How to paint buttercream cake

Can you actually paint on buttercream? You might be thinking that you can only paint on fondant covered cakes, but that’s just not true. It’s absolutely possible to paint on buttercream. The key is to start with a cold cake! Cold buttercream is firm enough to paint on without messing up the surface. Chill your buttercream frosted cake for at least one hour to make sure the frosting is completely firm. If the buttercream starts to soften as you paint, take a break and put it back in the…

You will need: 1 x cake covered in sugarpaste A set of concentrated food colours (I use Wilton colour pastes ) Sugarflair Superwhit e (for making pastel colours) 1 x Cake Decorators food pen (I use the Rainbow Dust pens ) 2 x food safe paint brushes (with soft bristles) 1 x paint palette

If you've ever been intimated with how to paint on a buttercream cake, don't be! Trust me when I say that it's fun and easy!

This vanilla layer cake recipe makes the perfect six inch layer cake! It makes three, moist cake layers that are perfect for stacking, and painting

This is the coolest cake hack! You do not have to be an artist to paint this elegant cake...all you need to do is know how to trace! This has got to be one o...

This easy cake painting tutorial shows you how to hand paint art onto a cake using buttercream frosting, palette knives, and paint brushes!

Learn how to paint a cake with buttercream and an icing spatula for an artsy cake decorating technique. Spatula painted cake works with any color scheme!

Are you looking for a super fun way to decorate a cake that requires no artistic skill? Well then a splatter art cake might be just the design for you! The “splatter” can be created easily by melting a bit of buttercream to a paint-like consistency. Then it’s just a matter of flinging the buttercream onto your cake until you like the way it looks! You can watch the video below to see the brushes I used and the consistency I melted my buttercream to. How to Make a Buttercream Splatter Cake 1…

Have you ever wondered what to do with leftover buttercream? Especially when it’s already been colored, you might not know what to use it for. BUT you don’t want to throw it away either… So if you’re like me, you might end up with lots of little containers of different colors of buttercream in your freezer. (If you didn’t know, buttercream keeps extremely well in the freezer.) Watch the video below to see how I decided to use up all that leftover buttercream, landscape painting style!