Watercolor Buttercream Cake Tutorial
We are excited to share our latest video tutorial for creating an elegant Watercolor Buttercream Cake.
This light and unique buttercream effect has the look of a watercolor painting. This lovely design is actually very simple to create- and no actual painting is involved ;0)
We love colorful cakes and the style of these watercolor buttercream designs often involves subtle variations in shades as one color meets another. Keep this watercolor cake design in mind for birthdays, baby showers, and more!
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Materials:
In this tutorial we've frosted a 8 inch and 6 inch tier with our Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream recipe our Classic Vanilla Buttercream is a great choice as well.
Any recipe will do although I recommend a crusting buttercream if you plan to use the Viva Paper Towel Method of Smoothing.
Each tier rests on its own cardboard cake circle, and 4 bubble tea straws were used beneath the top tier for support.
Buttercream
Coloring Gels: We used Americolor Deep Pink & Teal.
Fondant (we kneaded tylose into ours) for ribbon roses
Gold Luster Dust- we used Rolkem Super Gold edible dust
Wilton tip 3 for bead border
Vodka (or lemon extract)
Miscellaneous: Small offset spatula, Sharp knife or xacto, shortening for prepping surface for fondant, plate/palette for mixing colors & frosting, and a turntable.
*If you are not a fan of smooth buttercream, this would also be very nice with one of the textured buttercream methods in our buttercream section!
More Buttercream Techniques
We have so many favorite buttercream techniques! Here are just a few of our favorite tutorials:
Buttercream Palette Knife Painting
Elegant Loopy Buttercream Piping
Very nice.
Very pretty! Gave me an idea for an upcoming cake. Love the plate idea - I was going to mix up colours - but no more, I'm converted to a plate girl :) Simple and gorgeous as always! :)
Thanks Tammy!
@MsGF- Lol, that is too funny- I've never used a plate to mix buttercream colors before but it just kind of happened that way! haha It'll save you a few minutes! ;0) xo
Love this! Thank you for posting :)
Love this look and the colors too. Question about cutting - I hate to ask this here, so maybe you can point me to another location if it's been addressed elsewhere. I'm a hobby baker so I rarely do a tiered cake. My question is, if I brought a 2-tiered cake (like this one) to someone's house, what's the best way to cut it? Keeping the top tier on and cutting it? Or removing top tier and cut? Also, if traveling with this cake, would you use a center dowel? If I served it at home I wouldn't center dowel, but if traveling I'd be afraid!!! Thank you so much. Again, love this cake.
Very pretty and simple - love the gold leaves. Thank you.
Gorgeous!!
I had to do a cake for a Paint Ball lover and was puzzled on how to get the effect and I just sat down and started doing what you were doing! He was blown away.... Love your tutorials!!
Thank you all for your nice comments!!
@Collen- that's perfect for paintball! ;0) xo
Love it.... As usual simple and elegant.
I love painting with watercolors, and I think this icing technique looks so beautiful on this cake! I'm going to try it soon.
So pretty. Can you comment on your choice of colors?