

I am very flattered, but just a hobbyist like you! I do have a wedding cake to make for a friend in May though...

The cake looks lovely. I like the shade of the flowers, it connects the teddy and the icing nicely.

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Erythrosint · 14/02/2024 18:50

@inappropriateraspberry @ArsMamatoria @pandora206 thank you so much!

@CurlewKate glitter would have looked lovely, next time!

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Badburyrings · 14/02/2024 18:56

I know you have completed the cake, but if the next time it were me, I would have taken this coat as a crumb coat and then redone a buttercream layer, you can make it as thin as you can without adding loads of extra glob to the cake (can't think of the word) but it would have enabled you to balance out the colour.

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Hiddenvoice · 14/02/2024 20:21

Looks lovely and if your friend enjoyed it then that’s the most important part!

AmaryllisChorus · 15/02/2024 07:53

I'd be very proud of that cake!

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Erythrosint · 15/02/2024 10:11

@Badburyrings when I was eating the cake, there seemed an awful lot of buttercream, Im not a huge buttercream fan, I like a chocolate ganache cake, personally.

So maybe I should have trimmed the cake...to take off the brown outer crumby layer, if that makes sense!

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Badburyrings · 15/02/2024 10:16

Erythrosint · 14/02/2024 08:25

Im not loving the cool tones of the teddy against the buttercream. My yellow buttercream mixed with pink food colouring has gone too peachy...should I add flowers to the cake...piping? Please help!

I just re read this, sorry if someone has mentioned this already but if you want buttercream to be whiter you just need to mix it more. The longer you mix the paler it goes. You can also buy a white colour mix from hobbycraft. I used it recently and it is quite good.

spinningpenguin · 15/02/2024 10:35

Erythrosint · 15/02/2024 10:11

@Badburyrings when I was eating the cake, there seemed an awful lot of buttercream, Im not a huge buttercream fan, I like a chocolate ganache cake, personally.

So maybe I should have trimmed the cake...to take off the brown outer crumby layer, if that makes sense!

I don't like buttercream neither, nor the fondant/icing... I usually use stabilised whipped cream with vanilla aka stabilised Chantilly (can be stabilised with mascarpone), I suppose you could also make swiss or Italian meringue if you have a heat sonde.

Sahara123 · 15/02/2024 10:43

Just to say that I make my own fondant icing , it’s easy with icing sugar and glycerine. Commercial fondant tastes horrible but homemade is much nicer. It can be a bit softer though so slightly harder to handle. Worth the effort taste wise.

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