hi I’m Gemma
we’re here at crumbs and doilies
cupcakes HQ where we make delicious
cupcakes and I’m going to show you how
to decorate your cupcakes SuperDuper
awesome in this particular video we’re
going to do sugar pasted cupcakes which
is really good because it creates a
really smooth surface so you can
decorate it even further using royal
icing or sugar flowers so it’s pretty
cool so first of all we need cakes
obviously sugar paste of course you can
buy sugar paste in most supermarkets now
we also need a rolling pin a nonstick
board cocteau stick pastry cutter I’m
going to color it blue so it’s a bit
more exciting let’s do it I’ve got some
butter cream in here butter cream is
essentially butter icing sugar a little
bit of milk and then flavoring spread it
gently around you want to give a base to
your sugar paste so that it sticks on
like that we’re going to color our sugar
paste with blue food color paste not
liquid because we don’t want to change
the consistency of it about that much
imagine it’s like a tiny piece of bread
dough you want to knead it in folding it
over and pushing it out with the heel of
your hand the color is already starting
to work its way through the layers that
you’re creating and the sugar paste
itself is becoming really nice and
squishy frankly it’s nice and even the
color now so now I want to make it into
a little ball so flip it over so that
the that’s the ugly side we’ll put that
on the bottom using a nonstick rolling
pin you want to roll it till it’s about
no more than half a centimeter thick
really that’s a that’s about the limit
of your thickness so you don’t want to
flip it over ever like you might do with
pastry and stuff like that but we do
want to rotate it so that we make a nice
even shape roll it out a bit roll it
onto your rolling pin
drop it down like that it’s about ready
now I’m going to use this pastry cutter
which is about the same size as my
cupcake so chomp right down give it a
little wiggle and then take that excess
away using a clean palette knife pick it
up really gently and then literally lay
it on the top you want to use this nice
fatty bit of your thumb to smooth it
down if you use your fingertips to
smooth it out you’re going to have
dimples really gently pushing it back
with it’s overhanging a little bit and
pulling it down if it hasn’t quite
covered it and if there are any bits of
icing coming out just wipe them away
with your finger until there you have it
a really smooth smooth cupcake surface
that you can then decorate to your
heart’s content I’ve got some royal
icing here and some little sugar flowers
you can just use that to stick it on a
really cute little elegant little
cupcake sugar pasted and adorned with
flowers and it’s really really sweet and
you can decorate that with loads of
other stuff like royal icing is really
good and if you want to learn more about
royal icing then check out the link here
to a video that I did before which is
all about how to make royal icing and
how to use it effectively and in the
meantime practice with your sugar pays
because it’s really fun try different
colors try different flavors of icing
underneath maybe get a little bit of a
surprise underneath and if you like this
video then why don’t you tell me about
it I’d love to hear your thoughts ideas
and stuff just put them in the comments
box below and I’ll check on out later
you
we’re here at crumbs and doilies
cupcakes HQ where we make delicious
cupcakes and I’m going to show you how
to decorate your cupcakes SuperDuper
awesome in this particular video we’re
going to do sugar pasted cupcakes which
is really good because it creates a
really smooth surface so you can
decorate it even further using royal
icing or sugar flowers so it’s pretty
cool so first of all we need cakes
obviously sugar paste of course you can
buy sugar paste in most supermarkets now
we also need a rolling pin a nonstick
board cocteau stick pastry cutter I’m
going to color it blue so it’s a bit
more exciting let’s do it I’ve got some
butter cream in here butter cream is
essentially butter icing sugar a little
bit of milk and then flavoring spread it
gently around you want to give a base to
your sugar paste so that it sticks on
like that we’re going to color our sugar
paste with blue food color paste not
liquid because we don’t want to change
the consistency of it about that much
imagine it’s like a tiny piece of bread
dough you want to knead it in folding it
over and pushing it out with the heel of
your hand the color is already starting
to work its way through the layers that
you’re creating and the sugar paste
itself is becoming really nice and
squishy frankly it’s nice and even the
color now so now I want to make it into
a little ball so flip it over so that
the that’s the ugly side we’ll put that
on the bottom using a nonstick rolling
pin you want to roll it till it’s about
no more than half a centimeter thick
really that’s a that’s about the limit
of your thickness so you don’t want to
flip it over ever like you might do with
pastry and stuff like that but we do
want to rotate it so that we make a nice
even shape roll it out a bit roll it
onto your rolling pin
drop it down like that it’s about ready
now I’m going to use this pastry cutter
which is about the same size as my
cupcake so chomp right down give it a
little wiggle and then take that excess
away using a clean palette knife pick it
up really gently and then literally lay
it on the top you want to use this nice
fatty bit of your thumb to smooth it
down if you use your fingertips to
smooth it out you’re going to have
dimples really gently pushing it back
with it’s overhanging a little bit and
pulling it down if it hasn’t quite
covered it and if there are any bits of
icing coming out just wipe them away
with your finger until there you have it
a really smooth smooth cupcake surface
that you can then decorate to your
heart’s content I’ve got some royal
icing here and some little sugar flowers
you can just use that to stick it on a
really cute little elegant little
cupcake sugar pasted and adorned with
flowers and it’s really really sweet and
you can decorate that with loads of
other stuff like royal icing is really
good and if you want to learn more about
royal icing then check out the link here
to a video that I did before which is
all about how to make royal icing and
how to use it effectively and in the
meantime practice with your sugar pays
because it’s really fun try different
colors try different flavors of icing
underneath maybe get a little bit of a
surprise underneath and if you like this
video then why don’t you tell me about
it I’d love to hear your thoughts ideas
and stuff just put them in the comments
box below and I’ll check on out later
you
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