Stained Glass Cake in Buttercream Video
In this video tutorial, you will learn how to create a beautiful stained glass effect in buttercream!
We've seen many beautiful fondant stained glass cakes, but we wanted to try a buttercream version!
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Stained Glass Cake in Buttercream
I found this method of piping stained glass to go much more quickly than the fondant versions that are hand painted.
We used a butterfly theme for our stained glass but you can use this method for any design. It's amazing how outlining a design in black can transform it so quickly & dramatically into "stained glass"!
I hope that you enjoy the video! Make sure to check beneath the video for additional information!
Materials
We started with a 6 inch round, white almond sour cream cake. It was 3 layers and 5 ½ inches tall. The cake is frosted with our Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream recipe (in the recipes section).
-Use any crusting buttercream frosting. (Non-crusting will be a little trickier because it will be harder to smooth.)
-Coloring Gels-- I used Americolor Sky Blue, Electric Green, Deep Pink, Super Black, Lemon Yellow, and Orange. (If you plan to
do any painting, you could also use Bright White)
Piping Tips: Any small round tips will do. I used a Wilton tip 2 or 3 to pipe the colors onto the butterfly.
Ribbon Border
Enjoy the Video!
We hope that you enjoy this buttercream stained glass cake tutorial! If you give it a try, we would love for you to leave a photo and comment below!
This is very cute, also! I'm gonna have to get brave and try it. =)
Oh my gosh! I have been wanting to try this and too afraid to. I can't wait to watch this video because "with Melissa , all things cake related are possible!" Thank you so much for this one especially! Well, all the others too because I have learned so much!!
Hi Melissa. I love all your cakes and notice that you do a lot of them in 3-layer, 8", how many people does a cake that size serve? Is it more than a standard two layer?
Thank you, Luanne & Jan!! If you try it, I'd love to see!! xo
@Joyce--Thanks! This cake is actually a 6" (and would serve approx 12) -- For an 8", I would say 15-20. The number of layers isn't what I focus on as much as the height. You can have two 4" tall cakes and one could be two fat layers and the other could be four thin ones ;0) - But I do like Wilton's charts for party and wedding servings. We have Wilton's charts as well as Earlene's chart (which is also popular and has slightly more generous servings) in our "Helpful Links" section under "Member Resources".
Here's a link to Party Servings--
My cakes generally fall into the 4"-5.5" range, and I find that the estimates are pretty accurate. I don't adjust the number of servings unless the cake falls much below or above that height range. The cutting pattern is going to be the same. Hope this helps!
Gorgeous. Gorgeous. GORGEOUS. Can Not Wait!
This was an awesome tutorial!! I can't wait to try it.
You do the best tutorials and absolutely the most beautiful cakes! I am in awe of this cake! Thank you so much for all that you publish.
Very beautiful !! I love it really !! <3
What size tip did you use for the grass? and do you smooth the black lines also?
Hi Carolina, Melissa used a tip 2 to outline the grass and leaves, a tip 3 could also be used. The black lines are not smoothed.
Hi there I live in Australia and we dont have smooth paper towels at all any suggestions
Hi Lynn, some members tell us they use paper dinner napkins, there is usually an embossed border on these but that can be cut off. Also, some people can use copy paper and achieve the look they want.