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For anyone who has ever wanted to decorate a cake but doesn’t have the experience, or maybe you have made cakes before but don’t have the time to bake the cake? I’m sharing just how simple it is to take a store-bought cake and transform it into a work of art.
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I found a small cake at our local store that had sprinkles already on it, so I had to scrape them off. You’ll probably want to scrape your cake before re-decorating.
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Once the cake is scraped, fill a decorating bag with icing and pipe a dam around the outer edge of the top of the cake. Add sprinkles inside the middle and top with the second cake using your cookie lifter.
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When the second cake is carefully stacked on top, gently press down on the top cake to secure it in place. Fit a disposable decorating bag with a cake icer tip and fill with icing. Coat sides and top of the cake with icing.
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Use an angled spatula to even out the top of the cake, not perfectly but enough to level the top. Then use your bench scraper or dritz hem (cake hack tool) to smooth the sides.
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Lastly, use your angled spatula once more to pull in icing from the top of the cake, working from the outside edge in until you have sharp corners around the edge of the cake.
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I dotted some pink icing around the sides of the cake to give it a watercolor look. Spread them sporadically around the cake and then use your bench scraper again to smooth the sides, smearing the pink icing along the sides of the cake.
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Once the cake feels smooth enough, pick your favorite sprinkles and add them to the base of the cake. I like to use a paint brush to carefully add sprinkles to the base.
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Now to the fun part! I always start with my largest pieces of candy first and work around them. The largest candies I had were these lollipops so I added them to one side of the cake and had them point different directions.
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Next I added large gumballs, twisted marshmallows and piped on a few dollops of icing left over from the interior dam and the exterior watercoloring.
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Now to the fun part! I always start with my largest pieces of candy first and work around them. The largest candies I had were these lollipops so I added them to one side of the cake and had them point different directions.