3/10/2024 0 Comments Crafts cake birthday pompomsStep 4: Now it’s time for the sprinkles! If your frosting is still fresh you can stick them right on the cake. I also added a little watercolor effect to the rim of the top of the cake. I added a little extra buttercream here and there to give layers. This will keep your frosting from getting too muddy. Once you’ve gone around the cake completely if you feel it still needs some spots filled in place it in the fridge to chill for about 15 minutes then finish up. Speaking of, I absolutely love this clear flexible cake scraper for this job. Remember to clean off your cake scraper each time. The longer you drag the scraper the longer your spots will look. Buttercream will crust over so you want to smooth it out as soon as possible. I recommend doing one section of the cake at a time. Step 2: Use a cake scraper to then smooth out the buttercream spots. This really helps the end result look well put together. So if I am starting with orange I would place yellow spots right next to the orange, and then green next to the yellow. I wanted small thing spots of water color look so I used piping bags to apply small dots.ĭECORATOR’S TIP: To make sure my colors flow, I strategically place my colors next to colors that blend well together. If you want large watercolor spots you ay want to apply some buttercream on with a frosting spatula. The size of buttercream spot you put on the cake will effect the outcome. Pipe or use a spatula to apply dots or blobs of buttercream on to the cake. Step 1: Starting with a frosted + chilled cake. How To Make A Buttercream Pom Pom Cake With Watercolor Effet In the end I just love how the neutral grey buttercream allows for the rainbow of colors to just pop! I had no intention on making this cake grey, but as I was mixing the buttercream this urge came along and next thing I know I had grey frosting. Sometimes I have an exact plan in place for my creations and other times they evolve as I go. This cake certainly has a look all of it’s own, an I am so down with that. Today we’re bring this Buttercream Pom Pom Cake to the blog! So naturally I had to take them one step further and put them on a cake. They were such a hit on my Instagram feed and so many of you had asked for a tutorial. They were actually for a little neighbor girl’s birthday and I never got around to blogging them. A few months ago I had this idea to bring that trend to the sweets world with some pom pom cupcakes. ( Please tell me you remember what a Koosh Ball is?) Fast forward to 2018 and although they aren’t exactly Koosh Balls, Pom poms are so on trend right now, and it’s not hard to see why. 90’s kids rejoice! I have the cake for you, a Buttercream Pom Pom Cake! This cake is basically what it would look like if Lisa Frank, Grunge, and a Koosh Ball were all baked into a cake.
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